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Tahira Iftikhar

Junior Lecturer

  • MS(CSIT) Ned University Karachi Campus.
  • B.Ed (Leadership and Management) Allama Iqbal Open University.
  • BS(CS) University of Karachi-Dept. of Computer Science

About

Tahira Iftikhar is an experienced educator and software engineer with a strong background in computer science and IT. She holds an MS in Computer Science and Information Technology from NED University, as well as a BS in Computer Science from the University of Karachi. With over six years of experience in teaching mathematics and computer science in various educational settings, Tahira has also excelled in creating school timetables, instructing board classes, and managing lab sessions. In her early career, she worked as a Software Engineer at Noma Technologies, where she developed web applications, worked on ASP.NET projects, and contributed to SQL Server and DotNetNuke applications. Her technical skills include C++, C#, Python, .NET, SQL, and database management, and she has conducted workshops on mathematics and attended seminars on cloud computing and career management. With a commitment to IT, teaching, and mentoring, Tahira aims to continue contributing to education and technology.

Area of Expertise

  • Large language models (LLMs)
  • Recommender systems.
  • Generative AI.

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.