Staff Directory
Academic Qualification
- Doctor of Philosophy - Doctor of Philosophy, Loughborough University
- Master of Science - Masters Degree, Loughborough University, Leicestershire
- Bachelor of Engineering (Communication) (Honours) - Bachelor Degree, International Islamic University Malaysia
Norun Farihah Bt. Abdul Malek (Assoc. Prof. Dr.)
Associate Professor
IIUM Gombak Campus
KULLIYYAH OF ENGINEERING
norun@iium.edu.my
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Expert Profile
Dr. Norun Farihah Abdul Malek received her Bachelor degree in Communication Engineering (with Honours) from the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Kuala Lumpur in 2006. Later, she was appointed as an Assistant Lecturer at the same university and pursued her Master's degree in Digital Communication Systems at Loughborough University in 2007. Gaining an interest in the academic field, she worked for her PhD with the same university once she completed her MSc. She obtained PhD in Communication Engineering in 2013 and later was appointed as an Assistant Professor at IIUM. She continues to serve as a lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. She did her attachment with Intel Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. under MOHE-Intel Elite Internship Program 2020. She has secured many grants with total amount upto MYR500K. She has been awarded IEEE Volunteer Award 2021 by IEEE AP/MTT/EMC Malaysia Joint Chapter Society. Her research interest includes antenna and propagation, signal processing particularly of antenna arrays, algorithms and wireless communication systems. She can be contacted at email: norun@iium.edu.my.
Area of Specialisation
- Engineering Tech ~ Engineering And Technology ~ Communication Engineering ~ Other Communication Engineering n.e.c. - Communication Engineering
Teaching Responsibilities
| ANTENNA ENGINEERING | 2018/2019 2017/2018 2016/2017 2015/2016 |
| COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING | 2017/2018 2016/2017 2015/2016 |
| COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING LAB II | 2017/2018 2016/2017 2015/2016 |
| COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING LAB I | 2023/2024 2022/2023 2019/2020 2018/2019 2017/2018 |
| COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING LAB II | 2022/2023 |
| DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING | 2018/2019 2013/2014 2012/2013 |
| ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING LAB 1 | 2023/2024 |
| ENGINEERING ELECTROMAGNETICS | 2023/2024 |
| ENGINEERING ELECTROMAGNETICS AND TRANSMISSION LINES | 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 |
| ENGINEERING INDUSTRIAL TRAINING | 2019/2020 2018/2019 2016/2017 |
| ENGINEERING LAB I | 2012/2013 |
| FINAL YEAR PROJECT 1 | 2023/2024 |
| Final Year Project I | 2018/2019 |
| FINAL YEAR PROJECT II | 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 2019/2020 2018/2019 |
| FUNDAMENTAL OF COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING | 2021/2022 2017/2018 |
| FUNDEMENTAL OF COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING | 2017/2018 |
| MICROWAVE ENGINEERING | 2022/2023 |
| PROGRAMMING FOR ENGINEERS | 2023/2024 |
| RF DESIGN | 2016/2017 |
| SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS | 2019/2020 2018/2019 2013/2014 |
| SPECIAL TOPICS IN ADVANCED COMMUNICATION ENGI | 2016/2017 |
| WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS | 2016/2017 |
Supervision
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Investigation Of Low Cost And Energy Efficient 3d Hybrid Beamforming Technique For 5g Standards.
Ph.D
In Progress
Main Supervisor
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Stepped-Frequency Continuous Wave Software-Defined Radar For Subsurface Sensing.
Ph.D
In Progress
Co-supervisor
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Modeling Of A Novel Modular Non-Uniform Large Antenna Array Geometry For 5g Application.
Ph.D
In Progress
Co-supervisor
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Design And Performance Analysis Of Flexible Microstrip Patch Antenna With Rubber Substrate At 2.45 Ghz.
Master
Completed
2022
Co-supervisor
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Design Of Ultra Wideband Microstrip Patch Antenna With Band Notched Characteristics.
Master
Completed
2021
Co-supervisor
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Design And Analysis For X Band Vsat Application Microstrip Patch Antenna At 7.5 Ghz.
