Muhammad Toaha Raza

Khan
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Graduations:
2017-2022 Ph.D (combined MS.) in Computer Science and Engineering CGPA 3.86/4.3 , Kyung-
pook National University, Daegu, Korea.
2012–2016 B.S. Electrical Engineering (Telecommunication) CGPA 3.89/4 , COMSATS Institute of
Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.
2009-2011 Higher Secondary School Certificate (H.S.S.C) ‘A’ grade, Federal Board of Intermediate
and Secondary Education, Islamabad, Pakistan.
2007-2009 Secondary School Certificate (S.S.C) ‘A’ grade, Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary
Education, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Certifications:
2023 Business Analytics: Decision Making Using Data, University of Cambridge Judge Business
School Executive Education, Online.
2022 Python for Machine Learning & Data Science Masterclass, Udemy, Online.
2022 The Project Management Course: Beginner to Project Manager, Udemy, Online.

Work Experience
2023 Postdoctoral Researcher:, Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Cam-
pus (METU-NCC).
Working since 1st March 2023, till date, at Middle East Technical University, Department of Computer
Engineering, Güzelyurt, Turkey. Detailed responsibilities are as follows:
{ Researching the topic of Human Activity Recognition using Binary Sensors.
{ List of Courses Taught, CNG100 (Introduction to Information Tech. and Applications), CNG140 (C
Programming), CNG 331 (Computer Organization), EEE445 (Computer Architecture I).
{ Co-Advised METU NCC CNG CAPSTONE PROJECT Titled "Multi-Sensor Activity Detection Based
Health Monitoring System".
2017-2022 Graduate Research Engineer:, Wireless and Mobile Internet Laboratory (MoNet),
Daegu, Korea.
Working since 2nd March, 2017, till August, 2022, at Kyungpook National University, Korea. The following
are the detailed responsibilities and duties:
{ Conduct research on various research problems related to wireless sensor networks and future vehicular
communication networks.
{ Design and development of algorithms and protocols for problem solving.
{ Analyze the research findings using statistical processes and mathematical concepts.
{ Document the research findings to share research with other professional venues including seminars,
conferences and in SCI/SCIE journal.

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 Internships:
2013 Summer Intern:, Telenor Pakistan (Mobile Network Company), Wah Cantt, Pakistan.
Worked for 13 weeks from 13th June to 2nd September. The work included public dealing, synchronization
of data between serving office and head office. The registration of new Sims was also part of the task list of
tasks performed:
{ Public dealing.
{ Troubleshooting.
{ Online Sims registration.

2012 Summer Intern:, Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd, Wah Cantt, Pakistan.
Worked for 06 weeks from 18th of July to 29th of August. The work included public dealing, synchronization
of data between serving office and head office. Registration of new Sims was also the part of task ist of tasks
performed:
{ Main Distribution Frame (MDF) Patching/Trouble Shooting.
{ Access Network understanding, Installation and troubleshooting.
{ Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM’s) Trouble Shoot.
{ Customer Premises Equipment Installer (CPAEI) Installation and Maintenance.

Patents
US Patent:
• Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan, Nadia Nawaz Qadri and Hassan Iftikhar “A Square shaped
multi slotted 2.45 GHz wearable antenna,” U.S. Patent Application 15/626,536.
Korean Patents:
• Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan, Syed Hassan Ahmed, Muhammad Azfar Yaqub, Hyeongcheol
Park and Dongkyun Kim, “A dynamic duty-cycle control method for a next-wake-up time of a
transmitter node in an underwater wireless sensor network,” Korean Patent Application 10-2018-
0058514.
• Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan, Syed Hassan Ahmed, Muhammad Azfar Yaqub, Hyeongcheol
Park and Dongkyun Kim, “The present invention relates to a method for adjusting a dynamic
duty cycle based on a receiver based on residual energy in an underwater wireless sensor network,”
Korean Patent Application 10-2017-0158808.

