Member Name: Amjad Luna

Title: Associate Professor of Computer Science
(on leave)

Qualifications: Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology

Phone: + 92 (42) 572 2670 Ext: 4423

Fax: + 92 (42) 589 8315

E-Mail: amjad@lums.edu.pk Website

Research Interests: Signal Processing, Communications and Channel Coding, Embedded Systems, and DSP based design

Biography: Amjad Luna received a Ph.D. and MS degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA in 1996. Dr Luna taught at the University of Engineering & Technology (UET) Lahore for one year before joining LUMS in 2005. Prior to UET Dr Luna acquired over six years of research and development experience in the communication industry in the United States. The principal focus of his work has been on developing efficient algorithms and their implementations at the Physical layer.

Publications & Patents: Method and System for Filtering a Signal and for Providing Echo Cancellation
Luna, A., US Patent 7,020,279, March 28, 2006.

A Multiprocessor Framework for Rapid Prototyping and Evaluation of Soft Transcievers
Asif, M.S., Omer, M., Luna, A., and Sheikh, N., In Proceedings of IEEE-GCCC, Bahrain, March 2006.

A Low-Complexity Hybrid FIR/IIR Algorithm for Multi Channel Line Echo Cancellation in VoIP Systems
Luna, A., Elahi, I., and Usman, M., In Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital and Signal Processing, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, July 2004.