
PROFILE SUMMARY
Dr. Umair Rafique completed his PhD in 2013 from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, working in the area of Commonsense Reasoning, Goal Adoption and Goal Generation in Autonomous Intelligent Agents. Soon afterwards he joined Air University, Islamabad as an Assistant Professor. In 2014, Dr. Rafique moved to Northern Borders University (NBU), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where he worked as an Assistant Professor till 2022. At NBU, Dr. Rafique led the team that helped the Faculty of Computing and Information Technology receive ABET (USA) accreditation for its Bachelors in Information Technology program. Dr. Rafique has published his work in reputable international conferences. His current research interests include automatic math word problem solving, commonsense reasoning and deep learning.
QUALIFICATION | |||
PhD | Artificial Intelligence | Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore | 2013 |
BS | Information Technology | National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan | 2005 |
TEACHING EXPERIENCE | |||
Assistant Professor | Capital University of Science and Technology (CUST), Islamabad | Since – 2022 | |
Assistant Professor | Northern Borders University (NBU), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia | 2014 – 2022 | |
Assistant Professor | Air University, Islamabad, Pakistan | 2013 – 2014 |
HONORS & AWARDS | |||
1. | PhD Scholarship, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore | ||
2. | Merit Scholarship, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan |
RESEARCH AREAS / INTERESTS
1. Commonsense Reasoning
2. Goal Adoption and Goal Generation in Autonomous Intelligent Agents
3. Automatic Math Word Problem Solving
4. Deep Learning
CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS | |||
1. | Umair Rafique, Shell Ying Huang and Chun Yan Miao (2011). Motivation Based Goal Adoption for Autonomous Intelligent Agents, In Proceedings of IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technologies (IAT 2011). | ||
2. | Umair Rafique and Shell Ying Huang (2010). Preference Generation for Autonomous Agents, In J. Dix and C. Witteveen (Eds.): Proceedings of Eighth German Conference on Multi-Agents System Technologies (MATES 10), LNAI 6251. p.173-184. | ||
3. | Umair Rafique and Shell Ying Huang (2009). A New Action Description Scheme for Informal Reasoning, In H. R. Arabnia, D. de la Fuente, J. A. Olivas (Eds.): Proceedings of ICAI’09, Vol. II. p. 582-588. | ||
4. | Umair Rafique and Shell Ying Huang (2007). SMART: Structured Memory for Abstract Reasoning and Thinking, In M. A. Orgun and J. Thornton (Eds.): AI 2007, LNAI 4830. p. 781-785. |
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