Brief Biography

Khaja Mohammad Shazzad

PhD Candidate

WiCIP Lab, University of Windsor

Khaja M. Shazzad has received the B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Bangladesh, M.Sc in Computer Engineering from Korea Aerospace University, South Korea in 2001 and 2006 respectively. Currently working toward his PhD. Degree in Electrical Engineering at University of Windsor, Canada. In academia he worked as a research assistant at Network Security and Embedded System Design Lab in Korea Aerospace University from 2004 to 2006. He has received several scholarships and awards, including Korea Science and Engineering Foundation Scholarship, Korea Aerospace University’s Tuition Scholarship, University of Windsor Doctoral Tuition Scholarship etc. He is also currently working as a research assistant at WiCIP Lab at the University of Windsor. His main area of research are MAC and PHY layer protocol design for Wireless and Underwater Acoustic Sensor Network, protocol implementation and validation in both network simulation environment and in hardware realization.

Accomplishment

• T-Lohi, S-FAMA, ESFRA, MEEMAC MAC implementation in OMNET++/MiXiM

• Underwater acoustic channel model implementation (Thorpe Model) in MiXiM/Omnet++

• Project lead for the design and development SmartAuto - smart device app. for electrical vehicle enabling seamless integration of EV and smart grid

• Designed and developed distributed transactional software to automate labour recruitment and exporting process of Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET), for the Govt. of Bangladesh

• Designed and developed HTTP server, Mail(SMTP) Server for Email marketing software- ROIMail (Evoknow Inc.)

• Reviewer for IEEE international conferences ( i.e. IV'12, VTC2012-Fall, ICT 2012, CCECE 2011 etc. )
• Served as Judge for Technology and Engineering Science Fair, Windsor Essex County, 2012
• IEEE-SEM Project management workshop certification (2012)
• Accessible Customer Service Training Certificate, Office of Human Rights, Accessibility and Equity, 2010

Leadership activities

Vice president

Graduate Student Society, University of Windsor

May 2010 – April 2011 (1 year)

Finance, Operations and Human Resources

Head of Web Committee

MSA, University of Windsor

January 2011 – April 2012 (1 year 4 months)

Design, Development and Maintenance of the Website.

Councillor

Graduate Student Society, University of Windsor

September 2008 – August 2009 (1 year)

Representative in G.S.S Council, University of Windsor.

Councillor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Windsor.

September 2007 – August 2008 (1 year)

Graduate Student Representative in Department Council