Dr. Haroon-ur-Rashid Khan

Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences(PIEAS),
haroon@pieas.edu.pk

I am experienced and professional in academia and administration.

Career Objectives

As a seasoned and results-driven professional, my career objective is to leverage my extensive experience in academia and administration to serve as the Director of Academics and Registrar at a top rated University in Engineering and Applied Sciences. With a passion for fostering educational excellence, my goal is to contribute to the strategic vision of the institution by implementing innovative academic programs, ensuring regulatory compliance, and optimizing operational efficiency. Passionate Academic Administration Professional with a track record of success. Open to relocation for exciting new challenges and career growth.

Academic Qualifications

Senior Officers Management Course

The course aims at educating the senior officers in the field of leadership and management in order to enhance their performance and potential in communication, decision making, and interpersonal relations to achieve personal, organizational and national goals.

04-FEB-2019 - 03-MAY-2019

PhD

(Applied Computer Technology) in High Performance Computing at Beijing Institute of Technology, P.R. China. [Overall Evaluation Score = 90.6%]

MS (Electrical Engineering)

with Image Processing, Digital Signal Processing as majors at IOWA State University, USA. [CGPA=3.5/4.0]

Post Graduate Training in Computer Systems Hardware/Software

at Computer Training Center, Islamabad, PAKISTAN. [First Division]

B.Sc. (Electrical Engineering)

with Electronics as major at University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, PAKISTAN. [First Division]

Experience

Director Academics

Pakistan Institute Of Engineering & Applied Sciences

The Director Academics is responsible for the overall administration, coordination, and developmentof instructional policies, programs, personnel and classroom facilities. This position is responsible for creating and sustaining an environment of academic and professional excellence for students and faculty and collaborative working environment with educational team members.

2019 - to date

Registrar

Head of Registration and Examination Division at Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied (PIEAS)

Being hub of administration Registrar is responsible for processes registration requests, schedules classes and maintains class lists, enforces the rules for entering or leaving classes, and keeps a permanent record of grades and marks. Registrar is also responsible to ensure policies, rules and regulations as defined by Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC) are followed in true spirit.

2016 - 2019

Senior Deputy Registrar

Pakistan Institute of Engineering & applied Sciences

Assist the Registrar in all his responsibilities. Sharpened my communication skills, ideas and information clearly and effectively at all levels within the University in English. Demonstrated knowledge and competence as it relates to student admissions, records and records retention maintaining the confidentiality of work-related information and materials. Developed the ability to meet deadlines and handle multiple complex projects.

2014 - 2016

Head of Department

Pakistan Institute of Engineering & applied Sciences

Department of Electrical Engineering Lead, manage and develop the department and ensure it achieves the highest possible standards of excellence in all its academic activities.

2009 - 2014


In-charge Placement Office

Pakistan Institute of Engineering & applied sciences

Performing a mix of career counseling and recruiting duties. Assist students and coordinate with the institution's staff and local employers.

2015 - to date


Course Coordinator

Pakistan Institute of Engineering & applied sciences

Maintain quality and consistency of instruction in multiple-section courses. Organized and scheduled regular meetings with faculty and provide resources to support teaching and learning in the courses. Remain in close contact with students to solve their issues related to academics.

2004 - 2006

Teaching Research

Associate Professor – PIEAS

Teaching courses in Electrical Engineering at BS as well as MS level. Courses taught are Circuits Analysis, Integrated Electronics, FPGA based Design. Supervised and examined final year projects in Electronics and FPGA based embedded systems.
2009 - to date

Assistant Professor – PIEAS

Teaching courses in Electrical Engineering at MS level. Taught ‘Digital Communication System’, ‘Information Theory’ and ‘FPGA based Design’. Supervised and examined final year projects in Communication Systems and FPGA based embedded systems design.

2004 - 2006


Assistant Professor – NUST (National University of Sciences and Technology)

Teaching courses in Computer Engineering at BS as well as MS level. Courses taught are Computer Organization, Computer Architecture, FPGA based Design and Digital Image Processing. Supervised final year projects in Electronics and FPGA based embedded systems.

2000 - 2004

Skills

Administrative

Currently working as Director Academics and the Registrar of the Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS). Our university-PIEAS is ranked 375th in QS World ranking and No.1 in Pakistan. [2019- to date]

Currently working as Registrar Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences in addition to faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering. [2015- 2019]

Worked as Head of Department in the Department of Electrical Engineering, PIEAS. Teaching courses in Digital Design and High Performance Computing. [2009-2014]

Course Coordinator in the Department of Electrical Engineering. [2004-2006]

Supervising student activities in the university as Counselor IEEE PIEAS (Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences) Student Branch. The branch has organized number national level events in which more than 500 students from all over the country participates. Our efforts have been highlighted in IEEE R10 NEWS Letter. Further as team we have won different competitions at National Level. [2012 - to date]

Understanding of procurement procedures (Indentation, Tender Opening & Purchase etc.) for acquiring technical products from the market.

Academic


More than 18 years of experience in teachi8ng Undergraduate and Graduate level Courses in Integrated Electronics and VLSI Design.

Verilog HDL Programming for FPGAs.

Analog/Digital signals’ (Field Instrumentation) interface with Microcontrollers, Real Time Products (RTPs), Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs).

Real Time Data Acquisition and Processing

Digital Signal Processing algorithms, especially worked on Discrete Cosine Transform for Digital Image compression.

Proficient in PC operation and usage. Interests in programming with C/C++, Visual Basic, Visual C. Experience in working with MATLAB (especially Image Processing Toolbox), Microsoft office etc.

Designed software with logic program (Ladder Logic). Interface with design hardware for several applications (Analog Inputs, Analog Outputs, Digital Inputs, Digital Outputs), Programmable Controllers (Allan Bradley’s PLC 5/40, PLC 5/11 based systems) for industrial units. Worked on Control View Software (Allen Bradley) for Man/Machine Interface.

1993-95 worked on Design and Development of the interface for Full Scope Training Simulator for industry using real time products (RTPs). This assignment involved interface programming in C language and understanding of Control room Instrumentation.

1992-93 Worked as Service Engineer in Electrical Systems Division. I was responsible for the smooth operation and routine maintenance of different Electrical Systems e.g., a 100 line EPABX, a 60KVA UPS, 300KVA Diesel Generator and LT & HT switchgears of the substation installed in the premises of our complex. I also designed and developed a serial interface between a PC and microcontroller (Motorola’s 8751) for ON/OFF control of Magnetic Contractor.

Activities

  • Doctoral Research Fellow in High Performance Computing Lab at Beijing Institute of Technology, P.R.China. [2006-09]
  • Served NUST (National University of Science and Technology) as Lecturer and then Assistant Professor in Computer Engineering Department in College of E&ME, Rawalpindi, PAKISTAN. [2000-04]
  • Designed and Developed an Image Compression algorithm based on DCT for implementation onto FPGAs. This research work was carried out while doing masters at IOWA State University, USA. [1998-99]
  • Worked as Research Assistant (RA) at IOWA State University, USA. [1999]
  • Worked as Teaching Assistant (TA) at NUST (National University of Sciences and Technology), Rawalpindi, PAKISTAN. [1998]
  • Designed and Developed “Microprocessor (8088) based 1 KVA UPS”. The design of UPS was assigned as a group project at Computer Training Center, Islamabad. [1991-92]
  • Took part in the design and development of “Z-80 based software development board”. This was the final year project taken at the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore. [1989- 90]
  • 2012- to date Supervising student activities in the university as Counselor IEEE PIEAS (Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences) Student Branch. The branch has organized number national level events in which more than 500 students from all over the country participates. Our efforts have been highlighted in IEEE R10 NEWS Letter. Further as team we have won different competitions at National Level.
  • 1995-98 Designed software with logic program (Ladder Logic). Interface with design hardware for several applications (Analog Inputs, Analog Outputs, Digital Inputs, Digital Outputs), Programmable Controllers (Allan Bradley’s PLC 5/40, PLC 5/11 based systems) for industrial units. Worked on Control View Software (Allen Bradley) for Man/Machine Interface.
  • 1993-95 Worked on Design and Development of the interface for Full Scope Training Simulator for industry using real time products (RTPs). This assignment involved interface programming in C language and understanding of Control room Instrumentation.
  • 1992-93 Worked as Service Engineer in Electrical Systems Division. I was responsible for the smooth operation and routine maintenance of different Electrical Systems e.g., a 100 line EPABX, a 60KVA UPS, 300KVA Diesel Generator and LT & HT switchgears of the substation installed in the premises of our complex. I also designed and developed a serial interface between a PC and microcontroller - (Motorola’s 8751) for ON/OFF control of Magnetic Contractor.
Projects Supervised

