Dr Umar Raza
Senior Lecturer
My profile
Biography
Dr Umar Raza received his BSc in Engineering Electronics from (DeMontfort Leicester), MSc in Electronics and Computer Based Systems Design from (Huddersfield University). He completed his PhD in the Application of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) to the plastics industry at the Polymer IRC Laboratory at the University of Bradford. He has worked in industry for 7 years as a Software Engineer and then moved back into academia as a Lecturer in Robotics, Networking and Computing at Staffordshire University. His interests include application of the Internet of Things (IOT) concept, Service Orientated Architecture (SOA), WSN, Robotics and Embedded hardware/software to industrial, smart cities, and agricultural environments. He is currently working as a Senior Lecturer in Industrial IoT, Computer and Networking Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University and is the Manager/Coordinator of the Cisco Network Academy in the Department of Engineering at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Academic and professional qualifications
University of Bradford 2014
PhD: A Service Orientated Architecture enabled Wireless Sensor
Network approach applied to measurement and visualization of a Micro Injection Moulding Process.
Staffordshire University 2007 Postgraduate Certificate in Research Methods (PGC-RM) Postgraduate Certificate in Professional and Higher Education ( PGCPHE)
Huddersfield University 1995
MSc Electronics and Computer Based Systems Design
DeMontfort University Leicester BSc (Hons) Engineering Electronics
Other academic service (administration and management)
Cisco Network Academy and Coordination and Management
Expert reviewer
Reviewer and TPC member
• 2020 – present, Reviewer, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence
• 2020 – present, Reviewer, International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• 2020 – present, Reviewer, International Journal of Robotics and Automation
• 2020 – present, Reviewer, International Journal of Reconfigurable and Embedded Systems
• 2019 – present, Reviewer, Telkomnkia
• 2019 – present, Reviewer, Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• 2020 – present, Reviewer, Review Editor of Frontiers in Communication and Sensor Networks
Editorial Board membership
• 2020 – present, Reviewer, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence
• 2020 – present, Reviewer, International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• 2020 – present, Reviewer, International Journal of Robotics and Automation
• 2020 – present, Reviewer, International Journal of Reconfigurable and Embedded Systems
• 2019 – present, Reviewer, Telkomnkia
• 2019 – present, Reviewer, Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• 2020 – present, Reviewer, Review Editor of Frontiers in Communication and Sensor Networks
Membership of professional associations
• Full Member of IEEE (41510032)
• Full Member of IET (86817910)
• Full Member of BCS (990013110)
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA – Recog. No.: PR055891)
• CEng (in progress)
Projects
KTP with Kindus Solutions Limited (Completed) (PI and Supervisor)
KTP with RAIT Litd (Project Advisor)
KTP with Trumeter Ltd (PI)
Teaching
Why do I teach?
I am really fascinated by Internet of Things technologies and wireless communications. I am particularly interested in research and development of communication technologies for IoTs and Cyber Physical Systems, Industrial IoT, Agriculture, electrical energy monitoring/management, transport, water, critical infrastructures protection, home automation.
Why study…
In the age of the Internet of Things, environments and devices are becoming more connected and have more information associated with them. It is predicted that there will be more than 20 billion things connected to the internet by 2020. Most of these will not be computers, tablets or even mobile phones but they they willl be embedded and ordinary devices.
Different environments (industrial, Medical, Agricultural, Cities) made up of various entities including vehicles, buildings, manufacturung machines, clothing, portable devices and other objects will have the ability to sense, analyse, communicate, network and produce new information. These devices, the systems and infrastructure they use, and the applications to process the data all need developing and maintaining. Central to that are the embedded computers, software, networks and applications that could be developed.
This course has been designed to provide the specialist knowledge and expertise required for a professional career in Computer (embedded systems) and Networking Technology. It combines the application of essential facts, concepts, theories and principles of computer (embedded systems) and network technology and the underpinning science and mathematics with practical skills acquired through work in the laboratories and workshops.
This course has been developed in partnership with Siemens connected curriculum through their academic Academy and integrates training material which will allow you to achieve professional status.
You will be able to synthesise solutions and formulate designs through the use of PC laboratories, embedded devices (Arduino, Raspberry Pi etc.) and Cisco Networking devices (switches, routers). You will also have the opportunity to work on live company projects with other students.
