Funding and Awards:

1. Won Ignite funding for Final Year Project (Undergrad)- 2020, 2021

2. Data analytics for credit card fraud prediction and detection. Applied for funding- National Centre in BIG DATA AND CLOUD COMPUTING, Research fund for Prototype/Product Development grant proposal

3. Research Productivity Award, Pak China Business Forum 2014, 2016, 2017.

4. Program committee member Frontiers of Information Technology- 2018-2019

Published Journal Papers

18. Nisa MU, Mahmood D, Ahmed G, Khan S, Mohammed MA, Damaševičius R. Optimizing Prediction of YouTube Video Popularity Using XGBoost. Electronics. 2021 Jan;10(23):2962.

17. Tayyaba Illyas, Danish Mahmood, Ghufran Ahmed, Adnan Akhunzada, "Symptom Analysis Using Fuzzy Logic for Detection and Monitoring of COVID-19 Patients" Energies 2021, 14, 7023.

16. Danish Mahmood, Nadeem Javaid, Ghufran Ahmed, Suleman Khand, Valdemar Monteiroe, "A review on optimization strategies integrating renewable energy sources focusing uncertainty factor – Paving path to eco-friendly smart cities", Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems Volume 30, June 2021, 100559 (Impact Factor: 4.08)

15. Danish Mahmood, Shahzad Latif, Aamir Anwar, Syed Jawad Hussain, N. Z. Jhanjhi, Najm Us Sama, Mamoona Humayun", Utilization of ICT and AI techniques in harnessing residential energy consumption for an energy-aware smart city: A review", International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 8(7) 2021, Pages: 50-66

14. Hassan Mahmood, Danish Mahmood, Qaisar Shaheen, Rizwan Akhtar, Wang Changda, "S-DPS: An SDN-Based DDoS Protection System for Smart Grids", Security and Communication Networks, vol. 2021, Article ID 6629098, 19 pages, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/6629098 (Impact Factor: 1.28)

13. Ahmed G, Mehmood D, Shahzad K, Malick RA. An efficient routing protocol for internet of medical things focusing hot spot node problem. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks. 2021 Feb;17(2):1550147721991706. (Impact factor: 1.787)

12. Qaisar Shaheen , Muhammad Shiraz, Zhu zhiyu, Danish Mahmood, Muhammad Hashmi, Dr. Rizwan Akhtar ," A Lightweight Location-Aware Fog Framework (LAFF) for QoS in Internet of Things Paradigm ", in Mobile Information Systems August 2020 (Impact Factor: 1.635)

11. Mohsin Javed, Ghufran Ahmed , Danish Mahmood, Mohsin Raza, Kamran Ali, Masood Ur-Rehman, "A Thermal Aware & Energy Optimized Routing Protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks". Sensors March 2019 (Impact Factor: 3.031)

10. Imran, M., Latif, S., Mahmood, D., & Shah, M. (2019). Student Academic Performance Prediction using Supervised Learning Techniques. International Journal Of Emerging Technologies In Learning (IJET), 14(14), pp. 92-104. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v14i14.10310

9. Ahmed G, Mahmood D, D, Islam S. "Thermal and energy aware routing in wireless body area networks." International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks. 2019 Jun;15(6):1550147719854974. (Impact factor: 1.787)

8. Danish Mahmood, Nadeem Javaid, Imran Ahmed, Nabil Ali Alrajeh, Iftikhar Azim Niaz, and Zahoor Ali Khan. "Multi-agent based sharing power economy for a smart community." International Journal of Energy Research, 2017. doi: 10.1002/er.3768. (Impact factor: 3.343)

7. Danish Mahmood, Nadeem Javaid, Sheraz Ahmed, Imran Ahmed, Iftikhar Azim Niaz, Wadood Abdul, Sanaa Ghouzali. "Orchestrating an effective formulation to investigate the impact of EMSs for residential units prior to installation." Energies 2017, 10(3), 335; doi:10.3390/en10030335. (Impact Factor: 2.707)

6. Muhammad Awais, Nadeem Javaid, Khursheed Aurangzeb, Danish Mahmood, Syed Haider, Zahoor Khan Towards Effective and Efficient Energy Management of Single Home and a Smart Community Exploiting Heuristic Optimization Algorithms with Critical Peak and Real-Time Pricing Energies 2018 11 (11), 3125 (Impact Factor: 2.707)

5. Nadeem Javaid, Mudassar Naseem, Muhammad Babar Rasheed, Danish Mahmood, Shahid Ahmed Khan, Nabil Ali Alrajeh, and Zafar Iqbal, "A new heuristically optimized Home Energy Management controller for smart grid." Sustainable Cities and Society, 2017. doi: 10.1016/j.scs.2017.06.009. (Impact factor: 4.624)

4. Danish Mahmood, Nadeem Javaid, Nabil Ali Alrajeh, Zahoor Ali Khan, Umar Qasim, Imran Ahmed, and Manzoor Ilahi. "Realistic Scheduling Mechanism for Smart Homes." Energies 2016, 9(3), 202; doi:10.3390/en9030202. (Impact Factor: 2.707)

3. Danish Mahmood, Zahoor Ali Khan, Umar Qasim, Muhammad Umair Naru, Sana Mukhtar, Muhammad Irfan Akram, and Nadeem Javaid, "Analyzing and Evaluating Contention Access Period of Slotted CSMA/CA for IEEE802.15.4," Procedia Computer Science, vol. 34, 2014, pp. 204-211, ISSN 1877-0509, doi:10.1016/j.procs.2014.07.011. (SNIP : 0.883)

2. Danish Mahmood, Nadeem Javaid, Abid Khan, Sanaullah Qureshi, Arsalan Memon.”Modeling Routing Operations and Performance Analysis of Wireless Proactive Routing Protocols.” J. Basic. Appl. Sci. Res., 3(6)1175-1192, 2013.

