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Profiles
Omer Malik
Omer Malik contributed to the experimental efforts highlighted in the scientific article 'A hybrid dispersion laser scanner' published in the online Scientific Report of the esteemed journal Nature: http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/120608/srep00445/full/srep00445.html
He is pursuing a PhD in EE at Princeton University.
As a PhD student, Omer is currently doing research work in optics and laser devices at Princeton University. He belongs to the Central Jersey Jamaat.
(More to come soon!)
Athar Malik
Current Field
MD/PhD Candidate in Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School.
He is studying activity-dependent changes in the nervous system and hopes to treat neurological diseases in the future as a physician-scientist.
Bio
Athar Malik is the Muhtamim Tarbiyyat, Majlis Khuddam ul Ahmadiyya USA. He was born and raised in Michigan. In high school, Athar balanced his time between academics, extracurricular pursuits, and Jamaat work. He took advanced courses available to develop his growing interest in science and mathematics. He was also involved with a variety of high school organizations, volunteering programs, and school sports teams.
Undergraduate Degree
He majored at Johns Hopkins University in Biomedical Engineering (BME).
Grad School
In college, Athar was attracted to both medicine and research as potential careers. In the end, he decided that he wanted to pursue both of these fields as a physician-scientist and, to gain the best training towards this goal, applied to combined M.D./Ph.D. programs. Athar was accepted by the M.D./Ph.D. program at Harvard Medical School, with full funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health via a Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) fellowship.
Research Work
The ability to adapt to signals in the environment is an essential function of all cells, including cells in the brain called neurons. Neurons in the brain, which are responsible for all human experiences, change in response to their environment. This allows us to learn from and remember the experience.
Publications:
2. Activity-dependent regulation of inhibitory synapse development by Npas4. Nature. 2008 Oct 30;455(7217):1198-204.
Syed Amaar Ahmad
Current Field
PhD Candidate in Electrical Engineering at Virginia Tech.
He is working on designing data rate improvement techniques that can be adopted in LTE-Advanced 4G networks.
Bio
Amaar Ahmad is currently Mohtamim Amoor e Tulba (Student Affairs) in Majlis Khuddam ul Ahmadiyya and is a member of Richmond Jamaat. He is originally from Pakistan where since school he was interested in application of mathematics in science. He is also interested in disciplines in humanities such as history and international relations. He has been in the US since 2005.
Undergraduate Degree
He majored in Computer Engineering from LUMS, Pakistan.
Grad School
He completed his Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from West Virginia University where he became interested in communication and network systems. Since then he has been at Virginia Tech where his work considers adaptive schemes to increase data rate performance of wireless multihop networks.
Research Work
In a wireless multihop networks, a cell phone user can send its data to a distant receiver through a relay that is located somewhere in between the two. The benefit of relaying is that the chances of the message being corrupted or lost are reduced. The transmitter at the cell phone can increase its transmit power to improve its data rate but this also increases interference for other users in the network. An adaptive scheme in such networks would control the transmit power of the cell phones to maximize the total data rate in the network.
For example, if a relay is forwarding the data of many users, the adaptive scheme would allow those users to send less data (by decreasing their powers) to the relay. Conversely, the cell phone of a user could transmit at full power on its link to the relay if it is the only user connected to it. Amaar's research works considers designing such adaptive schemes in the context of LTE-Advanced networks.
Publications:
Some of the publications by Amaar Ahmad include:
1. "Relay feedback-based power control for multihop wireless networks", MILCOM, Oct. 2012.
2. "A hybrid-ARQ protocol with non-coherent orthogonal modulation for relay networks", CISS, Mar. 2007.
Abdul Naseer M. Kakkada
Current Field
PhD Candidate in Theoretical Physics at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. He is pursuing research in the area of Condensed Matter Physics.
PhD Candidate in Theoretical Physics at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. He is pursuing research in the area of Condensed Matter Physics.
Bio
Naseer belongs to Minnesota Jamaat. He is also the Naib Qaid (Minnesota) and MKA USA Naib Amoor e Tulba. Naseer was born in India and grew up in Gambia, West Africa where he completed his secondary education. He completed a Bachelor's degree in Physics at University of St. Thomas, Minnesota.
Grad School
Since high school, Naseer developed an interest in Physics and Mathematics. In order to pursue research as a career, he applied towards the PhD program at the Department of Physics & Astronomy - University of Minnesota and was offered admission with full funding. He also works as a teaching assistant for Physics courses and enjoys teaching.
It is often said that truth is stranger than fiction. Similarly, nature is characterized by elements with very unique and interesting properties such as fluids that flow without friction (superfluidity) and wires that conduct electricity without any resistance (superconductivity).
Naseer is currently pursuing research in the area of condensed matter physics on topics related to superfluidity, supersolidity and hydrodynamics. Naseer works on understanding various properties of superfluids such as how such fluids respond to changes in pressure.
Understanding the mechanism behind their frictionless behavior could have important technological implications considering that these phenomena are poorly understood even after nearly 50 years of research. Also, understanding superfluidity could pave the path forward in understanding the mechanism behind superconductivity which could have immense technological implications in terms of building the most powerful magnets known to mankind, energy savings (efficient electric grids), ultra sensitive detectors etc.
Publications
Naseer is currently writing a research paper on the hydrodynamics of compressible superfluids in confined geometries.
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