
PROFILE SUMMARY
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Dr. Masood completed his PhD degree in Multidatabases from the University of Bradford, U.K., in 1999. Prior to that he did his MSc Computer Science from Qauid-i-Azam University, Islamabad in 1988 and joined BZU Multan as lecturer. Since then, he has been serving in different universities and for last 17 years he has been serving at CUST; for most part of this tenure, he has been working as head of CS department. Dr. Masood research interests are in Databases and Data Science. He has supervised numerous MS and PhD research projects. He authored 30+ research papers and his ISI research impact factor is 30+. He is a professional member of ACM, moreover, he is also member of core committee of computing council of HEC. He is currently coordinating his second EU-funded project titled SAFE-RH (www.safe-rh.eu) that targets to provide remote health services to the rural areas of Pakistan. Dr. Masood has also recorded 3 courses with Virtual University of Pakistan.
QUALIFICATION | |||
PhD | Computer Science | University of Bradford, UK | 1999 |
MSc | Computer Science | Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad | 1988 |
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE Professor Capital University of Science and Technology (CUST), Islamabad Since – 2015 Associate Professor Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad 2007 – 2015 Associate Professor Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan 2005 – 2007 Associate Professor COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah Campus 2003 – 2005 Assistant Professor Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan 2000 – 2003 Associate Professor Barani Institute of Information Technology, Rawalpindi 1999 – 2000 Assistant Professor Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan 1988 – 1999
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MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE Dean ORIC, Capital University of Science and Technology (CUST), Islamabad Since – 2024 HoD Capital University of Science and Technology (CUST), Islamabad 2015 – 2022 HoD Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad 2007 – 2015 HoD COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah Campus 2003 – 2005 Director COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah Campus 2005 – 2005 HoD Barani Institute of Information Technology, Rawalpindi 2000 – 2001
MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES | |||
ACM | Professional Member of ACM (No:1645200) | ||
NCEAC | Member of General Council (GC) and Accreditation Standards Committee (ASC) of National Computing Education Accreditation Council of HEC |
RESEARCH AREAS / INTERESTS | |||
1. | Multidatabase Systems | ||
2. | Schema Integration | ||
3. | Data Science | ||
4. | Remote Health Monitoring |
RESEARCH SUPERVISION | |||
1 | PhD | Predicting Scientific Impact of Authors | |
2 | PhD | A Framework for Mining Emerging Trends in Web Clickstreams with Particle Swarm Optimization | |
3 | PhD | Impact of Field of Study Trend on Citation Count of Scientific Articles and Authors | |
4 | PhD | Context Driven Aspect based Citation Sentiment Analysis | |
5 | MS | Stroke Prediction by Deploying Predictive Models on Fog Devices | |
6 | MS | Application Of Attribute-Based Encryption in Fog Infrastructure for Securing Health Related Data | |
7 | MS | Handling Class Imbalance Data using Class Label Prediction | |
8 | MS | Student Performance Prediction By Using Cluster Analysis | |
9 | MS | An Analysis of Students’ Response on Virtual Learning Environment Adopted due to COVID-19 (under progress) | |
10 | MS | Schema Extraction and Integration of Tabular Data from Multiple Web Sources | |
11 | MS | Schema Merging based on Contextual Schema Matching | |
12 | MS | Student Retention in Higher Learning Institutions | |
13 | MS | Schema Extraction of Linked Web Tables | |
14 | MS | Student Performance Prediction and Teacher Recommender System | |
15 | MS | Schema Extraction and Integration of List Data from Multiple Web Sources |
SR. | JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS | YEAR |
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1 | S. F. Ali and N. Masood, “Evaluation of adjective and adverb types for effective twitter sentiment classification,” Plos one, vol. 19, no. 5, p. e0302423, 2024. | 2024 |
2 | S. Ahmed, S. Irfan, N. Kiran, N. Masood, N. Anjum, and N. Ramzan, “Remote health monitoring systems for elderly people: a survey,” Sensors, vol. 23, no. 16, p. 7095, 2023. | 2023 |
3 | L. Zafar, N. Masood, and S. Ayaz, “Impact of field of study (fos) on authors’ citation trend,” Scientometrics, vol. 128, no. 4, pp. 2557–2576, 2023. | 2023 |
4 | S. Fida, N. Masood, N. Tariq, and F. Qayyum, “A novel hybrid ensemble clustering technique for student performance prediction,” Journal of Universal Computer Science, vol. 28, no. 8, p. 777, 2022. | 2022 |
5 | S. Hussain, M. S. I. Malik, and N. Masood, “Identification of offensive language in urdu using semantic and embedding models,” PeerJ Computer Science, vol. 8, p. e1169, 2022. | 2022 |
6 | S. Irfan, N. Anjum, N. Masood, A. S. Khattak, and N. Ramzan, “A novel hybrid deep learning model for human activity recognition based on transitional activities,” Sensors, vol. 21, no. 24, p. 8227, 2021. | 2021 |
7 | L. Zafar and N. Masood, “Impact of field of study trend on scientific articles,” IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 128 295–128 307, 2020. | 2020 |
