Prof. Muhammad Rafiq Abuturab

Muhammad Rafiq Abuturab received his PhD in Physics from MU India. He was a Post-Doc Fellow at L@bISEN–Yncréa Ouest (Yncréa-Ouest Research Laboratory), ISEN Brest, France. 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 and Photonics for five consecutive years (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024). 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 36 papers out of 38 papers in peer-reviewed international journals, 4 papers in conference proceedings, and 2 book chapters. The average journal impact factor (as per 2023 Journal Citation Reports, Clarivate Analytics, 2024) of his papers is 2.9. 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 53 reputed journals published by Nature, IEEE, IET, Optical Society of America(OSA)/Optica, Elsevier, Institute of Physics (IOP), American Institute of Physics (AIP), Springer, Wiley, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), Taylor & Francis, Hindawi Ltd., PeerJ Inc., and Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI).