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Dr Osman Khalid

Tenured Associate Professor
Area of Interest: Delay Tolerant Networks, Trust and Reputation Systems, Opportunistic Networks, Recommendation Systems, and Disaster Response Systems. For more details http://osman.pakproject.com
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (92)992-383591-5
 
Academics/ Degrees
  • PhD North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA 2014
  • MS (CE) Center for Advanced Studies in Islamabad (CASE), Pakistan 2008
  • BS(CS) COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan 2007
 
Journal Publications
1. Naseem Us Sehar,Muhammad A. B. Fayyaz,O.Khalid,I.Khan,F. Rehman,Ali R. Ansari,Raheel Nawaz Blockchain enabled data security in vehicular networks, Scientific Reports, 2023
2. Adeel Ahmed,O.Khalid Trust-aware denoising autoencoder with spatial-temporal activity for cross-domain personalized recommendations, Neurocomputing, 2022
3. K. Malik,A. Akhunzada,T. Maqsood,S. Mustafa,F. Rehman,O.Khalid Lightweight Internet of Things Botnet Detection Using One-Class Classification, Sensors, 2022
4. O.Khalid A hybrid group-based movie recommendation framework with overlapping memberships, PLOS ONE, 2022
5. M.M.Yaqoob,W.Khurshid,L. Liu,Syed Zulqarnain,I.Khan,O.Khalid,R. Nawaz Adaptive Multi-Cost Routing Protocol to Enhance Lifetime for Wireless Body Area Network, Computers, Materials & Continua, 2022
6. O.Khalid A hybrid mask RCNN-based tool to localize dental cavities from real-time mixed photographic images, PeerJ Computer Science, 2022
7. O.Khalid xFogSim: A Distributed Fog Resource Management Framework for Sustainable IoT Services, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, 2021
8. O.Khalid On deep neural network for trust aware cross domain recommendations in E-commerce, Expert Systems with Applications, 2021
9. F. Rehman,O.Khalid,N. Haq,T. Maqsood,Dr. Mazhar Ali,R.Wasim,J.Shujah,S. Sarwar, S. A. Madani A scalable model for real‐time venue recommendations using MapReduce, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2020
10. O.Khalid Modeling an Optimized Approach for Load balancing in Cloud, IEEE Access, 2020
11. O.Khalid An Enhanced Firefly Algorithm Using Pattern Search for Solving Optimization Problems, IEEE Access, 2020
12. O.Khalid Study and analysis of mobility, security, and caching issues in CCN, International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE), 2020
13. O.Khalid CPU and RAM Energy-Based SLA-Aware Workload Consolidation Techniques for Clouds, IEEE Access, 2020
14. W.Khurshid,I.Khan,O.Khalid A dynamic threshold calculation for congestion notification in IEEE 802.1Qbb, IEEE Communication Letters, 2020
15. Atta ur Rahman Khan,Raheel Nawaz,Dr. Usman Shahid,F. Rehman,O.Khalid,Rizwana Irfan SocialRec: A Context-Aware Recommendation Framework With Explicit Sentiment Analysis, IEEE Access, 2019
16. O.Khalid,I.Khan Data offloading in IoT environments: modeling, analysis, and verification, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2019
17. K.Bilal,O.Khalid Nutshell—Simulation toolkit for Modeling Data Center Networks and Cloud Computing, IEEE Access, 2019
18. O.Khalid,I.Khan Optimal Content Caching in Content-Centric Networks, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing , 2019
19. Dr. Usman Shahid,O.Khalid An Optimal Ride Sharing Recommendation Framework for Carpooling Services, IEEE Access, 2018
20. L. Wu, L. Nie, S. U. Khan, ,O.Khalid,D. Wu A V2I communication based pipe model for adaptive urban traffic light scheduling, Frontiers of Computer Science, 2018
21. O.Khalid An Optimal Ride Sharing Recommendation Framework for Carpooling Services, IEEE Access, 2018
22. O.Khalid,Samee U Khan FogNetSim++: A Toolkit for Modeling and Simulation of Distributed Fog Environment, IEEE Access, 2018
23. K.Bilal,O.Khalid,A Erbad, S U Khan Potentials, trends, and prospects in edge technologies: Fog, cloudlet, mobile edge, and micro data centers, Computer Networks, 2018
24. F. Rehman,O.Khalid,N. Haq,Atta ur Rehman,K.Bilal,Sajjad A. Madani Diet-Right: A Smart Food Recommendation System, KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, 2017
25. F. Rehman,O.Khalid,Sajjad A. Madani A comparative study of location-based recommendation systems, The Knowledge Engineering Review, 2017
26. T. Maqsood,O.Khalid,R. Irfan, S. A. Madani, S. U. Khan Scalability Issues in Online Social Networks, ACM Computing Surveys, 2016
27. M. U. S. Khan,Y. Huang, F. Zhang, R. Ranjan,O.Khalid,S. U. Khan, J. Cao, K. Li,B. Veeravalli, A. Zomaya MacroServ: A Route Recommendation Service for Large-Scale Evacuations, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2016
28. Dr. Usman Shahid,O.Khalid MacroServ: A Route Recommendation Service for Large-Scale Evacuations, IEEE Transaction of Service Computing , 2015
29. R. Irfan,O.Khalid,M. U. S. Khan, C. Chira, R. Ranjan, ,F. Zhang, S. U. Khan, B. Veeravalli, ,K. Li, A. Y. Zomaya MobiContext: A Context-aware Cloud-Based Venue Recommendation Framework, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 2015
30. Dr. Usman Shahid,O.Khalid,Rizwana Irfran MobiContext: A Context-aware Cloud-based Recommendation Framework, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 2015
31. O.Khalid,M. U. S. Khan, Y. Huang,S. U. Khan, A. Y. Zomaya EvacSys: A Cloud-based Service for Emergency Evacuation, IEEE Cloud Computing, 2015
32. Dr. Usman Shahid,O.Khalid OmniSuggest: A Ubiquitous Cloud based Context Aware Recommendation System for Mobile Social Networks, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2014
33. K.Bilal,S. U. R. Malik,O.Khalid,A. Hameed, E. Alvarez,V. Wijaysekara, R. Irfan,S. Shrestha, D. Dwivedy,M. Ali, U. S. Khan,A. Abbas, N. Jalil, S. U. Khan A Taxonomy and Survey on Green Data Center Networks, Future Generation Computer Systems, 2014
34. O.Khalid,, M. U. S. Khan, S. U. Khan, A. Y. Zomaya OmniSuggest: A Ubiquitous Cloud based Context Aware Recommendation System for Mobile Social Networks, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2013
35. O.Khalid,Samee U Khan,S.Madani,K.Hayat,Majid I Khan,Nasro Min-Allah,Joanna Kolodziej,Lizhe Wang,Sherali Zeadally,Dan Chen Comparative study of trust and reputation systems for wireless sensor networks, Security and Communication Networks , 2013
 
