• Time-frequency analysis

• Non-stationary signal processing

• Radar/ Biomedical/ Seismic signal processing

• Artificial intelligence and machine learning

• Human-machine/computer interaction

• Brain-computer interfacing

• Pattern Recognition

• Research Grants

• Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, "Smartphone-Based Detection of Distracted Walking Using On-Device Sensors and Lightweight AI", July 2025.

• Awards

• Best Student Paper Award, IEEE SPICSCON 2025, Rajshahi, Bangladesh [view]

• Best male student paper award, PCEMS 2023, VNIT, Nagpur, India. [view]

Peer-reviewed Journal Publications [Reverse chronological order]

1. K. N. Faisal, S. Sharma and R.R. Sharma, "WVD-MODWT: An Enhanced Wigner-Ville Distribution for the Automated Control of Human-Machine Interaction-based Systems," in IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica [Q1, IF-19.2 in 2026] (Top 1 (1/89, SCI Q1) in the category of Automation & Control Systems)(Accepted).

2. S. Rahman, M.H. Omio, N. Himel, R.R. Sharma, and K. N. Faisal, "Stacking Multi-Variate Time-Frequency Information: A Deep Learning Approach for IMU-MMG based Hand Gesture Recognition,'' in IEEE Sensors Journal. [Q1, IF-4.5 in 2026] (Accepted) (Supervisory Role)

3. S. Rahman, S. Farhan, R.R.Sharma, and K. N. Faisal, "HatSeqNet: A Sequence-based Deep Learning Model for Cross-Subject Driver Drowsiness Detection using Single-Channel EEG Signal," in IEEE Sensors Journal, doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2026.3677604. [Q1, IF-4.5 in 2026] (Supervisory Role)

4. A. Ghosh, S. Rahman, L. S. Siam and K. N. Faisal, "Improved FMCW Radar Sensing for HAR-Systems: Applying Synchroextracting Transform-Enhanced Time-Frequency Representation and Custom Anisotropic CNN," in IEEE Sensors Letters, doi: 10.1109/LSENS.2026.3668897 . [Q2, IF-2.2 in 2026] (Supervisory Role)

5. K. N. Faisal, U. Chandela and R. R. Sharma, "Two-Dimensional Successive Variational Mode Decomposition," in IEEE Signal Processing Letters, doi: 10.1109/LSP.2025.3561632. [Q1, IF-3.2 in 2025]

6. U. Chandela, K. N. Faisal and R. R. Sharma, "Electroencephalogram-based Unified Approach for Multiple Neurodevelopmental Disorders Detection in Children Using Successive Multivariate Variational Mode Decomposition," in IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, doi: 10.1109/TCDS.2025.3556888. [Q1, IF-5.0 in 2025]

7. S. Agarwal, S. Sharma, K. N. Faisal, R. R. Sharma, "Time‐Series Forecasting Using SVMD‐LSTM: A Hybrid Approach for Stock Market Prediction," in Journal of Probability and Statistics, 2025, doi: 10.1155/jpas/9464938. [IF-1.0 in 2025]

8. S. Sharma, K. N. Faisal and R. R. Sharma, "Automated Grasp Recognition using sEMG: Recent Advances, Challenges and Future Developments," in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,  vol. 74, pp. 1-17, 2025, doi: 10.1109/TIM.2024.3497179. [Q1, IF-5.6 in 2024]

9. N. K, K. Newaj Faisal, H. S. Mir and R. R. Sharma, "Coronary Artery Disease Identification Using ECG: An Improved Energy Estimation-Based Approach," in IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 147918-147928, 2024, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3469536. [Q1, IF-3.4 in 2024]

10. K. N. Faisal, H. S. Mir and R. R. Sharma, "Human Activity Recognition From FMCW Radar Signals Utilizing Cross-Terms Free WVD," in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 11, no. 8, pp. 14383-14394, 2024, doi: 10.1109/JIOT.2023.3344100. [Q1, IF-10.2 in 2023]

11. K. N. Faisal and R. R. Sharma, “Successive variational mode decomposition-based enhanced Wigner-Ville distribution for seismovolcanic events identification,” in Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, vol. 440, p. 107847, 2023. doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2023.107847 [Q1, IF-2.9 in 2023] 

12. U. Sharma, K. N. Faisal, R. R. Sharma, and K. V Arya, “Facial Landmark-Based Human Emotion Recognition Technique for Oriented Viewpoints in the Presence of Facial Attributes,” in SN Computer Science, vol. 4, no. 3, p. 273, 2023. doi:10.1007/s42979-023-01727-y

Peer-reviewed Conference Publications [Reverse chronological order]

1. S. Rahman, I. Mohtasim, S. Farhan and K. N. Faisal, "Leveraging Power Spectrum-based Features and Machine Learning for Resource-Efficient Cough Classification in Respiratory Disease Monitoring," 2025 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Information, Communication and Systems (SPICSCON), Rajshahi, Bangladesh, 2025, pp. 587-591, doi: 10.1109/SPICSCON69221.2025.11504221.  [Best paper award] (Supervisory Role)

