Dr. Usman Younis

Professor, Department of Computer and Software Engineering

PhD - Electronics & Electrical Engineering, University of Glasgow

  • usman.younis@newitu2.itu.edu.pk

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Dr. Younis' research interests include active and passive photonic integration, optoelectronics, laser physics, applied non-linear optics, optical communications and networks. Currently, he is also working on the analytical modelling of 2-dimensional material systems.

Biography

Dr. Younis is a Professor in the Faculty of Engineering, Information Technology University (ITU), Lahore, Pakistan. Previously, he has worked as an Assistant Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan, and as a Research Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

He has authored papers in leading peer-reviewed journals and has presented in several international conferences. He is a member of the Institute of Physics, a Senior Member of IEEE, and is a registered engineer at the Pakistan Engineering Council.

He was conferred “Sanad-e-Imtiaz” by the President of Pakistan. He is a recipient of Rector’s Gold Medal for MS studies.

  1. N. Khan, S. Saeed, Y. Naeem, M. Zubair, Y. Massoud and U. Younis, "Atmospheric Turbulence and Fog Attenuation Effects in Controlled Environment FSO Communication Links," in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 34, no. 24, pp. 1341-1344, 2022.
  2. Abdullah Nafis Khan, Usman Younis, Muhammad Qasim Mehmood, and Muhammad Zubair, "Atmospheric propagation of space-fractional Gaussian-beam waves in a FSO communication system," Opt. Express 30, 1570-1583 (2022)
  3. N. Khan, U. Younis, and M. Zubair “Modeling of optical wave propagation through turbulent atmosphere using fractional approach for FSO wireless communication,” PHOTON 2022, 30 Aug - 2 Sep, 2022, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
  4. Ahmad, M. Zubair, and U. Younis “Capturing of Non-Hydrogenic Rydberg Series of Exciton Binding Energy in Two-Dimensional Mono-Layer WS2 Using a Modified Coulomb Potential in Fractional Space,” PHOTON 2022, 30 Aug - 2 Sep, 2022, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
  5. Ahmad, M. Zubair, O. Jalil, and U. Younis “A difference method with semi-analytical approach for achieving accuracy in optical gaps of 2D materials using exciton model in fractional space,” 2021, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., 60, 060905.
  6. Jalil, S. Ahmad, K.-W. Ang, and U. Younis “Behaviour of induced states of substitutional and adatom impurity doping on electronic transport properties of single-layer black phosphorus,” Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, Vol. 130, June 2021, 114701.
  7. Jalil, S. Ahmad, A. N. Khan, K.-W. Ang, and U. Younis “Enhanced thermoelectric properties of 2D W xMo(1-x)S2 alloys based vertical heterostructures for energy storage applications,” SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, April 2021.
  8. Jalil, S. Ahmad, A. N. Khan, K.-Wee Ang, and U. Younis “Modulating the electronic transport properties of single-layer WSe2 using zero-dimensional defect engineering,” SPIE Photonics West, March 2021.
  9. Jalil, S. Ahmad, X. Liu, K.-W. Ang, and U. Younis “Towards theoretical framework for probing the accuracy limit of electronic transport properties of SnSe2 using many-body calculations,” EPL 130 (2020), 57001.
  10. Ahmad, M. Zubair, O. Jalil, M. Q. Mehmood, U. Younis, X. Liu, K. W. Ang, and L. K. Ang, “Generalized Scaling Law for Exciton Binding Energy in Two-Dimensional Materials,” Phys. Rev. Applied 13 (2020), 064062.
  11. Jalil, S. Ahmad, A. Bilal, U. Younis, X. Liu, K.-W. Ang, and S. Iezekiel, “First-principles method based electronic transport properties of two-dimensional SnSe2(1-x)X2x alloys,” SPIE Photonics Europe, Online, 2020.
  12. Bilal, O. Jalil, S. Ahmad, A. N. Khan, and U. Younis, “Towards cavity-enhanced photodetection in Al-doped BP integrated with 2D photonic crystal and waveguide for mid-IR wavelengths,” SPIE Photonics West, February 2020 San Francisco, USA.
  13. Bilal, U. Younis, “High Coupling E efficiency Surface Illuminated 2D Metasurface Waveguide Coupler for Mid-IR Wavelengths,” in SPIE Optics + Optoelectronics, April 2019, Prague, Czech Republic.
  14. N. Khan, U. Younis, “High-Q mid-infrared 1D photonic crystal waveguide resonator in SOI,” in SPIE Optics + Optoelectronics, April 2019, Prague, Czech Republic.
  15. Bilal, U. Younis, and K.-W. Ang, “Towards High Coupling Efficiency Integrated 2D Meta-surface Waveguide Coupler for Mid-IR Wavelengths,” in Advanced Photonics Congress, July 2018, Zurich, Switzerland.

  • Session Chair in the International Symposium on Emerging Trends and Applications of Optics, Photonics, and Lasers, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Invited Speaker in the International Symposium on Emerging Trends and Applications of Optics, Photonics, and Lasers, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Keynote Speaker at "IEEE Explosion’14" / IEEE Day, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan.
  • Invited Speaker in the International Symposium on Emerging Technologies in Optical Communications and Semiconductor Devices, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Invited Speaker in the National Conference on Quantum Technologies, 2014, Hazara University, Mansehra, KPK, Pakistan.
  • Invited Speaker in The Rank Prize Optoelectronics symposium on Periodically-Modulated and Artificially Hetero-Structured devices, 2009, Grasmere, Cumbria, UK.
  • Plenary Talk in The International Conference and Workshop on Nano Science and Technology, 2012, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Rector’s Gold Medal, NUST 5th PG Convocation, 2007, Rawalpindi.
  • “Sanad-e-Imtiaz — Government of Pakistan” – Distinctive achievement in Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC) Examination, 2001, Islamabad.