About Me

12 of March 2024, I defended my PhD at the Mälardalen Unviersity in Västerås, Sweden. I am currently working as a research and development engineer at Hitachi Energy in Västerås, Sweden. At Hitachi Energy, we are working towards next-generation grid power quality solutions.

My PhD studies was part of the DESTINE and DPAC projects at the Mälardalen Unviersity, which are a collaboration between academia with companies such as Volvo CE, HIAB and Arcticus systems, etc. My PhD research, focused on solutions to address the complexities of developing predictable real-time distributed vehicular embedded systems. I specialized in automated design and configuration of distributed real-time embedded systems utilizing IEEE Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) standards. Besides, I have also experience in research and development in a range of aspects such as Industry 4.0, IIoT, and also Web 3.0.

My home page at the Mälardalen Unviersity (Link); my google scholar page (Link).

Highlights of my Publications

> B. Houtan, “Configuration and Timing Analysis of TSN-based Distributed Embedded Systems”, PhD Thesis, Mälardalen University, March 2024, (ISBN: 9789174856347). (Link)

> B. Houtan, “Configuring and Analysing TSN Networks Considering Low-priority Traffic”, Licentiate Thesis, Mälardalen University, December 2021, (ISBN: 9789174855364). (Link)

> B. Houtan; A. S. Hafid; D. Makrakis, “A Survey on Blockchain-Based Self-Sovereign Patient Identity in Healthcare”, IEEE Access, Journal Paper, May 2020. (Link)

> B.Houtan and H.Zarrabi, “Blockchain”, Dibagaran Tehran Publishers (Book in Persian), November 2018, ISBN: 9786222180157). (Link)

> B.Houtan and H.Zarrabi, “Industry 4.0”, Dibagaran Tehran Publishers (Book in Persian), January 2019, (ISBN: 9786222180928) (Link)

Check out Publications for detailed list of publications.