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Dr. Nayyer Masood

PROFESSOR
PROFILE SUMMARY

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
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
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


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