Muhammad Ali, PhD ([email protected])
PhD Computer Science
University of Innsbruck, Austria (2003 – 2008)
MSc Computer Science
University of Peshawar, Pakistan (1995 – 1997)
I have been working with the Institute of Management Sciences (IMSciences) Peshawar since
January 2000. IMSciences is a young and innovative school operating the public sector which,
after its inception in 1995, has excelled remarkably on the national higher educational scene of
Pakistan. It has been ranked among the top 5 business schools of the country. The Institute is
headed by a Director. For further details, please visit our website: www.imsciences.edu.pk
In Nov. 2003 I went to Austria after being awarded a competitive scholarship by the Higher
Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan to pursue my PhD in Computer Science. Prior to that, I
was serving as a lecturer at IMSciences.
Leadership and academic management positions held at IMSciences
Since June 2013 till date Joint Director, IMSciences
The Joint Director is the academic head of the Institute. All the department heads and
programme coordinators report this position. The Joint Director assumes the acting charge of
the Director in case of his absence. The key responsibilities include:
Manage and participate in the development and implementation of goals, objectives,
policies, and priorities for the Institute and recommend modifications to the Director in
existing policies and procedures as appropriate
Forward policy suggestions to the Executive Committee through the Director
IMSciences.
Direct liaison with department heads and programme coordinators on various academic
programmes offered at the Institute.
Consultation with academic departments and examination section regarding semester
start, semester breaks, examinations’ schedule etc. to ensure degree completion in
stipulated time duration.
Monitor teachers’ performance and evaluating feedback from programme heads and
students and identify areas of improvements.
Submit recommendations to the Director to be forwarded to the academic committee for
finalizing course contents, start of new academic programme etc.
Submit recommendations for teacher appointments, promotions, etc.
Sits as a permanent member of the faculty selection board which is the highest level
body meant to appoint faculty members at IMSciences on permanent basis.
To be a co-signatory with the Director on the final degree and transcript awarded to a
student.
Chairs the following internal committees
o Advisory Committee: This is the highest level of internal committee responsible
for providing advice and guidance on all issues governing the Institute. The
committee is advisory to the Director and has purview over all strategies,
policies, directions, issues, and priorities at all levels and across the Institute,
including research, academic, and administrative infrastructure.
o Semester Committee: The semester committee resolves issues and cases
relating to student exams and unfair means, drop outs, short of attendance, and
semester freeze as per IMSciences rules and regulations.
o Research Committee: This committee supervises the efficient utilization of
research funds by the students and faculty.
o Board of Advanced Studies and Research (BASR): This body is responsible
for the evaluation and approval of PhD proposals of our students. It includes
senior faculty members of IMSciences along with renowned academicians,
subject specialists and representatives of industry.
o Project Management Committee: The project management committee is
responsible for the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of various building
infrastructure and IT related projects at IMSciences. The SOPs of PM committee
includes providing assistance to projects when and if required, resolving issues
related to project scope changes, resolving conflict and disputes etc.
o Other committees: The Joint Director also chairs the anti-plagiarism committee,
the institutional advancement committee, and the grievances committee.
Since August 2010 till date Director ORIC, IMSciences (additional charge)
The Office of Research, Innovation and Commercialization (ORIC) was established in 2010 at
IMSciences in order to promote research and strengthen the process of technology transfer and
commercialization efforts at IMSciences. The key objectives of ORIC includes supporting and
enhancing the institute’s strategic research directions, identifying and facilitating the faculty and
students to apply for external research funding, and working toward the establishment of an
entrepreneurial culture at the institute.
Currently I am supervising a team of four full time members including Manager Research
Development, Manager Research Operations, Manager University-Industry Linkages and
Knowledge Exchange and a research associate besides three part-time employees including
administrative assistant, accountant and publications manager.
Key achievements of ORIC Organized an International conference titled “Perspectives on small business
management and entrepreneurship”, held in Dubai from Feb. 6 – 10, 2014. The
conference was co-organized by University of Southampton and partially supported by
British Council Pakistan.
