Biography

I received a B.Sc. degree in software engineering from the University of Azad, Iran in 2003. I received the Best Student Award in Azad University Computer Science department in 2003. After finishing my B.Sc. I continued on to acquire work experience in Data Acquisition systems in Industrial Automation fields, which focused on Oil and Gas development plants. I then went on to pursue an M.Sc. in Modern Digital Communication Systems (MDCS) at the University of Sussex. Currently, I am pursuing a PhD in the Biomedical Engineering (BMEng) group, as a member of the sensor and instrumentation sub-group, focusing on the design of an Electrical Impedance Tomography system based on FPGA and DSP technology to detect and measure breast cancer.

Role

I am a PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering (BMEng) Research Group in the School of Engineering and Design, under Dr. Wei Wang, and I am a member of Biomedical Sensor and Instrumentation sub-group. I am also affiliated with the Cell and Molecular Imaging sub-group. Currently, I am assisting in the development of an electrical impedance mammography (EIM) system for the detection of breast cancer at an early stage. I am involved in the development and calibration of an FPGA-based high speed, wide-bandwidth, low-noise acquisition system that is designed to improve on all current incarnations of the EIM system developed in our group.

Qualifications

PhD Candidate, Biomedical Engineering Research Group, Engineering and design School, University of Sussex. Advisor: Dr. Wei Wang

M Sc. in Modern Digital Communication System (MDCS), Engineering and Design school, Sep 08, University of Sussex

M Sc. Thesis: Data stream transfer for Linux-based embedded platforms. Advisor: Prof Chris Chatwin (The software has been implemented by Ubuntu Linux platform and OpenSSH and OpenCV)

B Sc. Software Engineering, CS Dept., March 03, Azad University, Iran.

B Sc. Thesis: Simulation of software automation and control systems over Internet and Intranet.

Honours and Awards

2003    The Best Student Award in Azad University Computer Science-our branch province in 2003 (The distinct student of the university) ranking: 1^st

2000    Rank 1^st  in Iran Azad University Entrance Examination for Graduate Studies (Konkoor) in Software Computer in 2000.

Activities

Expertise

Codes, Standards, and Protocols

• Experience with IP, TCP, on UDP, SMTP, DHCP, IPsec,
  Thorough experience in Compiling, Installing, Configuring, and using almost any software from standard routing by Quality of Service, MPLS, DiffServ, IPv4 and Congestion.
• Multiple Access Techniques: TDMA, FDMA, CDMA. And Application: Cellular Mobile Communications.
• Experience in programming IPC and Experience with SQL Server
• Other Related Knowledge of: ISA (Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society), IEEE802.11a/b/g (Wireless LAN), W-CDMA, ATM, and ZigBee.

Programming languages, Control software/hardware skills

• Active: C, SQL, C++, C# (since 2000), MATLAB,    Network Simulation (NS2), AutoCAD, Pspice, Orcad.
• Passive: Pascal (1996 - 1999), Assembler (x86) (1996 - 1999), BASIC (1993 - 1994), Delphi (1997 - 1998), Visual Basic (2000), COBOL (1997 - 1998)
• PLC & DCS software and SCADA/HMI (Siemens, Omron other PLC System)
• WINCC, PCS7, CITECT, Simatic-Step5, 7 & Management, CX-Supervisor, CX-Programmer, CX-Simulator, CX-Server, Cx-Suppervisor, Cx-Programmer, Cx-Simulator and other software Omron  and Citect HMI/SCADA platform
• Infineons' range of 8-, 16- and 32-Bit Microcontrollers such as: Siemens / Infineon 16-Bit CMOS Single-Chip Microcontrollers-C167CS
• Digital Application Engineer(DAvE) and Keil uVersion, Project navigator Xilinx, and other relative platform.

Areas of Experience

Design and Engineering of SCADA sub-system & PLC with CITECT V5.50,6 and 7 &   Siemens  S7-300 Hydro Cracking Pilot Plant-Unit 300,700,800 RIPI*

Design and Engineering of Control System and Communicate signal to Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) with Omron PLC & CX Supervisor KHANGIRAN CMF (Centre Metering G&H lines) NIGC**

Design & Engineering of Monitoring & Control System redundancy with Omron-PLC CS1D Station Control Panels Gas Injection RAMSHIR NIOC***

Design and Engineering of Monitoring System DPG redundant supervision systems and transfer data by Industrial Ethernet Network BIPC****.

Project Management & Design and Engineering of Water Treatment Plant-Monitoring & Control System with Siemens S7-300& WINCC Pilot Plant CCPP*****

Design & Engineering and installation of Alarm Annunciation Systems-S700 NIOC* (National Iranian Oil Company-South Pars Gas Field Development Phases 6,7&8-by TIJD******

*          RIPI: Research Institute of Petroleum Industry

**        NIGC: National Iranian Gas Company

***     NIOC: National Iranian Oil Company

****   BIPC: Bandar Imam Khomeini Petrol Chemical

***** CCPP: Combined Cycle Power Plants

****** TIJD: consortium consists of; Toyo Engineering Corp (TEC) and JGC Corp of Japan, Industrial Development and Renovation Organisation (IDRO) of Iran and Daelim Industrial Corp (DIC) of Korea.

Research interest

I am interested to work in the design,  programming and analysis by FPGA, DSP48 and MAC based in FPGA, DDS digital PSD, ADC and DAC to design embedded board for data acquisition system and improving bandwidth and calibration. Specifically my recent research works have been focused on:

• System design of bio-impedance measurement
• Design system by techniques for applying the desired currents using voltage sources. Voltage source measures of both current and voltage to use in apply-voltage and apply current.
• The calibration circuit and calibration algorithm in an EIT system to be calibrated to a common standard.

Previous Research Themes

• Secure video streaming and data transfer over Ethernet for Linux-based embedded platforms
• Wireless and mobile communications in industrial automation by focus on 3^rd G and 4^th G.
• Advanced digital transmission and techniques used for wireless communications.
• Optimising QoS for multimedia applications and routing by MPLS and DiffServ.
• Network Congestion Management using  network simulation software.
• Advanced Microprocessor Systems.
• Five generation of Fibre Optic Communications Technology, Protocol and use in industry.
• High Level IC Design VHDL for Logic Synthesis on FPGA structure.
• Real Time Embedded Systems reconfigurable processing techniques and avoid to deadlock.
• Design digital controller and remote I/O controller to the Control Mechanical Machine.

Qureshi, Tabassum-Ur-Razaq, Chatwin, Chris, Huber, Nicolas, Zarafshani, Ali, Tunstall, Benjamin and Wang, Wei (2010) Comparison of Howland and General Impedance Converter (GIC) circuit based current sources for bio-impedance measurements. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 224 (1). 012167. ISSN 1742-6588

Zarafshani, Ali, Huber, Nicolas, Béqo, Nevis, Tunstall, Benjamin, Sze, Gerald, Chatwin, Chris and Wang, Wei (2010) A flexible low-cost, high-precision, single interface electrical impedance tomography system for breast cancer detection using FPGA. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 224 (1). 012169. ISSN 1742-6588