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| fields      = Phase locked loops, 60 GHz electronics
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| fields      = Phase locked loops, 60 GHz electronics, millimetre waves, RF transceivers, frequency syntheisis
| workplaces  = [[DSTO]]
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| workplaces  = [[Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia]]
 
| high_school =  
 
| high_school =  
| undergrad_university = [[NRI Institute of Information Science and Technology]]
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| undergrad_university = [[Universiti Teknologi Malaysia]]
| undergrad_degree    = Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering (2005)
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| undergrad_degree    = Computer Engineering (2000)
| project_advisors    = Nilesh M. Desai
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| project_advisors    =  
| masters_university  = [[University of Adelaide]]
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| masters_university  = <!-- None -->
| masters_degree      = Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering (2007)
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| masters_degree      =  
| masters_advisors    = Christopher Coleman
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| masters_advisors    =
 
| doctoral_university  = [[University of Adelaide]]
 
| doctoral_university  = [[University of Adelaide]]
 
| doctoral_degree      = Electrical & Electronic Engineering (2013)
 
| doctoral_degree      = Electrical & Electronic Engineering (2013)
| doctoral_advisors    = {{nowrap|[[Brian W.-H. Ng]], [[Bernd M. Fischer]], [[Derek Abbott]]}}
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| doctoral_advisors    = {{nowrap|[[Derek Abbott]], [[Said F. Al-Sarawi]]}}
| awards              = [[University of Adelaide Divisional Scholarship]] (2009) <br> {{nowrap|[[Walter and Dorothy Duncan Trust Grant]] (2010)}} <br>{{nowrap|[[IEEE SA Chapter Travel Award]] (2010)}} <br> {{nowrap|[[IEEE SA Chapter Travel Award]] (2011)}} }}
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| awards              = {{nowrap|[[Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia Scholarship]] (2005)}}  
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'''Mayank Kaushik''' was born in Gujarat, India in 1983. From 2001-2005, he was educated
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'''Noorfazila Kamal''' was born in Perak, Malaysia in 1979. From 1997 to 2000, she was educated at [[Universiti Teknologi Malaysia]] (UTM), in Johor Bharu, Malaysia, where she obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering with honours. In 2001 she worked as a tutor in the The Department of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, [[Universiti Teknologi Malaysia]]. In October 2002, she joined  The Department of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, [[Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia]].
at the NRI Institute of Information Science and Technology at Bhopal, India, where he
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obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering with
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honours. During his Bachelor Degree, he worked as a trainee at the Space Applications
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Centre (Ahmedabad), Indian Space Research Organisation, in the Microwave Remote
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Sensing Area (MRSA) and Microwave Sensors Data Acquisition and Processor
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Division (MSDAPD), on a project entitled ''Matlab Simulation of Digital Pulse Compression
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and its Implementation on Xilinx FPGA Device'' and successfully designed a Synthetic
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Aperture Radar range compression chip.
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In 2006, he came to Australia to pursue higher education and received his Master’s Degree
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In October 2005, she was granted a scholarship from Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia to pursue her study at School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, The University of Adelaide. Here, under the supervision of [[Derek Abbott]] and [[Said F. Al-Sarawi]], she studied toward her PhD in Electronic Engineering. Her PhD work was
in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering (Adv.), from the University of
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part of the Gigabit Low-cost Integrated Millimeter-wave Radio ([[The GLIMMR project|GLIMMR]]) project, which was funded by an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Research Grant, together with NHEW R&D Pty. Ltd.  
Adelaide in December 2007. Soon after that he was appointed as a research assistant at
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the University of South Australia (and later at the University of Adelaide) to work on
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various audio signal processing related projects for the Defense Science and Technology
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Organisation (DSTO).  
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In August 2009, he was granted the University of Adelaide Divisional Scholarship to study
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Her research involves frequency synthesis in a millimeter-wave RF transceiver. Noorfazila has delivered presentations at a number of conferences in Adelaide, Canberra, and Kuala Lumpur.
towards his PhD under the supervision of [[Brian W.-H. Ng]], [[Bernd M. Fischer]], and
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[[Derek Abbott]]. During his candidature, Kaushik was successful in publishing his research  
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work in a number of high impact journals. He received two IEEE South Australia Section travel
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scholarship awards and the Walter & Dorothy Duncan Trust Grant to present his research work at the 35th
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and the 36th ''International Conference on Infrared Millimeter and Terahertz Waves'', held
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at Rome in 2010 and in Houston, TX, in 2011, respectively. In March 2012, he obtained
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a position at the  Defense Science and Technology Organisation, Edinburgh, as a radar
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research scientist.
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==Bachelor's degree==
 