Established a fully functional office for ORIC and hired staff for it
Submitted ten research projects in social sciences to Higher Education Commission of
Pakistan (HEC) out of which 7 were approved and awarded up till now with a total worth
of 22 million Pkr (0.22 million USD)
Introduced cash rewards for faculty and students for publishing in reputable journals
Got two research projects approved from ICT R&D fund worth 25 million PKR (0.25
million USD)
From July 2008 till May 2013 HoD, Department of Computer Science & Information Technology
The Computer Science department looks after all the academic programmes offered by the
department along with supervising and controlling all the IT infrastructure of the Institute. The
department offers undergraduate and post graduate degree programmes. As HoD, I supervised
10 full time faculty members, and 14 technical and administrative staff members.
Key achievements as HoD-CS/IT
Started PhD Computer Science programme in 2010
Started MS Computer Science rogramme in 2009
Designed and developed the curricula for MS and PhD programmes and got them
approved from the academic council of IMSciences
Acting as the anti-plagiarism software (turnitin) administrator at IMSciences since 2009
Initiated and supervised the development of campus management solution in OpenErp
(currently known as Odoo) in 2010
Editor-in-chief of Journal of Computer and Information Sciences, ISSN: 1995-5391 (2009
– 2011).
Supervised the implementation of a Gigabit network at IMSciences with the support of
HEC under the project PERN2 (Pakistan Education and Research Network). PERN2 is a
fully integrated and dedicated communication infrastructure which provides high speed
access to national and international research resources and repositories. For further
details, the following website can be checked: www.pern.edu.pk
Teaching and Research
From Jan. 2000 till Nov. 2003: As lecturer I taught various courses in Computing and Business Administration disciplines.
For core computing programmes: Databases, Data Communications, Operating Systems,
Programming with C/C++
For business and management disciplines: Introduction to ICT, Computer for Executives,
Management Information Systems, Systems Analysis and Design
2008 – 2009:
Data Communication and Networks – MSc Computer Science (3rd Semester)
Introduction to Operating Systems -- BS Computer Science (4th Semester)
2009 – 2010:
Computer Communication and Networks – BS Computer Science (5th Semester)
Research Project I – BS Computer Science (7th Semester)
Advance Computer Networks – MS Information Technology (1st semester)
2010 – 2011:
(Designed, developed and introduced a course on Research Methodologies in Computer
Science at MS and PhD level).
Research Methods for Computer Science and Information Technology -- MS
Information Technology / MS Computer Science (3rd semester)
2011 – 2012:
Introduction to Computing – BS Computer Science (1st semester)
Research Methods for Computer Science – MS Computer Science (3rd semester)
Research project I – BS Computer Science (7th semester)
Computer Architecture -- BS Computer Science (5th semester)
2012 – 2013:
Introduction to Computing – BS Computer Science (1st semester)
Advance Topics on Research Methods in Computing – PhD Computer Science (1st
semester)
2013 – 2014:
Introduction to ICT – BS Computer Science (1st semester)
Research Methods for Computer Science – MS Computer Science (3rd semester)
Thesis supervision PhD students
Awais Adnan, “Content Aware Video Presentation System” (thesis submitted for external
evaluation Jan. 2015)
Mah-Rukh Fida, “Routing Protocols in Delay Tolerant Networks” (in-progress)
MS / MPhil students
Bushra Saeed, “MPLS over VPN as a sure domain against DoS , DDoS, and TCP
attacks” (2013)
Irum Jamshed, “Integrating SIP with F-HMIPv6 to enhance end to end QoS in NGNs”
(2012)
Mah-Rukh Fida, “Security in Disrupted and Delay Tolerant Networks“ (2010)
Asmat Alam, “Efficient Routing in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks” (2009)
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (with impact factor)
