Career Profile➕
Engr. Dr. Rana Javed Masood is an Assistant Professor at UIT University (UITU). He has more than twelve years of experience, serving different organization in various capacities. Before joining UITU, he served as Lab Engineer at NFC Institute of Engineering and Technology, Multan-Pakistan. He holds Ph.D. in Control Theory and Engineering from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Nanjing-China. He completed his Masters of Engineering in Industrial control and Automation from Hamdard University Karachi-Pakistan and acquired undergraduate degree in Electronics Engineering from Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology Karachi-Pakistan. He is a member of Pakistan Engineering Council and Association of Engineers.
Education➕
  • 2018: PhD (Control Theory and Engineering), Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Nanjing-China
  • 2011: ME (Industrial control and Automation), Hamdard University Karachi-Pakistan
  • 2006: BS (Electronics), Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology Karachi-Pakistan
Experience➕
  • Sep-2016 to Date: Assistant Professor, UIT University Karachi, Pakistan
  • Sep-2013 to May-2016: R&D Research Engineer, Nanjing Strong Flight Company Ltd (S&mc) Nanjing-China
  • (During PhD) August-2010 to July-2012: Lecturer, UIT University Karachi, Pakistan (Former Usman Institute of Engineering & Technology Karachi)
  • October 2007 to April 2009: Lab Engineer, NFC Institute of Engineering & Technology Multan
  • July-2006 to Dec-2006: R&D Engineer, Smart Automated Solution Karachi-Pakistan
Membership Training and Development➕
    April-2006: Received Basic Membership of Pakistan Engineering Council.
    Training & Development
  • May 17, 2022: Attended MATLAB & Simulink Academic Online Event on “Integrating AI Based virtual sensors into model-based Design”.
  • May 18, 2022: Attended MATLAB & Simulink Academic Online Event on “Hardware in loop (HIL) testing”
  • September 11-12, 2018: Attended Training course on “Civil Defense Basic First Aid & Firefighting” at Usman Institute of Technology Karachi, Sindh-Pakistan.
  • October 1-5, 2018: Attended (Continuing education program) “Inquiry Based Learning” at Usman Institute of Technology Karachi, Sindh-Pakistan.
  • June 23, 2018: Attended Seminar on “Outcome based education (OBE)” at Usman Institute of Technology Karachi, Sindh-Pakistan.
  • October 27, 2017: Attended Lecture on “Ethical leadership building generation through Demonstration” at Usman Institute of Technology Karachi, Sindh-Pakistan.
  • August 24-25, 2017: Attended Training workshop on “Teaching – Principles and Practices” at Usman Institute of Technology Karachi, Sindh-Pakistan.
  • January 05, 2016: Attended Lecture Seminar “A high Power Density LLC Resonant Converter” at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Nanjing, Jiangsu-China.
  • November 18, 2015: Attended NUAA Academic conference “Third International Academic Conference of Postgraduates” at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Nanjing, Jiangsu-China.
  • November 9, 2015: Attended Lecture Seminar “Automotive Electrification and Selected Electric Machine” at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Nanjing, Jiangsu-China.
  • February 26, 2014: Attended 2-day’s Workshop on “Short Course on Helicopter Technology” at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Nanjing, Jiangsu-China.
  • December 24, 2013: Attended Lecture Seminar “Discriminative Sparse Gaussian, Bayesian network for mining brain effective connectivity” at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Nanjing, Jiangsu-China.
  • December 20, 2013: Attended Lecture Seminar “Three-Dimensional Frequency selective structures” at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Nanjing, Jiangsu-China.
  • December 19, 2013: Attended NUAA Academic conference “First International Academic conference of NUAA Graduate Students” at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Nanjing, Jiangsu-China.
  • November 15, 2013: Attended Lecture Seminar “Graph Based method for Rational Image Analysis” at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Nanjing, Jiangsu-China.
  • May 14, 2013: Attended Lecture Seminar “Inkjet Printing of Flexible Material and Electronics” at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Nanjing, Jiangsu-China.
  • October 17, 2012: Attended Lecture Seminar “On-Orbital Services” at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Nanjing, Jiangsu-China.
  • September 27, 2012: Attended Lecture Seminar on “Developing Advance Learning Algorithm for High Dimension” at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Nanjing, Jiangsu-China.
  • October 20, 2014: Attended Lecture Seminar “Disruptive changes in the Paradigms for Electrical Machine” at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Nanjing, Jiangsu-China.
  • July 20, 2012: Attended Workshop on “Proteus VSM and PIC Microcontrollers”.
  • June 21, 2012: Attended Workshop on “Matlab Application in Image Processing”.
  • June 01, 2012: Attended Workshop on “Understanding control system simulation using Matlab and Simulink”.
  • April 02, 2012: Attended Workshop on “Simulation of communication systems using Matlab and Simulink”.
  • March 10, 2012: Attended Seminar on “GIS and remote sensing”.
  • March 8, 2012: Attended Lecture seminar on “Industrial Automation- Current Practices and future trends”.
  • February 11, 2012: Attended Workshop on “Information Security & OWASP” at Usman Institute of Technology Karachi, Sindh-Pakistan.
  • January 19, 2012: Attended Lecture seminar on “Integrated Hardware/Software Simulation Using Proteous” at Usman Institute of Technology Karachi, Sindh-Pakistan.
Publications and Research➕
    RESEARCH INTERESTS:
    Model free adaptive control, Virtual reference feedback tuning, Industrial automation & control systems.
