FSC News and Events

A paper titled "Construction and Validation of Early Software Size Estimation Models Based on ADAF-Adjusted ACD Metrics", by Ms. Mariam Daud (PhD candidate) and her advisor Dr. Ali Afzal Malik has been accepted for publication in the prestigious Computer Journal (IF = 1.494).

Paper titled " Metaheuristics based COVID-19 Detection using Medical Images: A Review  " authored by Mamoona Riaz (MS student), Dr. Maryam Bashir (CS faculty member), and Dr. Irfan Younas (CS faculty member) has been accepted for publication in prestigious journal "Computers in Biology and Medicine" by Elsevier, having impact factor of 4.58 and W category by HEC.

Paper titled "Lures for Money: A First Look into Youtube Videos Promoting Money-Making Apps" by Ms. Noshaba Nasir has been accepted for presentation at 17th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS2022), which is a Core A ranked conference. This research is a collaboration with Dr. Mobin Javed, SIA Lab, LUMS.

Paper titled "Computerization of Off-Topic Essay Detection: A possibility?" authored by Areeba Shahzad (MS student) and Dr. Aamir Wali (CS faculty member) has been accepted for publication in "Education and Information Technologies" journal by Springer Nature, having impact factor 2.9. This publication is an outcome of research conducted by Ms. Areeba as part of her MS dissertation, supervised by Dr. Aamir Wali. The paper can be accessed online.

Ms. Farwa Khan, MS Student at FAST School of Computing, along with their MS Thesis supervisor, Dr. Zareen Alamgir, have their research work accepted to be published at RecSys2021. RecSys is one of the most prestigious conferences in the area of Recommender systems. The work is titled as "A Payload Optimization Method for Federated Recommender Systems". The work has been done in collaboration with a team of researches from Finland …

The FAST School of Computing is pleased to announce the promotion of Dr. Irfan Younas to Associate Professor. He has a bachelor's degree from NUST and a Ph.D. degree from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. Dr. Irfan is leading the Optimization and Data Science (OptiMi'nDS) research group. His research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, Evolutionary Computation, Evolutionary Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and …

Mr. Ghazanfer Abbas, alumni at the Department of Computer Science, along with his MS thesis supervisor, Dr. Kashif Zafar, have their research article accepted to be published in the prestigious international journal, Forensic Science International [IF: 1.851]. The work has been done in collaboration with KICS-UET.  

Mr. Afzal Hussain, a PhD scholar at the Department of Computer Science, along with his PhD supervisor, Dr. Kashif Zafar, published their research article in the prestigious international journal, IEEE Access [IF: 3.745]. The paper is titled "Fog-Centric IoT Based Framework for Healthcare Monitoring, Management and Early Warning System".  

Mr. Javed Zahoor has successfully defended his PhD dissertation held in FAST-NUCES, Lahore on May 28, 2021 and has qualified for the award of doctorate degree. He is the 10th PhD of Department of Computer Science, FAST-NUCES, Lahore. He has completed his research titled "Ensemble based Classification of Microarray Gene-Expression Data Using Computational Intelligence Techniques" under the supervision of Dr. Kashif Zafar. Examiners included Dr. Usman Ghani Khan (Associate Professor …

Ms. Marriam Daud, a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science, along with her PhD supervisor, Dr. Ali Afzal Malik, have their research article accepted to be published in the prestigious international journal, IEEE Access, which now has an impact factor of 3.745. The paper is titled: "Improving the Accuracy of Early Software Size Estimation using Analysis-to-Design Adjustment Factors (ADAFs)".  

A paper co-authored by Dr. Zareen, Dr. Habib and PhD candidate Shakeel Zafar, titled "An Effective Blockchain Evaluation System based on Entropy - CRITIC weight method and MCDM techniques" has been accepted to be published in Springer journal Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications with an impact factor of 2.793.

