Dr. Sadiq Akbar

Dr. Sadiq Akbar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics, University of Peshawar, Pakistan. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Peshawar and subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, under the prestigious C2F Scholarship program during 2022–2023. His research interests include Array Signal Processing, Direction of Arrival Estimation, Adaptive Beamforming, Phased Array and MIMO Systems, System Identification, Evolutionary Computing, Swarm Intelligence, Optimization Methods, and Controller Design.

Dr. Akbar's research focuses on the development and application of advanced signal processing and computational intelligence techniques to address challenging engineering problems. His work integrates optimization algorithms with modern communication and electronic systems, contributing to improved system performance, modeling, and design methodologies. He has authored and co-authored numerous research articles in international peer-reviewed journals and presented his research at international conferences, contributing to the advancement of signal processing, optimization, and wireless communication technologies.

Dr. Sadiq Akbar has over two decades of experience in teaching, research, and academic administration in higher education. He joined the Department of Electronics, University of Peshawar, as a Lecturer in 2000 and has been serving as an Assistant Professor since 2010. Throughout his career, he has taught a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses and has supervised numerous student research projects in electronics and related fields.

Alongside his teaching responsibilities, Dr. Akbar has been actively involved in research, curriculum development, and academic administration. He has served in various administrative capacities at the University of Peshawar, including Staff Proctor, Senior Warden, and Resident Warden. He has also contributed as a visiting faculty member to several departments and institutions. His professional work combines teaching excellence with research in signal processing, wireless communications, computational intelligence, optimization techniques, and control systems.

Dr. Sadiq Akbar has authored and co-authored numerous research articles in internationally recognized peer-reviewed journals, including IEEE Access, Sensors, Scientific Reports, Ain Shams Engineering Journal, Neural Computing and Applications, Wireless Personal Communications, and Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. His publications focus on array signal processing, direction-of-arrival estimation, MIMO radar systems, optimization techniques, computational intelligence, and control systems.

Selected publications are listed below:

1. Zaman, F., Akhtar, Z., Akbar, S. and Phanomchoeng, G., 2026. Joint Signal-Power and Direction of Arrival Estimation For Far-field Targets Using Novel Meta Heuristic Framework. IEEE Access.

 

2. Gul, N., Kim, S.M., Akbar, S., Elahi, A. and Kim, J., 2025. Enhanced sensing performance through the integration of denoising autoencoder and ensembling techniques. Scientific Reports.

 

3. Zaman, F., Akbar, S., Akhtar, Z. and Phanomchoeng, G., 2025. Efficient Technique for Joint Parameter Estimation of Mixed Far Field Targets and Near Field Jammers in Phased Array Radar. IEEE Access.

 

4. Akbar, S., Zaman, F., Ullah, R., Gul, N., Alhassan, A.B. and Phanomchoeng, G., 2024. Direction Of Arrival Estimation in the Presence of Imperfect Waveforms for Multiple Targets in MIMO radar. IEEE Access.
5. Akbar S., Sohail M., Raja M.A.Z., Zaman F., Ullah R., Khan M.A.R., Ajavakom N., Phanomchoeng G. (2024). Meta-heuristic computing knacks for target angle estimation in monostatic radar system with coprime arrays. Ain Shams Engineering Journal, 15(5), p.102689.
6. Alhassan A.B., Shehu M.A., Muhammad B.B., Akbar S., Chancharoen R., Phanomchoeng G. (2023). Sliding Mode Observer-Based Super-Twisting Controller for Under-Actuated Bridge Cranes Subject to Double-Pendulum Effect. IEEE Access.
7. Akbar S., Sohail M., Zaman F., Khan M.A.R., Ajavakom N., Phanomchoeng G. (2023). A Novel Approach for Direction of Arrival Estimation in Co-Located MIMO Radars by Exploiting Extended Array Manifold Vectors. Sensors, 23(5), p.2550.
8. Zaman F., Akhtar Z., Mehmood S., Akbar S., Phanomchoeng G. (2023). A Novel FDA-MIMO Deceptive Jamming Method For Neutralizing Phase Array Radar. IEEE Access.
9. Akbar S., Raja M.A.Z., Chaudhary N.I., Zaman F., Alquhayz H. (2021). Flower pollination heuristics for parameter estimation of electromagnetic plane waves. CMC Comput. Mater. Contin, 68, pp.2529-2543.
10. Gul N., Qureshi I.M., Khan M.S., Elahi A., Akbar S. (2020). Differential evolution based reliable cooperative spectrum sensing in the presence of malicious users. Wireless Personal Communications, 114, pp.123-147.
11. Zaman F., Hassan A., Akbar S., Rehman A.U., Raja M.A.Z. (2020). Novel computational heuristics for wireless parameters estimation in bistatic radar systems. Wireless Personal Communications, 111, pp.909-927.
12. Uddin S., Zaman A., Rasool I., Akbar S., Kamran M., Mehboob N., Ali A., Ahmad A., Nasir M.F., Iqbal Z. (2020). Structural investigation and improvement of microwave dielectric properties in Ca1-xBaxTiO3 low loss ceramics. Journal of Ceramic Processing Research, 21(6), pp.745-750.           
13. Akbar S., Zaman F., Asif M., Rehman A.U., Raja M.A.Z. (2019). Novel application of FO-DPSO for 2-D parameter estimation of electromagnetic plane waves. Neural Computing and Applications, 31, pp.3681-3690.
14. Gul N., Qureshi I.M., Akbar S., Kamran M., Rasool I. (2018). One-to-Many Relationship Based Kullback Leibler Divergence against Malicious Users in Cooperative Spectrum Sensing. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2018(1), p.3153915.
15. Akbar S., Raja M.A.Z., Zaman F., Mehmood T., Khan M.A.R. (2017). Design of bio-inspired heuristic techniques hybridized with sequential quadratic programming for joint parameters estimation of electromagnetic plane waves. Wireless Personal Communications, 96, pp.1475-1494.