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Dr. Syed Ahmed Pasha
(HEC Approved Supervisor)
Associate Professor
Contact Information
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Education Detail
Postdoc (--) The University of Sydney (USyd), Australia
Postdoc (--) The University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia
PhD (Electrical Engineering) UNSW, Australia
BE (Electrical Engineering) NUST, Pakistan (2001)

Journals Articles

S.A. Pasha, R. Safdar & S.T. Ali, "False Data Injection Attacks on Networked Control Systems,'' Journal of Control and Decision, Sep 2023.
S.A. Pasha, Y Nawaz & MS Arif, "On the Nonstandard Finite Difference Method for Reaction-Diffusion Models," Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, vol. 166, Jan 2023.
S.A. Pasha, and A. Ayub, "Zero-Dynamics Attacks on Networked Control Systems,'' Journal of Process Control, vol. 105, pp. 99-107, Sep 2021. S.A. Pasha, Y. Nawaz, and M.S. Arif, "A Third-Order Accurate in Time Method for Boundary Layer Flow Problems," Applied Numerical Mathematics, vol. 161, pp. 13-26, Mar 2021.M.O.B. Saeed, S.A. Pasha, and A. Zerguine, "A variable step-size incremental LMS solution for low SNR applications," Signal Processing, vol. 178, Jan 2021. B.I. Godoy, V. Solo, and S.A. Pasha, "Truncated Hawkes Point Process Modeling: System Theory and System Identification," Automatica, vol. 113, Mar 2020. S.A. Pasha, Y. Nawaz, and M.S. Arif, "The Modified Homotopy Perturbation Method with Auxiliary Term for the Nonlinear Oscillator with Discontinuity,'' Journal of Low Frequency Noise, Vibration & Active Control, in Special Issue: Analytical methods for nonlinear vibration, vol. 38(3-4), pp. 1363-1373, 2019. A. Mihirana, R. Davis, S.A. Pasha, and P. Leong, "Forecasting Financial Time-series with Grammar Guided Feature Generation", Computational Intelligence, vol. 33(2), 2017. V. Solo, and S.A. Pasha, "Point-Process Principal Components Analysis via Geometric Optimization," Neural Computation, vol.25(1), 2013. V. Solo, and S.A. Pasha, "A Test for Independence between a Point Process and an Analog Signal," Journal of Time Series Analysis, vol. 33(5), 2012. S.A. Pasha, H.D. Tuan, and B.N. Vo, "Nonlinear Bayesian Filtering using the Unscented Linear Fractional Transformation Model," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 58(2), 2010.S.A. Pasha, B.N. Vo, H.D. Tuan, and W-K. Ma, "A Gaussian Mixture PHD Filter for Jump Markov System Models," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace & Electronics Systems, vol. 45(3), 2009.I. Akram, S.A. Pasha, and N. Iqbal, "Optimal Path Planner for Autonomous Vehicles," International Journal of Information Technology, vol. 3, 2005.