 
BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS
 
Profile/Bio
  • Tenured Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, since April 11,2022-till date
  •  Assistant Professor at Department of Computer Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan 2014 to to April 10,2022.
  • Aug. 2014 to Continued: Assistant Professor at Department of Computer Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan
  • Aug. 2009 to Aug. 2013: Lecturer at Department of Computer Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan.
  • Apr. 2007 to Aug. 2009: Software developer at Electronic Technology Division, Askari Bank Limited, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • Jun. 2006 to Mar. 2007: System Administrator and Software developer at Electronic Technology Division, Askari Bank Limited, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • Apr. 2006 to Jun. 2006: Software developer at Soft-Tek Systems, Islamabad, Pakistan 
  • Sep. 2005 to Mar. 2006: Visiting Faculty at Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
 
 
Research Interests
  • Delay Tolerant Networks & Opportunistic Networks: Routing protocols, content dissemination, and mobility modeling. 
  • Trust & Reputation Systems: Implementing Trust and Reputation in Wireless Sensor Networks and Mobile Ad hoc Networks. 
  • Recommendation Systems: Context aware recommendation systems, location-based recommendation systems, context adaption.
 
Awards
Awards
  • Awarded with scholarship by C OMSATS during Bachelors in Computer Sciences, 2002-04.
  • Awarded with scholarship by COMSATS for PhD in Computer Engineering, USA