CODTEEM - Key Persons


Aiman Muzaffar

Job Titles:
  • Recommending of Experts to Questions on Stack Overflow / under Review

Aleena Nadeem

Job Titles:
  • Depression Detection Using Machine Learning Technique / Published: Sensors

Amna Khalid

Job Titles:
  • Framework to Cluster Structured Data and a Recovery Mechanism

Asma Sajid

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  • Linked Data Portal for E - Government Resources of Pakistan

Dr Hammad Afzal

Job Titles:
  • Scientific Director
  • Professional Member
Dr. Hammad is a professional member of various national and international bodies such as IEEE (Senior Member) ACM, and Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC). He has served as the Head of UG Curriculum Committee, PEC, and HEC, for Sub-Group Software Engineering. He has also served as an evaluator for several National R&D programs including ICT R&D, NGIRI, NTS etc. He has also attained several awards such as Best Researcher MCS NUST of the year 2019, and Peter Jones Prize of the year 2005, to attain highest grades in all MSc courses in the Department of Informatics, University of Manchester, UK (Equivalent to Gold Medal).

Dr Naima Iltaf

Job Titles:
  • Director

Dr. Asim Dilawar Bakhshi

Dr. Asim Bakhshi has been teaching at NUST as an Associate Professor since Sep, 2020. He completed his doctoral studies from University of Engg and Tech, Lahore. He has over 20 publications. His research interests include Large Language Models, Application of ML in Signal Processing.​​

Dr. Behram Khan

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  • Senior Solutions Architect
Behram Khan is a Senior Solutions Architect - Data, Analytics & AI at Microsoft. He has been previously linked with British Telecom, UK. He has done PhD from University of Manchester, UK He currently advises the CoDTeEM in projects related to Data Analytics

Dr. Goran Nenadic

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Professor at the University of Manchester
Goran Nenadic is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester and a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. His research interests are focused on natural language processing, text mining and semi-automated curation of knowledge from unstructured textual data. Goran has been working in this area since 1993. Current research projects focus on large-scale extraction and curation of biomedical information and clinical/epidemiological findings, by comibing rule-based and data-driven approaches. He is also interested in processing healthcare social media. Dr. Goran Nenadic, a Professor at the University of Manchester in the UK, has been supervising and guiding the codteem team.

Dr. Ihtesham ul Islam

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  • Associate Professor at National University of Sciences and Technology
Dr. Ihtesham ul Islam is an Associate Professor at National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan.

Dr. Imran Siddiqi

Job Titles:
  • Lead Data Scientist at Xynoptik Australia
Dr. Imran Siddiqi is working as Lead Data Scientist at Xynoptik Australia, specializing in Computer Vision and Large Language Models. Previously, he has served as Professor and Director of Center of Excellence in AI at Bahria University Islamabad. Dr. Iman A. Siddiqi received his degree in Computer Software Engineering in 2002 from NUST and was awarded the President of Pakistan Gold Medal. He received his Masters (2006) and PhD (2009) degrees from Paris Descartes University, France, and specializes in Image Processing and Pattern Recognition. He has been previously associated with Communications Enabling Technologies, Interactive Communications and Institute of Space Technology, Islamabad.

Dr. Raheel Nawaz

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  • Ajdunct Director
Prior to taking up his role at Staffordshire, Professor Nawaz held two substantive roles at Manchester Metropolitan University. As the Director of Business Transformations Research Centre, he led nearly 200 researchers specialising in digital transformation, analytics, industry 4.0, transforming markets and transforming places. As the Director of Digital Technology Solutions, he led Met's award-winning cross-faculty Digital Degree Apprenticeships portfolio delivering UG/PG programmes to nearly 900 apprentices from 70-plus leading technology employers. He was also the founding Head of the Apprenticeships Research Unit and the Text & Data Mining Lab at Manchester Met. Professor Nawaz is a renowned expert in industry-academia co-creation, especially for high impact work-integrated programmes such as Degree Apprenticeships. He has advised on the establishment and launch of such programmes in Spain, New Zealand, Canada and Pakistan. He has addressed the Westminster Education Policy Forum twice and has been commissioned by the QAA to systematically analyse the Degree Apprenticeships pedagogies across English universities and advise the sector on best academic practices. Professor Nawaz is also a leading researcher in Artificial Intelligence and Digital Education. He holds several adjunct professorships and scientific directorships across Asia and North America. He sits on the boards of research and charitable organisations like the National Centre for Artificial Intelligence (Pakistan), TechSkills (UK), and NTF (UK), and has advised national policy organisations including the Prime Minister's Task Force on Science and Technology (Pakistan). He has authored over 150 peer-reviewed research articles and his career grant capture stands at over £14 million. He has graduated 19 PhD students so far. According to Google Scholar, he is among the top-10 most cited scholars in the world in the fields of Digital Transformations, Applied Artificial Intelligence, and Educational Data Science. In the past, he has held senior leadership positions in the private further and higher education sector and was an army officer before that.

