Short Biography:

Junaid Rashid is currently an Assistant Professor at Sejong University, 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. 

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

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

News: 

• 2026: Workshop 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), 

www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/Z1BARK8927 

• 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) https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/CW964112RW (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