Students

PhD Students

Current

Madeha Arif
M. Latif
Faryal Nosheen
Tahira Sadaf

Graduated

2019

5) Sundus Ayaz

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: HCF-CRS: A Hybrid Content based Fuzzy Conformal Recommender System for providing recommendations with confidence
Publications: 2 Conference papers + 1 Impact factor journal publication

2018

4) Summair Raza

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: An incremental dependency calculation technique for feature selection using rough sets
Publications: 2 Conference papers + 5 Impact factor journal publications + 1 Book

2017

3) Abdul Wahab Muzaffar Qureshi

Co-supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: A Relation Extraction Framework for Biomedical Text using Hybrid Feature Set
Publications: 1 Conference paper + 1 Impact factor journal publication

2016

2) Farhan Hassan Khan

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Semi-Supervised Feature Weighting & Intelligent Model Selection (SWIMS): A Novel Sentiment Analysis Approach
Publications: 2 Conference papers + 10 Impact factor journal publications

1) Saba Bashir

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: IntelliHealth: An intelligent medical decision support system using a novel multi-layer classifier ensemble framework
Publications: 2 Conference papers + 7 Impact factor journal publications

Master Students

Current

Zumar Khalid
Usman Ali
Khawaja Sarmad Arif
Aqsa Mumtaz
Kaleem Ullah
Muhammad Umar Sajjad
Khusbakht Iqtidar
Iffat Fatima
Sana Abid
Saliha Sadaf

Graduated

2020

85) Aiman Qadeer

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: A Novel Framework for Dynamic Ensemble Selection using Weighting Approach
Publications: 1 (Conference publication)

84) Kanwal Wahab

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Building a Biomedical Ontology for Chronic Liver Disease
Publications: 1 (Conference publication)

83) Andleeb Aslam

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: A Novel Framework For Sentiment Analysis Using Deep Learning
Publications: 2 (Conference publications)

82) Raheela Bibi

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Sentiment analysis for Urdu news Tweets using Decision tree
Publications: 1 (Conference publication)

81) Reda Ayesha Khan

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Quality Framework for Ontology Evaluation Based on Structural Characteristics
Publications: 1 (Conference publication)

80) Asma Shaheen

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: OOCQM: Object Oriented Code Quality Meter
Publications: 1 (Chapter publication)

79) Aleena Ahmad

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar Co-Supervisor: Dr Summair Raza
Thesis title: Improving Lower and Upper Approximation of Dominance based Rough Set Approach
Publications: 1 (Conference publication)

78) Munazza Ansar

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Identification of Difficult English Words for Assisting Hearing Impairment Children in Learning Language
Publications: 1 (Conference publication)

77) Muhammad Usman

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Secure Electronic Health Records Storage and Sharing using Blockchain
Publications: 1 (Conference publication)

76) Pakizah

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Hybridizing Multiple Filters and GA Wrapper for Feature Selection of Microarray Cancer Datasets
Publications: 2 (Conference publications)

2019

75) Ayesha Shahnaz

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Using Blockchain for Electronic Health Records
Publications: 1 (Journal Paper)

74) Sadia Majeed

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar Co-Supervisor: Dr Farhan Hassan Khan
Thesis title: Improving Social Network Analysis to Enhance the Identification of Influential Nodes
Publications: 4 (conference papers)

73) Rabia Noureen

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar Co-Supervisor: Dr Farhan Hassan Khan
Thesis title: Deep Learning To Improve Sentiment Analysis
Publications: 2 (conference papers)

72) Iqra Tahir

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Classification of EEG signal by training neural network with Swarm Optimization for Identification of Epilepsy
Publications: 1 (conference paper)

71) Younas khan

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Applying Feature Selection and Weight Optimization Techniques to Enhance Artificial Neural Network for Heart Disease Diagnosis
Publications: 2 (conference papers)

70) Muhammad Asad

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Blood Glucose Level Prediction Using Optimized Neural Network
Publications: 4 (conference papers)

2018

69) Fariha Tauseef

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Detection of Heart Disease Using Decision Tree
Publications: 0

68) Faiza Hussain

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Identification And Correction Of Misspelled Drugs’ Names In Electronic Medical Records (EMR)
Publications: 3 (Conference paper)

67) Sidra Shafi

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Web Services Classification Using An Improved Text Mining Technique
Publications: 0

66) Amna Noureen

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Semantic Analysis of Social Media and Associated Psychotic Behaviors
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

65) Alia Fatima

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Wrapper Based Feature Selection Of Streaming Data And Accelerating Hoeffding Tree
Publications: 3 (Conference papers)

