Junaid Rashid
Assistant Professor
Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
Sejong University, South Korea
Email: junaid(dot)rashid(at)sejong(dot)ac(dot)kr
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Short Biography
Junaid Rashid is currently is an Assistant Professor in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at Sejong University, South Korea. . Previously, he worked as a Research Professor and Postdoctoral Researcher at Kongju National University, Korea. He also worked as an Honorary Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for AI and Data Science, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, UK. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, Pakistan, and his M.S. and B.S. degrees in Computer Science from the COMSATS Institute of Information Technology. He worked as a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at AIR University Islamabad, Kamra Campus, served as a Research Associate and Lecturer at the University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, and also served as a Visiting Lecturer at COMSATS University Islamabad, Wah. He is working as an Academic Editor for PLOS ONE journal. He has served as a program committee member for several conferences and has also been a reviewer for various prestigious journals and conferences.
Research Areas
Topic Modeling & Text Mining
Multimodal AI Applications
NLP for Social Good
Vision Large Language Models (VLLMs) & Machine Learning
Information Retrieval & Semantic Search
Biomedical Informatics for Health and Social Care
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor, Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, Sejong University, South Korea, 2023–present
Research Professor (Assistant Professor), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kongju National University, Korea, 2022–2023
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kongju National University, Korea, 2021–2022
Honorary Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for AI and Data Science, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, UK
News
2026: Paper is accepted @WWW26
2026: Program Committee (PC) for SIGIR, WWW
2025: Paper is accepted @IEEE BigData
2025: Paper is accepted @ICDMW 2025
2025: Paper is accepted @Webconf (WWW) 2025
2025: Paper is accepted at Expert Systems
2025–2026: Call for papers, Special Issue "Application of Data Mining in Social Media, 2nd Edition", Electronics (IF: 2.9)
2025: Invited as a Keynote Speaker
2025: Invited as a Foreign Evaluator for a PhD Thesis
2023–2024: Call for papers, Special Issue "Application of Data Mining in Social Media", Electronics (IF: 2.9) (Closed)
2024: Invited as a Foreign Evaluator for a PhD Thesis
2024: Invited to serve as a PC member @ IEEE BHI 2024, USA
2024: One workshop paper is accepted @Webconf (WWW) 2024
2024: One paper is accepted @IEEE ISBI 2024
2023: Joined the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
2023: Invited to serve as a PC member @WEB 2024, Greece
2023: Invited to serve as a PC member @EIBDCT 2024, China
2023: One paper is accepted at Pattern Recognition Letters
2023: Invited to serve as a TPC member @ CEI 2023, China
2023: Talk at FLC, Sejong University
2023: Invited to serve as a TPC member @ IEEE BHI 2023, USA
2023: One paper is accepted at SocialNLP@IJCNLP-AACL 2023
2023: One paper is accepted @Webconf (WWW) 2023
2023: One poster paper is accepted @Webconf (WWW) 2023
2022: I visited and presented a paper at ALTA in Adelaide, Australia
2022: One paper is accepted at ALTA
2022: One paper is accepted at BMC Bioinformatics
2022: One paper is accepted at Education and Information Technologies
2022: One paper is accepted at Frontiers in Public Health
2022: One paper accepted at ACL BioNLP Workshop
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