SHORT Resume

Teaching Philosophy

I believe that a teacher must understand diverse capacities and capabilities of each student towards learning. A teacher must be capable of giving every student the right motivation and guidance to lead them to the right direction.

Research Philosophy

It would like to acknowledge the words of Bertrand Russell:

“Mathematics is a study which, when we start from its most familiar portions, may be persuaded in either of two directions. ... The other direction which is less familiar,... ; instead of asking what can be defined and deduced from what is assumed to begin with, we ask instead what more general ideas and principles can be found, in terms of which what was our starting point can be defined or deduced.”

Biography

Fiza Zafar completed her Bachelors with Physics, Mathematics majors and Masters in Applied Mathematics by securing Silver and Gold medals respectively from Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU), Multan, Pakistan. She received her PhD in Mathematics in 2010 from CASPAM, BZU for the dissertation “Some Generalizations of Ostrowski Inequalities and Their Applications to Numerical Integration and Special Means” and had been a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship under Schlumberger Foundation-Faculty for the Future Program at the Institute of Multidisciplinary Mathematics (IMM), Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), Spain during 2017-2018. During these years, she has worked in the fields of numerical solution of non-linear equations, integral inequalities, metaheuristic optimization algorithms and has 75 international publications with a cumulative impact factor of almost 60 with 20 publications in Q1 journals, 9 in Q2 journals.

She joined CASPAM, BZU in 2006 as a  lecturer and currently, she is working as Tenured Associate Professor at CASPAM, BZU, Multan, Pakistan and has remained a Focal Person for Women in STEM at BZU during 2019-2023.  She has supervised 40 M.S./M.Phil. and 4 Ph.D. theses. Presently, she is supervising 1 PhD and 7 MPhil scholars in the areas of information-theoretic inequalities and numerical optimization using metaheuristic algorithms.

She was also listed as a Dynamic Woman Scientist of Pakistan in 2014 and Productive Young Scientist of Pakistan under 40 by Pakistan Council for Science and Technology in 2016. She is a Review Editor of Frontiers, Academic Editor of Machines and Algorithms, Knovell, a member of the Advisory Board of the journal Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Women University Multan, Pakistan and was also Guest Editor for a special issue of Algorithms (MDPI). She is an active reviewer for many renowned scientific publishers like Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Taylor & Francis and Hindawi Publishing Corporation, and had been a speaker at several national and international conferences. 

From the past many years, she is also an active participant of various national and international forums on Curriculum Design, Effective Teaching Methodologies, Science Diplomacy and Science Advocacy. She is also an active member of curriculum development and revision committee at CASPAM, BZU since 2014. Additionally, she is collaborating with other women scientists of Pakistan to work for the uplift of women in STEM in her region.

Academic Qualifications

2017 – 2018 Universitat Politecnica De Valencia, Spain

Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship

DAMRES (https://damres.webs.upv.es/?page_id=1157)

2004 – 2010 Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan

Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics

HEC Scholar under Indigenous 5000

M.S. leading to Ph.D. Fellowship Program, Phase I, Batch I

2005 – 2006               Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad

Bachelor of Education

Teachings of Mathematics and Physics

2003 – 2004 Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan

Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Science with

                                Business and Industrial Mathematics

2000 – 2002 Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan

Master of Science in Applied Mathematics

Secured 1049/1200 [1st Division, Goldmedallist]

1998 – 2000 Govt. Degree College for Women, Multan

B. Sc. (Mathematics A, Mathematics B, Physics)

Secured 629/800 [1st Division, Silver medallist]

Employment

Oct. 25, 2023 – To date CASPAM, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan

  Professor in Mathematics (Tenured)

Oct. 25, 2019– Oct 24, 2023 CASPAM, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan

  Associate Professor in Mathematics (Tenured)

Dec. 12, 2011– Oct. 24, 2019 CASPAM, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan

  Assistant Professor in Mathematics

Feb. 18, 2006 – Dec. 11, 2011 CASPAM, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan

  Lecturer in Mathematics