Mr. Qamar Askari has successfully defended his PhD dissertation held in FAST-NUCES, Lahore on March 5, 2021 and has qualified for the award of doctorate degree. He is the 9th PhD of Department of Computer Science, FAST-NUCES, Lahore. He has completed his research titled "Socio-Nature Inspired Meta-heuristics for Global Optimization" under the supervision of Dr. Mehreen Saeed and Dr. Irfan Younas. Local examiners were Dr. Usman Ghani Khan (Associate Professor …

Final year project titled "Intracranial Brain Haemorrhage Segmentation and Classification " has been accepted at the iKSP Journal of Computer Science and Engineering (iJCSE), vol. 1, issue 2, 2021. The  students of batch '17 are currently working on this project under the supervision of Dr. Aamir Wali. The names of the students are: Raima Imran, Noorish Hassan, Rishwan Tariq, Laraib Amjad.

MS student at CS department of FAST-NUCES Lahore campus Ms. Arfa Hussain's work "Rumor Detection Based on Temporal Dimensions" has been accepted in International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI-2021). The work was supervised by Dr. Saira Karim. 

Areeb Waseem, MS(DS) student of FAST School of Computing, has become the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner after passing the exam. Areeb is currently enrolled in Cloud Computing course being taught by Dr. Muhammad Usman Awais.  

Two students of FAST School of Computing Lahore, Sabeeh Saeed and Muhammad Shahriyar, involved in the M-Labs Fellowship program and Rookie Game Jam 2020, have secured second position overall in the program.  Over 700 participants all over Pakistan had applied for the program and only 40 students were able to complete the program. The program was offered in September-October 2020 with prize money and giveaways worth PK 1 million …

Mr. Qamar Askari, a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science, along with his PhD supervisor, Dr. Irfan Younas published their research article in the prestigious international journal, Nueral Processing Letters (Impact Factor: 2.891). The paper is titled "Political Optimizer Based Feedforward Neural Network for Classification and Function Approximation". 

Spring 2021 admissions are now open in PhD(CS) program offered by FAST School of Computing. Eligibility Criteria can be found at NUCES website. Following are important dates in the admission process. Last Date to Apply: December 31, 2020 Admission Test Date: January 6, 2021 Interviews of Selected Candidates: January 11, 2021 Application forms can be found at: admissions.nu.edu.pk    

A paper by Dr. Muhammad Usman Awais titled "DevOps in Pakistani Software Industry" has been accepted to be presented in 14th International Conference on Open Source Systems and Technologies (ICOSST'20).  The conference will take place in UET Lahore from 16-17 December, 2020.       

Research article of Dr. Nosheen Qamar and Dr. Ali Afzal Malik has been accepted to be published in prestigious international journal, Computing and Informatics. The paper is titled "Determining the Relative Importance of Personality Traits in Influencing Software Quality and Team Productivity".   

Mr. Ibrahim Nadir and Dr. Taimur Bakhshi, along with their undergraduate students, have recently published a conference paper on the security of wireless sensor networks with the title "Towards Dynamic Hash-Based Key Establishment in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networking Nodes". The article was submitted to the 23rd IEEE International Multi-topic Conference 2020.  

MS student at CS department of FAST-NUCES Lahore campus Mohsin Qurban and Muhammad Bilal have presented their paper at the 23rd International Multitopic Conference (INMIC 2020) that was held on November 5-7, 2020. The paper is titled "Knowledge of Softwaare Design Patterns in Educational Institutes of Pakistan". The paper was co-authored by Dr. Wafa Basit. 

Ms. Nosheen Qamar has successfully defended her PhD dissertation held in FAST-NUCES, Lahore on November 3, 2020 and has qualified for the award of doctorate degree. She is the 8th PhD of Department of Computer Science, FAST-NUCES, Lahore. She has completed his research titled "Quantification of Team Homogeneity & Analysis of its Impact on Software Quality and Team Productivity" under the supervision of Dr. Ali Afzal Malik. Local examiners were …

Mr. Farooq Ahmad, a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science, along with his PhD supervisor, Dr. Haroon Mahmood and co-author Dr. Yasir, published their research article in the prestigious international journal, International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing. The paper is titled "Mobility Modeling for Urban Traffic Surveillance by a Team of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles". 

