MUHAMMAD MUBASHIR KHAN
editUniversity of Leeds, Leeds West Yorkshire, UK m_mubashir_khan@hotmail.com / mmkhan@comp.leeds.ac.uk
Summary of Qualifications MCIT Department of Computer Science & IT, NED University of Engg: & Tech, Karachi Pakistan. Year 2005 • M.Sc (H). Telecommunications, Institute of Information Technology, University of Sindh, Jamshoro Year 2001 • B.Sc (H). Telecommunications, Institute of Information Technology, University of Sindh, Jamshoro Year 2001 • Higher Secondary Certificate(Pre-Engg), Public School Hyderabad Year 1996 • Secondary School Certificate, Cosmopolitan High School Year 1994 Research PhD Student • Research Group: Distributed Systems and Services Group Dept of Computing, University of Leeds UK • Field of Research Network & Information Security (Quantum Cryptographic Networks) Supervised by Prof Jie Xu • I joined this group in October 2007 and exploring the possibilities of utilization of quantum information technology in high performance computing applications, for my PhD.
Publications / Posters / Talks Conference Paper Muhammad Mubashir Khan, Salahuddin Hyder, Mahmood K. Pathan, Kashif H. Sheikh, “A Quantum Key Distribution Network through Single Mode Optical Fiber” Procs. The 2006 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (May 2006) Las Vegas, Nevada USA. http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/CTS.2006.10 Poster presentation Applications of quantum key distribution networks in high performance computing, SECOQC QKD Network Demonstration and Conference (Oct 8-10 2008) Vienna, Austria Invited for talk Models for QKD security networks, Lisbon Quantum Computation, Information and Logic Meetings Series Workshop on Quantum Cryptography (July18-20 2007) Lisbon, Portugal
Professional Summary • Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science & IT NED University of Engg: & Tech, Karachi Pakistan. (From August, 2005 to date) • Lecturer Department of Computer Science & IT NED University of Engg: & Tech, Karachi Pakistan. (From August, 2002 to August 2005)
Courses Taught • Computer Networking & Internet Technologies • Assembly Language Programming • Programming in JAVA
Training / Lectures / Workshop • Trusted computing workshop, Edinburgh, UK (7-8 July 2008) • Basics of Quantum Physics leading to Quantum Computation & Quantum Information (Series of lectures given by Prof Ben Varcoe) (2008) • Quantum Cryptography and the operation of the Clavis QKD System from idQuantique, Switzerland (by Dr. Grégoire Ribordy, University of Geneva Switzerland) (2005) • Level 2 award in health & safety in the workplace, Chartered Institute of Environmental Health.
Projects • Comparison among LINUX, WIN-2000 & Novell Netware Specific to their network architecture. (B.Sc.(H) Thesis Project) • Developed software (Global PC & Mobile Access Server) as M.Sc final project, to provide a web-based solution to the users to access their PC’s remotely through Internet Web-Browsers & WAP Enabled Mobile Phones. • Developed software for Admission System of NED University of Engineering & Technology, Karachi. • Developed software for Medical Center of NED University of Engineering & Technology, Karachi. • Developed Campus Message System for NED University of Engineering & Technology, Karachi.
Future Aims Research in the area of Network Security focused on Quantum Key Distribution Networks
Languages • Urdu (Mother tongue) • English (Medium of instruction throughout the career)
(IELTS Certified with overall score 6.5 )
• French (French language course, beginners level from
Alliance Francase de Karachi, http://www.afkarachi.org )