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Prof. Dr. Noman Islam

Professor

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Feb 2020 – Jan 2021 University of Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Jan 2013 (3.97/4.00), Ranked 1st merit-wise National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences (NUCES), Karachi, Pakistan

M.S. in Computer Science, Jun 2006 (3.69/4.00), 2nd position overall National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences (NUCES), Karachi, Pakistan

B.S. in Computer Science, Dec 2002 (3.57/4.00), Ranked 14th merit-wise University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan

About

  • BS(CS), MS(CS), PhD(CS), and PostDoc in IT
  • Three international certifications on HTML5/JavaScript, Android, and Python
  • Around 100 research publications with 1800+ citations, h-index=15, and Impact Factor ~30
  • Reviewer of Ignite and HEC Pakistan
  • HEC approved PhD supervisor

Area of Expertise

  • Machine learning
  • Computer vision
  • Natural language processing
  • Cloud computing
  • Mobile computing.

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.

Here are some publications authored by Noman Islam:

  • Adel Rajab, Hira Farman, Noman Islam, Darakhshan Syed, M. A. Elmagzoub, Asadullah Shaikh, Muhammad Akram, and Mesfer Alrizq. “Flood Forecasting by Using Machine Learning: A Study Leveraging Historic Climatic Records of Bangladesh.” Water 15, no. 22 (2023): 3970.
  • Roohan Aziz, Asim Imdad Wagan, Noman Islam, “Block Based Learned Image Compression”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2023, (SCI/ WoS Indexed, IF=2.57)
  • Hani Alshahrani, Noman Islam, Darakhshan Syed, Adel Sulaiman, Mana Saleh Al Reshan, Khairan Rajab, Asadullah Shaikh, Jaweed Shuja-Uddin, and Aadar Soomro. 2023 “Sustainability in blockchain: A systematic literature review on scalability and power consumption issues”, Energies (SCI/ WoS Indexed, IF=3.252)
  • Mana Saleh Al Reshan, Darakhshan Syed, Noman Islam, Asadullah Shaikh, Mohammed Hamdi, Ghulam Muhammad, Kashif Hussain Talpur, M. A. Elmagzoub. 2023. “A Fast Converging and Globally Optimized Approach for Load Balancing in Cloud Computing”, IEEE Access (SCI/ WoS Indexed, IF=4.6)
  • Asadullah Shaikh, Syed Rizwan, Abdullah Alghamdi, Noman Islam, M.A. Elmagzoub, and Darakhshan Syed, “A Learning-Based Fault Localization Approach Using Subset of Likely and Dynamic Invariants”, Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, 2022 (SCI/ WoS Indexed, IF=1.647)
  • Elmagzoub Abdalla, Darakhshan Syed, Asadullah Shaikh, Noman Islam, Abdullah Alghamdi, and Syed Rizwan, “A Survey of Swarm Intelligence based Load Balancing Techniques in Cloud Computing Environment”, Electronics, 2021 (SCI/ WoS Indexed, IF=2.421)
  • Noman Islam, Shaikh, A., Qaiser, A., Asiri, Y., Almakdi, S., Sulaiman, A., and Babar, S. A. (2021). “Ternion: An Autonomous Model for Fake News Detection”. Applied Sciences, 11(19), 9292. (IF=2.679)
  • Muhammad Asim Shahid, Noman Islam, Muhammad MansoorAlam, M.S Mazliham, Shahrulniza Musa, “Towards Resilient Method: An Exhaustive Survey of Fault Tolerance Methods in the Cloud Computing Environment”, Computer Science Review, Elsevier, 20201 (SCI/ WoS Indexed, IF = 7.7)
  • Abdullah Alghamdi, ToobaMehtab, Rizwan Iqbal, Mona Leza, Noaman Islam, Mohammed Hamdi, and Asadullah Shaikh, “Automatic Classification of Monosyllabic and Multisyllabic Birds using PDHF”, March 2021, Electronics, MDPI, (SCI/ WoS Indexed, IF = 2.1)
  • Muhammad AsimShahid, Noman Islam, Muhammad MansoorAlam, M.S Mazliham, Shahrulniza Musa, “A comprehensive study of load balancing approaches in the cloud computing environment and a novel fault tolerance approach”, IEEE Access (SCI/ WoS Indexed, IF = 4.6)
  • Fahad Hussain, Umair Saeed, Ghulam Muhammad, Noman Islam, Ghazala Shafi Sheikh.2019. “Classifying cancer patients based on DNA sequences using machine learning”, Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics, vol. 9(3), pp. 436-443 (SCI/ WoS indexed, IF=0.549)
  • Aqeel-ur-Rehman, Abu Z. Abbasi, Noman Islam, and Zubair A. Shaikh. 2014. “A Review of Wireless Sensors and Networks’ Applications in Agriculture”, Computer Standards & Interfaces, ISSN: 0920-5489, Elsevier (SCI/ WoS Indexed, IF=0.978)
  • Noman Islam, Zubair A. Shaikh, Aqeel-ur-Rehman, and Muhammad Shahab Siddiqui. 2013. “HANDY: A Hybrid Association Rules Mining Approach for Network Layer Discovery of Services”, Wireless Networks, Springer, ISSN: 1022-0038, Springer (SCI/ WoS Indexed, IF=0.736)