Resume' : Irfan M Fazal

3740 Mc Clintock Ave #500 Los Angeles, CA-90089

Email : fazal@usc.edu                                                                   

Education:

PhD	University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA	Aug/2004	present
MS(Electrical Engg)	University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA	Jan/2003	May/2004
BE (Avionics Engg)	College of Aeronautical Engineering, Risalpur, Pakistan	1989	1993

Research Publications (updated till April/2007) :

1. Data-polarization-insensitive wavelength conversion in a PPLN waveguide by cross-polarization-modulation of the pump using an SOA
Fazal, I.; Kumar, S.; Saghari, P.; Christen, L.C.; Li, Y.; Willner, A.E.; Langrock*, C.; Roussev*, R.; Fejer, M.M*.;
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, IEEE
5-10 March 2006 Page(s):3 pp.

 *Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-4085

2. Experimental Time-Slot-Interchange Data Packet Switching using a Fastly-Reconfigurable and Continuously-Tunable 44-ns Optical Delay Based on Wavelength Conversion and Inter-channel Chromatic Dispersion

Irfan Fazal, Omer Yilmaz , Scot Nuccio, Bo Zhang, Carsten Langrock** , M. M. Fejer** and Alan E. Willner

** Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-4085

European Conference on Optical Communication ( ECOC ), 2007

3. System Performance of DPSK Signals Transmitted Through Broadband SBS-based Slow Light Element and Reduction of Slow-Light-Induced Data-Pattern Dependence

B. Zhang, I. Fazal, L.-S. Yan, L. Zhang, A. E. Willner, Z. Zhu and D. J. Gauthier

Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2007 and the 2007 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, IEEE

4. PMD and CD sensitivity enhancement in directly modulated transmission systems through RZ DM-DPSK
Christen, L.; Fazal, I.; Giltrelli, M.; Wang, Y.; Yan, L.; Willner, A.E.; Paraschis, L.; Yao, S.;
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on, IEEE
Volume 4,  25-29 Sept. 2005 Page(s):851 - 852 vol.4

5. Independent Delay Control and Synchronization of Multiple 2.5-Gb/s Channels within a Single SBS Slow-Light Medium

B. Zhang, L.-S. Yan, J.-Y. Yang, I. Fazal, A. E. Willner

Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics –2007, IEEE

6. Variable-Bit-Rate, Continuously-Controllable Optical TDM using SBS-Based Slow Light Tunable Delay Line

B. Zhang , L. Zhang , L.-S. Yan , I. Fazal , J.-Y. Yang  and A. E. Willner

European Conference on Optical Communication ( ECOC ), 2007

7. Physical Layer Routing in Free-Space Optical Networks

Alan E. Willner, Louis Christen, John E. McGeehan*, Yan Wang, Saurabh Kumar, Irfan Fazal

Lasers and Electro Optics Society, Summer Topical 2005

8. Slow light on Gbit/s differential-phase-shift-keying signals

Bo Zhang, Lianshan Yan, Irfan Fazal, Lin Zhang, Alan E. Willner, Zhaoming Zhu, and Daniel J. Gauthier

Optics Express, Journal  Vol. 15, Issue 4, pp. 1878-1883

Experience:

Research Assistant	Optical Communication Lab, USC	Aug/2004 to present
Teaching Assistant	EE-558 (Fiber Optic Comm)	Spring - 2005
Chief Technical Officer	105 Air Engineering Depot, Malir, Pakistan	Jan/1999 to May/2002
Production Officer	109 Air Engineering Depot, Badaber, Peshawar, Pakistan	Jan/1997 to Jan/1999
Engineering Officer	Pandra Sqn	June/1993 to Jan/1997

Extra-Curricular:

· Resident Advisor (Office of Residential Education, USC) ,   Oct-2005 to present

· Communications Chair , GPSS (Graduate and Professional Students Senate, USC), 2007-08

· EE Senator (Engineering and Grad Students Association—EGSA) ,  Oct, 2006 to present

Awards

Teachers and Researchers Overseas Scholarship (TROSS)  award - 2002 by Government of Pakistan

Graduate Course Work:

EE-450	Introduction to Computer Networks	Dr Krishnamachari
EE-562A	Random Processes	Dr Christopher Walker
EE-558	Fiber Optic Communication	Dr Alan Willner
EE-564	Communication Theory	Dr Weber
EE-535	Mobile Communication	Dr Keith Chugg
EE-441	Linear Algebra	Dr Mustafa Shiva
EE-464	Probability for Engineers	Dr Christopher Walker
EE-529	Optics	Dr Armand Tanguay
EE-583	Adaptive Digital Signal Processing	Dr Edgar Satorius
EE-483	Introduction to Digital Signal Processing	Dr Humayun Shehri
EE-567	Communication Systems	Dr Bob Gagliardi
EE-568	Error Correcting Codes	Dr Keith Chugg
EE-539	Applied Quantum Mechanics	Dr A F J Levi
EE-577A	Advanced Electromagnetics	Dr Prata
CSCI-455	Introduction to Programming Structure  C++	Dr Bono
EE401	Linear Systems	Dr K Jenkins

Languages:

English, Pashto, Urdu, Hindi __________ C, C++, Matlab