64) Aiman Khan Nazir

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Automated misspelling detection and correction in clinical free-text records
Publications: 3 (Conference papers)

63) Shaista Sabir

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: A preconception Gender assessment using Data Mining Techniques based on Implementation of Natural Laws & Favoring Factors
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

62) Iqra Muhammad

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar Co-Supervisor: Dr Farhan Hassan Khan
Thesis title: Temporal Spam Identification
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

61) Madeha Arif

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar Co-Supervisor: Dr Farhan Hassan Khan
Thesis title: Predicting Helpfulness of Online Reviews
Publications: 2 (Conference papers)

2017

60) Qadeem Khan

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: An Optimized Data Clustering Algorithm for Analysis of Software Architectural Styles Data Set
Publications: 3 (Conference papers)

599) M Salman

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar Co-Supervisor: Dr Farhan Hassan Khan
Thesis title: URL Based Phishing Detection Using A Hybrid Approach
Publications: 0

58) Adnan Ullah

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar Co-Supervisor: Dr Farhan Hassan Khan
Thesis title: Multi-Filter Feature Selection (MFFS) Model for Gene Analysis in Microarray Dataset
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

57) Shumaila Anjum

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Improving Software Maintenance by Applying Enhanced Tree Kernel Based Approach on Software Clone Detection Framework
Publications: 0

56) Maryam Jamil

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: CRM strategies based on association rules and sequential patterns
Publications: 0

2016

55) Gulshan Saleem

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Text Mining through Modified Label Induction Grouping Algorithm
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

54) Sobh Zeb

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar Co-Supervisor: Dr. Farhan Raiz
Thesis title: Sentiment Analysis On User Reviews Through Lexicon And Rule-based Approach
Publications: 2 (Conference paper)

53) Fatima Ameen

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: An Approach for Semantic Workflows in Electronic Health Records
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

52) Bushra Zafar

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar Co-Supervisor: Dr. Michael Cochez
Thesis title: Using Distributional Semantics For Automatic Taxonomy Induction
Publications: 2 (Conference paper)

51) Mazhar Hameed

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar Co-Supervisor: Dr Usman Akram
Thesis title: Business Intelligence: Self Adapting and prioritizing database algorithm based on contextual shifting of data
Publications: 3 (Conference paper)

50) Hiba Khalid

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar Co-Supervisor: Dr Usman Akram
Thesis title: Imparting Data Knowledge in discrete data volumes using crowded agent approach for multi-perspective and visualized big data
Publications: 3 (Conference paper)

49) Amna Rahman

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: A Bayesian Classifiers Based Combination Model For Text Classification
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

48) Aamna Iqtidar

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar Co-Supervisor: Mr Abdul Wahab Muzaffar Qureshi
Thesis title: Building A Biomedical Ontology on Genetic Disease
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

47) Saadia Ismail

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar Co-Supervisor: Dr Wasi Haider Butt
Thesis title: HL7 FHIR Compliant Data Access Model for Maternal Health Information System (MHIS)
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

46) Ateeq ur Rehman Khattak

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Guidelines for the development of Whitebox Testing Tools
Publications: 0

45) Asim Abbas

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Test Suite Minimization and Prioritization
Publications: 0

2015

44) Shahzada Zeeshan Waheed

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Data Flow Based Automated Integration Testing Framework for Object Oriented Programs Using Evolutionary Approach
Publications: 2 (Conference papers)

43) Zarha Khan

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: A Text Mining based Approach to Detect Spam Emails
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

42) Saira Seemab

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Mining Hospital Data for Predicting Patient Drop Off
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

41) Muhammad Arslan Idris

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Performance Analysis of Cloud Based Load Testing of Web Applications
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

40) Samiullah Khan

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: A Framework for Evaluation of Biomedical Ontologies on the basis of Structural Components
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

39) Muhammad Zubair Khan

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Towards Service Evaluation and Ranking Model for cloud Infrastructure Selection
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

38) Zahoor Ahmad

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Impact Minimization of Requirements Change in Software Project through Requirements Classification
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

37) Aisha Zafar Ahmad

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar, Co-Supervisor: Dr Wasi Haider Butt
Thesis title: Influence of Key Player Detection and Removal on Efficiency and Performance of Terrorist Networks using Social Network Analysis
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

36) Aqsa Bajwa

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar, Co-Supervisor: Dr Wasi Haider Butt
Thesis title: Framework for incorporating social networks with recommender systems
Publications: 0

35) Anam Shahjahan

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar, Co-Supervisor: Dr Wasi Haider Butt
Thesis title: Impact Of Refactoring On Code Quality By Using Graph Theory
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

