Prof. Muhammad Asif Naeem

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Dr Muhammad Asif Naeem is a director ORIC at FAST National University, Islamabad. He is also a director of Data Insight Research Lab at National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences (NUCES) Islamabad, Pakistan and founder of Data Science Research Centre (DSRC) at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. He is a Professor in Department of AI&DS at NUCES, Pakistan. He received his PhD degree in Computer Science from The University of Auckland and has been awarded a best PhD thesis of the year. Before that he has done his Master’s degree with distinction and Bachelor degree with high first division. He has about eighteen years research, industrial and teaching experience. As an outcome of his research, he published one book and more than 120 peer reviewed journals, conferences and workshops papers including in IEEE, ACM, Elsevier, and Springer. His research has been published in IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Expert Systems with Applications, Information Systems, VLDB, and ICDM. He is providing consultancy services to a number of industries in the area of AI and Data Science. He has received a number of international funding grants including Callaghan Innovation Fund (CIF) and Strategic Research Innovation Fund (SRIF). Recently he has received Nation Research Program for Universities grant of PKR 7.2m from the Higher Education Commission, Pakistan. He has been finalised for the Vice Chancellor Emerging Research Award twice at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. He has received the Faculty Best Teaching and Emerging Researcher Awards. He has been invited as a keynote speaker to a number of conferences in his area. He is an Associate Editor in IEEE Access Journal. He is organising an IEEE workshop IWDS since 2013. He has been reviewing for well-known journals and conferences in his area. His research interests include Generative AI, Data Science, Big Data Management, Data Mining and Machine Learning, Active Databases and Data Warehousing. For further detail please visit his home page.

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