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Ghazala Shafi Sheikh

Lecturer

MS (COMPUTER SCIENCES), Bahria University, Karachi.

BS (COMPUTER SCIENCES), Hamdard University, Karachi.

About

Ghazala Shafi Sheikh is a dynamic individual with several years of teaching and research experience. She is a member of various academic and professional forums and has published 13 research publications in international conferences and journals. In past, she served as department coordinator managing various accreditation related activities and departmental affairs. She has also various certifications on programming and graphics designing such as 3D Auto Desk. She is currently working as Senior Lecturer, at Iqra University, Karachi. Right now, she is engaged in developing solutions for next generation networks.

Area of Expertise

  • Next generation networks
  • Artificial intelligence
  • cyber security
  • mobile ad hoc network.

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.

  • Noman Islam, Ghazala Shafi Sheikh, Zubair A. Shaikh, “Using association rules mining, multi-level data representation and cross-layer operations for data management in mobile ad hoc network”, accepted for publication, International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics (ACM/ ESCI Indexed)
  • 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 Indexed, IF=0.549)
  • Ghazala Shafi Sheikh and Noman Islam, “Towards a context-aware smart library management system”, International Journal of Conceptions on Computing and Information Technology vol. 3, Issue. 2, August’ 2015; ISSN: 2345 – 9808 (DOAJ indexed)
  • Muhammad Talha Qureshi, Athaul Rai, Noman Islam, Ghazala Shafi Sheikh, “Four-Pronged Low Cost and Optimized Traffic Routing Solution” International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM) vol. 14, Issue. 10, June’ 2020. (Scopus Indexed)
  • Noman Islam, Ghazala Shafi Sheikh, Rida Fatima and Farrukh Alvi, 2019. “A study of difficulties of students in learning programming”, Journal Education and Social Sciences (JESS), vol. 7(2), pp. 38-46 (HEC recognized Y-category)
  • Noman Islam, Ghazala Shafi Sheikh, Zeeshan Islam, “A Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Network’s Based Disaster Management Scheme with Efficient Spectrum Management, Collaboration and Interoperability”, Journal of Information and Communication Technologies, vol. 11, Issue 1, 2017. (HEC recognized Y-category)
  • Noman Islam, Zubair A. Shaikh and Ghazala Shafi Sheikh, “A review of techniques for ontology editor evaluation”, Journal of Information and Communication Technologies, vol. 9, Issue 2, 2015. (HEC recognized Y-category)
  • Ghazala Shafi Sheikh and Noman Islam, “A Qualitative Study of Major Programming Languages: Teaching Programming Languages to Computer Science Students”, Journal of Information and Communication Technologies January 2016. (HEC recognized Y-category)
  • Sheikh, Ghazala Shafi and Noman Islam, “Towards a context-aware smart library management system”, in proceedings of International Conference on Mathematics and Information Technology (ICMIT), Srilanka. 2015.
  • Noman Islam, and Ghazala Shafi Sheikh, “Towards cloud based mobile ad Ghazala Shafi Sheikh hoc network simulation”, in proceedings of Sixth International Conference on Computing, Communications and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT)”, Taxas, USA, 2015.
  • Noman Islam, and Ghazala Shafi Sheikh, “Towards a Disaster Response System based On Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks”, in proceedings of Second International, Conference on Next Generation Computing and Communication Technologies(ICNGCCT 2015), UAE, 2015.
  • Ghazala Shafi Sheikh, Rida Fatima, Noman Islam and Farrukh Alvi, “A study of difficulties of students in learning programming”, Presented at National Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, 28-29th April, 2019
  • Suhail Shaikh, Naima Arshad, Areez Khalil, Ghazala Shafi Sheikh, Ghous Baksh Narejo, “Design & Development Of A System For Hiding Information Within Images Using Steganography”, in proceedings of1st International Electrical Engineering Congress (IEP 2016), Karachi, 2016.