1. Shah Nazir, Sajid Anwar, Sher Afzal Khan, Sara Shahzad, Muhammad Ali et al.
“Software Component Selection Based on Quality Criteria Using the Analytic Network
Process”, Abstract and Applied Analysis (2014), Hindawi Publishing Corporation (IF:
1.274, JCR-2013)
2. Nadeem Javaid, Mohsin Raza Jafri, Zahoor Khan, Umar Qasim, Turki Ali Alghamdi,
Muhammad Ali, “iAMCTD: Improved Adaptive Mobility of Courier Nodes in Threshold-
Optimized DBR Protocol for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks”, International
Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (2014), Hindawi Publishing Corporation (IF:
0.923, JCR-2013)
3. Awais Adnan, Muhammad Ali, “Shot Boundary Detection Using Sorted Color Histogram
Polynomial Curve”, Life Science Journal (2013);10(4) (IF: 0.165, JCR 2012)
4. Tamleek Ali, Muazzam A. Khan, Amir Hayat, Masoom Alam, and Muhammad Ali,
“Secure Actor Directed Localization in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks”,
International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, Volume 2013, Hindawi Publishing
Corporation (IF: 0.727, JCR 2012)
5. Masoom Alam, Xinwen Zhang, Mohammad Nauman, Tamleek Ali, Muhammad Ali et
al., “Behavioral Attestation for Web Services using access policies”, Multimedia Tools
and Applications (2013) 66: pp. 283–302 (IF: 1.014, JCR 2012)
6. Masoom Alam, Xinwen Zhang, Mohammad Nauman, Tamleek Ali, Sanaullah Khan,
Shahbaz Khan, Quratulain Alam, Sajid Anwar, Arfan Jaffar, Amir Hayat, Muhammad
Ali, et al., “Dynamic Remote Attestation Through Behavior Measurement and
Verification”, International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control,
Volume 8, Number 3(A), March 2012 (IF: 1.667, JCR 2010)
7. Masoom Alam, Shahbaz Khan, Quratulain Alam, Tamleek Ali, Sajid Anwar, Amir Hayat,
Arfan Jaffar, Muhammad Ali et al., “Model-Driven Security for Trusted Systems”,
International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control, Volume 8,
Number 2, Feb. 2012 (IF: 1.667, JCR 2010)
8. Sajid Anwar , Awais Adnan, Masoom Alam, Tamleek Ali Tanveer, Muhammad Ali et al.,
“Architecture based Software Quality Maintenance Ripple Effect Analysis”, International
Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control, Volume 8, Number 1(A), Jan.
2012 (IF: 1.667, JCR 2010)
9. Masoom Alam, Muhammad Ali et al., “Mauth: A fine-grained and user-centric
permission delegation framework for web services”, International Journal of Physical
Sciences, (2011), pp.2060 – 2071 (IF: 0.540, JCR 2010)
10. Muhammad Ramzan, Muhammad Qasim Khan, Muhammad Amjad Iqbal, Muhammad
Aasem, Arfan Jaffar, Sajid Anwar, Awais Adnan, Tamleek Ali, Muhammad Ali, et al. “A
genetic algorithms based approach for conflicts resolution in requirement”, International
Journal of Physical Sciences, (2011), vol. 6(4), pp. 828 – 836 (IF: 0.540, JCR 2010)
11. Masoom Alam, Tamleek Ali, Sanaullah Khan, Shahbaz Khan, Muhammad Ali, et al.,
“Analysis of existing remote attestation techniques” Security and Communication
Networks (2011), Wiley, pp. 1062 -- 1082 (IF: 0.356, JCR 2010)
12. Masoom Alam, Tamleek Ali, Sajid Anwar, Quratulain Alam, Muhammad Ali, et al.,
“Towards Trusted Information Sharing in Enterprise Information Systems”, Information
(Oct. 2011), International Information Institute, pp.3515 – 3526 (IF: 0.060, JCR 2010)
13. Sajid Anwar, Shehzad Haleem, Toqeer Ali Syed, Awais Adnan, Tamleek Ali Tanveer,
Masoom Alam, Muhammad Ali, et al., “A FODA Oriented Approach to Architecture
based Ripple Effect Analysis” Information (June 2011), International Information
Institute, pp.2139 – 2150. (IF: 0.060, JCR 2010)
14. Tamleek Ali, Masoom Alam, Muhammad Nauman, Toqeer Ali, Muhammad Ali et al., “A
Scalable and Privacy Preserving Remote Attestation”, Information (April 2011),
International Information Institute, pp. 1193 – 1204. (IF: 0.060, JCR 2010)
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (other)
1. Mah-Rukh Fida, Muhammad Ali et al. “Survey of History Based Routing Protocols in
Delay Tolerant Network”, VAWKUM Transactions on Computer Sciences vol. 2, No. 1,
(2013) ISSN: 2308-8168, pp. 7 – 17
2. Awais Adnan, Muhammad Nawaz, Sajid Anwar, Tamleek Ali, Muhammad Ali, ``Object
identification with Color, Texture and Object-Correlation in CBIR System´´, World
Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, Vol. 4, (April 2010), pp. 75 - 80.
