Dr. Atif Raza Jaffri

Former Head AI Systems Engineering^%

Designation(s): Dean (Engineering Sciences) & Professor
Department(s): Electrical Engineering, AI Systems Engineering Research Center
Research Interests: Embedded Systems, Digital Design, Systems Engineering
Email:  atifraza.buic@bahria.edu.pk
Contact: +92 (051) 111 111 028

Atif Raza Jafri received a B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from UET Lahore, Pakistan, in 1999, an M.S. degree from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France, in 2007, and the Ph.D. degree from Telecom Bretagne, Brest, France, in 2011. He served in the Research and Development Sector for over 10 years. He has been with the Electrical Engineering Department, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan, since 2015, where he is currently serving as an Associate Professor. His research interests include hardware architecture implementation for wireless communication and cryptographic applications using both HDL and HLS. He is currently engaged in research related to architectures of the physical layer of future wireless communications and ultra-lightweight and asymmetric cryptography.

Projects

Project and grants

National Centre in Cyber Security for FPGA Prototyping of Intrusion Detection System – CoPI

Publications

Journal Publications

R. Jafri, A. Baghdadi, and M. Jezequel, “Parallel MIMO Turbo Equalization”, IEEE Communication Letters, VOL. 15, NO. 3, MARCH 2011. (Impact Factor = 2.723)

R. Jafri, A. Baghdadi, M. Najam-ul-Islam and M. Jezequel, “Heterogeneous Multi-ASIP and NoC Based Architecture for Adaptive Parallel TBICM-ID-SSD”, IEEE Transaction on Circuit and System II Issue: 3, Vol. 64 DOI 10.1109/TCSII.2016.2555018.(Impact Factor = 2.45)

R. Jafri, A. Baghdadi, M. Waqas and M. Najam-ul-Islam “High-Throughput and Area-Ef?cient Rotated and Cyclic Q Delayed Constellations Demapper for Future Wireless Standards”, IEEE ACCESS, Issue 2017, Volume 5. (Impact Factor = 3.557)

R. Jafri, Javaria Majid, Muhammad Ali Shami, Muhammad Ali Imran and M. Najam-ul-Islam, “Hardware Complexity Reduction in Universal Filtered Multicarrier Transmitter Implementation”, IEEE ACCESS, Issue 2017, Volume 5. (Impact Factor = 3.557)

Malik Imran, Muhammad Rashid, R. Jafri, and M. Najam-ul-Islam “ACryp-Proc: Flexible Asymmetric Crypto Processor for Point Multiplication”, IEEE ACCESS, Issue: Early Access, Pages 1-1, 17, April, 2018. 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2828319. (Impact Factor = 3.557)

Atif Raza Jafri, Javaria Majid, Lei Zhang, Muhammad Ali Imran, M. Najam-ul-Islam “FPGA Implementation of UFMC based Baseband Transmitter: Case Study for LTE 10MHz Channelization” Issue 2018, Pages 1-12 in Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (Wiley and Hindawi) (Impact Factor = 0.869)

Umar Mujahid, Muhammad Najam-ul-islam, Atif Raza Jafri, Qurat Ul Ain and Muhammad Ali Shami “A New Ultralightweight RFID Mutual Authentication Protocol: SASI using Recursive Hash”, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2016, Article ID 9648971, 14 pages, Feb 2016. doi:10.1155/2016/9648971. (Impact Factor = 1.787)

Umar Mujahid, A.R. Jafri, and M. Najam-ul-Islam, “Efficient Hardware Implementation of Ultralightweight RFID Mutual Authentication Protocol”, Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers, Vol. 25, No. 7, 19 Pages, March 2016. doi:10.1142/S0218121661650078X. (Impact Factor = 0.595)

R. Jafri, Malik Imran, Muhammad Rashid, and M. Najam-ul-Islam “Towards an Optimized Architecture for Unified Binary Huff Curves” Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers, Vol. 26, Issue 11, Pages 1750178-1 to 1750178-14, April, 2017.doi:10.1142/S021812661750178X. (Impact Factor = 0.595)

