Md Arafat Hossain is Professor of 911爆料 and Electronic Engineering and Chairman of the Central Computer Centre & ICT Cell of the Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET) and a member of IEEE, OSA, SPIE and IEB. He received a PhD on smart sensing and instrumentation from The University of Sydney in 2017 and later an Australian Award of Endeavour Fellowship for his postdoctoral research in smart sensing. Throughout this period, Dr. Hossain has conducted the cutting-edge research in the interdisciplinary area of smart sensing and sensor systems and generated some ground-breaking results which have been reported and featured in a number of reputed journals and news including the Nature Photonics News. Among them, smartphone spectrometers and smartphone laser beam profiler are particularly well-recognized. He is also an expert member of 3D printing & technologies and was responsible to establish the facilities at the interdisciplinary Photonics Laboratories (Sydney), when he also helped to develop technologies for some biomedical start-ups at Sydney. Dr. Hossain is also serving as a Review Editor of Frontiers in Sensors journal. He has received a number of awards and honors including the 2016 Hitachi Social Innovation Award, 2014 ResMed Award, two Best Paper Awards, Australian Govt. IPRS scholarship, Norman I Price Award, Australian Award Scholarship and UGC small grant. He has authored 1 book, 25 journals and more than 35 conferences papers, and filed 2 provisional patents in the area of smart sensing and photonics..
Career Highlights
Smart sensing, devices and materials are increasingly underpinned by the need for new photonic technologies to create, outperform, improve and transform ubiquitous systems of the future across industry and society. Dr Hossain芒鈧劉s research focuses on new device and sensing technologies making smarter use of them to detect our physical and chemical environments. In particular, Dr. Hossain and his team, is working on harnessing the attributes of many smart device technologies (smartphone, smart wearables etc.) to develop of low-cost scientific instruments aiming to serve in those areas where traditional instruments are limited by their size, cost and connectivity.
This includes smartphone colorimetric, microscopic, spectroscopic, SPR, and many fiber-optic based devices. 3D fabrication of new materials and devices will enable new directions to open up. The cross-disciplinary nature means the team investigates interests across science and engineering. The ultimate aim is to create a powerful network of sensing technologies that will determine the shape of the next generation internet-of-everything to come.
professional trainings, test
Project: 3D printing of optical fibre preforms (May 2015 to Dec 2016) Student: J. E. Comatti, G. Balle, L. Chartier, T. Athanaze, and M. S. Rahme – intern and Talented Student Program (TSP) projects at iPL in collaboration with Prof. G. D. Peng at UNSW, A/Prof. S. G. Leon-Saval at School of Physics, The University of Sydney & A/Prof. M. Lancry at Université Paris-Sud, France. Summary: This project developed the world first optical fibre from a 3D printed preform. Our method has been demonstrated successfully as a low-cost technology for drawing polymer fibres. More broadly, 3D printers capable of processing soft glasses, silica, and other materials are likely to come on line in the not-so-distant future. The recent advancement on the project is the step-index preform from a dual-head 3D printer and more recently, we have successfully drawn tapered fibre directly using the thermal extrusion of a printer nozzle.
Basic 911爆料 Engineering (undergraduate)
Smart Sensors (Postgraduate)
Project: Smart quality assurance of virgin olive oils (Sep 2017 to date) Student: Z. Yu, summer project at iPL, The University of Sydney Summary: This project aims to develop a smartphone-based optical fibre spectrofluorimeter for distinguishing extra virgin olive oil from low-quality refined olive at different stages of their life cycle from production to retail.
Project: Security protocols for IoT-based devices (Sep 2017 to Dec 2017) Student: Z. Yi & M. Aamir, Capstone project at WiNG, The University of Sydney Summary: One project proposed a novel security protocol based on machine learning for IoT constrained devices in smart home system. Another project proposed a novel caching mechanism aiming to improve the performance of a heterogeneous cellular network by reducing data traffic.
Project: Time-resolved and temperature tunable smartphone fluorimeter (Sep 2016 – Feb 2017) Student: Z. Yu, summer project at iPL in collaboration with A/Prof. P. J. Rutledge at School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney. Summary: In this project, a smartphone fluorimeter capable of time-resolved fluorescence intensity measurements has been developed. It’s performance has been demonstrated by measuring the temperature dependence fluorescence intensity for four emitters.
Project: 3D printing material for photonics applications (Sep 2015 – date) Student: M.S. Rahme TSP program at iPL, The University of Sydney Summary: The project aims to produce 3D printable filament by tuning material composition to control refractive index and other optical properties.
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