Mohammad Tariqul Islam Author & Editor

Mohammad Tariqul Islam (Senior Member, IEEE) is a Professor at the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and a Visiting Professor with the Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan. He has authored around 500 research journal articles, nearly 200 conference articles, and a few book chapters on various topics related to antennas, metamaterials, and microwave imaging, and has 22 inventory patents filed. Thus far, his publications have been cited 7200 times and his H-index is 41 (Source: Scopus). His Google scholar citation is 10,700 and H-index is 48. He was a recipient of more than 40 research grants from the Malaysian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Ministry of Education, UKM research grant, international research grants from Japan, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. His research interests include communication antenna design, metamaterial, satellite antennas, and microwave imaging. Dr. Islam has been an Executive Committee member for IEEE AP/MTT/EMC Malaysia Chapter since 2019-2020, the Chartered Professional Engineer (CEng), a fellow of IET, UK, and a Senior Member of IEICE, Japan. He has been awarded several International Gold Medal awards, a Best Invention in Telecommunication Award for his research and innovation, and best researcher awards at UKM. He was a recipient of 2018, 2019 and 2020 IEEE AP/MTT/EMC Malaysia Chapter, Excellent Award. He also won the best innovation award and the Best Research Group in ICT niche by UKM, in different years. He was a recipient of Publication Award from Malaysian Space Agency, in several years. He has supervised about 30 Ph.D. theses, 20 M.Sc. theses, and has mentored more than 10 postdocs and visiting scholars. He was an Associate Editor of IET Electronics Letter. He also serves as the Guest Editor, Sensors journal, and an Associate Editor for IEEE ACCESS.