Master
Completed
2020
Co-supervisor
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Design And Analysis Of Large-Scale Antenna Arrays For Massive Mimo Application.
Master
Completed
2019
Co-supervisor
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Design And Fabrication Of Microstrip Patch Antenna Using Conformal Substrates.
Master
Completed
2018
Main Supervisor
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Design And Optimize Of Rectangular Microstrip Patch Antenna Arrays Performance At 2.4 Ghz.
Master
Completed
2018
Main Supervisor
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Design And Implementation Of Rf Filter For Wireless Communication.
Master
Completed
2017
Main Supervisor
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4d Radar Imaging For Target Detection And Classification Using Deep- Learning.
Master
In Progress
Co-supervisor
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Study Of Flexible Substrate With Metamaterial In Wearable Wideband Antenna.
Master
In Progress
Co-supervisor
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Research Projects
Completed
| 2022 - 2022 | IEEE Pre-University STEM Portal Grant: Telecom Engineer at a Glance |
| 2021 - 2023 | First Expired First Out (FEFO) System Storage Management System Using RFID Tags |
| 2018 - 2023 | An investigation of low cost and energy efficient 3D hybrid beamforming technique of 3D antenna array for 5G standards |
| 2018 - 2023 | Investigation of MIMO Software Defined Radar as a tool for Landslide Early Warning System (EWS) |
| 2018 - 2022 | A hybrid-Discrete Wavelet Transform for New Diversity Technique in Millimeter Wave 5G System with Energy Harvesting |
| 2016 - 2019 | RF Characterization Enhancement of Material for 3D Printing Application |
| 2016 - 2019 | LabView Based Software Defined Radar System |
| 2013 - 2016 | 3-D Spherical Antenna Array |
| 2013 - 2016 | Novel Algorithm Error Control Codes for Interference Suppression in Orthogonal Frequency Division Mulplexing System |
On-Going
| 2023 - Present | Knowledge Transfer and Fostering Women Empowerment in Fashion Design Industry: Leveraging Digital Media Platforms for AI-Driven Entrepreneurship in Banting Selangor |
| 2023 - Present | Electrical and Mechanical Properties of Flexible Substrate Material via Additive Manufacturing for More Bendable Wearable Antennas |
| 2022 - Present | Antenna: How does it Work? |
| 2022 - Present | Railway Network Surveillance using Advanced 4D Radar Imaging System |
| 2022 - Present | Let's make things using 3D Printer |
| 2019 - Present | Critical Prediction Modeling for Integrated Circuits (IC) Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) in Smart Automotive Industry |
| 2017 - Present | The Design of Hybrid Precoding Technique for Multiuser mm-Wave MIMO System |
Award & Recognition
| 22 Jan, 2022 | Volunteer Award 2021 - IEEE | International |
Publications
Article
| 2023 | Design of miniaturized antenna for iot applications using metamaterial. IIUM Engineering Journal, 24 (1) pp. 122-137 |
| 2022 | Analysis, Optimization, and Hardware Implementation of Dipole Antenna Array for Wireless Applications. International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, () pp. 1-14 |
| 2022 | Design and analysis of a microstrip patch antenna at 7.5 GHz for X-band VSAT application. IIUM Engineering Journal, 23 (1) pp. 60-67 |
| 2022 | Design of enhanced gain patch antenna at 2.4 GHz and 3.5 GHz for wireless application. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, () pp. |
| 2022 | Design of Wilkinson power divider at 28 GHz for 5G applications. Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 26 (3) pp. 1444-1450 |
| 2022 | Semicircular slot based UWB microstrip patch antenna for variable band notched applications. ASEAN Engineering Journal (AEJ), 12 (4) pp. 145-149 |
| 2022 | UWB microstrip patch antenna with 5G lower band notch characteristics. International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies, 16 (11) pp. 193-206 |
| 2022 | Wearable textile patch antenna: challenges and future directions. IEEE Access, () pp. 1-22 |
| 2021 | Wideband Crescent-Shaped Slotted Printed Antenna with Radiant Circular Polarisation. International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, 2021 (9975679) pp. 1-12 |
| 2020 | A wearable antenna based on fabric materials with circular polarization for body-centric wireless communications. Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1 (18) pp. 335-342 |
| 2020 | Study of microstrip patch array antenna for side lobe suppression in the x-band region using uniform, binomial and tschebyscheff excitation methods. IIUM Engineering Journal, 21 (1) pp. 61-72 |