Postgraduate teaching
MSc Smart Systems
Sensors and Industrial Internet of Things
MSc Project Supervision
Subject areas
Sensors and Industrial Internet of things, Smart design
Supervision
2 MSc supervisions
1 Phd supervison
Research outputs
Wireless Sensor Networks for Industrial environments
Service Orientated Architecture for Industrial devices
Web based data analytics using WSO2
Cyber Physical Systems for Industrial, Agricultural environments
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Journal articles
Ahmad, A., Jabbar, S., Akram, S., Anand, P., Raza, U., Alshuqayran, N. (2024) 'Enhancing ChatGPT’s querying capability with voice-based interaction and a CNN-based impaired vision detection model.' Computers, Materials and Continua,
Jabbar, S., Abideen, Z.U., Khalid, S., Ahmad, A., Raza, U., Akram, S. (2023) 'Enhancing computational scalability in Blockchain by leveraging improvement in consensus algorithm.' Frontiers in Computer Science, 5
Aslam, M., Jabbar, S., Abbas, Q., Albathan, M., Hussain, A., Raza, U. (2023) 'Leveraging Ethereum platform for development of efficient tractability system in pharmaceutical supply chain.' Systems, 11(4) pp. 202-202.
Ali, A., Iqbal, M.M., Jabbar, S., Asghar, M.N., Raza, U., Al-Turjman, F. (2022) 'VABLOCK: a blockchain-based secure communication in V2V network using ICN network support technology.' Microprocessors and Microsystems, 93pp. 104569-104569.
Ashraf, M.W.A., Huang, C., Khalid, S., Rana, A.S., Ahmad, M., Raza, U. (2022) 'Dynamic naming scheme and lookup method based on trie for Vehicular Named Data Network.' Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2022pp. 6539532-6539532.
Jabbar, S., Lloyd, H., Hammoudeh, M., Adebisi, B., Raza, U. (2021) 'Blockchain-enabled supply chain: analysis, challenges, and future directions.' Multimedia Systems, 27(4) pp. 787-806.
Kamboh, U.R., Ullah, U., Khalid, S., Raza, U., Chakraborty, C., Al-Turjman, F. (2021) 'Path loss modelling at 60 GHz mmWave based on cognitive 3D ray tracing algorithm in 5G.' Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, 14(5) pp. 3181-3197.
Aldabbas, O., Abuarqoub, A., Hammoudeh, M., Raza, U., Bounceur, A. (2016) 'Unmanned Ground Vehicle for Data Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks: Mobility-aware Sink Selection.' The Open Automation and Control Systems Journal, 8pp. 35-46.
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Conference papers
Elias, F., Ekpo, S.C., Alabi, S., Saha, D., Chakraborty, S., Ghosh, S., Uko, M.C., Ijaz, M., Raza, U. (2024) 'Rectifier and Reconfigurable Impedance Matching Network Analysis for Wireless Sub-6 GHz 5G/Wi-Fi 6/6E Energy Harvester.' 18/7/2023 - 20/7/2023. Ekpo, S.C. (ed.) Cham: Springer, pp. 81-90.
Abedeen, Z., Ekpo, S., Ijaz, M., Raza, U., Alabi, S., Han, L. (2024) 'Path Loss Prediction of 5G in the 24.25-27.5 GHz Band based on Machine Learning.' 18/7/2023 - 20/7/2023. Ekpo, S.C. (ed.) Cham: Springer, pp. 19-28.
Danowski, P., Ekpo, S.C., Elias, F., Ijaz, M., Raza, U., Carbrero, R.O. (2024) 'Deep Learning-Enabled Smart Wearables to Assist People with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Dynamic Environments.' 18/7/2023 - 20/7/2023. Ekpo, S.C. (ed.) Cham: Springer, pp. 133-141.
Uko, M., Elias, F., Ekpo, S., Saha, D., Ghosh, S., Ijaz, M., Raza, U., Chakraborty, S., Gibson, A. (2023) 'Hybrid wireless RF- perovskite photovoltaics energy harvester design considerations for low-power Internet of Things.' In 2023 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC). Venice, Italy, 9/10/2023 - 13/10/2023. Piscataway, USA: IEEE, pp. 173-176.
