Farhan Mumtaz (Member, IEEE) earned his bachelor's degree in science from Punjab University Lahore, Pakistan, in 2006, his master's degree in electronics from Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan, in 2018, and his doctorate in information and communication engineering from Wuhan University of Technology, China, in 2021. In February 2022, he starts working in the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, Missouri, where he is now served as an Assistant Professor (Research). From 2007 through 2015, he worked for Huawei Technologies (Pvt.) Ltd. in Islamabad, Pakistan, holding a number of important positions, including Plan Control Manager, Project Manager, and Service Solution Manager. His current research focuses on sapphire crystalline fibers, Fiber Bragg gratings, femtosecond micro-machining of optoelectronic materials, Rayleigh and Brillion Sensors, surface plasmons, biosensors, photonic crystal fiber design, and instrumentation of fiber optic sensors for energy and harsh environments in US steelmaking industry.

Research gate:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Farhan-Mumtaz-2

YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@dr.farhanmumtaz965

Selected Publications:

• Farhan Mumtaz*, Hanok Tekle, Bohong Zhang, Jeffrey D. Smith, Ronald J. O’Malley and Jie Huang*, “Highly-Cascaded First-order Sapphire Optical Fiber Bragg Gratings Fabricated by Femtosecond Laser” Optics Letters, 2023. https://opg.optica.org
• Farhan Mumtaz*, Hanok Tekle, Bohong Zhang, Jeffrey D. Smith, Ronald J. O’Malley and Rex Gerald II Jie Huang* , “Boosting SNR of Cascaded FBGs in Sapphire Fiber through Rapid Heat Treatment” Optics Letters, Oct, 2023: DOI: 10.1364/OL.506053.
• Farhan Mumtaz*, Bohong Zhang, Ronald J. O’Malley and Jie Huang*, “Large-Scale Cascading of First-Order FBG Array in Highly Multimode Coreless Fiber using Femtosecond Laser for Distributed Thermal Sensing” Optics Express, Aug, 2023, DOI: 10.1364/OE.494092.
• Farhan Mumtaz*, Detection of Critical Cancer Cells in Human Organs using Dual Demodulation Photonic Crystal Fiber: Numerical Study, Results in Optics (2023), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/ j.rio.2023.100493.
• Farhan Mumtaz*, Dinesh Reddy Alla, Muhammad Roman, Bohong Zhang, Jeffrey D. Smith, Rex E. Gerald II, Ronald J. O’Malley and Jie Huang* , “Thermally robust and highly stable method for splicing silica glass fiber to crystalline sapphire fiber” Applied optics, vol. 62, no. 5, pp, 1392-1398, vol. no. 2023.

Selected Honors and Awards:

•  SPIE – Student Chapter, COMSOL Multi-Physics Trainer Award at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad;(2021)
•  IEEE, Best Poster Award ICOCN; (2019) 
•  MOFCOM Fully Funded PhD Scholarship Award. (2018)
•  Keynote Speech: Belt Along the Road Countries at BICC, Bejing China. (2017)
•  Long Term Service Excellence Award. (2015)
•  Excellent Delivery Project Manager. (2015)
• Excellent Team Lead for SAP/FA. (2014)
• Best Emerging Leader. (2011)
• Excellent Plan Control Manager. (2010)