  • Detecting Driver Drowsiness in Real Time through Deep Learning based Object Detection
  • Using DSP-Application Specific Instruction Set Processors (ASIP) for Image Processing Applications
  • Design of Online Electronic Tap Changer.
  • Using an FPGA as a Prototyping Platform for Multi-core Processor Applications.
  • FPGA based Image Processing platform for several Robotic applications.
  • An Efficient Pipelined Verilog Code for Microcontroller-8051.
  • “Optimization of DSP algorithms for FPGAs”, in B.Sc (CE) at NUST.
  • “Discrete Transforms in Image processing”, in BCIS program at PIEAS.
  • “Implementation of IEEE 802.16a”, in BCIS program at PIEAS.
  • “QoS considerations in GSM cellular networks”, in BCIS program at PIEAS
  • “Multi-user Detection in CDMA systems”, MS (Systems Engg.) at PIEAS.
Projects Examined
  • Combining Images with Overlapping Fields of View to Produce a Single Image.
  • Energy efficiency optimization of a smart grid
  • Investigate the parallelization of Monte Carlo Methods for Optimization
  • Faster Matrix Multiplication Algorithm
  • Implementation and Performance Evaluation of Spare Storage Formats on Cluster System
  • USB based Multi-Channel Analyzer
  • Implementation of Discrete search optimization algorithm in parallel and their performance analysis
  • Parallel Sorting Algorithms Implementation and Performance Analysis
  • Developing Caching Mechanism for Berkeley Database Information Index(BDII)
  • Using FPGA as prototyping Platform for Multicore Processor Application
  • Parallel Implementation of Iterative Methods for Solving Linear Systems
  • Classification and evaluation of weld defects using computational intelligence techniques

AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS

  • Chairman’s Gold Medal 2014 for outstanding contribution, as Teacher/Researcher, to the Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS).
  • Subject Expert (Electrical Engineering) at Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC), since 2013.
  • Best Foreign Student certificate, during PhD, on the basis of academic performance[2008-09]
  • Merit Scholarship for PhD Studies in Engineering at Beijing Institute of Technology [2006-09]
  • Merit Scholarship for Masters in Electrical Engineering at IOWA State University USA [1998-99]
  • Merit Scholarship for Higher Secondary School (HSC) studies. [1981-83]

MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

  • Professional Member IEEE
  • Professional Engineer registered at Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC). PEC is provisional member of ABET.
  • Member Board of Studies in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • Member Board of Studies in the Department of Electrical Engineering at COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad.
  • Member Board of Studies in the Department of Electrical Engineering at University of Gujrat, Gujrat.
  • Member Course Curriculum Committee in Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan.
  • Member Editorial Board for Technical Journal of University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila.
  • Member Harassment Committee in PIEAS formed under the directions of HEC, Pakistan.

publications

Book Chapter:

Abid Muhammad, Khan A.Q, Rehan Muhammad, Haroon-Ur-Rashid, “TS Fuzzy Approach for Fault Detection in Nonlinear Cyber Physical Systems” in Computational Intelligence for Decision Support in Cyber-Physical Systems, Springer, 2014, Pages 421-447.

Journals:

M.T. Kazmi, Z. Zahoor, N.T. Yusra, M.H. Bhatti, M.F. Afasr, F. Sher, Haroon ur Rashid, M.A. Rafiq, ”Diode parameters extraction and study of space charge limited current in (Ag, Au)/CoS2 Schottky diodes” , Physica B: Condensed Matter, Volume 670, 1 December 2023, [Impact factor 2.988]

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Muhammad Asim Shoaib, Abdul Qayyum Khan, Sufi Tabassum Gul, Ghulam Mustafa, Muhammad Abid, Muhammad Abubakar, Adil Khan, Haroon-Ur-Rashid, ”Fault location in meshed power networks by using hybrid sparse current and voltage measurements along with RSFCL” Author links open overlay panel” , Volume 225, December 2023, 109789, [Impact factor 3.818]

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Hira Sana, Ghulam Mustafa, Owais Khan, Nouman Ashraf, Abdul Qayyum Khan, Muhammad Abid, Haroon Ur Rashid Khan: “Analysis and Design of Secure Sampled-Data Control Subject to Denial-of-Service Attacks”, IEEE Access, Volume 11, May 2023, Pages 48454-48462, [Impact factor 3.476]

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Amina Shams, Muhammad Rehan, Muhammad Tufail, Haroon-Ur-Rashid Khan: “Adaptive fully-distributed sign-consensus control approach for nonlinear multi-agent systems over a signed graph”. Trans. Inst. Meas. Control 44(2) (2022) [Impact factor 2.146]

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Naveed Chouhan, AsifullahKhan, Haroon-ur-Rasheed Khan,” Network anomaly detection using channel boosted and residual learning based deep convolutional neural network”, Applied Soft Computing, an Elsevier Journal, Volume 83, October 2019, 105612.
[Impact factor 5.478]

