Dr. Muhammad Kamran
Email: m[dot]kamran[dot]nuces[at]gmail[dot]com,
Skype ID: m[dot]kamran[dot]nuces
https://sites.google.com/site/kamranhomepage
HEC-Pakistan Approved Ph.D. Supervisor
(Executive Summary of Resume)
Qualification:
Doctor of Philosophy (Computer Sciences), FAST-NUCES, Islamabad, Pakistan, (2012).
Thesis title: Digital Right Protection of Relational Databases
Thesis Supervisor:
Dr. Muddassar Farooq FAST-NUCES, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Thesis Examiners:
Dr. Ashfaq Khokhar University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.
Dr. Yingjiu Li Singapore Management University, Singapore.
Dr. Basit Shafiq LUMS, Lahore Pakistan.
Dr. Asifullah Khan PIEAS, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Dr. Kashif Zafar FAST-NUCES, Lahore, Pakistan.
Master of Sciences (Computer Sciences), FAST-NUCES, Pakistan, (2008).
Bachelor of Sciences (Computer Sciences), AIOU, Pakistan, (2005).
Professional Profile:
February 2019 till date: Assistant Professor, Department of Cybersecurity, College of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Jeddah, KSA.
February 2013 to January 2019: Assistant Professor, COMSATS University Islamabad – Wah Campus, Wah Cantt, Pakistan.
August 2012 to January 2013: Adjunct Faculty Member, FAST-NUCES Islamabad Campus.
February 2011 to April 2012: Research and Development Engineer, Creanyx Inc.
September 2008 to August 2010: Research Associate, Next Generation Intelligent Networks Research Center (nexGIN RC) [www.nexginrc.org], National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (NUCES) [www.nu.edu.pk].
August 2008 to Dec 2010: Teaching Assistant FAST-NUCES Islamabad Campus. [www.nu.edu.pk]
June 2008 to May 2009: Visiting Lecturer, AIOU Study Center.
June 2007 to August 2007: Research Assistant, Center for Agro-Informatics Research (C@IR), NUCES.
A Summary of Work experience and expertise:
More than 15 years of teaching and R&D experience at reputable academic and R&D institutions.
Gained expertise in exploring vital characteristics of datasets that play important role in knowledge discovery and data mining – by hand on experience.
Experience in extracting knowledge from very large datasets, especially medical, agricultural and natural language processing (NLP) datasets.
Experience in designing and developing OLAP tools for presenting aggregates of very large medical and agricultural datasets.
Experience in developing user friendly web applications with a special focus on Electronic Medical Records, NLP and Decision Support Systems etc.
Awards and Recognitions:
Overall three IEEE Transactions Journal papers from PhD thesis (Very few Indigenous Ph.D. scholars get their papers published in such journals while studying)
Two papers in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering Journal. This Journal, according to Microsoft academic research, currently is highly ranked journal in computer sciences.
A paper in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
A book chapter titled Opposition-Based Particle Swarm Optimization with Velocity Clamping (OVCPSO), in Springer Book Series: "Advances in Intelligent & Soft Computing", 2009.
HEC Best Paper Award 2012
HEC Best Paper Award 2013/14
Member of the RPMS project which won:
World Summit Youth Award (WSYA), Mexico 2009.
Gold Medal in Research project Category at COMPPEC 2010 for RPMS Project (http://nexginrc.org/Projects/ProjectDetail.aspx?pageID=15).
Silver Medal in Research Category at P@SHA ICT Awards 2009 for RPMS Project.
Research Interests:
Medical data mining and data security ( privacy and ownership protection)
Decision support systems and data warehousing
Watermarking of relational databases for ownership rights protection and tamper proofing
Data mining and machine learning
Computation intelligence
Nature inspired computing
Big data analytics
Muhammad Kamran
Email: m[dot]kamran[dot]nuces[at]gmail[dot]com
Objective
My medium term goal is to reach the top through hard work, innovative and goal oriented approach. Immediate goal is to actively participate with my knowledge, skills and professional attitudes to add value to the organization and simultaneously learn from the challenges to be confronted with.
Current Position
Working as Assistant Professor, Department of Cybersecurity, College of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Jeddah, KSA.
Education
PhD Computer Science (2008-2012)
Thesis title: Digital Right Protection of Relational Databases
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Pakistan
MS Computer Science (2006-2008)
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Pakistan
Awards and Honors
HEC Best paper award 2012
HEC Best Paper Award 2013/14
Member of the RPMS project which won:
World Summit Youth Award (WSYA), Mexico 2009.
