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Shahid Masud

Associate Professor
Ph.D. Queens University, 1999
Design and Implementation of DSP Systems, Computer Architecture Applications and ASIC and FPGA technologies.
 Multimedia Systems, Digital Signal Processing
Email: smasud [at] lums dot edu pk
Extension: 4422

Personal Web Page: http://suraj.lums.edu.pk/~smasud

Bio-Sketch

Shahid Masud received his B.Sc. Electrical Engg. from EME College Rawalpindi (1990), M.Eng.Sc. degree in Electronics from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (1992) and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engieneering from Queen's University, Belfast, UK (1999). He has been a receipient of prestigious AIDAB EMSS scholarship (Australia) and Commonwealth Scholarship (UK). He was a Senior Design Engineer at Amphion Semiconductor Ltd. UK, (now Conexant Inc.) before joining LUMS in October 2002. He has several years of research and development experience in the design of VLSI systems for image and video coding and computer interfacing. He has published over forty refereed   papers internationally and holds three patents in VLSI design. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, MIET and a Chartered Engineer.


Research Interests

His research interests include Design and Implementation of DSP Systems, Computer Architecture and Embedded Systems using ASIC and FPGA technologies.



Recent Publications of Shahid Masud

  • On Vowels Segmentation and Identification using Formant Transitions in Continuous Recitation of Quranic Arabic
    Iqbal, H.R., Awais, M.M., Masud, S., and Shamail, S., In 21st International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE 2008), Wroclaw, Poland, June 18-20, 2008.
  • Power Aware Design of Superscalar Architecture for High Performance DSP Operations
    Ahmad, R., Sheikh, F., and Masud, S., In 21st IEEE Canada Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE-2008), Ontario, Canada, May 4-7 2008.
  • Arabic Phoneme Identification using Conventional and Concurrent Neural Networks in Non-Native Speakers

    Awais, M.M., Masud, S., Akhtar, J.,and Shamail, S., In ICIC 2007, QingDao, China, August 21-24, 2007.

  • Improved Factorization for Sample Rate Conversion in Software Defined Radios

    Sheikh, F., and  Masud, S., In International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2007, Louisiana, USA, May 2007.

  • Efficient Color Space Conversion using Custom Instruction in a RISC Processor
    Bilal, M., and Masud, S., In International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2007, Louisiana, USA, May 2007.
  • Efficient Sample Rate Conversion for Multi-Standard Software Defined Radios
    Sheikh, F., and Masud, S., In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, 2007, Hawaii, USA, April 2007.
  • Computationally Efficient Fine Grained Scalability for Low Bit Rate Video Coding

    Shoaib, M., Khan, N.A., and Masud, S., In International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications 2007, ISSPA07, Sharjah, UAE, February 2007.

  • Continuous Arabic Speech Segmentation using FFT Spectrogram

    Awais, M.M., Ahmad, W., Shamail, S., and Masud, S., In Innovations in Information Technology IIT'06, Dubai, UAE, December 2006.

  • Support Vector Machine Based Voice Activity Detection
    Awais, M.M., Masud, S., and Baig, M., In International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems, Tottori, Japan, December 2006.
  • A Variable Block Size Motion Estimation Algorithm for Real-Time H.264 Video Encoding

    Khan, N., Masud, S., and Ahmad, A., In Elsevier Signal Processing: Image Communication Journal. Vol 21, pp 306-315, April 2006.

  • Reconfigurable SOC Platforms

    Masud, S., In Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Microelectronics, Islamabad, Pakistan, December 13, 2005.

  • Programmable IF Architecture for Multistandard Software Defined Radios

    Sheikh, F., Masud, S., and Loan, A., In IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Systems, Design and Implementation (SiPS’05), Greece, November 2005.

  • Low Complexity Recursive Search Based Motion Estimation Algorithm for Video Coding Applications

    Virk, K., Khan, N.A., Masud, S., Nasim, F., and Idris, S., In Proceedings of the European Signal Processing Conference, Antalya, Turkey, September 4-8, 2005.

  • Architectural Optimizations for Software-Based MPEG4 Video Encoder

    Nasim, F., Masud, S., Khan, N.A., Virk, K., and Farrukh, A., In Proceedings of the European Signal Processing Conference, Antalya, Turkey, September 4-8, 2005.

  • Multilevel Optimization of Speech Coding Algorithms for Modern DSP Architectures

    Awan, M.T., Masud, S., Khan, N., and Abdullah, F., In Proceedings of the Internaional Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, Victoria, BC, Canada, August 24-26, 2005.

  • Real Time Implementation of G.729A Speech Codec on Media Processor Architectures

    Awan, M.T., Masud, S., Abdullah, F., and Khan, N.A., In Proceedings of the International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and Technologies, Bhurban, Pakistan, June 13-18, 2005.

  • Automatic Arabic Speech Recognition System

    Anwar, M.J., Awais, M.M., Masud, S., and Shamail, S., In International Journal of Information Technology, vol 12, pp 102-111, 2005. Also published in proceedings of the International  Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC '05), Hefei, China, August 23-26, 2005.

  • Design and Implementation of a Hardware Divider in Finite Field

    Faiz, F., and Masud, S., In Proceedings of National Conference on Emerging Technologies, pp 167-170, Karachi, Pakistan, December 2004.

  • Efficient Scheme for Motion Estimation And Block Size Mode Selection in H.264

    Khan, N.A., Masud, S., Amna, A., and Maud, M.A., In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT-2004) pp 747-751, Sapporo, Japan, October 26-29, 2004.

  • Reusable Silicon IP Cores for Discrete Wavelet Transform Applications

    Masud, S., and McCanny, J., In IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, Vol 51, Issue 6,  pp 1114 – 1124, June 2004.

  • Selection of Variable Block Sizes in H.264
    Ahmad, A., Khan, N., Masud, S., and Maud, M.A., In Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP’04), Montreal, Canada, May 2004.
  • Application Of Concurrent Generalized Regression Neural Networks For Arabic Speech Recognition
    Awais, M.M., Masud, S., and Shamail, S., and Sehgal, S., Presented at Neural Computational Intelligence (NCI), IASTED, Grindelwald, Switzerland, February 23-25, 2004.
  • Application of Concurrent Generalized Regression Neural Networks for Arabic Speech Recognition

    Shoaib, M., Awais, M.M, Masud, S., Shamail, S., and Akhtar, J.,In Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Neural Networks and Computational Intelligence (NCI’2004) Grindelwald, Switzerland, February 2004.

  • Efficient Block Size Selection in H.264 Video Coding Standard

    Ahmad, A., Khan, N., Masud, S., Maud, M.A., In IEE Electronics Letters, Vol 40, No 1, pp 19-21, January 2004.

  • Web Based Portal for Capacity Building of Development Sector Enterprises in Pakistan

    Shamail, S.,  Awais, M.M., Masud, S., Shams, S., In Proceedings of the  Second World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS) Conference on E-Activities, Singapore, December 7-9, 2003.

  • DSP Implementation of Concurrent GSM and CDMA Modems for Software Defined Radios
    Sheikh, F., and Masud, S., In proceedings of the  International Conference on Information Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS), Singapore,  pp 1732 – 1736, December, 2003.