3. Awais Adnan, Muhammad Ali et al., “Image Search by Features of Sorted Gray level
Histogram Polynomial Curve”, (2007), World Academy of Science, Engineering and
Technology Vol.1(3), pp. 280 - 285
4. Muhammad Ali, et al., “An efficient fault tolerant mechanism to deal with permanent and
transient failures in a network on chip ", International Journal of High Performance
Systems Architecture (IJHPSA), Inderscience Publishers, Vol. 1 No. 2. 2007, pp. 113-
123
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
1. Mah-Rukh Fida, Muhammad Ali, "Community-based heuristic routing protocol for
disrupted social network," IEEE Malaysia International Conference on
Communications (MICC 2013), 26-28 Nov. 2013, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2. Mah-Rukh Fida, Muhammad Ali, Ameer Shakayb Arsalaan, "DTN-RSim: An event-
based routing simulator for DTN," International Conference on Computer Networks
and Information Technology (ICCNIT 2011) 11-13 July 2011, Abbottabad, Pakistan
3. Tabinda Salam, Muhammad Ali, Mah-Rukh Fida, ``Seamless Proactive Vertical
Handover Algorithm´´, 8th IEEE International Conference on Information Technology:
New Generations (ITNG 2011), 11-13 April 2011, Las Vegas, USA.
4. Mah-Rukh Fida, Muhammad Ali, Awais Adnan, Ameer Shakayb Arsalaan, "Region-
Based Security Architecture for DTN", 8th IEEE International Conference on
Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG 2011), 11-13 April 2011, Las
Vegas, USA
5. Muhammad Nawaz, Jon Cosmas, Awais Adnan, Muhammad Ali, "Inter-intra frame
segmentation using colour and motion for region of interest coding of video," IEEE
International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting
(BMSB 2011), 8-10 June 2011, Nuremberg, Germany
6. Muhammad Ali, Michael Welzl, “Internet Lessons for Network on Chips Designers”,
33rd International Conference on Telecommunication and Signal Processing (TSP
2010), 17 – 20 August, 2010, Baden (near Vienna), Austria.
7. Muhammad Ali, Awais Adnan, “Object identification with Color and Texture in CBIR
System”, World Congress on Science, Engineering and Technology, 28 – 30
October, 2009, Venice, Italy.
8. Ahmad Hassan Afridi, Muhammad Ali, “Fault tolerant Context Aware Mobile
Computing”, International Conference on Future Computer and Communication, 3-5
April 2009, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
9. Muhammad Ali, Awais Adnan, “Comparative analysis of transient-fault tolerant
schemes for Network on Chips”, World Academy of Science, Engineering and
Technology, July 2008, Heidelberg, Germany.
10. Awais Adnan, Salim Gul, Muhammad Ali, Amir Hanif Dar, "Content Based Image
Retrieval Using Geometrical-Shape of Objects in Image”, IEEE International
Conference on Emerging Technologies, (ICET 2007), 12-13 Nov. 2007, Islamabad,
Pakistan
11. Muhammad Ali, Michael Welzl, Sybille Hellebrand, “A Fault Tolerant Mechanism for
handling Permanent and Transient Failures in a Network on Chip”, 4th International
Conference on Information Technology : New Generations (IEEE ITNG 2007), 2-4
April 2007, Las Vegas, USA.
12. Muhammad Ali, Awais Adnan, Michael Welzl, “Design of a fast and low-level fault-
tolerant protocol for network on chips”, IEEE International Joint Conferences on
Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering (CISSE 2006), 4-14
December 2006, online conference.
13. Farrukh Nadeem, Muhammad Murtaza Yousaf, Muhammad Ali, “Grid Performance
Prediction: Requirements, Framework, and Models”, IEEE International Conference
on Emerging Technologies (ICET 2006), 13-14 November 2006, Peshawar,
Pakistan.
14. Muhammad Ali, Michael Welzl, Awais Adnan, Farrukh Nadeem, “Using the NS-2
network simulator for evaluating network on chips”, IEEE International
Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET 2006), 13-14 November 2006,
Peshawar, Pakistan.
15. Michael Welzl, Muhammad Ali, ``Teaching Routing with IRV-Tool´´, International
Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Learning (ICL 2006), 26-28 September
2006, Villach, Austria.
16. Michael Welzl, Muhammad Ali, Sven Hessler: ``Network Simulation By Mouse
(NSBM): A GUI Approach for Teaching Computer Networks with the NS-2
Simulator´´, International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Learning (ICL
2006), 26-28 September 2006, Villach, Austria.
