Prof. Muhammad Rafiq Abuturab

Muhammad Rafiq Abuturab received his PhD in Physics in 2008. He has been listed in the World's Top 2% Scientists List in the Career-Long and Single-Year Impact Databases released by Stanford University (USA) with the Top 1% in the field of Optoelectronics & Photonics for the Fourth consecutive year (2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023). He has been a Professor in the Department of Physics, School of Sciences, at MANUU (A Central University), Hyderabad, India since 2023. His research focuses on Optical Information Processing, Optical Signal Processing, Optical transforms, Optical information security, Fourier Optics, and Digital Holography. He has single-authored more than 33 papers in peer-reviewed international journals, 4 papers in conference proceedings, and 2 book chapters. The average journal impact factor (as per Journal Citation Reports, Clarivate Analytics, 2022) of his papers is approx 3.55. He has served as a Lead Guest Editor of the Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Security and Communication Networks, and International Journal of Optics. He is a senior member of the Optical Society of America (OSA) and Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). He is a reviewer of 50 reputed journals published by Nature, IEEE, IET, Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Optical Society of America (OSA), American Institute of Physics (AIP), Institute of Physics (IOP), Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), Taylor & Francis, PeerJ and Hindawi.