Malik Imran, Muhammad Rashid and R. Jafri “Flexible Architectures for Cryptographic Algorithms–A  Systematic Literature Review”, accepted in Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers. (Impact Factor = 0.595)

R. Jafri, A. Baghdadi, and M. Jezequel, “ASIP-based Universal Demapper for Multiwireless Standards”,      The inauguration issue of IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 9-13, May 2009. (ISI Indexed)

Conference Proceedings

A.R. Jafri, D. Karakolah, A. Baghdadi, and M. Jezequel, “ASIP-based Flexible MMSE-IC Linear Equalizer for MIMO Turbo-Equalization Applications”, In Proc. IEEE/ACM Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition, DATE’09, Nice, France, 21-23 April 2009.

H.Moussa, O. Muller, A.R. Jafri,A. Baghdadi, J. Le Mestre, and M. Jezequel, “FPGA Prototypes For Turbo Communication Applications”, Poster and Demonstration at the University Booth of the IEEE/ACM Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition, DATE’09, Nice, France, 21-23 April 2009.

A.R. Jafri, A. Baghdadi, and M. Jezequel, “Rapid Prototyping of ASIP-based flexible MMSE-IC Linear Equalizer”, In Proc. IEEE/IFIP 20th International Symposium on Rapid System Prototyping, RSP’09, Paris, France, 23-26 June 2009.

A.R. Jafri, A. Baghdadi, and M. Jezequel, “Rapid Design and Prototyping of Universal Soft Demapper”, In Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS’10, Paris, France, 30 May – 2 June 2010.

A.R. Jafri, A. Baghdadi, and M. Jezequel, “DemASIP : Universal Demapper for Multiwireless Standards”, In GDR SoC-SiP: Groupe de recherche System on Chip – System in Package, Colloque National, Paris, France, 9-11 June 2010.

A.R. Jafri, A. Baghdadi, and M. Jezequel, “Exploring Parallel Processing Levels in Turbo Demodulation”, In Proc. IEEE 6th International Symposium on Turbo Codes and Iterative Information Processing, Brest, France, 6-10 Sept 2010.

A.R. Jafri, A. Baghdadi, and M. Jezequel, “FPGA Prototypes of Heterogeneous multi-ASIP and NoC based Unified Turbo Receiver for Multi Wireless Standards”, Poster and Demonstration at the University Booth of the IEEE/ACM Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition, DATE’11, Grenoble, France, 14-18 March 2011.

A.R. Jafri, and A. Baghdadi, “Conversion Throughput Gain in Parallel Turbo Receiver”, In Proc. IEEE  IBCAST’13  , Islamabad ,Pakistan, 15-19 Jan 2013.

Yusra Mehmood, Umar Mujahid, M. Najam-ul-islam, A.R. Jafri,” Efficient Hardware Implementation of lightweight Pseudo-random number generators”, The Second International Conference on Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Education Technologies (CSCEET2015), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September 8-10, 2015.

Muhammad Rashid, Malik Imran and Atif Raza Jafri, “Comparative Analysis of Flexible Cryptographic Implementations ,11th International Symposium on Reconfigurable Communication-centric Systems-on-Chip (ReCoSoC 2016), Tallinn – Estonia, June 27-29, 2016.

Malik Imran, Atif Raza Jafri, Imran Shafi and Muhammad Rashid, “Hardware Design and Implementation of ECC based Crypto Processor for Low-area- applications on FPGA” In proc. 11th IEEE International Conference On Open Source Systems And Technologies (ICOSST 2017), 18-20 December, Lahore, Pakistan.

M. Waqas, A.R. Jafri, A. Baghdadi, and M. Najam-ul-Islam “Rapid Prototyping of Parameterized Rotated and Cyclic Q Delayed Constellations Demapper”, In Proc. IEEE/IFIP 29th International Symposium on Rapid System Prototyping, RSP’18, October 4-5, 2018, Torino, Italy.

Book Chapters

A.R. Jafri, A. Baghdadi, and M. Jezequel, “ASIP Design and Prototyping for Wireless Communication Applications”, In “Advanced Applications Of Rapid Prototyping Technology In Modern Engineering” book, InTech Open Access Publisher, 2011, ISBN ISBN 978-953-307-698-0