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Syeda Rabiya Hamid, Muhammad Shahid Nazir, Muhammad Rehan, and Haroon ur Rashid, "New Results on Regional Observer-Based Stabilization for Locally Lipchitz Nonlinear Systems," Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Volume 123, June 2019, Pages 173-184 [Impact factor 2.213]

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Raafia IRFAN, Haroon ur Rasheed, Waqas Ahmed TOOR, “FPGA-based Low Latency Inverse QRD Architecture for Adaptive Beamforming in Phased Array Radars”, Radio Engineering Journal VOL. 26, No. 3, September 2017, Pages 851-859 [Impact Factor 1.09]

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- M. U. Amjad, M. Rehan, M. Tufail, C. K. Ahn, Haroon ur Rashid, “Stability analysis of nonlinear digital systems under hardware overflow constraint for dealing with finite word-length effects of digital technologies,” Sig

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N. U. Saqib, M. Hussain, N. Iqbal and Haroon ur Rashid, "Delay-range-dependent static antiwindup compensator design for nonlinear systems subject to input delay and saturation,” Elsevier Journal of the Franklin Institute, September 2017, Pages 5919–5948 [Imact Factor 2.327]

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Muhammad Riaz, Dr. Muhammad Rehan, Keum-Shik Hong, Muhammad Ashraf, Haroon-UrRasheed, “Static and adaptive feedback control for synchronization of different chaotic oscillators with mutually Lipschitz nonlinearities” , Chinese

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Haroon-Ur-Rashid Khan, LiCheng Xue, Feng Shi, Weixing Ji, “3D Floor planning of low-power and area-efficient Network-on-Chip Architecture”. ELSEVIER Journal, Microprocessors and Microsystems, Volume 35, Issue 5, July 2011. Pages 484–495. [Impact Factor of 0.553].

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Haroon-Ur-Rashid, Shi Feng, Gao Yu Jin, et. al. “Computationally Efficient Locality-Aware Interconnection Topology for Multi-Processor System-on-Chip (MP-SoC)”, Published in China Science Bulletin – An “SCI” Journal (Springer). Volume 55, Issue 29, October 2010. Pages 3363- 3371. [Impact Factor of 0.898].

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Haroon-Ur-Rashid, Shi Feng, “Locality aware optimal task scheduling algorithm for TriBA - A novel scalable architecture”, Journal of Beijing Institute of Technology (English Edition), Issue n3, Volume v17, September 2008, pages 294-299. [EI: 20084311657895]

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Haroon-Ur-Rashid, Shi Feng, Ji Weixing, Qiao Baojun, “TriBA – A Novel Scalable MPI based Architecture for High Performance Distributed Parallel Computing”, WSEAS Transactions on Computers, Issue 12, Volume 6, December 2007, pages 1161-1167. [EI: 20080511069391]

