Aftab Alam, Ph.D. [Researcher] 

 About

Aftab Alam, Ph.D., is a data manager at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, and an assistant professor (V) at NUML, Islamabad. He has been doing research and industrial development in Computer Science for over the last 14+ years. 

He has an MS degree in Computer Science from the University of Peshawar, Pakistan, and a Ph.D. and Post-doc from the Data & Knowledge Engineering Laboratory, Department of Computer Engineering, Kyung Hee University (KHU, Global Campus), South Korea, under Professor Young-Koo Lee's supervision in the domain of big data analytics and industrial scale-out systems designing. He got another chance as a researcher in the domain of Digital Wellbeing under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Raian Ali at the College of Science & Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar. 

His research work, during his Ph.D. and postdoc at KHU, was in the area of shared-nothing architecture-based distributed computing solutions for big data, i.e., designing industrial-scale distributed computing architectures for big data analytics in the cloud and subsequently, addressing the research issues and challenges being identified in the designed big data systems. 

His research expertise includes experience in ranking experts on online knowledge information-seeking platforms, utilizing distributed computing technologies for big data analysis with advanced machine learning techniques, conducting complex event analysis in multi-stream environments using semantic web technologies, and exploring digital well-being.

Please explore this website for more details about his research publications, research projects, services, and supervision.