8 | S. Ayaz and N. Masood, “Comparison of researchers’ impact indices,” PLoS One, vol. 15, no. 5, p. e0233765, 2020. | 2020 |
9 | S. Maqsood, M. A. Islam, M. T. Afzal, and N. Masood, “A comprehensive author ranking evaluation of network and bibliographic indices,” Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 31–45, 2020. | 2020 |
10 | K. Shaukat, N. Masood, and M. Khushi, “A novel approach to data extraction on hyperlinked webpages,” Applied Sciences, vol. 9, no. 23, p. 5102, 2019. | 2019 |
11 | A. Munir, S. Elahi, and N. Masood, “Clustering based drug-drug interaction networks for possible repositioning of drugs against egfr mutations: Clustering based ddi networks for egfr mutations,” Computational biology and chemistry, vol. 75, pp. 24–31, 2018. | 2018 |
12 | S. Ayaz, N. Masood, and M. A. Islam, “Predicting scientific impact based on h-index,” Scientometrics, vol. 114, pp. 993–1010, 2018. | 2018 |
13 | N. Masood, A. Bibi, and M. A. Islam, “Schema integration of web tables (siwet),” Sukkur IBA Journal of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 57–65, 2017. | 2017 |
14 | K. Shaukat, N. Masood, S. Mehreen, and U. Azmeen, “Dengue fever prediction: A data mining problem,” Journal of Data Mining in Genomics & Proteomics, vol. 2015, pp. 1–5, 2015. | 2015 |
15 | G. Jabeen and N. Masood, “Tuned schema merging (tusme),” in 2011 5th International Conference on Software, Knowledge Information, Industrial Management and Applications (SKIMA) Proceedings. IEEE, 2011, pp. 1–7. | 2011 |
16 | N. Masood, “A schema comparison approach to determine semantic similarity among schema elements,” Information Technology Journal, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 57–68, 2004. | 2004 |
17 | N. Masood, “Shallow and deep semantic similarity among schema elements.”, J. Research (Sc.), No: 2, Pages: 213-223, 2003. | 2003 |
18 | N. Masood and B. Eaglestone, “Component and federation concept models in a federated database system,” Malaysian Journal of Computer Science, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 47–57, 2003. | 2003 |
19 | N. Masood, “Semantic Heterogeneities: An Impedance to the Interoperability among Databases”, Karachi University Journal of Science, University of Karachi, Pages: 79-92, 2001. | 2001 |
20 | N. Masood, “Schema Interpretation”, Gomal University Journal of Research, Pages: 117-130, 1999. | 1999 |
SR. | CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS | YEAR |
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1 | A. Ashfaq, N. Anjum, S. Ahmed, and N. Masood, “Hybrid deep learning model for ecg-based arrhythmia detection,” in 2022 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT). IEEE, 2022, pp. 278–283. 2022 | 2022 |
2 | N. Masood, “Ksd an efficient algorithm for association rule mining,” complexity, vol. 14, no. 5, 2016. 2016 | 2016 |
3 | K. Shaukat, N. Masood, S. Mehreen, F. Haider, A. Bakar, and U. Shaukat, “Population of data in web-tables schema,” in 2016 19th International Multi-Topic Conference (INMIC). IEEE, 2016, pp. 1–6. 2016 | 2016 |
4 | N. Masood and N. Andleeb, “A taxonomy of changes in schema evolution,” in 2014 International Conference on Computational Science and Technology (ICCST). IEEE, 2014, pp. 1–6. | 2014 |
5 | G. A. Mirza, N. Masood, S. Asghar, “Formal Representation and Resolution of Null Value Conflict in Database Integration”, 2nd IEEE Conference on Computer and Management, Pages: 1527-1533, 2012. | 2012 |
6 | G. Jabeen and N. Masood, “Tuned schema merging (tusme),” in 2011 5th International Conference on Software, Knowledge Information, Industrial Management and Applications (SKIMA) Proceedings. IEEE, 2011, pp. 1–7. | 2011 |
7 | T. Hussain, S. Asghar, and N. Masood, “Web usage mining: A survey on preprocessing of web log file,” in 2010 International Conference on Information and Emerging Technologies. IEEE, 2010, pp. 1–6. | 2010 |
8 | G. A. Mirza, N. Masood, and S. Asghar, “A survey of data level conflicts in database integration,” SKIMA 2010, p. 2, 2010. | 2010 |
9 | N. M. Dar and N. Zahra, “Generic metadata repository for a data warehouse,” in 2009 IEEE 13th International Multitopic Conference. IEEE, 2009, pp. 1–6. | 2009 |
10 | N. Masood and O. Iqbal, “Conceptual and context based combination of schema matchers,” in 2008 4th International Conference on Emerging Technologies. IEEE, 2008, pp. 269–274. | 2008 |
11 | N. Masood, O. Iqbal, M. Iqbal, “Architecture of a Virtual Mass Storage System”, MASSG 06, 2006. | 2006 |
12 | N. Masood, M. M. Junaid, M. F. Khan, O. Iqbal, M. Iqbal, “An Architectural Survey of Online Virtual Data Stores”, 1st International Conference on Contemporary Issues in Information Technology (INIT 05) in OIC states, 2005. | 2005 |
13 | N. Masood, M. Junaid, H. Khan, O. Iqbal, and M. Iqbal, “Virtual mass storage systems,” in 2 nd International Workshop on Frontiers of Information Technology, 2004. | 2004 |
14 | N. Masood, B. Eaglestone, “The Use of Ontologies for verifiable Information System Integration” , Proceedings of International EUOROVAV’99 Conference, 1999. | 1999 |
15 | N. Masood and B. Eaglestone, “Semantics based schema analysis,” in Database and Expert Systems Applications: 9th International Conference, DEXA’98 Vienna, Austria, August 24–28, 1998 Proceedings 9. Springer, 1998, pp. 80–89. | 1998 |
16 | B. Eaglestone and N. Masood, “Schema interpretation: An aid to the schema analysis in federated database design.” in EFDBS. Citeseer, 1997, pp. 1–12. | 1997 |
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