17. Muhammad Ali, Michael Welzl, Martin Zwicknagl, ``Networks on Chips: Scalable
Interconnects for Future Systems on Chips´´, 3rd IEEE International Conference on
Circuits and Systems for Communications (ICCSC'06), 6-7 July 2006, Bucharest,
Romania.
18. Muhammad Ali, Michael Welzl, Martin Zwicknagl, Sybille Hellebrand
``Considerations for Fault-tolerant Networks on Chips´´, IEEE ICM'05, 13-15
December 2005, Islamabad, Pakistan.
19. Muhammad Ali, Michael Welzl, Sybille Hellebrand, ``A dynamic routing mechanism
for Network on Chips´´, IEEE NORCHIP, 21 – 22 November 2005, Oulu, Finland.
20. Muhammad Ali, Michael Welzl, Sybille Hellebrand: "Dynamic Routing: A prerequisite for reliable NoCs", 17th Workshop Testmethoden und Zuverlässigkeit von Schaltungen und Systemen, Feb. 27 – Mar. 1, 2005, Innsbruck, Austria.
Trainings / Workshops / Seminars attended National level
Capacity Building Programme for ORIC Managers at NUST, Islamabad. The extensive
five day training programme was co-sponsored by the HEC and British Council (23-27
Jan. 2012). It included:
o Professional writing skills
o Entrepreneurial culture and changing the mindset
o History, concept and significance if Intellectual Property
o Technology transfer processes
Knowledge Exchange Master classes on Enterprise Educators
o Series of sessions conducted by the British Council at Quaid-e-Azam University
Islamabad to learn from the experiences of University of Cumbria, UK in the area
of Knowledge Exchange and initiate the same at our Institute (Dec. 14, 2011;
Jan. 17 & 30, 2012; June 1 & 2, 2012)
Changing the Mindset
o Training sessions on building the entrepreneurial culture in universities and how
to hold business plan competitions, held in Lahore (Nov. 14 – 17, 2012)
organized by the HEC, Pakistan
International Workshop on QS University Rankings held in Islamabad on May 2, 2013
organized by COMSATS Institute of Information Technology.
Training on Project Management
o It was organized by the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
under a project titled Assessment and Strengthening Programme (ASP-LIMS)
funded by USAID. IMSciences is also an implementing partner with ASP-LUMS
Training on Monitoring and Evaluation (Under ASP-LUMS)
Universities and Technology-based Economic Development -- (Stakeholders’ Meeting)
o The meeting was sponsored by the US State Dept., and USAID and hosted by
the HEC in Islamabad (Dec. 15 – 16, 2014). The meeting was attended by
Pakistani and US partners along with a special session delivered by the Director
Tech. Transfer of American University of Cairo, Egypt.
International level Strengthening Economy through University-Industry linkages (USA)
o Visited United States as a member of a delegation to understand the nature and
success of University – Industry linkages in the US universities. The visit was
sponsored by HEC, Pakistan, and US State Department, and hosted by US
Department of Commerce (Sept. 11 – 20, 2012)
o Attended the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM 2012)
eastern region meeting held in Philadelphia (Sept. 12 – 14, 2012)
o Met with Pakistani entrepreneurs in Washington DC and California, USA.
Training on turnitin – anti plagiarism software (Dubai)
o A two day training in Dubai was organized by the HEC and iParadigms, UK (Dec.
8 – 9, 2010)
o Introductory and advance level sessions were held elaborating on how to handle
plagiarism using advance features of turnitin.
Technology Licensing Workshop (Singapore)
o The workshop was organized and funded jointly by the US state Department and
HEC and was held in Singapore (March 10 – 14, 2014).
o Various practical sessions were delivered by renowned US professors and
lawyers outlining how to write agreements granting licenses for commercialized
products produced at the universities
Trainings / Workshops / Seminars / Conferences organized I was among the key management team to organize the first two-day workshop on
research methods held at Bara Gali, Pakistan (22 – 23 Nov. 2014). This was a joint effort
between IMSciences and University of Peshawar.
I was among the organizers of International Research Conference which was held in
Dubai (Feb. 6 – 10, 2014). The conference titled “Perspectives ion Small Business
Management and Entrepreneurship”, was a collaborated effort of IMSciences, British
Council, University of Southampton, UK under the project INSPIRE. There were 20
research papers presented besides 7 invited talks.