2. Z. S. Simin, M. R. Islam, S. Aabira, A. Ghosh, A. Subah and K. N. Faisal, "Towards Real-Time Tea Leaf Disease Management: A Deep Learning Solution for Resource-Constrained Environments," 2025 IEEE International Women in Engineering (WIE) Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (WIECON-ECE), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2025, pp. 468-473, doi: 10.1109/WIECON-ECE69386.2025.11525971. (Supervisory Role)

3. A. Ghosh, L. S. Siam, and K. N. Faisal, “Wi-FHARNet: A CNN–BiLSTM Hybrid model for Fine-grained Human Activity Recognition utilizing Wi-Fi-based CSI Data,” in 2025 6th IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications and Photonics (ICTP 2025), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2025.  doi: 10.1109/ICTP68765.2025.11414825 (Supervisory Role)

4. S. Rahman, S. Farhan, S. Aabira, K. N. Faisal, "GCAF-Net: An Attention-Enhanced Deep CNN Framework with Grad-CAM for Classifying Rare and Endangered Medicinal Plants in Bangladesh," 2025 International Conference on Quantum Photonics, Artificial Intelligence, and Networking (QPAIN), Bangladesh, 2025, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/QPAIN66474.2025.11171960.(Supervisory Role)

5. S. Sharma, K. N. Faisal and R. R. Sharma, "Automated Power-Precision Grasp Recognition from sEMG: A Multivariate Signal Decomposition-based Approach," 2024 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Signal Processing and Effective Communication Technologies (INSPECT), Gwalior, India, 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/INSPECT63485.2024.10896124.

6. K. N. Faisal, P. Haribhau Kurhe, K. S. Upadhyay and R. Raj Sharma, "Upper Limb Motor Imagery Task Classification for EEG-based Brain Computer Interface Development," 2024 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies (CONECCT), Bangalore, India, 2024, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/CONECCT62155.2024.10677276. 

7. K. Gurjar, S. Agrawal, K. N. Faisal and R. R. Sharma, "Classifying EEG-based Upper Limb Motor Imagery Tasks for Brain-Robot Interface-based System Development," 2024 International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics (ICARM), Tokyo, Japan, 2024, pp. 7-12, doi: 10.1109/ICARM62033.2024.10715808. 

8. S. Agarwal, S. Sharma, K. N. Faisal and R. R. Sharma, "Induced Stress Identification Using EEG: A Framework based on MVMD and Machine Learning," 2024 IEEE International Students' Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Science (SCEECS), Bhopal, India, 2024, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/SCEECS61402.2024.10481868.

9. K. N. Faisal and R. R. Sharma, "Suppression of False-terms in Wigner-Ville Distribution using Time and Frequency Windowing," 2023 2nd International Conference on Paradigm Shifts in Communications Embedded Systems, Machine Learning and Signal Processing (PCEMS), Nagpur, India, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/PCEMS58491.2023.10136110. [Best male student paper award]

10. K. N. Faisal and R. R. Sharma, "Cross-terms Reduction in WVD using Sliding Window-based Variational Mode Decomposition," 2023 10th International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN), Noida, India, 2023, pp. 58-63, doi: 10.1109/SPIN57001.2023.10116192.

11. . Paul, M. F. Hossain, M. S. Muktadir and K. N. Faisal, "Fabrication of a cost effective thermal evaporation system for thin film deposition," 2017 4th International Conference on Advances in Electrical Engineering (ICAEE), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2017, pp. 703-706, doi: 10.1109/ICAEE.2017.8255446. 

12. K. N. Faisal, M. Z. I. Sarkar, R. Sultana and M. S. Muktadir, "Security analysis of co-located and distributed MIMO interference networks with linear receivers," 2016 2nd International Conference on Electrical, Computer & Telecommunication Engineering (ICECTE), Rajshahi, Bangladesh, 2016, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/ICECTE.2016.7879579. 

13. K. N. Faisal, M. Z. Islam Sarkar and R. Sultana, "Security in cellular MIMO interference networks with linear receivers," 2015 International Conference on Electrical & Electronic Engineering (ICEEE), Rajshahi, Bangladesh, 2015, pp. 129-132, doi: 10.1109/CEEE.2015.7428236. 

14. M. B. Uddin, M. Z. I. Sarkar, K. N. Faisal and M. M. Ali, "Performance analysis of Nakagami-m fading massive MIMO channels with linear receivers," 2014 17th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2014, pp. 510-513, doi: 10.1109/ICCITechn.2014.7073089.

15. R. Sultana, M. Z. I. Sarkar, K. N. Faisal, J. E. Giti and F. R. S. Ahmed, "Enhancing wireless capacity in heterogeneous networks with interference power," 2014 17th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2014, pp. 458-461, doi: 10.1109/ICCITechn.2014.7073076. 

Peer-reviewed Journals

• IEEE transactions on industrial informatics [3 Articles]

• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems [1 Article]

• IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics [1 Article]

• IEEE internet of things journal [3 Articles]

• Digital signal processing - Elsevier [4 Article]

• Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing - Elsevier [4 Articles]

• Biomedical Signal Processing and Control - Elsevier [1 Article]

• Measurement - Elsevier [2 Article]

• Frontiers in Human Neuroscience [1 Article]

Peer-reviewed Conferences

• IEEE Pune Section International Conference 2024

• International Conference on Mechanical Engineering and Applied Sciences, 2025 (ICMEAS – 2025)