Dr. Usman Zia

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Assistant Professor at NUST Pakistan. His Interests Are: Machine Learning, Large Language Models and Enterprise Solutions
Dr. Usman Zia is an Assistant Professor (Adjunct) at the School of Interdisciplinary Engineering and Sciences (SINES), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan. He is also Enterprise Solution Architect for the Government of Pakistan since 2008. He has been the team lead for numerous national-level projects including the implementation of HRMS, Identity and Access Management Solutions, GIS-based Situational Awareness suite based on JC3IEDM and the National Immunization Management System (NIMS) for COVID-19. His research interests are Natural Language Processing, Language Models, and Machine Learning. He has authored numerous international publications on language generation and machine learning. He is currently PI/ CO-PI of several funded projects related to Generative AI and NLP.

Faiza Murtaza

Job Titles:
  • Optimal Controller 's Placement Inside SDN Environment Via Machine Learning Technique

Farah Saleem

Job Titles:
  • Predicting Trust Using Reputation Features

Faraz Mahmood Khakwani

Job Titles:
  • Multi - Class Prediction of Dengue Using Early Clinical, Demographic and Laboratory Data

Haider Kamal

Job Titles:
  • Replication of Learned Multi - Agent Reinforcement Learning Strategies for the "Hide and Seek" Problem

Iqra Javed

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  • Spatial - Temporal Political Event Analysis Based on Social Web / Published: NLDB 2014

Kashif Mehmood

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  • Automatic Filtration of Spams in Multi - Lingual Short Messages on Mobile and Social Media / Published: 18th ICACT / Published: 2015 NSEC

Khawir Mahmood

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  • Assistant Professor at NUST Pakistan. His Interests Are: Machine Learning, Large Language Models
Khawir Mahmood completed his MS degree in Software Engineering from National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) in 2019 with a CPGA of 4.0/4.0. He has since been teaching undergraduate courses and supervising research at the Department of Software Engineering, NUST. His research interests include Artificial Intelligence (AI), Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing. He is also a professional trainer and industry consultant in the fields of AI and Deep Learning

Komal Khalid

Job Titles:
  • Extension of Semantic Based Urdu Linguistic Resources Using Natural Language Processing Techniques / Published: 15th DASC / PiCom / DataCom / CyberSciTech

Maham Jehangir

Job Titles:
  • Enhanced Expert Systems for Medical Diagnostic Using Data Mining

Maira Ali

Job Titles:
  • towards Creation of Adversarial Attacks for Textual Data from Diverse Domains

Mansoor Ahmed Khan

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  • Efficient Algorithms for Collective Communication Operation for MPI in Java Using MPG Express

Maryam Saleem

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  • Mental Health Analysis through Social Media Using Large Language Models

Moniba Iqbal

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  • Automated User Requirements Extraction from Reddit Using Machine Learning

Muhammad Abdullah

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  • Unveiling the Dynamics of Crowdfunding Success: a Network Analysis and Machine Learning Approach to Kickstarter Technology Projects

Muhammad Mubashir

Job Titles:
  • Detection of Fake Apps through Hybrid Machine Learning and NLP Techniques

Muneeba Daud

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  • Published: Multimedia Tools and Applications

Rabia Qayyum

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  • Detection and Analysis of Mental Health Illness Using Social Media / Published: IEEE Xplore

Rahat Afza

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  • Improving Text - to - Image Generatin With Multimodal Semantic Coherence in Adversarial Training

Sajid Hussain

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  • Adverse Drug Reactions ( ADRs ) Extraction Using Transfer of Learning / Published: Compurational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine

Sartaj Aziz

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  • a Model for Entity and Relation Extraction from Biomedical Text

Sumaiya Arshad

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  • Talking Hand: Two Way Communicator for Deaf People

Sunia Malik

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  • Crime Forecasting Using Data Mining Techniques / Published: MedPRAI 2016

Syeda Hafsa Ali

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  • Generation of Textual Art Using Hybrid Learning Techniques

Talha Arshad Malik

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  • Identifying Source Printers of Documents Using Image Processing & Machine Learning

Tayyaba Mukhtar

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  • Creating an Infrastructure for Semantic Search of the Holy Quran Using English Wordnet / Published: Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering

Zafran Khan

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  • Imrprovised Hybrid Collaborative Filtering Recommender System / Published: Computer Communications ( Elsevier ) Published: Neurocomputing ( Elsevier )