Conferences Papers

S.A. Pasha & V. Solo, "Modelling Inhibitory Effects with a Nonlinear Hawkes Model," Proc. 62nd IEEE CDC, Dec 2023.
S.A. Pasha, MOB Saeed & A. Zerguine, "On the Time-Variant Step Size Posterior LMS Algorithm," Proc. 20th IBCAST, Aug 2023.
M. Siddiq & S.A. Pasha, "Fast Sparse Magnetic Resonance Image Reconstruction via a Dual Formulation," Proc. 20th IBCAST, Aug 2023.
S.A. Pasha & V. Solo, "Testing for Coincidences between Time Varying Poisson Processes," Proc. 61st IEEE CDC, Dec 2022.
G. Nabi & S.A. Pasha, "Convex & Non‐convex Approaches for the Matrix Completion Problem," Proc. 19th IBCAST, Aug 2022.
M. Siddiq & S.A. Pasha, "Fast Sparse Magnetic Resonance Image Reconstruction," Proc. 19th IBCAST, Aug 2022
V. Solo, and S.A. Pasha, "Partial Trajectory Mutual Information Flow in a Small Point Process Network,'' in Proc. 60th IEEE CDC, in press, accepted 27 Jul 2021. S.A. Pasha, and V. Solo, "Mutual Information Flows in a Bivariate Point Process," in Proc 46th IEEE ICASSP, Jun 2021. M. Danish, S.A. Pasha, and A. Hashmi, "Quasi-Cyclic LDPC Codes for Short Block-Lengths," in Proc. 42nd IEEE Aerospace Conference, Mar 2021. M. Danish, S.A. Pasha, and A. Hashmi, "Prototype Design of a Software Defined Radio Based SATCOM Modem," in Proc. 42nd IEEE Aerospace Conference, Mar 2020. S.A. Pasha, V. Solo, and B. Godoy, "An EM Algorithm for the Time-Variant Vector Hawkes Process'', in Proc. 59th IEEE CDC, Dec 2020. S.A. Pasha, and V. Solo, "Adaptive Estimation of a Vector Point Process Model," in Proc. 58th IEEE CDC, 2019. S.A. Pasha, and V. Solo, "Sparse Topology Identification for Point Process Networks," in Proc. 43rd IEEE ICASSP, 2018. B. Godoy and J. Min, V. Solo, and S.A. Pasha, "Local Likelihood Estimation of Time-variant Hawkes Models," in Proc. 41st IEEE ICASSP, 2016. S.A. Pasha, and V. Solo, "Distributed Topology Identification for Sparse Point Process Dynamic Networks," in Proc. 54th IEEE CDC, 2015. B. Godoy, V. Solo, and S.A. Pasha, "Maximum Likelihood Identification for Hawkes-Pham Models with Guaranteed Stability Condition," in Proc. 54th IEEE CDC, 2015. S.A. Pasha, and V. Solo, "Distributed Topology Identification for Point Process Dynamic Networks," in Proc. 40th IEEE ICASSP, 2015. S.A. Pasha, and V. Solo, "Topology Identification for Sparse Dynamic Point Process Networks," in Proc. 53rd IEEE CDC, 2014.S.A. Pasha, and V. Solo, "Topology Identification of Dynamic Point Process Networks," in Proc. 39th IEEE ICASSP, 2014. S.A. Pasha, and V. Solo, "Hawkes-Laguerre Dynamic Index Models for Point Processes," in Proc. 52nd IEEE CDC, 2013. S.A. Pasha, and V. Solo, "Hawkes-Laguerre Reduced Rank Model for Point Process," in Proc. 38th IEEE ICASSP, 2013. S.A. Pasha & P. Leong, "Cluster Analysis of High-Dimensional High-Frequency Financial Time Series", in Proc. IEEE SSCI, 2013. Best Paper Runner-Up AwardS.A. Pasha, and V. Solo, "Computing the Trajectory Mutual Information Between a Point Process and an Analog Stochastic Process", in Proc. 34th IEEE EMBC, 2012. Y. Zhang, T. Sathyan, M. Hedley, P. Leong, and S.A. Pasha, "Hardware Efficient Parallel Particle Filter for Tracking in Wireless Networks", in Proc. 23rd IEEE PIMRC, 2012. S.A. Pasha, and H.D. Tuan, "Stochastic Intensity Propagation via LFT Modeling", in Proc. 18th IFAC World Congress, 2011. V. Solo, and S.A. Pasha, "Testing for Independence Between a Point Process and an Analog Signal", in Proc. 35th IEEE ICASSP, 2010. S.A. Pasha, H.D. Tuan, and P. Apkarian, "The LFT based PHD Filter for Nonlinear Jump Markov Models in Multi-target Tracking", in Proc. 48th IEEE CDC, 2009. S.A. Pasha, and H.D. Tuan, "Nonlinear Filtering for Continuous-time Systems using the Linear Fractional Transformation Model", in Proc. 34th IEEE ICASSP, 2009. S.A. Pasha, and H.D. Tuan, "Closed form Filtering for Linear Fractional Transformation Models", in Proc. 17th IFAC World Congress, 2008. S.A. Pasha, and H.D. Tuan, "Nonlinear filtering for the linear fractional transformation model", in Proc. 2nd IEEE ICCE, 2008. B.N. Vo, S.A. Pasha and H.D. Tuan, "A Gaussian Mixture PHD Filter for Nonlinear Jump Markov Models", in Proc. 45th IEEE CDC, 2006. S.A. Pasha, B.N. Vo, H.D. Tuan, and W-K. Ma, "Closed form PHD Filtering for Linear Jump Markov Models", in Proc. 9th IEEE Fusion, 2006. Best Student Paper AwardI. Akram, S.A. Pasha, and N. Iqbal, "Optimal Path Planner for Autonomous Vehicles", in Proc. Int'l Conf. Info. Tech., 2004. S.A. Pasha & N. Iqbal, "Position Estimation for a Vision-guided Air Vehicle", in Global Signal Process. Expo Conf. (GSPx) on DSP Tech., 2004.

Research Interest
Statistical Signal Processing
Machine Learning
System Identification
Stochastic Filtering
Time Series Analysis and Point Processes