Dr. Muhammad Shamsul Arefeen Zilany

Assistant Professor

Email

mzilany@hbku.edu.qa

Office location

246B, TAMUQ Building

Dr. Muhammad Shamsul Arefeen Zilany

Assistant Professor

Educational Qualifications

PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering

MSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Entity

College of Science and Engineering

Division

Information & Computing technology

Biography

Dr. Muhammad Zilany is an Assistant Professor at the College of Science and Engineering at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He earned his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, in 2007. He held academic positions at the University of Malaya, the University of Hail, and Texas A&M University at Qatar before joining the Electrical Engineering Program at HBKU in 2024.

His research focuses on auditory neuroscience, encompassing computational modeling, physiological recordings, and psychophysical studies of the auditory system. Dr. Zilany is currently a Chartered Engineer with the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in the UK, and he is also a member of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO) and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).

PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering

McMaster University, Canada

2007

MSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh

2002

BSc in Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh

1999

  • Computational modeling of the auditory system
  • Physiological recordings and psychophysical studies of the auditory system
  • Audio
  • speech
  • and language processing
  • Signal processing for hearing aids and cochlear implants

Assistant Professor

College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University

2024 - Present

Instructional Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering Program, Texas A&M University at Qatar

2019 - 2024

Assistant Professor

College of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Hail, Saudi Arabia

2017 - 2018

Senior Lecturer

Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Malaya, Malaysia

2012 - 2016

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience, University of Rochester, United States

2008 - 2011

Mamun, N., Zilany, M., Hansen, J., & Venn, D. (2021). An intrusive method for estimating speech intelligibility from noisy and distorted signals. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150(3), 1762–1778.

Jassim, W., & Zilany, M. (2019). NSQM: A non-intrusive assessment of speech quality using normalized energies of the neurogram. Computer, Speech & Language, 58, 260–279.

Kwan, T., Zilany, M., Venn, D., & AbdulWahab, A. (2019). Modeling the effects of medial olivocochlear efferent stimulation at the level of the inferior colliculus. Experimental Brain Research, 237(6), 1479–1491.

Bruce, I. C., Erfani, Y., & Zilany, M. (2018). A phenomenological model of the synapse between the inner hair cell and auditory nerve: Implications of limited neurotransmitter release sites. Hearing Research, 260, 40–54.

Zilany, M., & Carney, L. (2010). Power-law dynamics in an auditory-nerve model can account for neural adaptation to sound-level statistics. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(31), 10380–10390.

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