Recent Publications
• Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan, Yalew Zelalem Jembre, Malik Muhammad Saad, Safdar Hussain
Bouk, Syed Hassan Ahmed Shah, Dongkyun Kim, “Proactive Content Retrieval Based on Value of
Popularity in Content-centric Internet of Vehicles”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology,
(Accepted with minor revision on 25-October-2023).
• Abdueli Paulo Mdee, Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan, Junho Seo, Dongkyun Kim,“Security
Compliant and Cooperative Pseudonyms Swapping for Location Privacy Preservation in VANETs”,
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
• Muhammad Ashar Tariq, Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan, Malik Muhammad Saad, Md
Mahmudul Islam, Dongkyun Kim, “AI-enabled Reliable Delay Sensitive Communication Mechanism
in IoUT using CoAP”, IEEE Sensors Journal.
• Muhammad Ashar Tariq, Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan, Malik Muhammad Saad, Junhho Seo,
Dongkyun Kim, “DRL-based resource management in network slicing for vehicular applications”,
ICT Express.
• Malik Muhammad Saad, Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan, Gautam Srivastava, Rutvij H Jhaveri,
Mahmudul Islam, Dongkyun Kim,“Cooperative vehicular networks: An optimal and machine
learning approach”, Computers and Electrical Engineering.

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 Patents
US Patent:
• Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan, Nadia Nawaz Qadri and Hassan Iftikhar “A Square shaped
multi slotted 2.45 GHz wearable antenna,” U.S. Patent Application 15/626,536.
Korean Patents:
• Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan, Syed Hassan Ahmed, Muhammad Azfar Yaqub, Hyeongcheol
Park and Dongkyun Kim, “A dynamic duty-cycle control method for a next-wake-up time of a
transmitter node in an underwater wireless sensor network,” Korean Patent Application 10-2018-
0058514.
• Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan, Syed Hassan Ahmed, Muhammad Azfar Yaqub, Hyeongcheol
Park and Dongkyun Kim, “The present invention relates to a method for adjusting a dynamic
duty cycle based on a receiver based on residual energy in an underwater wireless sensor network,”
Korean Patent Application 10-2017-0158808.

Research Projects
Project Title: Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation
of Korea (NRF) (Worth 400,000$)
Selected Research Contributions:
• Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan, Syed Hassan Ahmed, Zelalem Jembre Yalew and Dongkyun
Kim, “An Energy-efficient Data collection Protocol with AUV Path Planning in the Internet of
Underwater Things”, Journal of Network and Computer Applications.
• Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan, Syed Hassan Ahmed and Dongkyun Kim, “AUV-aided
Energy-efficient Clustering in the Internet of Underwater Things”, IEEE Transactions on Green
Communications and Networking.
• Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan, Zelalem Jembre Yalew, Syed Hassan Ahmed and Dongkyun
Kim, “REMEDY: Receiver-initiated MAC based on Energy-efficient Duty-cycling in the IoUT”,
IEEE Access.
• Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan, Yalew Zelalem Jembre, Syed Hassan Ahmed and Dongkyun
Kim, “Data Freshness Based AUV Path Planning for UWSN in the Internet of Underwater Things”,
IEEE GLOBECOM 2019, Hawaii, USA.
• Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan, Syed Hassan Ahmed and Dongkyun Kim, “AUV-assisted
Energy-efficient Clustering in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks”, IEEE Global Communications
Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2018), Abu Dhabi, UAE.
• Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan, Malik Muhmmad Saad and Dongkyun Kim, “Reliable interest
forwarding strategy for underwater vehicular NDN”, ACM SAC 2021.
• Eunbae Moon, Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan, Hyeongcheol Park, Syed Hassan Ahmed,
Sungwon Lee and Dongkyun Kim, “OMRI-MAC: Optimized Multi-transmission Receiver-Initiated
MAC in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks”, Wireless Personal Communications.
• Sungwon Lee, Yeongjoon Bae, Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan, Junho Seo,and Dongkyun Kim,
“Avoiding Spurious Retransmission over Flooding-Based Routing Protocol for Underwater Sensor
Networks”, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing.
• Muhammad Ashar Tariq, Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan, Malik Muhammad Saad, Md. Mah-
mudul Islam, and Dongkyun Kim, “AI-enabled reliable delay sensitive communication mechanism
in IoUT using CoAP”, Digital Communications and Networking (Under Review).
• Minseok Kim, Sungwon Lee, Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan, Junho Seo, Yeongjoon Bae,
Yonghwan Jeong and Dongkyun Kim, “A New CoAP Congestion Control Scheme using Message
Loss Feedback for IoUT”, ACM SAC-2019, Limassol, Cyprus.
• Muhammad Azfar Yaqub, Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan, Syed Hassan Ahmed and Dongkyun
Kim“Receiver-Initiated Dynamic Duty Cycle Scheduling Schemes for Underwater Wireless Sensor
Networks”, IEEE CCNC 2018, Las Vegas, USA.

