Dr. Abbas has more than 19 years of experience in the semiconductor and telecom industry and academia. Before joining LUMS as a visiting faculty, he was a co-founder of Teleware Systems that was later acquired by PalmChip Corporation. During 2002-2006, he served as the CEO of both Teleware Systems and PalmChip Pakistan . He continues to serve on the board of PalmChip Pakistan. He is also on the board of a few other Pakistani high-tech start-ups. He also provides consultancy services to the telecom industry. At Centillium, he was part of the team involved in an ADSL and VoIP chip architecture and design. He was also responsible for international technology standards management for the company. At Nortel, he was part of the team involved in the development of Broadband Access products that facilitated high date rate access over twisted copper pair, co-axial cable, passive optical fiber and wireless media. He was also responsible for international technology standards related to the relevant broadband access technologies. To his credit are more than hundred (100) technical contributions in ITU-T, IEEE 802, ANSI, ETSI, ATM Form and DSL Forum related to DSL and high speed access technologies. He has numerous research publications in industry journals and conference proceedings mainly related to Mobile Wireless Propagation. He holds 4 US patents while another three (3) patent applications are pending. Dr. Abbas is also Principal Investigator for a PTCL R&D Fund Grant. Dr. Abbas holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, and a B.S in Electrical Engineering from UET Lahore.
Dr. Abbas’s research Interests include 4th Generation Mobile and Wireless Networks and related technologies. He is specifically interested in MIMO transceivers, MIMO channel models, and Optimal Radio Resource Management using Cognitive Techniques for Loosely Assigned Bandwidth Allocation paradigm. He is also involved in the research & development activities related to enabling technologies for Software Defined Radios.
Long, G., and Abbas, S. A., US Patent 7,180,936, February 20, 2007.
Long, G., Rashid-Farrokhi, F., and Abbas, S. A., US Patent 7,177,350, February 13, 2007.
Long, G., and Abbas, S. A., US Patent 6,865,190, March 8, 2005.
Long, G., Kamali, J., Blackwell, S. R., and Abbas, S. A., US Patent 6,725,176, April 20, 2004.
| Digital Communication II | Spring 2007-08 |
| Digital Communications I | Winter 2007-08 |
| Mobile Wireless Networks | Winter 2007-08,Winter 2006-07, Spring 2005-06 |
