Awards & Achievements
Scholarships
September 2006: Merit-Based LUMS Scholarship (LUMS Fellowship) - Awarded to the top 3 students in the batch at LUMS. (Covered tuition fees and provided a monthly stipend)
2000: Merit-Based Scholarship in All Pakistan Scholarship Test (MOST) - Awarded for 4 years of BS (Computer Science)
Academic Honors
2025: Paper Published in a Top 7% Journal (Web of Science), Wos Ranking: 93.1%, Impact Factor:11. Title "Cybersecurity in smart microgrids using blockchain-federated learning and quantum-safe approaches: A comprehensive review." Journal Name: Applied Energy
2025: Out of my 20 impact factor publication, 18 are W category.
2007: Secured 4th position in a batch of approximately 130 students, Dean's Honors List, MS (CS) degree - LUMS
2010: Ph.D. Qualifier Exam (OSU, USA): Achieved 4th position out of 18 candidates.
2016: Rice Grain Analyzer project won the Rector Award for Research and Innovation.
2015: The Feature-based Driver's Distraction Detection Techniques using a Neural Network based on a Fixed Single Camera project won the Rector Award for Research and Innovation.
2012: My FYP students, Waqas Hamid (091320008) & Adeel Tariq (091320049), of UMT, secured 1st place in LUMS CATAR 2012.
2013: My FYP students, Muhammad Muaz (081220062) et al., won 2nd Position at SofExpo December 2013 in the Best Final Year Project Category. The title of the project was Human Fall Detection.
2013: My FYP students, Umair Mir (081220013) et al., won 4th Position in SofExpo December 2013. The title of the project was Virtual Classroom.
2013: My FYP students, Waqas Hamid (091320008) & Adeel Tariq (091320049), won 2nd Position at SofExpo March 2013 in the Innovative Idea Category. The title of the project was Video Summarization.
Teaching Recognition
May 23, 2016: "The Most Favourite Teacher Award" - Farewell 2016
National ICT R&D Awards (FYP)
2021-22: Election Prediction using Social Media through Sentiment Analysis project
2020-21: Smart Blind Stick project
2015-16: Intelligent Rice Grain Analyzer project
2013-14: Video Summarization (Project on Vehicle Speed Recognition and Estimation)
2013-14: Human Fall Detection (Fixed Camera Based) project
2012-13: Attendance System using Face Recognition project
2012-13: Thumb Recognition project
2012-13: Video Summarization project
Judge for Software and Programming Competitions
ACM-ICPC Programming Competition (International Level)
November 2014, NUCES-FAST, Lahore
November 2015, NUCES-FAST, Lahore
May 2016, UCP, Lahore
Softec (Pakistan's Largest IT Extravaganza)
2015, NUCES-FAST, Lahore
2016, NUCES-FAST, Lahore
2017, NUCES-FAST, Lahore
APEX Government College University (GCU), Lahore
2017, GCU, Lahore