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 • Junho Seo, Sungwon Lee, Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan,and Dongkyun Kim, “A New CoAP
Congestion Control Scheme Considering Strong and Weak RTT for IoUT”, ACM SAC 2020.
Project Title: BK21 Plus project (SW Human Resource Development Program for Supporting
Smart Life) (Worth 100,000$)
Selected Research Contributions:
• Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan, Yalew Zelalem Jembre, Malik Muhammad Saad, Syed Hassan
Ahmed, Dongkyun Kim, “PoP-NDN:Proactive On-path Content Prefetching in Vehicular Named
Data Networks”, Vehicula Communications, (Under Review).
• Malik Muhammad Saad, Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan, Syed Hassan Ahmed, Dongkyun Kim,
“Advancements in Vehicular Communication Technologies: C-V2X and NR-V2X Comparison”,
IEEE Communications Magazine.
• Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan, Malik Muhammad Saad, Yang Ru, Junho Seo, Dongkyun Kim,
“Aspects of unmanned aerial vehicles path planning: Overview and applications”, International
Journal of Communication Systems.
• Ayesha Siddiqa, Muhammad Diyan, Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan, Malik Muhammad Saad
and Dongkyun Kim, “Mitigating Broadcasting Storm using Multihead Nomination Clustering in
Vehicular Content Centric Networks”, Electronics.
• Md Mahmudul Islam, Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan, Malik Muhammad Saad, Dongkyun
Kim, “Software-defined vehicular network (SDVN): A survey on architecture and routing”,Journal
of Systems Architecture.
• Malik Muhammad Saad, Muhammad Ashar Tariq, Md. Mahmudul Islam, Muhammad Toaha
Raza Khan and Dongkyun Kim, “Collaborative Deep Reinforcement Learning for Resource
Allocation in C-V2X”, Transactions on Vehicular Technology (Under Review).
• Md. Mahmudul Islam, Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan, Malik Muhammad Saad, Muhammad
Ashar Tariq, and Dongkyun Kim, “Dynamic Positioning of UAVs to Improve Network Coverage
inVANETs”, Vehicular Communications (Under Review).
Project Title: BK21 FOUR Graduate Innovation Project (International Joint Research
Project for Graduate Students)(Worth 80,000$)
Selected Research Contributions:
• Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan, Malik Muhammad Saad, Muhammad Ashar Tariq, Junaid
Akram, Dongkyun Kim, “SPICE-IT: Smart COVID-19 pandemic controlled eradication over
NDN-IoT”, Information Fusion.
• Murad Khan, Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan, Malik Muhammad Saad and Dongkyun Kim,
“A User Profile-based Smart Home Energy Management System”, ACM SAC 2021.
• YangRu, Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan, Junho Seo, and Dongkyun Kim, “UAV Path-planning
in 3-Dimensional Space: A Brief Survey”, ICCT 2019, Pattaya, Thailand.
• Junho Seo, Sungwon Lee, Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan,and Dongkyun Kim, “Adaptive
Selection of Configuration Methods in 6LoWPAN based IoUT”, RACS 2019, Chongqing, China.
• Nikolai Leshov, Muhammad Azfar Yaqub, Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan, Sungwon Lee and
Dongkyun Kim, “Content Name Privacy in Tactical Named Data Networking”, ICUFN-2019,
Zagreb, Croatia.