| 2019 | Design and comparison of printed antennas using meander line technique. Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, 8 (2) pp. 596-603 |
| 2019 | Design and optimize microstrip patch antenna array using the active element pattern technique. Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, 8 (3) pp. 994-1003 |
| 2019 | Designing large-scale antenna array using sub-array. Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, 8 (3) pp. 906-915 |
| 2018 | A wideband circularly-polarized spiral antenna for Cube Sat Application. Journal of Telecommunication, Electronic and Computer Engineering, 10 (1-8) pp. 17-20 |
| 2018 | A wideband mm-wave printed dipole antenna for 5G applications. Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 10 (3) pp. 943-950 |
| 2018 | An improved image steganography algorithm based on PVD. Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 10 (2) pp. 569-577 |
| 2018 | Beam steering using the active element pattern of antenna array. TELKOMNIKA: Telecommunication Computing Electronics and Control, 16 (4) pp. 1542-1550 |
| 2018 | Beam steering using the active element pattern of antenna array. TELKOMNIKA: Telecommunication Computing Electronics and Control, 16 (4) pp. 1542-1550 |
| 2018 | Experimental studies on the effect of antenna orientations to the performance of OFDM-based System. International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE), 8 (4) pp. 2588-2594 |
| 2018 | Fuzzy logic based edge detection method for image processing. International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 8 (3) pp. 1863-1869 |
| 2018 | Robust vision-based multiple moving object detection and tracking from video sequences. Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 10 (2) pp. 817-826 |
| 2018 | S-band FMCW Radar for target tracking and monitoring. Journal of Telecommunication, Electronic and Computer Engineering (JTEC), 10 (1-2) pp. 123-126 |
| 2017 | Characterization of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene for 3D printed patch antenna. Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 6 (1) pp. 116-123 |
| 2017 | Design of a dual band printed dipole antenna for WIFI application. Journal of Telecommunication, Electronic and Computer Engineering, 9 (4 (October-December 2017)) pp. 63-68 |
| 2017 | Flexible wearable antenna on electromagnetic band gap using PDMS substrate. TELKOMNIKA, 15 (3) pp. 1454-1460 |
| 2017 | Null positioning of dipole antenna array considering coupling effect. International Journal on Communications Antenna and Propagation, 7 (5) pp. 370-377 |
| 2017 | RF parameters characterization of a flexible Cu-PDMS-Cu patch antenna. International Journal on Communications Antenna and Propagation (IRECAP), 7 (4) pp. 326-333 |
Conference or Workshop Item
| 2024 | Performance comparison of a flexible circular microstrip patch antenna on various rubber-carbon compositions. In: 2023 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION, |
| 2024 | Reflection coefficient variation based on the configuration of integrated antenna and reflecting surface at 3.5 GHz. In: 2023 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION, |
| 2023 | Design of a flexible textile antenna for early breast tumor detections. In: 9th International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering (ICCCE 2023), |
| 2023 | Macro-bending effect of single-mode fiber for glucose sensor. In: 9th International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering (ICCCE 2023), |
| 2022 | Computer vision based driver assistance drowsiness detection. In: 12th National Technical Seminar on Unmanned System Technology, NUSYS 2020, |
| 2022 | Design of dual-linearly polarized patch antenna at millimetrewaves. In: 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (AP-S/URSI), |
| 2022 | SFCW software-defined radar using LabVIEW and USRP for subsurface sensing. In: 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (AP-S/URSI), |
| 2022 | Video-based abnormal behaviour detection in smart surveillance systems. In: 12th National Technical Seminar on Unmanned System Technology, NUSYS 2020, |
| 2021 | Comparison of Unit-Cell and All-Cells Active Element Patterns of Small Antenna Array. In: IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference 2020, |
| 2021 | Design and performance analysis of flexible microstrip patch antenna with rubber substrate. In: 2021 8th International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering (ICCCE), |
