Best Paper Award
For “Workflow Enactment Engine Independent Provenance Recording for e-Science Infrastructure” at the 4th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, Nice, France, 2010.
Awards & Advisory
Selected awards, fellowships, supervision, institutional service, editorial work, reviewing, and conference committee activity.
Honors and awards
Ernst Mach Postdoctoral Fellowship
Awarded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy, 2017.
HEC Post-Doctoral Fellowship
HEC Post-Doctoral Fellowships, Phase III, Batch I scholarship award, 2020.
HEC Overseas Scholarship
Higher Education Commission of Pakistan open merit scholarship for Ph.D. study under the HEC Overseas Scholarships Scheme.
Advisory and institutional service
Supervision and academic advising
- Approved Ph.D. Supervisor, Higher Education Commission of Pakistan.
- Academic Advisor, undergraduate students, KFUPM.
- Member, Graduate Committee, KFUPM.
- Member, Ph.D. Proposal Evaluation Committee, KFUPM.
- Member, MS Thesis Evaluation Committee, KFUPM.
University and external service
- Member, ABET Accreditation Committee, Software Engineering, KFUPM.
- Member, Selection Board, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar.
- Member, Departmental Tenure Review Committee, IMSciences and The University of Agriculture, Peshawar.
- External Examiner for Ph.D. theses at National Textile University Faisalabad, University of Management and Technology Lahore, and FAST National University Islamabad.
- Member, Board of Advanced Studies and Research, Institute of Management Sciences, Peshawar.
Editorial and reviewing services
Contributing to peer review and scholarly quality.
Academic editor: PLOS ONE, Q2 (WoS).
- Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer
- Computers and Electrical Engineering, Elsevier
- Grid Computing, Springer
- Sustainable Cities and Society, Elsevier
- Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier
- Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, Springer
Conference program committees
International conference service.
- ARTIIS 2023, Madrid, Spain
- ICITA 2022, Lisbon, Portugal
- EUSPN 2021, Leuven, Belgium
- IKIT 2021
- ARTIIS 2021, online
- EUSPN 2020, Madeira, Portugal
- EUSPN 2019, Coimbra, Portugal
- CAA 2015, University of Siena, Italy
- FIT 2013, Islamabad, Pakistan