PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

       ·         Object detection
·        Object recognition
·        Object tracking
·        Image processing

·  Received the Best Researcher Award in Electrical
and Computer Engineering Department at COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI),
Abbottabad Campus for the Year 2018. I was also awarded with the Research
Productivity Award by Director COMSATS Abbottabad Campus for the years 2017,
2018, and 2019 for distinguished contributions in the research.

·   Lead the Electrical Engineering Department team to
prepare Self-Assessment Report (SAR) with the result of first ever Outcome Based
Education (OBE) accreditation from Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) for the
three engineering programs (computer, electronics, and power) of electrical
engineering department at CUI Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus.

·  Initiated and lead the team to shift the labs of
electrical engineering department as per OBE standards at CUonline and prepared
the OBE based course outlines of 4 subjects (Digital System Design, Probability
Methods, and Electronics−I&II).

·       Received the HEC approved supervisor status. Supervised the
completion of 1 Ph.D. Dissertation, 12 MS Theses, and Supervised 19
undergraduate Final Year Projects (FYP), with two projects lead to IEEE
conference paper publications. Another project received the National Grassroot
Information and Communication Technology Research Initiative (NGIRI) funding of
35000 PKR for the duration of one year from July 2019–July 2020.

·   Received the prestigious COMSATS Faculty
Development program (FDP) scholarship award for PhD studies in North Dakota State
University, USA from years 2013 – 2015.

·   Received the prestigious Higher Education Commission
(HEC), Government of Pakistan scholarship award for MS studies in Hanyang
University, South Korea in 2009. Also received the MS Scholarship from Hanyang
University, South Korea from years 2009 – 2011.

·   Research collaborations have resulted in 50 publications,
which include 23 Impact Factor Journals and 27 International Conference
publications.

·    Served as the reviewer of top-tier journals,
such as the IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Access, IEEE Transaction on Cloud
Computing, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, IET Image Processing, IET
Biometrics, and IET Computer Vision. Moreover, I am also an active Technical Program
Committee member in IEEE International Conference on Frontiers of Information
Technology (FIT) and IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies
(ICET).

Graduate Thesis (reverse chronological): A total of 13 Graduate Theses are listed in the reverse chronological order. All Thesis research works have been published in world renowned Journals/Conferences.

• PhD Dissertation: 01
• MS Thesis: 12

PhD Dissertation

·  Shahid Nawaz Khan, “Fast Encoding Techniques for Multi-View High Efficiency Video Coding (MV-HEVC),” April 2022.

o              Higher Education Commission (HEC), Government of Pakistan Scholarship Recipient.

MS Thesis

• Noshaba Khurshid, “An Automatic Retinal Blood Vessels Segmentation using Gabor Filter and Top-Hat
  Transform Based on Otsu’s Thresholding,” July 2021. ·  Kashif Fareed, “Effect of Pose and Expression Variation on Face Recognition,” July 2021.
• Muhammad Ibrahim Syed, “A Low Complexity Deep Learning Based Anti-Face Spoofing Method,” January 2021.

COMSATS Merit Scholarship Recipient.

• Bibi Misbah Kazmi, “Retinal Blood Vessels Segmentation using Local Ternary Patterns,” January 2021.
• Zainab Jadoon, “Retinal Vessels Segmentation using ISODATA and High Boost Filter,” September
  2020.
• Sundas Masood, “A Robust Method to Enhance Color Images Under Diverse Conditions,” September
  2020.
• Farhana Siddique, “Retinal Blood Vessels Segmentation using Hybrid Algorithm,” July 2019.
• Arsalan Mehmood Khan, “A Robust Segmentation Free License Plate Recognition Method,” July 2019.
• Hidayat Ullah, “A Robust Face Recognition Method for Occluded and Low-Resolution Images,” July
  2019.
• Sheryar Mahmood Awan, Automatic Vehicle License Plate Detection using Faster R-CNN,” February 2019.

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COMSATS Merit Scholarship Recipient

·     Haleema Sadia, “Color Image Enhancement using Multiscale Retinex with Guided Filter,” February 2019.

·     Mahmood Ul Haq, “Boosting the Performance of Ensemble Based LDA for Pose and Illumination Invariant Face Recognition on Low-Resolution Images,” July 2018.

o  Prime Minister Merit Scholarship Recipient