    Publications & Research:
  • Bai, TingTing, DaoBo Wang, and Rana Javed Masood. "Formation control of quad-rotor UAV via PIO." Science China Technological Sciences 65.2 (2022): 432-439. [SCI-Expended] (https://doi.org/10.3390/s21113820) Impact factor 3.903
  • Ali, Zain Anwar, Zhangang Han, and Rana Javed Masood. "Collective motion and self-organization of a swarm of UAVs: A cluster-based architecture." Sensors 21.11 (2021): 3820. [SCI-Expended] (https://doi.org/10.3390/s21113820) Impact factor 3.84
  • Sajid, A., Usman, N., Khan, I., Usman, Rana Javed Masood “Artificial Intelligence based rule base fire engine testing model for congestion handling in opportunistic networks." Measurement and Control 53.9-10 (2020): 1841-1850. [SCI-Expended] (https://doi.org/10.1177/0020294020944965) Impact factor 1.64
  • Rana Javed Masood, DaoBo Wang, Zain Anwar Ali and Muhammad Anwar. “Adaptive hybrid control scheme for controlling the position of coaxial tri-rotor UAS”. Intelligent automation & soft computing. [SCI-Expended] (DOI:10.31209/2018.100000009) Impact factor 3.4
  • Rana Javed Masood, DaoBo Wang, Muhammad Farhan. Adaptive VRFT based on MFAC for speed control of PMDC motor. The journal of Control and Intelligent Systems. Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 59-66, 2017. [EI-Compendex (JA), ESCI] (DOI: 10.2316/Journal.201.2017.2.201-2775).
  • Rana Javed Masood, DaoBo Wang, Zain Anwar Ali, and Babar Khan. "DDC Control Techniques for Three-Phase BLDC Motor Position Control." Algorithms 10, no. 4 (2017): 110. [EI-Compendex (JA)] (DOI: 10.3390/a10040110).
  • Rana Javed Masood and W. Jian-Hong. Interior point algorithm for Multi-UAVs formation autonomous reconfiguration. Journal of Control Science and Engineering, vol. 2016, pp. 1–9, 2016. [EI-Compendex (JA)] (DOI: 10.1155/2016/9095372).
  • Rana Javed Masood, DaoBo Wang, Z. A. Ali, S. Masroor, and M. S. Loya. Implementation and testing of autonomous Quad-Rotor aerial vehicle by using Ardu-Pilot. International Journal of Information and Electronics Engineering, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 123–129, 2016. [EI-Inspec, SCI (JA)] (DOI: 10.18178/ijiee.2016.6.2.608).
  • Rana Javed Masood, DaoBo Wang, Z. A. Ali, "Motion simulation table control using Improved ZPETC Approach" International Journal of Control and Automation 10, no. 4 (2017): 71-84. [Journal Article (JA)] (https://doi.org/10.14257/ijca.2017.10.4.07).
  • Rana Javed Masood, DaoBo Wang, Z. A. Ali. MFAC based SMC combine algorithm for the stability of PMDC motor. International Journal of Hybrid Information Technology. Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 15–28, 2017. [Conference, Published in Journal (JA)].
  • Khan, Babar, Zhijie Wang, Fang Han, Ather Iqbal, and Rana Javed Masood. "Fabric Weave Pattern and Yarn Color Recognition and Classification Using a Deep ELM Network." Algorithms 10, no. 4 (2017): 117. [EI-Compendex (JA)] (DOI:10.3390/a10040117).
  • B. Khan, F. Han, Z. Wang, and Rana Javed Masood. Bio-inspired approach to invariant recognition and classification of fabric weave patterns and yarn color. Assembly Automation, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 152–158, Apr. 2016. [SCI-Expended (JA)] (DOI: 10.1108/AA-11-2015-100). Impact factor 2.2
  • Z. A. Ali, DaoBo Wang, Rana Javed Masood, and A. Akbar. Modeling & controlling the dynamics of Tri-rotor UAV using robust RST controller with MRAC Adaptive algorithm. International Journal of Control and Automation, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 61–76, Mar. 2016. [EI-Compendex (JA)] (DOI: 10.14257/ijca.2016.9.3.07).
  • Manzoor, Muhammad Farhan, Qinghe Wu, and Rana Javed Masood. Stability, Trajectory Following and Formation Control of Wheel Mobile Robot. Open Automation and Control Systems Journal 6 (2014): 1798-1809. [EI-Compendex (JA)] (DOI: 10.2174/1874444301406011798).
  • Manzoor, M.F., Wu, Q. and Rana Javed Masood, 2015, June. Coordination Control of Wheeled Mobile Robot Using MPC. In Computational Intelligence, Communication Systems and Networks (CICSyN), 2015 7th International Conference on (pp. 241-246). IEEE. (EI-Conference) (DOI: 10.1109/CICSyN.2015.49).
  • Shouzhao, S., Chenwu, S., Haibin, D., Farooq, F. and Rana Javed Masood, 2014, July. Strong adaptive attitude tracking controller design with dual-model structure for unmanned helicopter. In Control Conference (CCC), 2014 33rd Chinese (pp. 162-167). IEEE. (EI-Conference) (DOI: 10.1109/ChiCC.2014.6896615).
Acheivements➕
  • 2021-2022: Received Ignite FYP Grant (FYP CODE-NGIRI-2021-7627) for Batch 2017 for the project titled “Automatic Solar Panel Lamination and Characteristics”.
  • May 2011: Gold Medalist in Master’s Degree (M.E. Industrial control and Automation)
  • August 2013: Most Innovative Design Award in International Aerial Robotics Competition held at Tsinghua University, Beijing-China. (http://www.aerialroboticscompetition.org)