==Bachelor's degree==
* Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering (2005), NRI Institute of Information Science and Technology at Bhopal, India
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* Computer Engineering with Honours (2000), [[Universiti Teknologi Malaysia]] (UTM)
* Project: ''Matlab Simulation of Digital Pulse Compression and its Implementation on Xilinx FPGA Device,'' under Nilesh M. Desai, Indian Space Research Organization
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* Project: ''Speech Recognition for Arabic Alphabet'', under Abdul Rahman Al-Attas
 
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==Master's degree==
 
==Master's degree==
* Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering (2007), [[University of Adelaide]]
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* Project: ''Radio Frequency Stabilization,'' under Christopher Coleman.
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==Doctoral degree==
 
==Doctoral degree==
 
* Electrical & Electronic Engineering (2013), [[University of Adelaide]], Australia
 
* Electrical & Electronic Engineering (2013), [[University of Adelaide]], Australia
* Thesis: ''Characterizing and Mitigating Scattering Effects in Terahertz Time Domain Spectroscopy Measurements,'' under [[Brian W.-H. Ng]], [[Bernd M. Fischer]], [[Derek Abbott]].
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* Thesis: ''Reference Spurs in an Integer-N Phase-Locked Loop: Analysis, Modelling and Design,'' under [[Derek Abbott]] and [[Said F. Al-Sarawi]]
 
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==Postdoctoral positions==
 
==Postdoctoral positions==
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==Positions==
 
==Positions==
2002 [[Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia]] (UKM), Lecturer
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* 2002 [[Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia]] (UKM), Lecturer
2001 [[Universiti Teknologi Malaysia]] (UTM), Tutor
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* 2001 [[Universiti Teknologi Malaysia]] (UTM), Tutor
  
 
==Awards==
 
==Awards==
* [[University of Adelaide Divisional Scholarship]] (2009)
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* [[Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia Scholarship]] (2005)  
* [[Walter and Dorothy Duncan Trust Grant]] (2010)
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* [[IEEE SA Chapter Travel Award]] (2010)
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* [[IEEE SA Chapter Travel Award]] (2011)
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==Scientific genealogy==
 
==Scientific genealogy==
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==Journal articles==
 
==Journal articles==
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[http://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/personal/dabbott/publications/IEL_kamal2013.pdf]
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[[Noorfazila Kamal|N. Kamal]], [[Said F. Al-Sarawi|S. F. Al-Sarawi]], and '''[[Derek Abbott|D. Abbott]],''' "Reference spur suppression technique using ratioed current charge pump," ''Electronics Letters'', '''Vol. 49,''' No. 12, pp. 746&ndash;747, 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/el.2013.1010 [http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=vqD_0uQAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=vqD_0uQAAAAJ:zfsRRabFVBUC Scholar Google hits] [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255723101 ResearchGate]
  
 
==Conference articles==
 
==Conference articles==
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* [http://scholar.google.com.my/citations?user=POLATucAAAAJ&hl=en  Kamal's Google Scholar profile]
 
* [http://scholar.google.com.my/citations?user=POLATucAAAAJ&hl=en  Kamal's Google Scholar profile]
 
* [http://www.experts.scival.com/ukm/expert.asp?n=Noorfazila+Kamal&u_id=974 Kamal's UKM expert profile]
 
* [http://www.experts.scival.com/ukm/expert.asp?n=Noorfazila+Kamal&u_id=974 Kamal's UKM expert profile]
 
  
 
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[[Category:Said Al-Sarawi's PhD students]]
 
[[Category:Said Al-Sarawi's PhD students]]
 
[[Category:Students from Malaysia]]
 
[[Category:Students from Malaysia]]
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[[Category:GLIMMR project]]