Accepted Projects Proposal

2022 Project Title: AI-enabled CF-based V2X communication granted by the National Research
Foundation of Korea (NRF). (Worth 450,000$)
2023 Project Title: AI Resource Allocation in Mobile-Based V2X Communications granted by Québec
Merit Scholarship for Foreign Students (PBEEE) 2023-2024. (Worth 35,000$)

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 Book
2021 Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan and Dongkyun Kim “Network Programming, Basics and
Practice”, HuStar ICT, ISBN 979-11-966957-4-3.

Awards
2021 Awarded by BK21 FOUR Graduate Innovation Project Best Research Paper Award by
Kyungpook National University, Korea.
2019 Awarded by Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Best Research Paper Award by
School of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Korea.
2019 Awarded by ACM SIGAPP Student Travel Award to attend SAC 2019, Limassol, Cyprus.
2017 - 2020 Awarded by KNU International Graduate Scholarship(KINGS) for Masters combined Ph.D
studies in Kyungpook National University, Korea.
2016 Awarded by Institute Gold Medal & Campus Gold Medal in B.S. Electrical Engineering in
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan.
2015 Won 1st position in Final Year Project Competition at "13th International Conference on
Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT’15)" held at Serena Hotel, Islamabad, Pakistan.
2012 - 2016 Awarded by Prime Minister’s National ICT R&D Merit Scholarship for 4-years B.S.
Engineering in COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan.

Professional Duties and Personality Development

Since 2019 Organizing and Serving as Workshop Co-chair of International Workshop on Intelligent Communi-
cation Network Technology (ICNET).
Since 2017 Performed Duties as Teaching Assistant (TA) for different courses including Network Programming,
Advanced Computer Networks, Internet of Things.
Since 2017 Working as Graduate Research Engineer in Wireless and Mobile Networking Laboratory (MONET-
Lab), Kyungpook National University, Korea.
Since 2017 Actively participated as technical committee member in multiple tracks and symposiums in IEEE
ICC, IEEE Globecom, IEEE VTC, IEEE CCNC, ACM MobiHoc, ACM RACS, ACM SAC
conferences.
2016 - 2017 Co-supervising semester projects of Electrical Engineering students.

Volunteer Work
Since 2018 Member of ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (ACM SIGAPP).
Since 2018 Member of IEEE Communications Society (COMSOC).
Since 2017 Member of IEEE Young Professionals.
Since 2017 Member of IEEE Graduate Student Member, Seoul Section, R10-Asia and Pacific.
2015-2016 Elected Treasurer of IEEE COMSATS Wah Cantt Student Branch, R10-Asia and Pacific.
2015-2016 Member of IEEE Student Member, COMSATS Wah Cantt Student Branch, R10-Asia and Pacific.

Technical Skills and Abilities

TECHNICAL
o Computer Language
python, MATLAB, C++, C.
o Writing tools
LATEX, MS Office.
o Operating Systems
Windows, Linux.
o Graphical Designing tools

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 Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, AUTO CAD, Edraw Max.
o Simulating tools
MATLAB, NS-3, HFSS, ADS, Packet Tracer, CST.
o Circuit Designing Tools
PROTEUS, TransistorAmp.
o Micro-controllers
ATmega328.
SOFT
o Punctuality.
o Leadership qualities and organizational skills.
o Excellent teamwork skills.
o Ability to meet deadlines.

References
o Safdar Hussain Bouk (Ph.D)
Assistant Professor,
Old Dominion University, VA, USA.
email: sbouk@odu.edu

o Yalew Zelalem Jembre (Ph.D)

Assistant Professor,
Keimyung University, Korea.
email: zizutg@kmu.ac.kr

o Syed Hassan Ahmed Shah (Ph.D)

Product Management Team,
Qualcomm, USA.
email: sh.ahmed@ieee.org

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