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Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Dr. Newaz Muhammad Syfur Rahim

Associate Professor

Dept of EEE, BUET, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh.     

Tel: (880 2)9665650-80Ext.7866(O), 7882(R), 8801674481484
Fax: (880 2) 8613046
Email: newazrahim@eee.buet.ac.bd  

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 

 

Fields of Interest

Image and Speech Coding, Biomedical Signal Processing, Neural Network Applications, Vector Quantization.

Personal Information

Date of Birth: September 21, 1969, Married, Three Children

Degrees Awarded 

  • Ph.D., Information Systems Design Chiba University, Japan
    Received March 2003
  • M.Sc. Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
    Bangladesh     university of Engineering and Technology
    Received April 1996
  • M.Sc. Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
    Bangladesh university of Engineering and Technology
    Received October 1993

Academic History

  • December 2004 – date, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, BUET, Dhaka 1000.
  • October 1996 - December 2004, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, BUET, Dhaka 1000.
  • June 1994 - October 1996 , Lecturer, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, BUET, Dhaka 1000.
  • October 1998 – March 2000, Research Assistant, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Chiba University, Japan.
  • April 1994 - June 1994, Teaching Assistant, Dept of EEE, BUET.

Academic & Professional Committe

  1. Member, Organizing Committee, International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2010.
  2. Organizing Secretary, International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2008.
  3. Reviewer of Technical papers, International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2006.
  4. Reviewer of Technical papers, International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2004. 
  5. 2004 - 2008, Member, Electricity Licensing Board, Government of Bangladesh.
  6. 2004, Member, Technical Evaluation Committee, Eastern Cables Ltd., Chittagong, Bangladesh for buying Aluminium and Copper rod Mill.
  7. Member, Technical Sub-committee for Tender Evaluation, Police Telecom, Bangladesh Police, 2007-2008.
  8. Member, Technical Committee for Tender Evaluation, Air Quality Management Project, Department of Environment, 2007.
  9. Member, Technical Committee for Tender Evaluation, Modern Language Institute, Dhaka University, 2008.
  10. Member, Technical Committee for Evaluating Security Equipment, Member, Technical Committee for Evaluating Security Equipment, National Parliament Secretariat, 2006.

 

 Publications

  • Doctoral Dissertation: Study of Digital Image Compression using Neural Network and Vector Quatization, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Chiba University, Japan, 2003.
  • MS Thesis: Maximization of Efficiency of Induction Motor using SPWM Inverter, BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1996.
  1. Mohammad Saiful Alam and Newaz M. S. Rahim, “A DCT-based New ECG Signal Compression Method Based on Its Deviation from a Reference Signal”, Journal of Electrical Engineering (IEB), vol. EE 35, no. 1, pp. 19-25, 2008.
  2. Jayanta Kumar Debnath, Newaz M. S. Rahim and Wai-keung Fung, “A Modified Vector Quantization Based Image Compression Technique Using Wavelet Transform”, Journal of Electrical Engineering (IEB), vol. EE 35, no. 1, pp. 26-32, 2008.
  3. Newaz M. S. Rahim and Jayanta Kumar Debnath, “A Modified Vector Quantization Based Image Compression Technique Using Wavelet Transform”, Journal of Electrical Engineering, vol. 7, Edition 4, January 2008.
  4. Newaz M. S. Rahim and Takashi Yahagi, “Image coding using an improved feature map finite-state vector quantization”, IEICE Transactions on Fundamental of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, vol.E85-A, no.11, pp.2453-2458, November 2002.
  5. Newaz M. S. Rahim and Takashi Yahagi, “Image compression by new sub-image block classification techniques using neural networks”, IEICE Transactions on Fundamental of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, vol.E83-A, no.10, pp.2040-2043, October 2000.
  6. Mohammad Saiful Alam and Newaz M. S. Rahim, “Compression of ECG Signal Based on Its Deviation from a Reference Signal Using Discrete Cosine Transform”, Proc. of Int’l. Conf. on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp. 53-58, 20-22 December 2008.
  7. Jayanta Kumar Debnath, Newaz M. S. Rahim and Wai-keung Fung, “A Modified Vector Quantization Based Image Compression Technique Using Wavelet Transform”, Proc. of Int’l. Joint Conf. on neural networks, Hong Kong, pp. 171-176, June 2008.
  8. Newaz M. S. Rahim and Takashi Yahagi, “Modified feature map finite-state vector quantization for image coding”, Proc. of Int’l. Conf. on Computer and information Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp. 124-126, December 2001.
  9. Newaz M. S. Rahim and Takashi Yahagi, “Image coding using finite-state vector quantization with neural network classification of states”, Proc. of the 2000 Information and Systems Society Conference of IEICE, September 2000, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan.

 Thesis Supervision

  • B.Sc. Engineering
    1. Compression of ECG signal using wavelet transform.
    2. Measurement of Electrical Quantities using PIC18F4550 Microcontroller.
    3. Suppression of noise using spectral subtraction method.
    4. Study of image compression using different techniques of vector quantization.
    5. Different types of Pitch Detection Method with Comparison.
    6. ECG Signal Compression.
    7. Speech compression by linear predictive coding.
    8. High Frequency Electronic Ballast: Design and Implementation.
    9. Study of Lossless and Lossy Image compression techniques.
  • M.Sc. Engineering
    1. Modified vector quantization based image compression technique using wavelet transform.
    2. Compression of ECG signal based on its deviation from a standard reference using discrete cosine transform.

 Teaching