Gold Medal in Research project Category at COMPPEC 2010 for RPMS Project (http://nexginrc.org/Projects/ProjectDetail.aspx?pageID=15).
Silver Medal in Research Category at P@SHA ICT Awards 2009 for RPMS Project.
Publications
Journal papers:
1. Alghamdi, Ahmed S., Talha Imran, Khalid T. Mursi, Atika Ejaz, Muhammad Kamran, and Abdullah Alamri. "A Vehicle Classification System for Intelligent Transport System using Machine Learning in Constrained Environment." International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, vlo. 14, no. 7, 2023. Impact factor
2. Alghamdi, Ahmed S; Saeed, Ammar; Kamran, Muhammad; Mursi, Khalid T; Almukadi, Wafa Sulaiman. A Novel Vehicle Classification Using Deep Feature Fusion and Genetic Algorithms. Electronics, vol. 12(2), pp.280, 2023. Impact factor
3. Kamran, Muhammad, and Ahmed Abdul-Aziz Almaghthawi. "Case-Based Reasoning Diagnostic System for Antenatal Research Database." International Journal of Online & Biomedical Engineering 18, no. 7, 2022. Impact factor
4. Alghamdi, A.S., Naz, S., Saeed, A., Al Solami, E., Kamran, M. and Alkatheiri, M.S. A Novel Database Watermarking Technique Using Blockchain as Trusted Third Party. CMC-COMPUTERS MATERIALS & CONTINUA, 70(1), pp.1585-1601, 2022. Impact factor
5. Alhudhaif, A., Saeed, A., Imran, T., Kamran, M., Alghamdi, A.S., Aseeri, A.O. and Alsubai, S., 2022. A particle swarm optimization based deep learning model for vehicle classification. Computer Systems Science and Engineering, 40(1), pp.223-35. Impact factor
6. Javaid, A., Rafiq, A., Rehan, M., Rafique, M.M., Kamran, M. and Munir, E.U., Clustering-cum-Handover Management Scheme for improved Internet access in high-density mobile wireless environments. Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, 30, p.100483, 2021. Impact factor
7. Khan, W., Ahmad, A., Qamar, A., Kamran, M. and Altaf, M., SpoofCatch: A Client-Side Protection Tool Against Phishing Attacks. IT Professional, 23(2), pp.65-74, 2021. Impact factor
8. Fatima, M., Nisar, M.W., Rashid, J., Kim, J., Kamran, M. and Hussain, A., 2021. A Novel Fingerprinting Technique for Data Storing and Sharing through Clouds. Sensors, 21(22), p.7647, 2021. Impact factor
9. Al Solami, E., Kamran, M., Saeed Alkatheiri, M., Rafiq, F. and Alghamdi, A.S., 2020. Fingerprinting of Relational Databases for Stopping the Data Theft. Electronics, 9(7), p.1093, 2020. Impact factor
10. Jan Badshah, Majed Mohaia Alhaisoni, Nadir Shah, and Muhammad Kamran, Cache Servers Placement Based on Important Switches for SDN-Based ICN, Electronics, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 1-17, 2020. Impact factor
11. Wilayat Khan, Muhammad Kamran, Syed Rameez Naqvi, Farrukh Aslam Khan, Ahmed S. Alghamdi, and Eesa Alsolamian, Formal Verification of Hardware Components in Critical Systems, Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing, vol. 2020, pp. 1-15, 2020. Impact factor
12. Waqar Mehmood, Hassan Jari, Ali Tahir, Waqar Aslam, Muhammad Kamran, UCDiff: Difference Detection in Use-Case models of HealthCare System, Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics, vol. 10, no. 10, pp. 2369-2377, 2020. Impact factor
13. Samra Zafar, Muhammad Kamran, Xiaopeng.Hu, Intrusion-Miner: A Hybrid Classifier for Intrusion Detection using Data Mining, International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), vol. 10, no. 4, 2019. ISI Indexed
14. Naz, Farah, Muhammad Kamran, Waqar Mehmood, Wilayat Khan, Mohammed Saeed Alkatheiri, Ahmed S. Alghamdi, and Abdulrahman A. Alshdadi, Automatic identification of sarcasm in tweets and customer reviews, Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 6815-6828, 2019. Impact factor
15. Jan Badshah, Nadir Shah, Muhammad Kamran, S. A. Abid, An improved method to deploy Cache Servers in Software Defined Network-based Information Centric Networking for Big Data, Journal of Grid Computing, Springer, vol. 17, no.2, pp. 255-277, 2019. Impact factor
16. Wilayat Khan, Muhammad Kamran, Aakash Ahmad, Farrukh Aslam Khan, Abdelouahid Derhab, Formal Analysis of Language-based Android Security Using Theorem Proving Approach, IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 16550-16560, 2019. Impact factor
17. M. Kamran, Ehsan Ullah Munir, On the Role of Optimization Algorithms in Ownership-Preserving Data Mining, Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering, Springer, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 151-164, 2018. Impact factor
