Mr. Arsalan Akhtar
Category: Faculty
Published on: January 5, 2015
Last updated on March 7th, 2019

Engr. Arsalan Akhter (On Study Leave)

Lecturer

Computer Engineering Department
 Arsalan
Email arsalanakhter@bui.edu.pk
arsalanakhter.bahria@gmail.com
Phone 051-9261281, 051-9260002 Ext. 399
Education Masters of Science, Mechatronics Engineering (NUST-Pakistan)
Specialization Robotics, Embedded Systems, Artificial Intelligence,Machine Learning, Motion Planning for Mobile Robots,Multi-agent Intelligent Systems
Arsalan Akhter is a Lecturer at the Department of Computer Engineering, Bahria University Islamabad, Pakistan. He is a young and fervent member of the faculty with a passion of Robotics and its application in daily life. Arsalan has received both his Bachelors and Masters degrees from College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan in 2011 and 2014, respectively. Currently, he is leading multiple robotics related activities at the Department of Computer Engineering, which includes projects such as Robots in Home and Domestic Environments, Soccer Playing Robots and Robots in Computer Integrated Manufacturing Processes, to name a few. His research interests revolve around areas such as Robots in indoor environments, Motion Panning for Mobile Robots, Applications of Data Analysis in Robotics, Machine Learning, Sampling Based as well as Heuristics based Motion Planners etc. Arsalan Akhter is also working on projects related to Home Automation, with an emphasis on acquisition, representation and applications of prediction systems on user-behavior data. In past, Arsalan Akhter has represented Pakistan internationally at Robocup 2013, which is a worldcup for soccer playing robots.
  • Multi-agent Systems in Robotics
  • Sampling based Motion Planners
  • Robot Soccer
  • Robots in Domestic Environments
  • Applications of Internet of Things (IoT)
  • Microcontroller and SBC Based systems

Bahria University, Islamabad. (September 2014 – Present)

Lecturer (Department of Computer Engineering)

Courses Taught:

GSC-309 Discrete Structures, GSC-320 Numerical Analysis,  EEN-212 Electrical Network Analysis,  GSC-306 Probability and Statistics for Engineers, CEL-305 Microprocessor and Interfacing Lab , EEN-210 Basic Electronics ,  EEL-210 Basic Electronics Lab,   EEL-307 Signals and Systems Lab                                                         

National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad. (Sep 2011 – Aug 2012)

Teaching Assistant (Department of Mechatronics Engineering, EME College NUST)

Courses: EE-308 Control Systems  , EE-211 Basic Electronics Lab

  1. Akhter A.*, Tahir M.*, Ajmal A., Hashmi S.M.U., “A Review of Techniques and Approaches in Robocup @Home”. In the Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies, Karachi, Pakistan, December 2015 (Accepted).
  2. Ali, S. U., Akhter A. and Faraz K. “Cellular Automata based Motion Planning for Mobile Robots.” In the Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV 2012), Guangzhou, China, December 2012.
  1. Akhter A., Butt U.T., Azhar M., Raza S.M., Ahmed T., Zia G.,Bhatti M.S., Sohail J., Arshad M., Imran Z., Mehmood A., Malik M.T., Iqbal T., Amir A., Salman M., Faraz K., Khan S., “EMEnents 2013 Team Description”. Team Description Paper, Robocup International 2013.
    1. Hashmi, S. M. U., Ajmal A., Akhter A., Khalid, S., Manzoor, W., Ahmed, A., “Application Layer Time Synchronization Utilizing Symbol Timing Recovery in Wireless Sensor Networks”. In the Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Modeling and Simulation (UKSim), Cambridge, United Kingdom, March 2015.
  1. Zaman, M. A., Shafqat, S., Imran, A., Noor, I., Akhter, A., and Faraz, K. “Online Vision-Based Techniques for Robotic Soccer Environment”. In the Proceedings of the 43rd International Symposium on Robotics (ISR2012), Taipei, Taiwan, August 2012.
Google Inc. (May 2012 – August 2012)Google Summer of code Intern

Project titled “Integration of Robot Operating System (ROS) with OpenCog”

Worked on Robot Operating System (ROS) and OpenCog from scratch and proposed a design theme to integrate both the softwares, so that the cognition abilities of OpenCog could be utilized on robots using ROS.