2021–Present
Associate Professor
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals · Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Teaching, research, student supervision, academic advising, funded projects, and university service.
Experience & Teaching
A consolidated view of academic appointments, education, administrative roles, courses, supervision, and student mentorship.
Academic experience
2023–Present
Professor, on leave
Institute of Management Sciences · Peshawar, Pakistan
Teaching, curriculum development, research, academic leadership, and mentorship.
2011–2021
Assistant Professor to Associate Professor
Institute of Management Sciences · Peshawar, Pakistan
Progressive academic roles spanning teaching, scholarly activity, supervision, and program development.
2019–2020
Postdoctoral Researcher
Incheon National University · Incheon, Korea
Research on the role of provenance in securing IoT, supported by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan.
2017
Postdoctoral Researcher
Vienna University of Technology · Vienna, Austria
Research on the role of AI in healthcare, supported by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy.
2007–2010
Ph.D. in Computer Science
University of Vienna · Vienna, Austria
Thesis: Provenance Framework for Scientific Workflows.
2003–2005
MSc in Computer Science
Quaid-e-Azam University · Islamabad, Pakistan
Administrative roles
Academic program leadership and governance.
Program Director, BS Software Engineering
Academic standards, program assessment, regulations, course oversight, and HEC-aligned program review.
Program Director, BS Data Science
Program coordination, academic quality, curriculum development, and student progression.
Program Director, BS Computer Science
Program leadership, teaching coordination, and academic administration.
Course portfolio
Courses across computing and information systems.
Graduate courses
- Information Assurance and Security
- Wireless Networks Security
- Distributed Systems
- Cloud Application Engineering
- Software Metrics
- Research Methodology
Undergraduate courses
- Information Security
- Cryptography & Blockchain Applications
- Data Structures and Algorithms
- Machine Learning
- Introduction to Data Science
- Programming using Python
Student mentorship
Research supervision turns ideas into questions, experiments, technical solutions, and clear presentations.
Multiple Ph.D. students have been supervised and graduated successfully. I also supervise undergraduate Final Year Projects and capstone projects.
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