Invited Speaker

Mohammad Tariqul Islam
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Title: Planar Antenna Structure for Low Frequency Application

Mohammad Tariqul Islam is a Professor at the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering of the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and visiting Professor of Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan. He is currently the group leader of the Radio Astronomy Informatics group at UKM. He is the author of about 350 research journal articles, nearly 165 conference articles, 4 research level books and a few book chapters on various topics related to antennas, microwaves and electromagnetic radiation analysis with 11 inventory patents filed. Thus far, his publications have been cited 2700 times and his H-index is 28 (Source: Scopus). He is now handling many research projects from the Malaysian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation and Ministry of Education, and some international research grants from Japan. His research interests include communication antenna design, radio astronomy antennas, satellite antennas, and electromagnetic radiation analysis.
Islam currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Electronics and Informatics and Associate Editor for International Journal of Antenna and Propagation and Electronics Letter. He received several International Gold Medal awards, a Best Invention in Telecommunication Award, a Special Award from Vietnam for his research and innovation, and Best Researcher Awards in 2010 and 2011 at UKM. He also won the best innovation award in 2011 and the Best Research Group in ICT niche in 2014 by UKM.
He was the recipient of Publication Award from Malaysian Space Agencyin 2014, 2013, 2010, 2009 and the Best Paper Presentation Award in 2012 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, (ISAP 2012) at Nagoya, Japan and in 2015 in IconSpace. He is a senior member of the IEEE and member of the Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society (ACES) and Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE).