• Ph.D. in Telecommunication Engineering University of Engineering & Technology (UET), Taxila, From September 2013 – December 2017
  • CGPA – 4/4 (Course Work)
  • Research Topic: RFID tag antennas for medical applications
  • Supervisor: Dr Yasar Amin
• MSc in Electrical Engineering National University of Science & Technology (NUST), Islamabad, From September 2009 – July 2013
  • CGPA – 3.83/4
  • Master’s Thesis Title: Ultra-wideband (UWB) filter with high stopband rejection
  • Supervisor: Dr Mojeeb Bin Ihsan
• BSc in Electrical Engineering University of Engineering & Technology (UET), Taxila, From September 2003 – October 2007
  • Percentage – 75.2/100
  • FYP Title: Design & implementation of solar tracker using real-time keeper
  • Supervisor: Dr Ahmed Choudhary
• Higher Secondary School level FG Sir Syed College, Rawalpindi, June 2003
  • Pre-Engineering Group
  • Percentage – 81/100
• Secondary School level Army Public School & College, Rawalpindi, April 2001
  • Science Group
  • Percentage – 86/100

• Body-centric RFID tag antennas for medical applications
• Platform tolerant RFID tag antennas for IoT applications
• Metal-mountable circularly polarized RFID tag antennas
• Dual-band metal-mountable RFID tag antennas
• RFID-based moisture and displacement sensors
• Retransmission type chipless RFID tags
• Measuring and modelling radiation-induced degradation of COTS camera sensors

Antenna Design and Microwave Engineering

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

[1] Zeba Khanam∗, Bilal Aslam∗, Sangeet Saha, Xiaojun Zhai, Shoaib Ehsan, Rustam Stolkin and KlausMcDonald-Maier, “Gamma-Induced Image Degradation Analysis of Robot Vision Sensor for Autonomous Inspection of Nuclear Sites,” IEEE Sensors Journal, 2020 DOI:10.1109/JSEN.2021.3050168 (Peer-reviewed, IF=3.08)

[2] Bilal Aslam, Muhammad Kashif, Muhammad Awais Azam, Yasar Amin, Jonathan Loo, and Hannu Tenhunen, “A low profile miniature RFID tag antenna dedicated to IoT applications,” Electromagnetics, 2019 DOI: 10.1080/02726343.2019.1641654 (Peer-reviewed, IF=0.609)

[3] Bilal Aslam, Muhammad Awais Azam, Yasar Amin, Jonathan Loo, and Hannu Tenhunen, “A high capacity tunable retransmission type frequency coded chipless RFID system,” International Journal of RF and Microwave Computed-Aided Engineering, 2019 DOI: 10.1002/mmce.21855 (Peer-reviewed, IF=1.528)

[4] Bilal Aslam, Umar Hasan Khan, Muhammad Awais Azam, Yasar Amin, Jonathan Loo, Hannu Tenhunen, “A compact implantable RFID tag antenna dedicated to wireless healthcare,” International Journal of RF and Microwave Computed-Aided Engineering, 2017 DOI: 10.1002/mmce.21094 (Peer-reviewed, IF=1.528)

[5] Umar Hasan Khan, Hina Rasheed, Bilal Aslam, Ammara Fatima, Laiba Shahid, Yasar Amin, Hannu Tenhunen, “A compact CP RFID tag localization using ToA technique,” Radioengineering, vol. 26, issue. 1, 2017 DOI: 10.13164/re.2017.0147 (Peer-reviewed, IF=1.076)

[6] Bilal Aslam, Umar Hasan Khan, Muhammad Awais Azam, Yasar Amin, Jonathan Loo, Hannu Tenhunen, “Miniaturized decoupled slotted patch RFID tag antennas for wearable healthcare,” International Journal of RF and Microwave Computed-Aided Engineering, 2016 DOI:10.1002/mmce.21048 (Peer-reviewed, IF=1.528)

[7] Umar Hasan Khan, Bilal Aslam, Muhammad Awais Azam, Yasar Amin, Hannu Tenhunen, “Compact RFID enabled moisture sensor,” Radioengineering, vol. 25, no.3, 2016 DOI:10.13164/re.2016.0449 (Peer-reviewed, IF=1.076)

[8] Umar Hasan Khan, Bilal Aslam, Javeria Khan, Misha Nadeem, Humayun Shahid, Muhammad Awais Azam, Yasar Amin, Hannu Tenhunen, “A novel asterisk-shaped circularly polarized RFID tag for on-metal applications,” Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society, vol. 31, no. 9, 2016 (Peer-reviewed, IF=0.68)

[9] Umar Hasan Khan, Bilal Aslam, Humayun Shahid, Muhammad Awais Azam, Yasar Amin, Jonathan Loo, “Novel chipless displacement sensor circuit using spur line resonator,” IEICE Electronics Express, vol. 13, issue. 23, 2016 DOI: 10.1587/elex.13.20161008 (Peer-reviewed, IF=0.586)

[10] Bilal Aslam, Umar Hasan Khan, Ayesha Habib, Yasar Amin, Hannu Tenhunen, “Frequency signature chipless RFID tag with enhanced data capacity,” IEICE Electronics Express, vol. 12, issue. 17, 2015 DOI: 10.1587/elex.12.20150623 (Peer-reviewed, IF=0.586)

[11] Bilal Aslam, Muhammad Kashif, Yasar Amin, Hannu Tenhunen, “Low-profile magnetically coupled dual resonance patch antenna for UHF RFID applications,” AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications, vol. 133, 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.aeue.2021.153672 (Peer-reviewed, IF=3.183)

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

[1] Bilal Aslam, Sangeet Saha, Mubariz Zaffar, Shoaib Ehsan, Xiaojun Zhai, Christopher Frost, Carlo Cazzaniga, Rustam Stolkin, and Klaus McDonald-Maier, “Degradation measurement of commercial camera sensors under fast neutron beamline” Proceedings of Single Event Effects (SEE) Symposium Military & Aerospace Programmable Logic Devices (MAPLD) Combined Workshop, San Diego, USA, May 20-23, 2019 (Peer-reviewed)

[2] Zeba Khanam, Sangeet Saha, Bilal Aslam, Xiaojun Zhai, Shoaib Ehsan, Carlo Cazzaniga, Christopher Frost, Rustam Stolkin, and Klaus McDonald-Maier, "Modelling neutron-induced degradation in depth images of Kinect sensor", IEEE Nuclear & Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC), San Antonio, USA, July 8-12, 2019 (Peer-reviewed)

[3] Bilal Aslam, Sangeet Saha, Zeba Khanam, Xiaojun Zhai, Shoaib Ehsan, Rustam Stolkin, and Klaus McDonald-Maier, “Gamma-induced degradation analysis of commercial off the shelve cameras,” Proceedings of IEEE Sensors, Montreal, Canada, October 27-30, 2019 (Peer-reviewed)