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Academic Qualification
- Doctor of Philosophy in Electronic and Electrical Engineering - Doctor of Philosophy, University College London
- Master of Science Technologies for Broadband Communications - Masters Degree, University College London
- B. Eng (Hons) Electronics major in Microwave and Communication - Bachelor Degree, Multimedia University (MMU)
Farah Nadia Binti Mohd. Isa (Assoc. Prof. Dr.)
Associate Professor
IIUM Gombak Campus
KULLIYYAH OF ENGINEERING
farahn@iium.edu.my
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Expert Profile
Farah Mohd Isa is a Senior Lecturer in Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, International Islamic University Malaysia. She obtained her PhD from University College London in 2013 working on the antenna design of a geophysical avalanche radar. She has received numerous scholarships for her academic excellence from Telekom Malaysia, Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia and UCL. Since returning back from her PhD, she has been actively involved with the think tank group of creating climate resilient cities in Malaysia an effort from SEADPRI-UKM and NADMA. She then re-aligned her focus to help the communities affected by landslide by developing tools to predict the event of landslide as an early warning system. Her current research is now focused on applying a new generation of radar; software-defined radar to understanding and predicting landslide susceptibility. She has received RAGS, RIGS and FRGS (total RM 700,00) grants from the Ministry of Higher Education to help support her current research. She is a Senior Member in IEEE, Member in IET member and an Exco Member in Malaysian Young Scientist Network of Academy of Sciences Malaysia. She is also a Visiting Research Scholar at the Center of Intelligent Antennas and Radio Systems (CIARS) of University of Waterloo, Canada.
Area of Specialisation
- Engineering Tech ~ Engineering And Technology ~ Communication Engineering ~ Microwave and Millimetrewave Technology - Antenna Design and Development
- Engineering Tech ~ Engineering And Technology ~ Communication Engineering ~ Microwave and Millimetrewave Technology - Radar and Software Defined System
Professional Membership
- 2008 - 2020: Member of Profesional Body / Association: (Senior Member), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- 2008 - 2020: Member of Profesional Body / Association: (MIET (member)), The Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET)
- 2018: Member of Profesional Body / Association: (Member), Akademi Sains Malaysia- YSN
Teaching Responsibilities
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING LAB | 2023/2024 |
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING LAB 1 | 2023/2024 |
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 |
2019 - 2023 | Investigation on the Effectiveness of a Packet Scheduling Algorithm for Health Care in Cognitive Fifth Generation (5G) Mobile Networks |
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) |
2016 - 2019 | LabView Based Software Defined Radar System |
2015 - 2016 | Tropical Flood Estimation Model Derived from Terminal Doppler Weather Radar Information |
2014 - 2017 | Novel Method for Optimizing Real-Time Multimedia Performance in the Presence of Mobile Cellular Channel Impairments |
2013 - 2016 | Measurement of Landslide Properties Using FMCW Radar |
2013 - 2016 | 3-D Spherical Antenna Array |
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 | Railway Network Surveillance using Advanced 4D Radar Imaging System |
2022 - Present | Let's make things using 3D Printer |
2022 - Present | Antenna: How does it Work? |
2021 - Present | Geophysical Software Defined Radar for Landslide Early Warning System |
2020 - Present | Social Innovation through Team Entrepreneurial learning (SITEL) |
2015 - Present | Assembly of Ingenious Automatic Satellite Signal Tracking System for Maritime Vessel |
Award & Recognition
01 Dec, 2020 | Malaysia Representative 2021 Commonwealth Science Conference - Others | National |
11 Apr, 2016 | Travel Grant - European Association Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP) | International |
Publications
Article
Conference or Workshop Item
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 | Eye blink region detection in EEG using amplitude thresholding. In: 8th International Conference on Mechatronics Engineering (ICOM 2022), |
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), |
2021 | Design of circular patch antennas at mmWave. 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 flexible microstrip patch antenna using rubber substrate for brain tumor detection. In: 2020 18th IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development (SCOReD), |
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), |
2019 | Design of narrowband tunable filter for LTE Band 5. In: 2019 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Applied Electromagnetics (APACE 2019), |
2019 | Urgency-aware scheduling algorithm for downlink cognitive long term evolution-advanced. In: 2019 IEEE 89th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), |
2018 | Design of small antennas for 400 MHz applications. In: 2018 7th International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering (ICCCE), |
2017 | A survey of component carrier selection algorithms for carrier aggregation in long term evolution-advanced. In: 4th IEEE International Conference on Smart Instrumentation, Measurement and Applications (ICSIMA), |
2017 | A wideband circularly-polarized spiral antenna for CubeSat application. In: 4th International Conference on Communication and Computer Engineering (ICOCOE 2017), |
2016 | FMCW radar for slow moving target detection: Design and performance analysis. In: 6th International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering (ICCCE 2016), |
2016 | Improving real-time multimedia scheduling in practical mobile cellular channels. In: 2016 6th International Conference on Intelligent and Advanced Systems (ICIAS), |
2016 | Optimization of 2D sparse array antenna for FMCW radar. In: 2016 10th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), |
2015 | Fade margin estimation technique using radar data for satellite link. In: Full Text(opens in a new window)|View at Publisher| Export | Download | Add to List | More... Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering Volume 344, 2015, Pages 247-253 1st Applied Electromagnetic International Conference, APPEIC 2014, |
2015 | Impact of outdated CQI report on adapted well-known packet scheduling algorithm when streaming video. In: 2015 International Conference on Space Science and Communication (IconSpace2015), |
2014 | An improved component carrier selection algorithm for downlink long term evolution advanced. In: 5th International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering, |
2014 | Analysis for sparsely sampled phased array antenna for advanced Doppler radar. In: 2014 International Workshop on Antenna Technology: "Small Antennas, Novel EM Structures and Materials, and Applications" (iWAT), |
2014 | Prediction of rain-induced cross polarization at millimeter wave bands in guinea. In: 5th International Conference on Computer & Communication Engineering 2014, |
2014 | Rain induced scintillation measurement on satellite link in tropical climate. In: 5th International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering (ICCCE 2014), |
2013 | Initial assessment of radar reflectivity-rainfall rate, Z-R relationships for moderate rain events in Malaysia . In: Wireless Technology and Applications (ISWTA), 2013 IEEE Symposium on , |
2013 | Proposed rain fade mitigation technique for Ka band space earth links in tropical climate. In: 2013 IEEE 11th Malaysia International Conference on Communication (MICC 2013), |
2012 | Design of high gain microstrip Yagi array antenna for avalanche radar. In: IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, AP-S International Symposium (Digest), |
2011 | Design of a high gain & ultra wideband microstrip array antenna for avalanche radar. In: 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, APSURSI 2011, |
2011 | Preliminary antenna system design for FMCW avalanche radar. In: 30th URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, URSIGASS 2011, |