Mr. Muhammad Usman Khan, a faculty member at the Department of Computer Science, published his research article in the prestigious international journal, Scientific Reports- Nature. The journal has an impact factor of 3.998 and HEC has categorized the journal as Platinum (W Category). The paper is titled "Towards Image-based Cancer Cell Lines Authentication Using Deep Neural Networks"  

Uzman Perwaiz, a MS student at the Department of Computer Science, along with his supervisor, Dr. Irfan Younas, published their research article in the prestigious international journal, Plos one, which now has an impact factor of 2.74.The paper is titled: "Many-objective BAT algorithm".

Mr. Qamar Askari, a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science, along with his PhD supervisor, Dr. Mehreen Saeed and Dr. Irfan Younas, published their research article in the prestigious international journal, Expert Systems with Applications, which has an impact factor of 5.45. The paper is titled "Heap-based optimizer inspired by corporate rank hierarchy for global optimization".    The paper can be found at the link: https …

Mr. Qamar Askari, a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science, along with his PhD supervisor, Dr. Mehreen Saeed and Dr. Irfan Younas, presented their research article in the Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) Companion, which is an A rank conference. The paper is titled "Critical Evaluation of sine cosine algorithm and a few recommendations". The paper can be found at the link:  https …

Javed Zahoor, a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science, along with his PhD supervisor, Dr. Kashif Zafar, published their research article in the prestigious international journal, Genes, which now has an impact factor of 3.76. The paper is titled: "Classification of Microarray gene expression data using infiltration tactics optimization (ITO) algorithm".

Dr. Aasim Ali has successfully defended his PhD dissertation held in FAST-NUCES, Lahore on June 22, 2020 and has qualified for the award of doctorate degree. He is the 7th PhD of Department of Computer Science, FAST-NUCES, Lahore. He has completed his research titled “Improving Statistical Machine Translation for English-to-Urdu Pair using Morphological and Syntactic Information”, under the supervision of Dr. Usman Shahid and Dr. Kashif Zafar. The examiners included …

MS student at CS department of FAST-NUCES Lahore campus Huda Tariq and Maliha Arshad have presented their paper at the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Advancements in Computational Sciences (ICACS 2020). The paper titled "Effects of Refactoring upon Efficiency of an NP-Hard Task Assignment Problem: A case study". The paper was co-authored by Dr. Wafa Basit. The goal of this paper was to analyze the effects of refactoring on time …

CS Faculty Member, Dr. Usman Awais has become AWS Cloud Ambassador. The next generation of IT products are going to be cloud native. The revolution is already underway. Although, Pakistani institutes lag behind a little, but again FAST takes the lead. One of the faculty members at FAST Dr. M. Usman Awais has become a faculty ambassador for AWS. At the following link, (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/aws-students-fast-muhammad-usman-awais/) he …

A team of students from Batch '17 FAST-NUCES, Lahore has taken an initiative to provide the analysis of the situation in Pakistan during the COVID-19 epidemic. Corona 92 is a student-led initiative that aims to provide statistical analysis on the outbreak of the raging COVID-19 in the country, through live data capture. They're constantly striving to attain newer and the most effective strategies for preventing it from spreading any …

A paper authored by Mr Ibrahim Nadir and Dr. Haroon, in collaboration with UET-KICS, has been accepted at IEEE International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security. The paper is titled "Identifying Mirai-Exploitable Vulnerabilities in IoT Firmware Through Static Analysis". The conference will be held in Islamabad between September 29 - October 1.