Invited talks / Guest lectures
A panel member on university-industry linkages at the entrepreneurial week organized at
IMSciences. The event was held in Nov. 16 – 21, 2014
Guest speaker at the inauguration of Centre of Integrative Bio Sciences at Cecos
University, Peshawar (Sept. 27, 2014). I gave a short speech on the importance of
entrepreneurial skills for university graduates.
I was invited as a subject specialist on the first Digital Youth Summit held in Peshawar
(21 – 22 May, 2014). The Digital Youth Summit is a tech conference and startup expo
with main objective to bring together the next generation of digital innovators in Pakistan,
with a primary focus on technology entrepreneurship, on-line work and ‘tech for social’
innovation. I participated in the panel which was composed of educationist and
academicians.
Delivered a lecture titled “Research and commercialization in Business Schools:
Lessons learnt from ORIC” at the International conference titled “Perspectives ion Small
Business Management and Entrepreneurship”, which was held in Dubai (Feb. 6 – 10,
2014)
Participated and presented a talk on “Establishment of ORIC at IMSciences: challenges
and achievements” at the Roundtable on Establishment and Strengthening of
Technology Management Offices (TMOs), held by the Intellectual Property Organization
(IPO) Pakistan, in Islamabad (Dec. 9 - 10, 2013).
Was invited as a Chief Guest at the closing ceremony of National level Information
Technology competition held at City University, Peshawar (Dec. 7, 2013). I gave a
speech on importance of software development in the international market besides
awarding prizes to position holders in the competition.
Invited lecture titled “University-Industry linkages: learning from the US experience”
delivered at the Debriefing Session on “Technology Transfer & Intellectual Property
Rights' status at USA -- A Comparative Analysis” in HEC, Islamabad (May 22, 2013).
An invited lecture on “Research Methodologies for Computer Sciences” at City
University, Peshawar (April 28, 2011)
Member of external committees / boards Participate as a subject specialist for the selection of faculty members in the fields of
Computer Science and Information Technology at various selection boards of Public
sector (Government) universities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
o University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar (2010)
o Islamic College University, Peshawar (permanent member 2010 – 2011)
o University of Swat, Swat (2014)
o University of Peshawar, Peshawar (2014)
o Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University, Sheringal (2014)
Member, Board of Advanced Studies and Research (BASR) at Frontier Women
University, Peshawar
Member of National Review Curriculum Committee (HEC) for designing and
implementing curriculum in the fields of Computing disciplines for bachelors, masters
and PhD programmes at Pakistani universities (2008 – 2009)
Awards / Certifications
The Higher Education Commission (HEC) awarded me a fully funded competitive
scholarship to pursue my doctorate in Computer Science in Austria (2003 – 2008).
During this period I was officially on leave from my parent institution (IMSciences)
I was awarded the international Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) certification by the
Oracle Corporation (2002)
Previous experience
Mar. 1999 till Dec. 1999
Lecturer & Administrator (evening programme), CECOS University Peshawar (previously
known as Al-Khair University, Peshawar campus)
Subjects taught: Programming languages (COBOL, GW-BASIC, C), Operating System,
Data Structures, Database Management Systems, Management Information Systems,
System Analysis and Design
Supervising bachelor and master student projects
As in-charge for the evening programme:
o Organizing lectures for various courses
o Arranging teachers for courses
o Managing the timetables and classes
o Reporting on the overall progress of the programme
o Ensuring that all processes are in line with university regulations
1997 – 1999
After MSc, I went to Karachi where I worked with various private companies in different
capacities including IT support staff, Programmer in FoxPro, Y2K debugging project etc.
Personal details
Date and place of birth: 1st Jan. 1973, Peshawar
Schooling till 10th grade: St. Mary’s High School Peshawar
12th grade: Edwardes College Peshawar
Marital status and children: got married in 2010, have a son
Languages: English, Urdu, Pushto
Address: 1-A, Sector E-5, Phase 7, Hayatabad, Peshawar
References: Dr. Nasser Ali Khan Vice Chancellor University of HariPur Pakistan [email protected] Dr. Michael Welzl Professor Networks and Distributed Systems group Department of Informatics University of Oslo Norway [email protected] Dr. Muhammad Mohsin Kahn Director IMSciences [email protected]