Latest revision as of 12:43, 5 June 2017

Noorfazila Kamal
Noorfazila kamal.png
Person_Name: Noorfazila Kamal
Birth_Date: 1979
Birth_Place: Perak, Malaysia
Fields: Phase locked loops, 60 GHz electronics, millimetre waves, RF transceivers, frequency syntheisis
Workplaces: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Undergrad_University: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Undergrad_Degree: Computer Engineering (2000)
Doctoral_University: University of Adelaide
Doctoral_Degree: Electrical & Electronic Engineering (2013)
Doctoral_Advisors: Derek Abbott, Said F. Al-Sarawi
Awards : Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia Scholarship (2005)


Noorfazila Kamal was born in Perak, Malaysia in 1979. From 1997 to 2000, she was educated at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), in Johor Bharu, Malaysia, where she obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering with honours. In 2001 she worked as a tutor in the The Department of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. In October 2002, she joined The Department of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.

In October 2005, she was granted a scholarship from Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia to pursue her study at School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, The University of Adelaide. Here, under the supervision of Derek Abbott and Said F. Al-Sarawi, she studied toward her PhD in Electronic Engineering. Her PhD work was part of the Gigabit Low-cost Integrated Millimeter-wave Radio (GLIMMR) project, which was funded by an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Research Grant, together with NHEW R&D Pty. Ltd.

Her research involves frequency synthesis in a millimeter-wave RF transceiver. Noorfazila has delivered presentations at a number of conferences in Adelaide, Canberra, and Kuala Lumpur.

Bachelor's degree

  • Computer Engineering with Honours (2000), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)
  • Project: Speech Recognition for Arabic Alphabet, under Abdul Rahman Al-Attas

Doctoral degree

Positions

Awards

Scientific genealogy

  • TBA

Google Scholar profile

Journal articles

[1] N. Kamal, S. F. Al-Sarawi, and D. Abbott, "Reference spur suppression technique using ratioed current charge pump," Electronics Letters, Vol. 49, No. 12, pp. 746–747, 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/el.2013.1010 Scholar Google hits ResearchGate

Conference articles

[2] N. Kamal, Said Al-Sarawi, and D. Abbott, "An accurate analytical spur model for an integer-N phase-locked loop," Proc. IEEE 4th International Conference on Intelligent and Advanced Systems, (ICIAS 2012), Vol. 2, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 12–14, 2012, pp. 659–664, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICIAS.2012.6306096

[3] N. Kamal, Said Al-Sarawi, and D. Abbott, "Accurate reference spur estimation using behavioural modelling," Proc. IEEE 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Modelling and Simulation (ISMS), Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, February 8–10, 2012, pp. 705–710, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISMS.2012.105

[4] N. Kamal, S. Al-Sarawi, N.H.E. Weste, D. Abbott, "A phase-locked loop reference spur modelling using Simulink," Proc. International Conference on Electronic Devices, Systems and Applications, (ICEDSA), Kuala Lumpur, Malayasia, April 11–14, 2010, pp. 279–283, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICEDSA.2010.5503058

[5] N. Kamal, Y. Zhu, L. T. Hall, Said Al-Sarawi, C. Burnet, I. Holland, A. Khan, A. Pollok, J. Poyner, M. Boers, J. A. Howarth, A. Lauterbach, J. Harrison, J. Rathmell, M. Batty, A. Parker, L. M. Davis, W. G. Cowley, N. H. E. Weste, and D. Abbott, "A high-frequency divider in 0.18 µm SiGe BiCMOS technology," Proc. SPIE Smart Structures, Devices, and Systems III, (Ed. Said F. Al-Sarawi), Adelaide, Australia, December 10, 2006 art. no. 641408.

[6] N. Kamal, Y. Zhu, S. F. Al-Sarawi, N. H. E. Weste, and D. Abbott, "A SiGe 6 modulus prescaler for a 60 GHz frequency synthesizer," Proc. SPIE Microelectronics: Design, Technology, and Packaging III, (Alex J. Hariz and Vijay K. Varadan), Vol. 6798, Canberra, ACT, Australia, December 5, 2007, art. no. 67980E, http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.759762

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