Muhammad Badar-ud-din (CS Student of Batch 16) has been declared one of the winners of IEEE Xplore Challenge for Researchers in Pakistan. Badar has been declared 7th in the overall competition and is the only FASTian to have won the challenge. The IEEE Xplore Challenge for Researchers in Pakistan is a new initiative designed specifically to promote scientific excellence in research across Pakistan. The competition is designed to inspire innovation …

Qamar Askari, a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science, along with his PhD supervisors, Dr. Mehreen Saeed and Dr. Irfan Younas, published their research article in the high impact factor prestigious journal, Knowledge-Based Systems (impact factor: 5.101). As per HEC criteria for ranking, this Journal is categorized as Platinum. The paper can be seen at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0950705120301350

MS-SPM student at CS department of FAST-NUCES Lahore campus Humaira Aslam Chughtai has presented her paper at the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Advancements in Computational Sciences (ICACS 2020) earlier this week and has won the Best Paper Award for her paper titled "People Profile Metrics for Improved Classification of Defect-Prone Files in Open Source Projects". The paper was part of MS Thesis work of Humaira and was co-authored by …

Two BS(CS) students of FAST-NUCES, Lahore, Raja Asim and Muaz Maqbool, with co-authors Dr. Usman Shahid and Dr. Mehreen Saeed, have won the best paper award at 2019 International Workshop on Signal Processing and Machine Learning (WSPML). The workshop was held in Bangkok, Thailand from December 12 - 14. The paper is titled: "Classifying Alcoholics and Control Patients Using Deep Learning and Peak Visualizatiion Method"

Mr. Roy Andersen (Principal, Kingston College, Lahore) visited Dr. Ali's office today. He briefed the HOD about his career, books, and achievements as an educationist working for the past 40 years. He also offered to give a talk to CS faculty that will help them in improving their teaching skills.

Research work authored by Adeem Ali Anwar and Dr. Irfan Younas titled "Optimization of Many Objective Pickup and Delivery Problem with Delay Time of Vehicle using Memetic Decomposition Based Evolutionary Algorithm", has been accepted in an impact factor journal "International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools"

Research work authored by Dr. Taimur Bakhshi titled Securing Internet of Bio-Nano Things: ML-Enabled Parameter Profiling of Bio-Cyber Interfaces, and Exploring Blockchain-Secured Data Validation in Smart Meter Readings, has been accepted for presentation and publication in IEEE INMIC 2019, to be held at Islamabad, Pakistan in November 2019. INMIC 2019 is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Islamabad Section, Higher Education Commission (HEC) and FAST NUCES.

Research work authored by Dr. Taimur Bakhshi titled On Nature-Inspired Dynamic Route Planning: Hammerhead Shark Optimization Algorithm, and MOS-Enabled VoIP provisioning in Campus Software Defined Networking, has been accepted for presentation and publication in IEEE ICET 2019, to be held at Peshawar, Pakistan in December 2019. ICET 2019 is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Peshawar Section, Higher Education Commission (HEC) and FAST NUCES.

Research work authored by Dr. Taimur Bakhshi Forensic of Things: Revisiting Digital Forensic Investigations in Internet of Things, has been accepted for presentation and publication in IEEE ICEEST 2019, to be held at Karachi, Pakistan in December 2019. ICEEST 2019 is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Karachi Section, Higher Education Commission (HEC) and Iqra University, Karachi, Pakistan.

Final year project titled "An Efficient Cloud-Based Traffic Signal Manipulation Algorithm for Path Clearance" has been accepted at the International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies (IJDST) vol. 11, issue 2, 2020. The journal is HEC-Recognized and indexed in Web of Science Master Journal List. This project was completed by students of batch '14 under the supervision of Dr. Aamir Wali. The names of the students are: Samreen Fatima, Khansa …

Dr. Aamir Wali has successfully defended his PhD dissertation held in FAST-NUCES, Lahore on November 14, 2019 and has qualified for the award of doctorate degree. He is the 6th PhD of Department of Computer Science, FAST-NUCES, Lahore. He has completed his research titled “Cellular Automata Learning and Prediction Model for Handwritten Pattern Recognition”, under the supervision of Dr. Mehreen Saeed. The examiners included Dr. Muhammad Usman Ghani (Associate Professor …

ICPC - Asia Regional was held in GIKI on Nov 1 - 3. ICPC programming competition is considered to be the world cup of programming competition. 70 teams from all over Pakistan participated in the highly competitive competition. Team MAJORS ( comprising of Syed Saqib (16L-4251), Obaid-ur-Rehman (16-4062), and Ahsan Naveed (16-4244)) from FAST-NUCES, Lahore achieved 6th position in the competition.

