Personal Profile

   An experienced and versatile Mechatronics/Telecommunications Engineer with a successful and progressive career within the engineering environments. With extensive knowledge of commissioning, planning, installing, operating and maintaining a range of engineering systems. Including understanding of nuclear and communications technology. I have excellent research track record. The present and the past career record demonstrates a professional engineer, approachable, motivated, ambitious, self disciplined, adaptable, and always keen to confront new challenges, very well respected by the students and colleagues. An extremely resourceful individual with a proven ability to work well with team members.

Biography

• Javad recently joined UCLAN where he is lecturing Mechatronics Engineering and Digital Communications Systems degrees as well as developing decommissioning related BEng top-up Honours, Master of Engineering in safety programme. Throughout these periods Javad has been an active researcher and written and published in the field of power line communications.

Educational Achievement

       PhD in Digital Communications Systems

       MSc in Digital Signal Processing

       BEng/MEng Honours in Mechatronics Engineering

       PGCE  Post Graduate Certificate in Education

       DTI Marine Engineer Officer,  Chief Engineer  Combined Steam and Motor

Employment

• Present University of Central Lancashire

• 2003 -2009  Lecturer University Centre at Blackburn

• 2002-2003 Senior Research Fellow Lancaster University

• 1996-2002 Research Fellow/Research Associate, Lancaster University

• 1995-1996 Lancaster University

• 1991-1994 Consultant Commissioning Engineer Rolls Royce Nuclear Engineering

• 1987-1991 Lancaster University

• 1985-1988 National Nuclear Corporation

• 1978-1984 BP Shipping

Power Line Research

• My major area of research was focused on the transmission of multimedia information reliably across the power line infrastructure of marine vessels. This also, included the design and development of protocols specific to point to multipoint power line telecommunications networking. My research activities included the application of Space-Time Diversity and Coding to power line communication channels to optimize channel throughput. Further investigation were carried out on application of multiple conductors and implementation of smart modem technology based on PLT Multi-conductor techniques with FPGA technology.

          Channel Modeling, Networking

• Channel modeling and simulations, investigating the criteria for a coexistence algorithm for Wire line Access and inhouse Technologies, Electro Magnetic Compatibility (EMC) issues, related standards, and Ubiquitous Computing.

• Surface-based In-House Network Medium for Power Line

• Application of PLC to Intelligent Traffic Train Automation

• Conducting research to introduce Power Line Communications (PLC) and its application as data transmission technique through electric power distribution networks using  Power Electronics  to traffic train automation. This would ensure efficient automatic train operation and safety in transportation systems and mass transit (MT) systems power traction networks which can also be used as medium to employ communication between wayside equipment and mobile equipment on moving trains.

• Application of PLC to Intelligent Road and Traffic Lighting using Power Line

• Application of Power line to Intelligent Road lighting systems. This involves developing a suitable system which will control street lighting ballasts depending on traffic flow; communicate data between each street light along the power line and sense passing traffic. A paper offering this methodology is already published at the 2nd ISPLC workshop in Thessalonica Greece in October 2008.

• Application of Power Line to Marine Environment 

• Recent focus of research is application of Power line in control and sensors used in decommissioning environments. This research is under John Tyndall Institute for Nuclear Research at University of Central Lancashire.

Taught Modules

•  Digital Communication & Synchronization Techniques

•  Information Theory and Coding

•  Digital Signal Processing: Theory and Applications

•  Mobile Communication Concepts and Trends

•  Radio Frequency (RF) and Wireless Communication Principles

•  Communication Systems Design & Simulation

•  Power Electronics

•  Electronic Circuit Applications

• Digital and Multimedia Communications

•  Electronic Circuit Engineering

•  Electronic Computer Aided Design

• Control Engineering

•   Electronic Communication Systems Design

• Mathematics & Applications

• Computer Communications

•  Professional issues and Project Management

• Communication Systems Design

• Analogue Communications

• Space Communications

• Electronic Communication Systems design

• Electrical Power and Machines

• Electronic Computer Aided Design

•  Engineering Material and Sustainability

• Digital Electronics

• Group and Advanced Level Projects Supervision

• Energy Resources and Renewable Energy

Professional Body

•  Member, IEEE 

•  Member, IET

• Fellow of Institute for Learning

Reviewer for Professional Journals

• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)

• IEEE Power Engineering Society

• ISPLC International Symposium on Power line Communications

•  IJECE, the Iranian Journal of Electrical and  Computing Engineering