Honors and Awards

Funding Projects

Grant 1:

Project Title: Multi Objective Medium Access Control Configuration in Wireless Sensors using Machine Learning"

Funding Agency: Higher Education Commission, Pakistan.

Budget: Rs.986827/-

Status: Final Report Submitted

Grant 2:

Title: E-Voting System Using Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain

Funding Agency: National Grassroots ICT Research Initiative, Ignite (ICT R&D FYP)

Budget: Rs. 56,000/-

Status: Completed


Travel Grants

  1. GeoDiversity Travel Grant I have been awarded a GeoDiversity Travel Grant of US$ 3000 to attend SigComm Conference, 2018 held in Budapest Hungry from 20 Aug, 2018 to 25 Aug, 2018.

  2. Research Travel Grant from Yeungnam University (BK-21) for attending 5th International Conference on Internet and Distributed Computing System, Wu Yi Shan, Fujian, China (2012).


Best Papers Awards

  1. Best Paper Award ACM 7th International Conference on Computing Communication and Networking Technologies, July 6, 2016 , Dallas, U.S.A .

  2. Best Paper Award for the paper "A reliable and scalable groupcast block acknowledgement scheme for video multicast over IEEE 802.11aa standard" (M. K. Afzal, R. Ullah, B. Kim and S. W. Kim) in International Conference on Green and Human Information Technology (ICGHIT-2018), Chiang Mai, Thailand, Jan. 31-Feb. 2, 2018.


Scholarships & Academic Achievements

  1. Ph.D Scholarship by Yeungnam University, South Korea (2011).

  2. Master Scholarship by Comsats Institute of Information Technology, Wah Cantt, Pakistan (2005).

  3. Third Position in 3rd Semester of MCS (2003).

  4. First Position in IT Exhibition and Competition, 2004 organized by the UET Lahore, Pakistan (2004).

  5. Second Position in Software Competition organized by COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah Cantt Pakistan (2004).

  6. Second Position in Software Competition organized by Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan (2004).


Workshop/Seminar Attended

  1. Attended a seminar on "From research to Publication: An overview on IEEE Publication Process" organized by IEEE

  2. Two day workshop on “Promoting Research Excellence in Academics across Pakistan” (1st and 2nd February, 2022) organbized by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan.

  3. Attended a workshop on "Future Networks Testbed Requirements, Challenges, and Opportunities" Organized by: IEEE Future Networks Initiative (7-8 February 2022)