Research work authored by Mr. Hafiz Asadul Rehman has been accepted in "International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence". The work was done under the supervision of Dr. Irfan Younas and was co-authored by Dr. Maryam Bashir and Dr. Muhammad Iqbal. The paper is titled : "Learning Regular Expressions using XCS-based Classifier System"

Research work authored by Shahzad Ali and Dr. Zeeshan Ali Rana titled "Evaluating the Performance of Software Defect Models Using Area Under Precision-Recall Curve (AUC-PR)", has been published in 2nd International Conference on Advancements in Computational Sciences (ICACS 2019). The details of the publication are given as follows: Shahzad Ali, Zeeshan Ali Rana, Evaluating the Performance of Software Defect Models Using Area Under Precision-Recall Curve (AUC-PR), In Proceedings of the …

Faculty members of CS Department, Dr. Aamir Wali and Dr. Mehreen Saeed published their research work titled "m-CALP - Yet another way of generating handwritten data through evolution for pattern recognition" at the Journal Biosystems. The journal has an impact factor of 1.46. The paper is available at here.

Dr. Zareen presented her research works in World Conference on Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship held in Istanbul on 21-23 June 2019. It is a prestigious conference organized by the Istanbul University under the auspices of the Republic of Turkey Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology. This interdisciplinary conference provides a platform to discuss and present latest technological developments and reforms for Innovative Entrepreneurship. Further details can be found at here …

Final year project titled "Dynamic Cloud Resource Allocation" has been accepted at the International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies (ICICT) 2019. This conference will be held from 16-17 November 2019 at IBA Karachi. This project was completed by students of batch '15 under the supervision of Dr. Aamir Wali. The names of the students are: Abu Bakr Sohail, Abdullah Asad, Saad Sultan, and Suleman Khalid.

Research work authored by Dr. Taimur Bakhshi titled Securing Software Defined Networks: On Feasibility of Network Behaviour Profiling, has been accepted for presentation and publication in IEEE INTELLECT 2019, to be held at Karachi, Pakistan in November 2019. INTELLECT 2019 is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Karachi Section and Higher Education Commission (HEC). The conference will be addressing the latest research directions in the field of Microelectronics, Information Processing, Communications …

Dr. Taimur Bakhshi in collaboration with fellow researchers at universities in UK, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, has published research work titled Using Burstiness for Network Applications Classification in the Journal of Computer Networks & Communications (https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/5758437). The paper proposes a novel flow statistical-based set of features that can be used for classifying applications by leveraging machine learning algorithms to yield high accuracy, and greater …

Nosheen Qamar, a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science, along with her PhD supervisor, Dr. Ali Afzal Malik, published their research article in the prestigious international journal, IEEE Access, which now has an impact factor of 4.098. The paper is titled: "Birds of a Feather Gel Together: Impact of Team Homogeneity on Software Quality and Team Productivity". Full paper can be downloaded from the link given below …

The CS department is pleased to announce the promotion of Dr Aamir Shafi to Associate Professor. He joined the CS department on 1st August 2018 and has a bachelor's degree in Software Engineering from NUST and a Ph.D. degree, specializing in High Performance Computing, from the University of Portsmouth, UK. He was also a Visiting Scientist at MIT, USA.

Dr. Ali Afzal Malik (Assistant Professor and Head, CS Department, Lahore campus) has become a Senior Member of IEEE in February 2019. Elevation to this senior membership grade of IEEE requires, among other things, professional practice of at least 10 years with proof of significant performance for the period of at least 5 years. IEEE is the world's largest technical professional organization with IEEE Computer Society as its largest …