Dr. Farah Haneef

Assistant Professor

farah.haneef@cust.edu.pk

PROFILE SUMMARY

Dr. Farah Haneef is a talented professional with a strong academic background and a wealth of software engineering expertise. After receiving an M-Phil in computer science from Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad and a BS in computer science from the Arid Agriculture University in Rawalpindi, she obtained her Ph.D. in computer science from Quaid-e-Azam University. She received a gold medal from the University of Arid Agriculture. She is an author of more than ten research publications and currently has a 20.8 Impact Factor. She reviews work for numerous worldwide, peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Farah has worked as a lecturer at several universities. Her notable input to the scholarly world consists of publications, teaching, and research.

QUALIFICATION
PhD	Computer Science	Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad	2024
M Phil	Computer Science	Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad	2016

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor	Capital University of Science and Technology (CUST), Islamabad.	Since 2024

RESEARCH AREAS / INTERESTS
1.	Algorithm Design and Analysis
2.	Software Engineering
3.	Machine Learning
4.	Social Network Analysis

SR.	JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS	YEAR
1	F. Waseem, F. Haneef, R. A. Abbasi, M. N. Noor and A. Khalid, “Identifying Significant Factors Associated with Career Selection: A survey based study in Pakistan,” Pakistan Journal of Engineering, Technology and Science, vol. 12, no. 01, pp. 104-116 2024.	2024
2	F. Haneef, “Review of automaton learning algorithms with polynomial complexity–completely solved examples,” arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.11096, 2024.	2024
3	F. Haneef and M. A. Sindhu, “A Reinforcement Learning Based Grammatical Inference Algorithm Using Block-Based Delta Inverse Strategy,” IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 12525-12535, 2023.	2023
4	F. Haneef and M. A. Sindhu, “IDLIQ: An Incremental Deterministic Finite Automaton Learning Algorithm Through Inverse Queries for Regular Grammar Inference,” Big Data, 2023.	2023
5	F. Haneef and M. A. Sindhu, “DLIQ: A Deterministic Finite Automaton Learning Algorithm Through Inverse Queries,” Information Technology and Control, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 611-624, 2022.	2022
6	M. N. Noor and F. Haneef, “Machine Learning Model to Predict Automated Testing Adoption,” International Journal of Software Innovation (IJSI), vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 1-15, 2022.	2022
7	M. N. Noor and F. Haneef, “Threat of crimes related to robbery during covid-19: special focus on Pakistan (preprint),” 2021.	2021
8	F. Haneef, et al., “Using network science to understand the link between subjects and professions,” Computers in Human Behavior, vol. 106, p. 106228, 2020.	2020
9	F. Haneef, et al., “A Review of Career Selection Models,” Research-pedia Journal of Computing, vol. 1, no. 1, 2020	2020
10	M. N. Noor and F. Haneef, “A Review on Big Data and Social Network Analytics Techniques,”Research-pedia Journal of Computing, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 39-49, 2020.	2020
11	F. Waseem, F. Haneef, M. N. Noor, A. Khalid, H. Rashid, and Q. Yousaf, “A review based on active research areas in mining software bug repositories: Limitations and possible future trends.” International Journal of Innovations in Science & Technology, Vol. 6, no. 3, pp 1249-1266, 2024.	2024
12	A. Khalid, F. Haneef, and F. Waseem, “Enhancing Open-Source Projects: The Synergy Between Code Readability Metrics and User Experience,” International Journal of Innovations in Science & Technology, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 129-145, 2025.	2025
13	M. N. Noor, F. Haneef, I. Ashraf, and M. Masud, “Enhanced skin disease classification via dataset refinement and attention-based vision approach,” Bioengineering, vol. 12, no. 3, p. 275, 2025.	2025
14	G. Aldehim, M. N. Noor, M. Masab, F. Haneef, M. Hussain, M. Yaqoob, T. Mazhar, and M. A. Khan, “An Effective Approach for Recognition of Crop Diseases Using Advanced Image Processing and YOLOv8,” Food Science & Nutrition, vol. 14, no. 2, p. e71504, 2026.	2026
15	F. Haneef, A. Hassan, and M. N. Noor, “Unlocking the Potential of Automaton Learning: A Study on its Impact in the Key Domains of Artificial Intelligence,” Foundation University Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 1-18, 2026.	2026
16	M. Awais, S. Masood, F. Haneef, T. Riaz, M. M. Zaman, and M. Khanam, “RQAI-SE: Multi-Layered Ethical and Accountable Quantum AI Engineering,” International Journal of Innovations in Science & Technology, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 135-149, 2026.	2026
17	S. Yousaf, S. Masood, M. Nageen, F. Haneef, and A. Masood, “Challenging the transformer: A comparative study of CNN and RoBERTa for hate speech detection on imbalanced data,” International Journal of Innovations in Science & Technology, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 116-134, 2026.	2026
18	S. Naeem, F. Haneef, and N. Noor, “A hybrid deep learning based robust framework for enhancing the prediction of skin lesions,” Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics, vol. 15, no. 1, p. 41, 2026.	2026

SR.	CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS
1	Noor, M. N., Nazir, M., Dilshad, V., and Haneef, F., “A Framework for Multi-Grade Classification of Ulcerative Colitics using Deep Neural Networks,” in Proc. 25th IEEE Int. Multi Topic Conf., 2023	2023
2	M. N. Noor, M. Sana, F. Haneef, I. Ashraf, A. Jamil, and A. A. Hameed, “Analysis of dermoscopic images for classification of skin lesions using advanced image processing techniques,” in 2025 IEEE 4th International Conference on Computing and Machine Intelligence (ICMI). IEEE, 2025, pp. 01–08.	2025
3	S. Masood, A. Ayub, S. S. R. Rizvi, and F. Haneef, “Adaptive multimodal AI with low resource and fair evaluation,” in 2025 27th International Multitopic Conference (INMIC). IEEE, 2025, pp. 1–6.	2025

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