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Yamna Ahmed

Lecturer

  • MS (Computer Science), National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences(FAST), Karachi,
    Pakistan
  • Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (Electronic), Hamdard University, Karachi, Pakistan

About

Syeda Yamna is an experienced Computer Science Lecturer and Researcher with over four years
in academia. Known for creating OBE-aligned course materials and integrating real-world
applications in her teaching, she teaches courses such as Programming Fundamentals, Data
Structures, and Operating Systems. Previously, she served as a Research Associate at FAST,
where she contributed to an AI-based Personalized E-Learning project funded by the National
Center for Artificial Intelligence, conducting impactful research in machine learning and e-
learning systems, with her work published in IEEE Xplore.

She holds an MS in Computer Science, with a thesis on early prediction of student performance
in blended learning environments, and a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from Hamdard
University. Her technical expertise includes programming languages (C, C++, Python, SQL),
machine learning tools (TensorFlow, Keras), and data analysis software (SPSS, Power BI). Her
projects include COVID-19 Data Visualization, YouTube Data Analysis with Hadoop, and a
computer vision project on eye-tracking for human-computer interaction.
An active participant in professional development, she has completed training on publishing in
high-quality journals and IEEE Open Access and received a USD 5,000 award in the BuiltByHer
STEM hackathon for digital education innovation. She is dedicated to creating a student-
centered, engaging learning environment and is passionate about contributing to the progress
of digital education.

Area of Expertise

● Artificial Intelligence
● Machine Learning.

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.

● AI-Based Personalized E-Learning Systems: Issues, Challenges, and Solutions
(Journal), IEEE Xplore, 2022