18. Sumbal Riaz, Mehvish Fatima, M. Kamran, M. Wasif Nisar, Opinion mining on large scale data using sentiment analysis and k-means clustering, Cluster Computing, Springer, (In press), 2017. Impact factor
19. Annam Zafar, M. Kamran, Shafqat Ali Shad, M. Wasif Nisar, A Robust Missing Data Recovering Technique for Mobility Data Mining, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Taylor & Francis, vol. 31, no. 5-6, pp. 425-438, 2017. Impact factor
20. Saman Iftikhar, M. Kamran, Ehsan Ullah Munir, and Samee U. Khan, A Reversible Watermarking Technique for Social Networks Datasets for Enabling Data Trust in Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 197-206, 2017. Impact factor
21. Saman Iftikhar, Sharifullah Khan, Zahid Anwar, Muhammad Kamran, GenInfoGuard - A Robust and Distortion-free Watermarking Technique for Genetic Data, PLoS ONE, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 1-22, 2015. Impact factor
22. Saman Iftikhar, M. Kamran, and Zahid Anwar, A Survey on Reversible Watermarking Techniques for Relational Databases, Security and Communication Networks, vol. 8, no. 15, pp. 2580-2603, 2015. Impact factor
23. Saman Iftikhar, M. Kamran, and Zahid Anwar, RRW - A Robust and Reversible Watermarking Technique for Relational Data, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 1132-1145, 2015. Impact factor
24. M. Kamran, Sabah Suhail, and Muddassar Farooq, A Robust, Distortion Minimizing Technique for Watermarking Relational Databases Using Once-for-all Usability Constraints, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 25, no. 12, pp. 2694-2707, 2013. Impact factor
25. M. Kamran and Muddassar Farooq, A Formal Usability Constraints Model for Ownership Protection of Outsourced Datasets, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 1061-1072, 2013. Impact factor
26. M. Kamran and Muddassar Farooq, An Information-Preserving Watermarking Scheme for Right Protection of EMR Systems, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 24, no. 11, pp. 1950-1962, 2012. Impact factor
Conference papers:
1. Saman Iftikhar, Zahid Anwar, M. Kamran, A Novel Robust Fingerprinting Technique for Digital Data based on Genetic Algorithm, HONET, 2014.
2. M. Kamran and Muddassar Farooq, Providing Harmless Ownership Protection for Shared Patient Data, International ehap Conference, 2012.
3. J. Afridi, M. Kamran, H. Irshad, S. Farooq, and M. Farooq, Use of Clinical Decision Support System on Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) of the Medical Expert, International ehap Conference, 2010.
4. Farrukh Shahzad, A. Rauf Baig, Sohail Masood, Muhammad Kamran, and Nawazish Naveed, Opposition-Based Particle Swarm Optimization with Velocity Clamping (OVCPSO), book chapter in Springer Book Series "Advances in Intelligent & Soft Computing", pp. 339-348, 2009.
5. H Irshad, M. Kamran, AB Siddiqui, A Hussain, Image Fusion Using Computational Intelligence: A Survey, in Second International Conference on Environmental and Computer Science, pp. 128-132, 2009.
Technical Reports
1. An Optimized Information-Preserving Relational Database Watermarking Scheme for Ownership Protection of Medical Data 2012.
https://sites.google.com/site/kamranhomepage/research#TOC-Technical-Reports:
2. Ownership-preserving Data Mining: A Formal Usability Constraints Model for Watermarking of Outsourced Datasets 2011.
https://sites.google.com/site/kamranhomepage/research#TOC-Technical-Reports:
Research Projects
Stopping the data theft: Tracing the Guilty Agent
An intelligent framework for monitoring data security and versioning of relational databases using machine learning
Technical Services
Serving as the reviewer for prestigious journals like:
· IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
· IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
· Cluster Computing, Springer
· IEEE Systems Journal
Serve in the program committee of the conference: International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT)
Served as the session co-chair in FIT 2016
Teaching
Experience
1. Institute: University of Jeddah, Jeddah, KSA.
Position: Assistant Professor
Duration: February 2019 till date
Role: Teaching at BS, MS, and Ph.D. Computer Science level and Research.
