PROFILE SUMMARY

Dr. Qamar Mahmood received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad in 2019. His research interests include Ontology Engineering, Text Mining, Cyber Security, and Cryptography. He has published his work in different journals and conferences of international repute. He is also working as MS Thesis Coordinator for Computer Science department. Dr. Qamar Mahmood has also received M.Sc. Computer Engineering degree in 2006 from Center of Advanced Studies in Engineering (CASE) affiliated with University of Engineering & Technology, Taxila. Before that he earned M.Sc. Computer Science degree in 2000 from Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad. He has 20 years of Academic Experience (Teaching, Project Supervision and Academic Administration). Beside that he has also 4 years of industry experience in software development, operational management and information security management in IT healthcare-based environment. Beside teaching, final year project, and MS Thesis supervision, he is also working as Internship Coordinator for Computer Science department.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor	Capital University of Science and Technology (CUST), Islamabad	Since – 2015
Assistant Professor	Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad	2012 – 2015
Assistant Professor	Pir Mehr Ali Shah (PMAS) Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi.	2005 – 2012
Lecturer	Pir Mehr Ali Shah (PMAS) Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi.	2001 – 2005

INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE
Lead Software Engineer (Information Security)	Medical Transcription Billing Company (MTBC) Pvt	2009 – 2010
Lead Software Engineer (HL7 Interfacing)	Medical Transcription Billing Company (MTBC) Pvt	2006 – 2009

HONORS & AWARDS
1.	Recieved a certificate of participation for attending two days NTFS-Forenic Analysis workshop conducted by Cyber secure pakistan at Marriott Islamabad.
2.	Awarded CPD points for a research paper presented in 5th World Engineering Congress (WEC 2013) at NUST.

RESEARCH AREAS / INTERESTS

1. Ontology Engineering
2. Text Mining
3. Cyber Security
4. Cloud Security
5. Cryptography

RESEARCH SUPERVISION
1.	MS	A Technique to Combine Different Cryptographic Algorithms on Basis of their Metrics and Content to be Encrypted
2.	MS	A Multilayer Encryption Model to Protect Healthcare Data in Cloud Environment
3.	MS	A Comprehensive Analysis Based Survey of Authentication and Encryption Schemes Used in VANETs
4.	MS	A Machine Learning Based Classification Techniques to Detect DDoS Attack in Cloud Computing Environment
5.	MS	A Technique for Compliance Identification for Information Security Policy Documents
6.	MS	A Comprehensive Ontology for Information Disruption Attacks for IoT based Healthcare Systems
7.	MS	A technique for Identification of information Severity Levels for Social Media Profiles

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
1.	Mahmood, Q., Qadir, M.A. and Afzal, M.T., 2017. “Application of COReS to Compute Research Papers Similarity”, IEEE Access, 5, pp.26124-26134.