User:Xavi.khan

Ph.D. Research Student         Dublin City University, Ireland     [Sept 2008-Present] [] Currently I am pursuing my Ph.D. studies under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Claus Pahl who is Senior Lecturer at School of Computing, Dublin City University. I am member of Centre of Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) Group and working under the Digital Content Management (DCM) Package.

Lecturer               Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan     [Feb 2007-Aug 2008]

I worked as Lecturer at Bahria University, Islamabad (Pakistan) for two years. During my stay at Bahria University, I taught a number of courses such as Programming Languages, Object Oriented Programming etc. I was involved in a number of administrative duties which includes Evening Coordinator, Attendance Coordinator, PEC Committee member, IEEE ISBAST Conference 2008 Organisation team member etc. I was also involved in organizing and scrutiny process of Faculty Development Program under which ten candidates are flown to United Kingdom to pursue PhD studies.

Project Officer               University of Engineering & Technology, Taxila, Pakistan     [Mar 2006-Jan 2007]

I also got the chance to work at University of Engineering & Technology (UET) Taxila (Pakistan) as Project Officer, where I was engaged in managing Higher Education Commission (HEC) Funded Projects.

Research Assistant               University of Reading, United Kingdom     [Jan 2005-Oct 2005]

I worked as a Research Assistant in the area of Online Multimedia Formatting and Adaptation for Multi-Channel Distribution at Intelligent Multimedia Systems & Services Laboratory (IMSS) situated within University of Reading (United Kingdom). I worked on “DELI”, which is an open-source library developed at HP Labs that allows Java servlets to resolve HTTP requests containing CC/PP or UAProf information and query the resolved mobile profiles. I Designed a GUI for Transcoding Platform. In order to make available the media files (typically audio) to be used as a ringtone on various devices, the media files were converted from one file format to another using appropriate algorithm.

M.Sc. Electrical Engineering/System Design & Tech. University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany    [Sep 2001 - Nov 2003]

I completed my Master studies at University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt (Germany) with specialization in Telecommunication.

As Master Thesis and Internship is compulsory for fulfillment of Master Degree, I worked as Internee at T-Systems Nova GmbH, (Germany) for more than one year. The topic of MS-Thesis was Realization of Metadata integration within MPEG-4 File format and Storage within a XML Database. After understanding MPEG-7 standards (this standardizes an XML Schema for metadata of audiovisual content), MPEG-4 provided software is extended in such a way that MPEG-7 metadata can also be integrated in MP4 file. Further the software provided in the internship is to be integrated as interface to the XML database.

During Internship I used XML Database and Interacted XML Database Software “Xindice 1.0” with JBuilder and designed a User Interface. Using this UI, User can create collections of XML files, retrieve, and update and do different type of queries in saved XML Files.

B.Sc. Electrical & Electronic Engineering    IIT, Dhaka, Bangladesh     [Dec 1996 - Nov 2000]

I completed my undergraduate studies at Islamic Institute of Technology, Dhaka, (Bangladesh).