| 2021 | Design of circular patch antennas at mmWave. In: 2021 8th International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering (ICCCE), |
| 2021 | Design of UWB patch antenna with 5g lower band notch characteristics using ring shape resonator. In: 2021 8th International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering (ICCCE), |
| 2021 | Development of Rubber Substrate for More Robust Flexible Wearable Antenna at 2.4 GHz Application. In: 2021 8th International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering (ICCCE), |
| 2021 | SFCW signal generation of dual frequency channel using LabVIEW simulation. In: 2021 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Applied Electromagnetics, |
| 2020 | A compact and lightweight microstrip antenna array with Wilkinson power divider for X-band application at 9.5 GHz. In: 2019 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Applied Electromagnetics (APACE), |
| 2020 | Design of dual band notched ultra wideband microstrip patch antenna for 5G lower bands application. In: 7th International Conference on Electronic Devices, Systems and Applications (ICEDSA2020), |
| 2020 | Design of flexible microstrip patch antenna using rubber substrate for brain tumor detection. In: 2020 18th IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development (SCOReD), |
| 2020 | Design of UWB microstrip patch antenna with variable band notched characteristic for WiMAX application. In: 2020 18th IEEE Student Conference On Research and Development (SCOReD), |
| 2020 | Electrical characterization of material thickness based on free space method using patch antennas. In: IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference 2020, |
| 2020 | Study for microstrip patch antenna for 5g networks. In: 2020 18th IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development (SCOReD 2020), |
| 2019 | Compact UWB slotted pentagonal patch antenna for radar and communication. In: 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, |
| 2019 | Design of Hybrid Koch-Minkowski fractal dipole antenna for dual band wireless applications. In: 2019 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Applied Electromagnetics (APACE), |
| 2018 | Beamforming capability of a cross-slotted ring patch antenna array at 2.4 GHz wireless applications. In: 2018 7th International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering (ICCCE) 2018, |
| 2018 | Design of small antennas for 400 MHz applications. In: 2018 7th International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering (ICCCE), |
| 2018 | Development of voice control and home security for smart home automation. In: 2018 7th International Conference on Computer Communication Engineering (ICCCE2018), |
| 2017 | A wideband circularly-polarized spiral antenna for CubeSat application. In: 4th International Conference on Communication and Computer Engineering (ICOCOE 2017), |
| 2017 | A wideband mm-wave printed dipole antenna for 5G applications. In: The International Conference on Electrical, Electronic, Communication and Control Engineering (ICEECC 2017), |
| 2017 | Design of dual band microstrip patch antenna using metamaterial. In: 6th International Conference on Mechatronics 2017 (ICOM'17), |
| 2017 | Development of wearable patch antenna for medical application. In: 2017 IEEE Regional Symposium on Micro and Nanoelectronics (RSM), |
| 2016 | Characterization of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene material for a 3D printed microstrip patch antenna. In: 2016 International Conference on Electrical, Electronic, Communication and Control Engineering (ICEECC 2016), |
| 2016 | Design of a circular patch antenna for 3D printing. In: 6th International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering (ICCCE 2016), |
| 2016 | Mitigation technique for rain fade using frequency diversity method. In: 2015 IEEE 12th Malaysia International Conference on Communications (MICC 2015), |
| 2016 | Mutual impedance with finite feed gap model of dipole antennas using the induced EMF method. In: 2015 IEEE 12th Malaysia Internation Conference On Communications, |
| 2014 | Beam steering of four dipoles antenna array using genetic algorithm. In: 2014 IEEE Symposium on Wireless Technology and Applications (ISWTA), |
| 2013 | Development of spectrum monitoring tool for Malaysia . In: 2013 IEEE 11th Malaysia International Conference on Communications, |
| 2011 | Pattern synthesis using combination of the induced EMF method and a genetic algorithm. In: 2011 Loughborough Antennas & Propagation Conference, |
| 2010 | 3D reconfigurable antenna. In: 2010 Loughborough Antennas & Propagation Conference, |