2. Institute: COMSATS University Islamabad – Wah Campus, Wah Cantt, Pakistan.
Position: Assistant Professor
Duration: February 2013 to January 2019
Role: Teaching at BS, MS, and Ph.D. Computer Science level and Research.
3. Institute: FAST-NUCES
Position: Adjunct Faculty
Duration: August 2012 to June 2013
Role: Teaching at BS and MS Computer Science level.
4. Institute: FAST NUCES
Position: Teaching Assistant
Duration: August 2008 to Dec 2010
Role: Conducting tutorials for the course of Data Warehousing and Data Mining, preparing and checking of assignments, and exams.
5. Institute: AIOU Study Center
Position: Adjunct Faculty
Duration: June 2008 to May 2009
Role: Teaching at BS Computer Science level.
Research and Development Experience
1. Organization: Creanyx Inc.
Position: Research and Development Engineer
Duration: February 2011 t0 April 2012
Responsibility: Research and Development work on NLP.
2. Organization: Next Generation Intelligent Networks Research Center (nexGIN RC), FAST
Position: Research Associate
Duration: September 2008 to August 2010
Responsibility: Research on EMR-mining, intelligent Decision Support Systems (DSS) and their right protection.
3. Organization: Center for Agro-Informatics Research (C@IR), FAST
Position: Research Assistant
Duration: June 2007 to August 2007
Responsibility: Development of web based applications.
Research Interests
Medical Data Mining And Data Security (Privacy and Ownership Protection)
2. Decision Support Systems And Data Warehousing
3. Watermarking Of Relational Databases For Ownership Rights Protection And Tamper Proofing
4. Data Mining And Machine Learning
5. Computation Intelligence
6. Big data analytics
7. Optimization
Theses Supervised (Completed)
Ph.D.
1. Jointly supervised Saman Iftikhar for her Ph.D. thesis during her Ph.D. from NUST, Pakistan.
Title: A Robust and Reversible Watermarking Technique for Relational Databases
MS
1. Jointly supervised Sabah Suhail for her MS thesis during her MS from NUST, Pakistan.
Title: A Highly Robust Watermarking Technique for Right Protection Of Relational Databases
2. Supervised Farah Naz for her MS thesis from COMSATS University Islamabad -- Wah Campus, Pakistan.
Title: Automatic Identification of Sarcasm on Twitter
3. Supervised Konpal Jafri for her MS thesis from COMSATS University Islamabad -- Wah Campus, Pakistan.
Title: Named Entity Recognition in Urdu Semantic Based Query Processing in Urdu Documents
4. Supervised Atika Ejaz for her MS thesis from COMSATS University Islamabad -- Wah Campus, Pakistan.
Title: Ownership Protection Mechanism for Databases Stored in Cloud
5. Supervised Sidra Khan for her MS thesis from COMSATS University Islamabad -- Wah Campus, Pakistan.
Title: Watermarking Of Relational Databases for Big Data
6. Supervised Fouzia Rafiq for her MS thesis from COMSATS University Islamabad -- Wah Campus, Pakistan.
Title: Fingerprinting of Relational Databases for stopping the data theft
7. Supervised Munazza Bibi for her MS thesis from COMSATS University Islamabad -- Wah Campus, Pakistan.
Title: Particle Swarm Optimization Variants Based 3D Body Shape Clustering
8. Jointly Supervised Maryam Akhtar for her MS thesis from COMSATS University Islamabad -- Wah Campus, Pakistan.
Title: A Novel Watermarking Technique for Ownership Protection and Data Compression of Big Data
9. Jointly Supervised Mehvish Fatima for her MS thesis from COMSATS University Islamabad -- Wah Campus, Pakistan.
Title: A Novel Fingerprinting Technique for Data Stored and Shared through Clouds
10. Supervised Sumbal Riaz for her MS thesis from COMSATS University Islamabad -- Wah Campus, Pakistan.
Title: Deriving Customer Preferences using Sentiment Analysis
11. Jointly Supervised Muhammad Tayyab for his MS thesis from COMSATS University Islamabad -- Wah Campus, Pakistan.
Title: A New Approach for Detecting Network Invariants in Multi-controller SDN
12. Jointly Supervised Waqas Ahmad for his MS thesis from COMSATS University Islamabad -- Wah Campus, Pakistan.
Title: An Improved Cache Replacement Strategy in SDN bsed ICN