Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra

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MD Afaque Azam

Joined Institute on : 9-May-2024

  • Assistant Professor
  • Electronics and Communication Engg
  • Doctorate (IIT Kharagpur,22)
Contact Address

Tanzania(TH210), BIT Mesra-835215, Ranchi, Jharkhand.

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  • Phone Office - 7478022444
  • Phone Residence - 7478022444
  • Email - afaqueazam@bitmesra.ac.in
Work Experience

Teaching : 2 Years

Research : 8 Years

Individual: 1 Years

Professional Background

Open to research and collaboration from all in the area of signal processing, AI/DL, and wireless communication. (Drop me a mail at: afaqueazam@bitmesra.ac.in)

Research Areas
  • Wireless Communication
  • Signal Analysis
  • Deep Learning Techniques
Award and Honours
  • Recipient of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Limited, India scholarship (2018 - 2022).
  • Recipient of M.H.R.D. scholarship (2013-2014).
Publications
  1. JOURNALS
  • Shashi Kumar Gupta , Aniket Dutta , Harshit Kachhap, MD Afaque Azam, “Advanced Deep Learning Techniques for Effective Plant Disease Classification.” April 2025, Volume 10, Issue 2, Pages 1-12, International Journal of Latest Technology in Engineering & Management (Google Scholar – Index)
  • MD Afaque Azam, “THz Drone System with Non-Ideal Hardware, Beam Misalignment Error and Mutual Coupling.” Elsevier Physical Communication (Impact Factor: 2.2) (Accepted 2025)
  • Drone-based NOMA Post Disaster Communication with Hardware Distortion and Interference. (Submitted)
  • Beam Focusing for Cell Free MIMO in the presence of Hardware Distortion and Rainfall Attenuation with Adaptive Power Control. (Submitted)
  • MD Afaque Azam, A. K. Dutta and A. Mukherjee, “Performance analysis and precoder design for IRS-assisted MIMO system with non-linear power amplifiers,” Elsevier Physical Communication (Online), 2022. (Impact Factor: 2.0)
  • MD Afaque Azam, A. K. Dutta and A. Mukherjee,”Downlink precoding for hybrid fully connected linear subarrays in mmWave with rainfall scattering and hardware impairments.” IEEE Transaction on Vehicular Technology (Impact Factor: 6.1)
  • MD Afaque Azam, A. K. Dutta and A. Mukherjee, “Performance Analysis of Dipole Antenna Based Planar Arrays With Mutual Coupling and Antenna Position Error in mmWave Hybrid System,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 70, no. 10, pp. 10209-10221, Oct. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TVT.2021.3104224. (Impact Factor: 6.1)
  • MD Afaque Azam, A. K. Dutta and A. Mukherjee, “Uplink Channel Estimation With Hardware Imperfections, Antenna Position Error and Channel Correlation for Nested and Linear Array Antennas,”  IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 69, no. 12,pp. 15412-15426, Dec. 2020, doi: 10.1109/TVT.2020.3041090. (Impact Factor: 6.1)
  • Kumar, R., MD Afaque Azam, Gupta, S. and Venkatesh, K.S., 2017. “Video stabilization using regularity of energy flow,” Signal, Image and Video Processing, (pp.1-8). (Impact Factor: 2.0 2023)

 

 

  1. CONFERENCES
  • Relay Assisted Device to Device Communication with Rainfall, Hardware Impairment and Intereference.  (Accepted)
  • Data Estimation in Wireless Sensor Network with Interference and Hardware Distortion. (Accepted
  • MD AfaqueAzam, Mukherjee, A. and Dutta, A.K., 2020, February. “Effect of Gaussian Correlated Channel on Uplink Channel Estimation for Massive MIMO with Nested Array at the Base Station,” In 2020 National Conference on Communications (NCC) (pp.1-6). IEEE.