Dr. Nayyer Masood

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

SR.	JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS	YEAR
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
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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