34) Waqas Ahmed

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Analyzing Different Validation and Verification Techniques for Safety Critical Software System
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

33) Shoaib Hassan

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Purification of Requirement Engineering Model for Rapid Application Development
Publications: 2 (Conference papers)

32) Saadia Hafeez

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Building a Bio-medical Ontology on Breast Cancer
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

31) Bakhtawar Seerat

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Clinical Decision Making Using Association Rule Mining-A New Approach with Attribute Weights
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

30) Syed Hasnain Ali

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: A Feature Reduction Framework based on Rough Set for Bio Medical Datasets
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

29) Fahim Ashraf Awan

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Roman Urdu Sentiment Analysis (RUSA) – A Lexicon Based Approach
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

28) Usman Humayun

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Social Network Analysis using Multilevel Clustering on Linkden
Publications: 0

27) Munazza Ishtiaaq

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Sentiment Analysis of Twitter Data Using Sentiment Influencers
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

26) Madiha Guftar

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: A rule based expert system for syncope prediction
Publications: 2 (Conference papers)

25) Kashif Khan

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Improved Single-Label Text Categorization by Instance Filtration.
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

24) Muhammad Ashraf Khan Niazi

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar, Co-Supervisor: Mr Abdul Wahab Muzaffar Qureshi
Thesis title: Signature Automation of UMLS Concepts: An Un-Supervised Named Entity Recognition Framework for Classification of DNA and RNA in Biological Text
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

2014

23) Sobia Shafiq

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar, Co-Supervisor: Dr Wasi Haider Butt
Thesis title: Attack Type Prediction Using Hybrid Classifier
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

22) Fareeha Choudhry

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Rule Based Inference Engine to forecast the Prevalence of Congenital Malformations in live births
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

21) Faryal Nosheen

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Flexibility and Privacy Control By Cookie Management
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

20) Muhammad Latif

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar, Co-Supervisor: Mr Abdul Wahab Muzaffar Qureshi
Thesis title: Content-Specific Unigrams and Syntactic Phrases to Enhance SentiWordNet based Sentiment Classification
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

19) Aniqa Azam

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Optic Disc Segmentation from Colored Retinal Images using Vessel Density
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

18) Roohi Hussain

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: An Approach to Detect Spam Emails by Using Majority Voting
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

17) Faryal Gohar

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar, Co-Supervisor: Dr Wasi Haider Butt
Thesis title: Terrorist Group Prediction Using Data Classification
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

16) Nabila Perveen

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Inference Engine for Classification of Expert Systems Using Keyword Extraction Technique
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

15) Bureera Sabir

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar, Co-Supervisor: Mr Abdul Wahab Muzaffar Qureshi
Thesis title: Ontology Development and Evaluation for Urinal Tract Infection
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

14) Asad Bukhari

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: URWF: User Reputation based Weightage Framework for Twitter Micropost Classification
Publications: 1 (Conference paper) + 1 (Impact factor journal publication)

13) Muhammad Usman

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Assessment for Enterprise Content Management Implementation
Publications: 0

12) Iqra Basharat

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Framework using supervised learning techniques for classification of unstructured data of cardiac patients
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

11) Mamuna Fatima

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Cardiac Data Mining: Extraction of Significant Patterns for Predicting Heart Conditions
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

10) Maryam Samad

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Framework for the Time Series analysis of prevalence of Tb in Punjab.
Publications: 0

9) Fasial Karim

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Human Frontal Sinus Identification Based on SIFT and Pattern Recognition Techniques-A Hybrid Approach
Publications: 0

2013

8) Aqdas Ikram

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Developing an expert system based on association rules and predicate logic for earthquake prediction
Publications: 2 (Impact factor journal publication)

7) Andleeb Shahnaz

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Developing a multi-factor disease biomedical knowledge base using medical subject headings
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

6) Fauiza Khan

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Detecting covert dubious actors using cross domain associations
Publications: 1 (Conference paper)

5) Rozina Nisa

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: A Text Mining based Approach for Web Service Classification
Publications: 2 (Impact factor journal publications)

4) Bilal Kakli

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Impact of Politics, War on Terror and Natural Disasters on Pakistan Education. An Analysis of Primary Education in Pakistan
Publications: 0

3) Hina Anwar

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Global Optimization Ensemble Model for Classification Methods
Publications: 1 (Impact factor journal publication)

2012

2) Naizh Asad

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Association Rules Mining Using Transaction Hash Tables based Apriori (THT-Apriori)
Publications: 2 (Conference papers)

1) Rabia Bashir

Supervisor: Dr Usman Qamar
Thesis title: Intelligent Web Services Classification using Machine Learning Algorithms
Publications: 0