People – Parallel Computing and Networks Research Lab

Members

Professor at Department of Computer Science, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad

Dr. Muhammad Arshad Islam is currently working as Professor at Department of Computer Science at FASt-NCUES Islamabad. He completed his PhD in March 2011 from University of Konstanz, Germany. Previously, he has been working at Capital University of Science and Technology and Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Engineering as an Assistant Professor. He has served in various administrative and project management roles. He has been the Director of Quality Enhancement Cell and the QEC – BoS Coordinator at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences and GIKI Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, where he was responsible for coordinating outcome-based education paradigm implementation and curriculum revision activities in the CS Department.

Dr. Arshad has also represented NUCES in the consortium of 11 universities from Asia and Europe in the ERASMUS funded project for providing support for international accreditation. He has been the recipient of several research grants, including NRPU-HEC and Faculty Research Support Grant from NUCES. In addition to his academic work, Dr. Arshad has provided professional training to employees of AQL Pakistan related to RISCV Instruction Set Architecture.

His areas of interest include Scientometric-Infometric, Security and Communication Networks, Scientific Programming, Opportunistic Networks, Social Network Analysis, Research Trend Analysis, Temporal Information Retrieval, and Web Privacy.

Assistant Professor (Teaching) at the School of Science, Coventry University, UK

Dr. Muhammad Aleem is currently serving as an Assistant Professor at the School of Science, Coventry University, Coventry, UK. He completed his PhD in July 2012 from University of Innsbruck. Previously, he served at department of computer science at FAST-NUCES Islamabad and Capital University of Science and Technology Islamabad.

Dr. Aleem is also associated as a trainer and instructor in an ERASMUS-sponsored project focused on international accreditation. In addition, he is the Co-founder of Technology Ideas, a company providing smart software solutions, consultancy, SEO, and hosting services for online businesses.

His research interests include Parallel and Distributed Computing, with a focus on programming and runtime environments, scheduling mechanisms for parallel systems, Multi-/Many-core Computing, Performance Analysis, Cloud and Cluster Computing, Fog/Edge Computing, Big Data Processing, and Cyber Threat Analysis.

Assistant Professor at Department of Computer Science, Leeds University, UK

Dr. Muhammad Azhar Iqbal completed his PhD in 2012 from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, P.R. China. He has had significant roles (as Teaching Fellow) at Lancaster University (LU, UK), (as Associate Professor) at Capital University of Science and Technology (CUST, Pakistan). He has received senior membership IEEE and fellowship of Higher Education Academy. He has conceptualized key projects of PCN related to partitioning and distribution of large-scale simulations in Cloud. He has authored several international conferences/journal publications and is leading author of two textbooks.

Dr. Azhar is currently serving as an Assistant Professor at the University of Leeds, UK. His current research is at the cutting edge of the agriculture digitalization. He is dedicated to developing Artificial Intelligence based solutions aimed at improving sustainable crop/animal production systems. Some of his professional memberships are at IEEE, IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) and Fellow HEA (Higher Education Academy). His research interests include, Wireless Ad hoc Networks, Cloud Computing, Deep Learning, Internet of Things, Digital Agriculture.