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Dr. Maria Siddiqua

Assistant Professor

PhD Computer Science, PIEAS Islamabad (2023)
MS Computer Science, PIEAS Islamabad (2020)
BE Computer Systems Engineering, MUET Jamshoro (2018)

About

Dr. Maria Siddiqua is a Computer Vision and Deep Learning researcher with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from PIEAS. An HEC-approved PhD Supervisor and PEC Registered Engineer, she has a distinguished academic record, including a Gold Medal in her MS and top positions throughout her education.

She currently serves as Assistant Professor and Head of the AI Program at Iqra University and previously held an academic position at FAST NUCES, where she taught Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Computer Vision. Her research focuses on unified image restoration using vision transformers, diffusion models, and GANs, with multiple publications in leading journals and conferences. She is committed to advancing AI research, mentoring future researchers, and developing impactful intelligent systems.

Area of Expertise

  1. Artificial Intelligence
  2. Artificial Neural Networks
  3. Machine Learning
  4. Deep Learning
  5. Applied Computer Vision
  6. Data Science

Publications & Research Work

Dr. Muhammad Shahnawaz Adil

Dr. Muhammad Shahnawaz Adil is an Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Management at Iqra University, Karachi. He holds more than 17 years of full-time university teaching, research, mentorship, and graduate thesis supervision experience. Additionally, he has been serving as the Cluster Head (Management) since January 2020 at the Main Campus. He is currently a member of the advisory and review boards of 18 national and international scholarly journals. 

He has presented various research ideas at international conferences abroad and has published over 25 research papers in national and international journals with 700+ Google citations. He has also authored a monograph on Leadership and Strategy published in Germany. He is an HEC-approved PhD supervisor and five Ph.D. candidates are going to complete their doctoral thesis under his sole supervision. In addition to supervising several industrial projects, 32 MPhil and hundreds of MBA students have successfully passed their research thesis in the Management discipline under his sole supervision. His research interests include the dark side of leadership, workplace mistreatment, multilevel modeling, and creative performance in higher education. He completed a ten-day comprehensive Training of Trainers conducted by Sindh HEC in May 2023.

Dr. Shahnawaz earned his Ph.D. degree in Management from an AACSB and AMBA-accredited business school of Malaysia in 2021. Earlier, he received his MPhil from Iqra University, a ‘triple-crown’ (AACSB, AMBA, and EQUIS-accredited) MBA from Newcastle University (UK), Postgraduate Diploma from Stratford College London (UK), and B.Sc. (Honours) with Distinction from London Metropolitan University, UK. He has secured seven consecutive distinctions in his academic career and has clinched First Class First Position at Sindh Board of Technical Education. He has been associated with Iqra University as a permanent faculty member in the Department of Business Administration since August 2008. His main hobbies include horse-riding, playing scrabble, cooking, bird-farming, and long driving.