About
Dr. Quamrul Huda is the JR Shaw Applied Research Chair in Industrial Automation and leads applied research at NAIT’s Centre for Sensors and System Integration. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering & Electronics and has 30 years of experience in academic and industrial research. He received the Commonwealth Scholarship award and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship award in the U.K. and Japan, respectively. Quamrul has research accomplishments in electronic materials, nanodevices, semiconductor processing, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), optoelectronics and laser spectroscopy. He worked for eight years in environmental monitoring in the Government of Alberta where he introduced advanced monitoring technologies. He was a recipient of the Government’s Innovation Fund Award for leading the development of Internet of Things (IoT)-based low-footprint air monitoring systems. Quamrul led projects on remote sensing technologies, algorithm developments and data analytics for quantification of oil sands facilities’ greenhouse gases and tailings pond emissions. He has over 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences.
Specialization(s)
Internet of Things (IoT), remote sensing, machine learning, environmental monitoring, data analytics, Multiphysics finite element simulation, nano materials and devices, semiconductor processing, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), optoelectronics, and laser spectroscopy.
Partners and industry collaborators
Imperial Oil Limited, Alberta-Pacific Forestry Industries, Inter Pipeline Ltd., Alberta Innovates, University of Alberta, Government of Alberta, Alberta SMEs and start-up companies
Projects and initiatives
- Autonomous Equipment Inspection on large mining operations
- Digitization of Whiteboard-based Shipment Operations
- Snow Deposition Effects on Solar Panel Output
- Future Energy Systems and Net-Zero Emission Goals
- Autonomous Systems Initiative by the Government of Alberta
- Sustainable remote monitoring system for bison health monitoring
- Wildfire monitoring through sensor deployment
Published work
Jia, F., Afaq, M., Ripka, B., Huda, Q., Ahmad, R., 2023, Vision- and Lidar-Based Autonomous Docking and Recharging of a Mobile Robot for Machine Tending in Autonomous Manufacturing Environments https://doi.org/10.3390/app131910675, Applied Sciences, Vol. 13, 10675.
Huda, Q., Ragbir, C., Hart, M., Anderson-Serson, A., Ripka, B., Cevallos, A., Ahmed, A., Priestley, D., 2023, LED-based systems for remote sensing of liquid levels in automotive fluid-tanks https://www.doi.org/10.1117/12.2649648, SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, SPIE Proc. 12441, p. 124410I.
Huda, Q., Hart, M., Anderson-Serson, A., Ripka, B., Cevallos, A., Priestley, D., Ahmed, A., Dekaban, M., 2022, Remote Sensing of Liquid Levels Inside Automotive Fluid-Tanks Through Optical Processes, Proceedings of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering International Congress 2022, June 5-8, Edmonton.
Huda, Q., Lyder, D., Collins, M., Schroeder, D., Thompson, D., Marshall, G., Leon, A., Hidalgo K., Hossain, M., 2020, Study of fuel-smoke dynamics in a prescribed fire of boreal black spruce forest through field-deployable micro sensor systems https://doi.org/10.3390/fire3030030, Fire, Vol. 3, p. 30.
Fu, L., Huda, Q., Yang, Z., Zhang, L., Hashisho, Z., 2017, Autonomous Mobile Platform for Monitoring Air Emissions from Industrial and Municipal Waste Water Ponds https://doi.org/10.1080/10962247.2017.1285832, Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, Vol. 67, pp. 1205-1212.
Amin, T. M.F., Huda, Q., Tulip, J., Jäger, W., 2015, Design and Fabrication of a Long-Arm Comb-Drive Rotary Actuator with Externally Mounted Mirror for Optical Applications https://doi.org/10.1109/jmems.2015.2423285, IEEE J. Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 24, p. 1565.
Amin, T. M.F., Huda, Q., Tulip, J., Jäger, W., 2014, A Virtual Pivot Point MEMS Actuator with Externally Mounted Mirror: Design, Fabrication and Characterization, Sensors & Transducers, Vol. 183, p. 65, 2014.
Huda, Q., Amin, T. M.F., Ning, Y., McKinnon, G., Tulip, J., Jäger, W., 2012, Rotary MEMS comb-drive actuator with smooth sidewall for photonic applications https://doi.org/10.1117/1.jmm.11.2.023012, J. Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS, Vol. 11, p. 023012.
Huda, Q., Subrina, S., 2011, Multiple excitations of silicon nanoclusters during erbium sensitization process in silicon-rich oxide host https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3565964, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 98, p. 111905.
Sakamoto, K., Huda, Q., Ishii, K., 2005, Self-Aligned Planar Double-Gate Field-Effect Transistors Fabricated by a Source/Drain First Process, Japan. J. Appl. Phys., Vol. 44, pp. L147-L149.