Zafar, M., Shafique, S., Riaz, F., Abid, S., Raza, U., Holderbaum, W. (2023) 'A Cost-Effective Smart Labor Assistance Trolley for Industrial Applications.'
Hamza, A., Riaz, F., Abid, S., Raza, U., Holderbaum, W., Chowdhry, B.S. (2023) 'A Comprehensive Study of the Role of Self-Driving Vehicles in Agriculture: A Review.'
Almadani, Y., Ijaz, M., Rajbhandari, S., Raza, U., Adebisi, B. (2019) 'Dead-Zones Limitation in Visible Light Positioning Systems for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.' 2019-July. pp. 419-421.
Almadani, Y., Ijaz, M., Rajbhandari, S., Raza, U., Adebisi, B. (2019) 'Applications of Visible Light Communication for Distance Estimation: A Short Survey.' pp. 261-265.
Farhan, L., Kharel, R., Kaiwartya, O., Quiroz, M., Raza, U., Teay, S.H. (2018) 'LQOR: Link Quality-Oriented Route Selection on Internet of Things Networks for Green Computing.' 18/7/2018 - 20/7/2018. IEEE,
Almadani, Y., Ijaz, M., Rajbhandari, S., Adebisi, B., Raza, U. (2018) 'Application of Visible Light Communication in an Industrial Environment.'
Saleem, J., Hammoudeh, M., Raza, U., Adebisi, B., Ande, R. (2018) 'IoT standardisation-Challenges, perspectives and solution.'
Farhan, L., Shukur, S.T., Alissa, A.E., Alrweg, M., Raza, U., Kharel, R. (2018) 'A Survey on the Challenges and Opportunities of the Internet of Things (IoT).' In 11th International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST). Sydney, AUSTRALIA, 4/12/2017 - 6/12/2017. IEEE, pp. 37-41.
Farhan, L., Shukur, S.T., Alissa, A.E., Alrweg, M., Raza, U., Kharel, R. (2017) 'A survey on the challenges and opportunities of the Internet of Things (IoT).' pp. 1-5.
Ghafir, I., Prenosil, V., Hammoudeh, M., Han, L., Raza, U. (2017) 'Malicious SSL certificate detection: A step towards advanced persistent threat defence.' In International Conference on Future Networks and Distributed Systems (ICFNDS 2017). Cambridge, United Kingdom, 19/7/2017 - 20/7/2017. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM),
Raza, U., Lomax, J., Ghafir, I., Khare, R., Whiteside, B. (2017) 'An IoT and business processes based approach for the monitoring and control of high value - Added manufacturing processes.' Part F130522.
Raza, U., Kharel, R., Hammoudeh, M., Ekpo, S., Whiteside, B.R. (2016) 'A service based wireless sensor networks architecture for high value-added process monitoring.'
Raza, U., Kharel, R., Hammoudeh, M., Whiteside, B., EKPO, S.U.N.D.A.Y. (2016) 'A Wireless Sensor Network and Service Orientated Architecture Based High Value-Added Manufacturing Process Monitoring Architecture.' In 10th IEEE/IET International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing Conference. Praque, Czech Republic,, 20/7/2016 - 22/7/2016.
Kharel, R., Raza, U., EKPO, S.U.N.D.A.Y., Busawon, K. (2016) 'Chaotic Secure Digital Communication Scheme Using Auxiliary Systems.' 10th IEEE/IET International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing Conference, 20/7/2016 - 22/7/2016.
Raza, U., Whiteside, B., Hu, F. (2012) 'An enterprise service bus (ESB) and Google Gadgets based micro-injection moulding process monitoring system.' In IET Wireless Sensor Systems Conference. London, UK, 18/6/2012 - 19/6/2012.
Raza, U., Whiteside, B., Hu, F. (2011) 'A Service Orientated Architecture enabled Wireless Sensor Network approach applied to measurement and control of a Micro Injection Moulding Process.' In 27th World Congress of the Polymer Processing Society. Marrakech, Morroco, 9/5/2011 - 14/5/2011.
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Theses and dissertations
Raza, U. (2016) A Service Orientated Architecture enabled Wireless Sensor Network approach applied to measurement and visualization of a Micro Injection Moulding Process.