Dr. Saman Shahid
Professor
PhD Approved Supervisor
saman.shahid@nu.edu.pk
(042) 111-128-128 Ext:206
Education
- PhD (Environmental Science), PU, Lahore (2015)
- MPhil (Physics), GCU, Lahore (2003)
- MSc (Physics), GCU, Lahore (1999)
Profile
She is the head of the Environment & Health Data Science (EH-DS) Research Laboratory. The following are the main objectives of her research lab:
(i) AI health-specific goals: environmental health, precision medicine, disease diagnosis, treatment & prognosis, clinical decision support for physicians, public health management, and digital health platforms, medical image processing
(ii) data sciences for environment & sustainability: risk assessment, ESG (environmental, social, and governance) reporting, environmental monitoring, climate change modeling, water management, environment-friendly resource management, natural hazards, and air pollution.
She has published 112 research articles in national & international journals/conferences and repositories. Her current impact factor is 132.2. She is also a peer reviewer and editorial board member of some local and international journals. She has been a keynote speaker at various national/international conferences.
Her areas of interest are: Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Medicine & Environment, Sustainablity for Business & Governance, Medical/Health Physics, Environmental Health, and Bioinformatics.
Mission of her Lab: The laboratory's mission is to apply data science and sophisticated analytical approaches to key challenges at the confluence of the environment and human health. The research lab provides internship opportunities to graduate and undergraduate students under the supervision of our collaborators (such as SUPARCO). We are focusing on addressing the following Sustainable Development Goals: SDG#3 (Good health & wellbeing), SDG#11 (Sustainable cities & communities), and SDG#13 (Climate action).
Current Projects: The lab is currently working on health impacts (e.g., lung cancer, Dengue) from the climate change, computational neurosciences (e.g., mapping of gut-brain axis), environmentally friendly materials (e.g., from waste rubber), monitoring of air pollutants from real time devices, use of AI in hydrology, sustainable strategies to reduce noise pollution, climate change from flooding, and hydrographs of Baluchistan rivers from ML, and Agentic AI for robotic surgeries.
Scientific Events conducted by research lab:
- 2023. IEEE Symposium on Eco-Intelligence (IEEE-EI) in collaboration with IEEE, WWF, European Union (EU) and International Labor Organization (ILO).
- 2024. Workshop on “The Implementation of MLOps” was conducted with the collaboration of Arbisoft.
- 2024. Webinar on: Monitoring Atmosphere was organized in collaboration with SUPARCO, Lahore
- 24th June – 31st August 2024. Summer Internship Program, EH-DS Lab, NUCES FAST Lahore Campus
- 2024. Webinar on “Sustainable Agriculture & Water Management” in collaboration with IWMI.
- 2025. Workshop on “Data Science for Environment & Sustainability”. Speakers from LUMS, SUPARCO & TenX AI.
- 2025. Guest Speaker Session on “Sustainable Business Strategies”. Speakers: Waseem Irshad (Tangent Tech.) & Carlotta Dentico. @NUCES Lahore Campus
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