DR. MUDASSAR RAZA

Professor
  • Department of Computer Science
  • 187
  • mudassar.raza@namal.edu.pk
Summary

Dr. Mudassar Raza, Senior Member IEEE, has joined Namal University, Mianwali, as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science. He earned his Ph.D. in Control Science and Engineering with a specialization in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China. He has over 18 years of teaching and research experience at both graduate and undergraduate levels at COMSATS University Islamabad, Wah campus, and HITEC University Taxila. His research areas include Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Parallel Programming. His name was included in the list of top 2% highly cited researchers (2023) by Stanford University. He has more than 135 research publications in journals and conferences of international repute with a cumulative impact factor of 215+, more than 5524 citations, H-index: 41, and i10-index 91. He was honored with the “National Youth Award 2008” in the “Computer Science and Information Technology” category by the Prime Minister of Pakistan on International Youth Day, 12 August 2008. He has so far supervised and co-supervised over 51 MS and supervised 3 PhD theses. He has also supervised more than 100 final-year projects of undergraduate students. He is also an internal and external (international) evaluator of PhD Thesis. He is an academic editor and reviewer of several prestigious journals, conferences, and books. He was assigned several academic and administrative tasks along with his teaching and research including Head of Program AI & Cyber Security, lead AI and Machine Learning group, Domain Head (Logic Development & Programming, Web and mobile computing), and member of the curriculum development and curriculum review committees to name a few. He is also a member of the National Standards Committee (NSC), Ministry of Science and Technology, GoP, and HEC level 1 trainer for online teaching.

Academic Background
Ph.D. [Doctor of Engineering In Control Science And Engineering] with specialization in Pattern recognition and intelligent systems ( Automated Identification of Pedestrian’ Attributes for Behavior Analysis in Surveillance Systems by Employing Deep Learning Techniques) Department of Automation, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Anhui province, Hefei, China 2017
MS(CS) [Master of Science (Computer Science)] ( 3D Face Recognition) Iqra University, Islamabad Campus, Pakistan 2010
MCS [Master of Computer Science] ( MD5 Cracking using Cluster Computing ) COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, WAH Cantt. CAMPUS, Pakistan 2006
BCS [Bachelors in Computer Science] (3 Years Program) ( ) The Punjab University Lahore, Pakistan 2003
Experience
Professor NAMAL University 03-Sep-2024 - continue
Associate Professor HITEC University Taxila 08-Sep-2023 - 02-Sep-2024
Associate Professor COMSATS University Islamabad, Wah Campus 22-May-2023 - 07-Sep-2023
Assistant Professor COMSATS University Islamabad, Wah Campus 29-Nov-2012 - 21-May-2023
Lecturer COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, WAH Cantt. CAMPUS, Pakistan 22-Jan-2008 - 28-Nov-2012
Research Associate COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, WAH Cantt. CAMPUS, Pakistan 02-Oct-2006 - 21-Jan-2008
Honours and Awards
Research Productivity Awards received consecutively from 2009 to 2017 Research Productivity Awards received consecutively from 2009 to 2019 in appreciation of contribution to research from COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan 01-Jan-2024
Honorariums/ Letter of Appreciations on performance awarded by COMSATS University Islamabad, Wah Campus. Awarded for years 2014,2021, 2022, and 2023 01-Jan-2024
Prestigious CAS-TWAS President’s Ph.D. Fellowship at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) Awarded the prestigious CAS-TWAS President’s Ph.D. Fellowship at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Anhui province, Hefei China (World Ranking 97 university) 01-Sep-2014
Judge at the Fall 2017 Hefei regional debate tournament hosted at Sino-US curriculum program of Hefei, China Served as a Judge at the Fall 2017 Hefei regional debate tournament hosted at Sino-US curriculum program of Hefei no. 1 high school organized by the national high school debate league of china, 21-10-2017 21-Oct-2017
Online Teaching Level 1 by NAHE HEC “Online Teaching Level 1” Trainer on online teaching course by NAHE HEC. 20 March 2021 to 10 April 2021 10-Apr-2021
Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, Neurocomputing Journal Received the certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, Neurocomputing Journal, February 2018. 01-Feb-2018
Top Cited Research Article 2021-2022, expert systems journal Top Cited Research Article 2021-2022, expert systems journal Willey. “Skin Leison segmentation and classification: A unified framework of deep neural network features fusion and selection” 01-Aug-2022
IEEE Ethics Champion, Region 10 IEEE Ethics Champion, Region 10, IEEE 5 August 2023 05-Aug-2003
National Youth Award 2008 Achieved “National Youth Award 2008” in the category of “Computer Science and Information Technology”, Honored by Prime Minister of Pakistan on the occasion of International Youth Day 12 August 2008. By Ministry of Youth Affairs, Govt. of Pakistan. 12-Sep-2008
World Top 2% highly cited researcher Top 2% Scientist by Stanford university list published in Elsevier 01-Sep-2023
Courses
  • Advanced Computer Vision
  • Programming Fundamentals
  • Intelligent Systems
  • Special Topics in Computer Science
  • Cyber Security
  • Special Topics in Machine Learning
  • Advanced Topics in Machine Learning
  • Theory of Automata II
  • Deep Learning
  • Advanced Operating Systems
  • Theory of Computation
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Advanced Topics in Computer Vision
  • Introduction to Bioinformatics
  • Network Operating Systems
  • Database Systems
  • Algorithms and Data Structures
  • Operating Systems Concepts
  • Introduction to Computer Programming
  • Design & Analysis of Algorithm
  • Computer Organization and Assembly Language