Dr. Raziq Yaqub
Associate Professor in the EE&CS Department at Alabama A&M University, USA
Biography
Dr. Raziq Yaqub is an Associate Professor in the EE&CS Department at Alabama A&M
University, USA, and a Research Professor at NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH. He
earned a Ph.D. in Wireless Communication from Keio University, Japan, and an MBA in Marketing
from Fairleigh Dickenson University, New Jersey, USA. He is an inventor of technologies in
Cybersecurity of Financial Technologies, Wireless Communications, Smart Grid, and Connected
Electric Vehicles. He has 80 issued patents and is a recipient of the “Inventor of the Year Award 2014”
from the Inventors Hall of Fame, New Jersey. He received an award of “Excellence in Scholarship
and Research 2019” from the President of his university, an award of “Innovator Young Faculty,” an
award of “Outstanding Engineering Educator” from the Dean of his college, and “Outstanding
Engineer 2020” award from IEEE region-3.
He remained an Executive Director of Toshiba America Research, New Jersey, to lead 4G/LTE, Department head of NIKSUN
University, Princeton, New Jersey, to lead Cybersecurity, and Director of Global R&D of Tecvox, Huntsville, AL, USA, to lead
wireless charger and media hubs for the automotive industry. He also remained Sr. Consultant to the State of New Jersey to secure
an $87M grant, a spokesperson of the Department of Homeland Security in 3GPP”, an inventor for Wells Fargo, USA, and an
invited Researcher at NASA Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, where explored artificial neural network-based fault detection,
prediction, and classification for electrified aircraft propulsion. He has several publications in AI and ML.
He also remained Chairman and contributor to standards organizations such as 3GPP, IEEE, WiMAX, MWIF, and OMA, Lead
Member for ABET accreditation, Chairman of Academic Standards Committee, Chair IEEE Membership Development, Evaluator
for technical papers, Ph.D. theses, patents, and grant proposals, Vice Chairman of IEEE Southeast Conference 2019, organizer of
numerous international conferences, Invited/Keynote speaker, Panel Moderator/Resource Person in international events. He is a
Senior Member of IEEE. He communicates in English, Japanese, Hindi, and Urdu and has 25 years of experience in the industry,
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