1. Danish Mahmood, Nadeem Javaid, Zahoor Ali Khan, Umar Qasim “Modelling Routing Operations and Performance Analysis of Wireless Reactive Routing Protocols”. J. Basic. Appl. Sci. Res., 4(7)980-997, 2013

Book Chapter:

2. Danish Mahmood, Nadeem Javaid, Muhammad Imran, Umar Qasim, and Zahoor Ali Khan, Chapter 8 – “Data fusion for orientation sensing in wireless body area sensor networks using smart phones”, In Intelligent Data-Centric Systems, edited by Ciprian Dobre and Fatos Xhafa, Academic Press, Boston, 2016, Pages 231-252, Pervasive Computing, ISBN 9780128036631. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-803663-1.00008-5.

1. Danish Mahmood, et.al., Chapter 4 - ” A conceptual model for optimal resource sharing of networked microgrids focusing uncertainty – paving path to eco-friendly smart cities” in “Security and organization within IoT and Smart Cities”, edited by Kayhan Zrar Ghafoor, CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group. 2020 - ISBN 9780367893330

Conference Proceedings

10. Mehr un Nisa, Danish Mahmood," Analyzing E-commerce Big Data Using Distributed processing for Sales Demand Forecasting ", in International Modern Scientific Research Congress 4-5 June 2021, Istanbul, Turkey.

9. Mehr un Nisa, Danish Mahmood, “ANALYSIS OF E-COMMERCE BIG DATA USING SPARK”, abstract in 2nd INTERNATIONAL BAKU SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES CONFERENCE to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, Odlar Yurdu University, April 28-30 April 2021.

8. Danish Mahmood, Nadeem Javaid, and Manzoor Ilahi "Home energy management using multi agent system for web based grids", 14th IEEE International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT'16), Islamabad, Pakistan, pp. 342-347. doi:10.1109/FIT.2016.069

7. Danish Mahmood, Nadeem Javaid, Umar Nouman, Afaq Urrahman, Zahoor Ali Khan, and Umar Qasim, "Comparative Analysis of Energy Management Solutions focusing Practical Implementation", 10th IEEE International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS-2016), Japan, pp. 271-277. doi:10.1109/CISIS.2016.126

6. Hamza Fahim, Nadeem Javaid, Zahoor Ali Khan, Umar Qasim, Shumaila Javed, Danish Mahmood, and Zafar Iqbal, "Multilevel Routing Protocol for Energy Optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE 9th International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing (IMIS-2015), Blumenau, Brazil, pp. 86-93. doi:10.1109/IMIS.2015.18

5. Danish Mahmood, Nadeem Javaid, Muhammad Imran, Zahoor Ali Khan, Umar Qasim, and Mohammed Alnuem, "On Data Fusion for Orientation Sensing in WBASNs using Smart Phones", IEEE 29th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2015), Korea, pp. 461-467. doi:10.1109/AINA.2015.222

4. Danish Mahmood, Kamran Latif, Nadeem Javaid, S.U. Qureshi, Imran Ahmed, Umar Qasim, and Zahoor Ali Khan, "Investigating Impact of ACK in Non-beacon Enabled Slotted IEEE 802.15.4," Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), 2014 IEEE 28th International Conference on, vol., no., pp. 429-434, 13-16 May 2014. doi:10.1109/AINA.2014.53.

3. Danish Mahmood, Nadeem Javaid, Shaharyar Mahmood, S. Qureshi, A.M. Memon, T. Zaman, "MODLEACH: A Variant of LEACH for WSNs", Broadband and Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications (BWCCA), 2013 Eighth International Conference on, vol., no., pp. 158-163, 28-30 Oct. 2013. (8th IEEE BWCCA'13, 2013, Paris, France) doi:10.1109/BWCCA.2013.34.

2. Danish Mahmood, Nadeem Javaid, Umar Qasim, and Zahoor Ali Khan, "Routing Load of Route Calculation and Route Maintenance in Wireless Proactive Routing Protocols", Broadband, Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications (BWCCA), 2012 Seventh International Conference on, vol., no., pp. 149-155, 12-14 Nov. 2012. doi:10.1109/BWCCA.2012.34.

1. Danish Mahmood, Nadeem Javaid, Umar Qasim, and Zahoor Ali Khan, "Routing Load of Route Discovery and Route Maintenance in Wireless Reactive Routing Protocols", Broadband, Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications (BWCCA), 2012 Seventh International Conference on, vol., no., pp. 511-516, 12-14 Nov. 2012. doi:10.1109/BWCCA.2012.90.