Dr. Shafiq Ur Rehman

Assistant Professor

shafiq.rehman@cust.edu.pk

PROFILE SUMMARY

Dr. Khan completed the PhD degree in Computer Science from Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad in 2019. Following his graduation, he ventured into academia, where he worked as Assistant Professor, Head of Department, Director Business Incubation and Provost. He served as member of several committees, including Board of Studies (BoS), Board of Faculty (BoF), disciplinary, post-graduate, admission, CQI, BASAR and PGPR committees. His research interest includes Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. He has supervised more 6 MS thesis and 8 Final Year Projects. 1 PhD student is under his supervision.

QUALIFICATION
PhD	Computer Science	Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan	2019
MS	Software Engineering	Bahria University, Islamabad	2010
BS	Information Technology	Gomal University,D I Khan	2007

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor	Capital University of Science and Technology Islamabad, Pakistan	Since – 2022
Assistant Professor	University of Sialkot, Sialkot	2020 – 2022

RESEARCH AREAS / INTERESTS
1.	Natural Language Processing
2.	Information Retrieval
3.	Machine Learning
4.	Artificial Intelligence

RESEARCH SUPERVISION
1.	MS	Hybrid Load Balancing in Server-less Cloud Computing for Supporting Disaster Management Information System (DMIS)
2.	MS	Question Answer System with Transfer Learning.
3.	MS	Exploiting Textual and Temporal Aspects in Rumor Detection using Natural Language Processing Techniques.
4.	MS	Preventing 51% Attack using Consecutive Blocks Limit in Bitcoin.
5.	MS	Event Evolution Overtime for Effective Information Retrieval.
6.	MS	Time Aware Fake News Detection.
7.	PhD	A Framework for Fake News Detection using Temporal Footprints and User Stance in Social Media.
8.	BS	The Early Estimation of Disaster using Machine learning Techniques.
9.	BS	Early Yield Prediction and Disease Detection for Farmer Assistance.
10.	BS	Smart Poultry Management System.
11.	BS	Early Grade Prediction and Remedial Plan.
12.	BS	Control Computers with Hand-Gestures using Device Built-in Camera.
13.	BS	Cattle Hut: An Application for Cattle Market.
14.	BS	Inter-Cities Car Sharing Android Based Application.

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
Ayman A Taan, Shafiq Ur Rehman Khan, Ali Raza, Ayaz Muhammad Hanif, Hira Anwar, “Comparative Analysis of Information Retrieval Models on Quran Dataset in Cross-Language Information Retrieval Systems,” IEEE Access, vol. 9, issue. 6, pp.169056-169067, 2021.
Shafiq Ur Rehman Khan, M.A. Islam “ Event-Dataset: Temporal information retrieval and text classification dataset,” Elsevier Data in Brief, Vol. 25, 2019
Shafiq Ur Rehman Khan, M.A. Islam, M.Aleem and M.Azhar, “Temporal Specificity Based Text Classification For Information Retrieval,” Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, vol. 26, issue. 6, pp.54-61, 2018
Shafiq Ur Rehman Khan, M.A. Islam, M.Aleem and M.Azhar, “Section-Based Focus Time Estimation of News Articles,” IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp.75452–75460, 2018

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS
Shafiq Ur Rehman Khan, “Target Time Assessment of News Documents,” 4th International Conference on Biological and Computational Sciences (C-BICS 2016), Islamabad, 2016.
Shafiq Ur Rehman Khan, “ Exploiting Temporal Features in News Documents”, PhD Symposium in 15th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology, Islamabad, 2017.

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