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Confenses

  • Saqib Madni, Dr. Muhammad Shafiq, Dr. Haroon-ur-Rashid, “ARMINTEL: A Heterogeneous Microprocessor Architecture Enabling Intel Applications on ARM”, 17th-IBCAST, an international IEEE Conference 2020.
  • Muhammad Faique Shakeel, Nabit A. Bajwa, Ahmad Muhammad Anwaar, Anabia Sohail, Asifullah Khan & Haroon-ur-Rashid, “Detecting Driver Drowsiness in Real Time Through Deep Learning Based Object Detection”, IWANN 2019, International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Advances in Computational Intelligence pp 283–296
  • Muhammad Hassaan Younis, Haroon-ur-Rashid Khan, “Energy efficient, peltier based portable cabinet cooling system for vaccine cold chain”, 4th International Conference on Power Generation Systems and Renewable Energy Technologies, PGSRET, International Islamic University Islamabad, 10-12 September, 2018.
  • Sameed Sohail, Ali Saeed, Haroon-ur-Rashid, “Using DSP-Application Specific Instruction Set Processors (ASIP) for Image Processing Applications”, Computing Conference 2018, 10-12 July 2018 London, United Kingdom.
  • Raafia Irfan, Haroon-ur-Rashid, W. A. Toor, “An FPGA-based MVDR Beamformer for Adaptive Interference Mitigation”, International IEEE Conference on “ENGINEERING& TECHNOLOGY, COMPUTER, BASICS & APPLIED SCIENCES” (ECBA-2017) Istanbul, Turkey,
  • Muddasir Ahmad, Muhammad Aqil and Haroon Khan, “Reducing the Computational Cost of a Classifier by Subtracting the Dual-Class Features” 2017 IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Electrical Engineering and Computational Technologies held on 5 th -7th of April, 2017, in Indus University Karachi, Pakistan.
  • Muhammad Shahid Nazir, Abubakar Akram, Bhagesh Chaudry Maheshwari, Muhammad Usman Hadi, Muhammad Aqil and Haroon Khan, “Real-time brain activation detection by FPGA implemented adaptive algorithm” , 2017 IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Electrical Engineering and Computational Technologies held on 5th-7th of April, 2017, in Karachi, Pakistan.
  • Haroon-ur-Rashid, Bilal Shaheen, Hamza Khan, Kamil Abbas, “Energy Aware Smart Home Automation using Arduino & LabVIEW”, Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Science Networks and Information Technology held on 23rd-24th January 2016, in Pattaya, ISBN: 9788193137338
  • Bilal Shaheen, Hamza Khan, Kamil Abbas, Haroon-Ur-Rashid, “Energy Aware Smart Home”, 2014 First International Young Engineers Convention (FEIIC IYEC-2014), March 2014, University of Engineering and Technology Lahore, Pakistan.
  • Danish Nadeem, Haroon-Ur-Rashid, Muhammad Saeed, “Fully Electronic Tap Changer Control”, 2013 IEEE Conference on Clean Energy and Technology (CEAT), 18-20 November 2013, pages 114- 117, Langkawi, Malaysia.
  • Haroon-Ur-Rashid, Shi Feng, Ji Weixing, “Performance of Triplet based Interconnection Strategy for Multi-Core On-Chip Processors”, Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Co
  • Haroon-Ur-Rashid, Shi Feng, Ji Weixing, “Triplet Based Multi-Core Interconnection Network and Its Computational Efficerncy”, Proceedings of the 8th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2009) June 1-3, 2009, pages 516 – 521, Shanghai, China.
  • Haroon-Ur-Rashid, Shi Feng, Muhammad Kamran, “Efficient Task Scheduling Algorithm for Triplet Architecture TriBA–A Novel Scalable Architecture”, Proceedings of The 7th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences & Technology (IBCAST’09), 2009.
  • Haroon-Ur-Rashid, Shi Feng, Ji Weixing, Qiao Baojun, “TriBA - A Novel Scalable Architecture for High Performance Parallel Computing Applications”, Proceedings of the Sixth WSEAS International Conference on Applied Computer Science (ACOS’07), April 2007, pages 397-402.
  • Haroon-Ur-Rashid, Shi Feng, Ji Weixing, Qiao Baojun, “Optimal Task Scheduling algorithm for TriBA-A Novel Scalable Architecture”, Proceedings of the Doctoral Academic Forum of Computer Science and Technolog , Beijing Institute of Technology, May 2007.
  • Haroon-Ur-Rashid, Shi Feng,“Performance Evaluation of TriBA-A Novel Scalable Architecture for High Performance Applications”, Proceedings of the IEEE Eighth ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD’07), 2007, pp. 744-749.
  • Muhammad Kamran, Haroon-Ur-Rashid, Shi Feng , ”Distortion Analysis in scalable Image Compression Scheme based on Efficient Codebook Selection”, Proceedings of the IEEE Eighth ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD’07), 2007, pp. 495-500.
  • Feng SHI, Weixing JI, Baojun QIAO, Bin LIU, Haroon-Ur-Rashid, “A Triplet Based Computer Architecture Supporting Parallel Object Computing,” Proceedings of the IEEE Eighteenth International Conference on Application Specific Architectures and Processors, pp. 192-197, July 2007.
  • Haroon-Ur-Rashid, Shi Feng, “Evaluation and Performance Comparison of TriBA with existing OnChip Interconnection Networks”, Proceedings of the IEEE 3rd International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET’07), 2007, pp. 290-295.
  • Haroon-Ur-Rashid, Shi Feng, Ji Weixing, Qiao Baojun, “TriBA – A Novel Scalable MPI based Architecture for High Performance Distributed Parallel Computing”, WSEAS Transactions on Computers, Issue 12, Volume 6, December 2007, pages 1161-1167.
  • Muhammad Zahid, Haroon Ur Rashid "An Analysis of Linear Multiuser Detection in DS-CDMA Wireless Communication Systems", First Kashmir International Science Conference, 2005.
  • Muhammad Zahid, Haroon Ur Rashid "Linear Multiuser Detection in Code Division Multiple Access Wireless Communication Systems", SCONEST 2005, An international conference organized by IEEE, USA, Karachi section.
  • Haroon Ur Rashid, John Basart “An Optimized DCT based Hardware design for FPGA implementation of High Altitud