Associate Professor and Head of Section, Computer Engineering Section, Department of University Polytechnic (Formerly Department of Technology), Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Jamia Millia Islamia, A Central University, New Delhi-110025, INDIA
Collaborative Research with Indraprastha Research Lab, A Unit of Indraprastha Institute of Information Sciences Private Limited, New Delhi, India
E-mail: msadiq@jmi.ac.in || Phone: +91-9891667600
I have been working as an Associate Professor and Head of Section, Computer Engineering Section, University Polytechnic Department, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI), New Delhi, India since October 27, 2018. I received a Ph. D. degree in Computer Engineering in 2017 under the supervision of Prof. S. K. Jain from National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India. I worked for two years as a Post-Doctoral Fellow (July 2019-June 2021) in the Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India, where I was advised by Prof. V. Susheela Devi in the area of Fuzzy & Rough-Set Theory and Its Applications to Software Engineering. My research interests lie at the intersection of Software Engineering and Soft Computing. I have co-supervised six Ph.D. scholars at JMI, and currently, three Ph.D. students are pursuing their research under my guidance.
Professional Experience
Associate Professor of Computer Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India (October 27, 2018 to Continue)
Associate Editor of International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management, Springer (March 2023-Continue)
Postdoc Fellow in the Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India (July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2021)
Honorary Faculty, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Lucknow, India (September 2020-December 2021)
Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Advances in Applied Sciences, Scopus Indexed (December 20, 2020-Continue)
Visiting Scientist at Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore Centre, India (December 1, 2017 - January 15, 2018)
Assistant Proctor, Student’s Affairs Section, Chief Proctorial Department, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India ( July 2017 - June 2019)
Postdoc Fellow at the Center for Soft Computing Research, Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, India (May-July, 2016)
Summer Faculty Research Fellow at the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (May 2015 to July 2015)
Head of Section, Computer Engineering Section, University Polytechnic Department, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India (March 7, 2014 to Continue)
Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India(October 27, 2005 to October 26, 2018)
Guest Teacher (Computer Engineering), Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India (July 2002- June 2003)
Guest Faculty for B.Tech. (Power Engineering), National Power Training Institute (NPTI) Badarpur, Ministry of Power, Government of India, New Delhi, India (September 2001- April 8, 2003)
NEWS
[July, 2025]: One of my Ph.D. scholars successfully submitted her thesis titled "An Intelligent Approach for Goal-Oriented Software Requirements Analysis" on July 23, 2025. (Congratulations Ms. Farhana Mariyam, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi)
[July, 2025]: Four students from the Diploma in Computer Engineering Batch-2025 presented part of their project work at The 6th International Conference on Data Science and Applications, held at Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, India, during July 16–18, 2025. (Congratulations Saima Tarique, Mahwish Fatma, Rehmat Jahan, Tahsin Fatma, Diploma in Computer Engineering-2025 Batch, JMI, New Delhi, India)
[June, 2025]: One of my Ph.D. scholars successfully defended his doctoral thesis on June 17, 2025. The defense was evaluated by the external examiner, Prof. Amit Prakash Singh from the School of Information, Communication and Technology, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, India. (Congratulations Dr. Faiz Akram, Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi)
[March, 2025]: Five students from the Diploma in Computer Engineering Batch-2025 presented part of their project work at The 3rd International Conference on Power Engineering and Intelligent Systems, organized by the National Institute of Technology Uttarakhand, during March 8–9, 2025.
[November, 2024]: A paper on "Elicitation and Analysis of Stakeholders of an Information System under Fuzzy Environment" has been accepted for the presentation and publication in the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Vision and Computing, Springer, Organized by National Institute of Technology Agartala, November 23-24, 2024 (Congratulations! Sanjida Nazneen, Ph. D. Scholar, JMI, New Delhi)
[January 2024]: A paper on "A Mathematical Model for the Selection of Software Requirements Elicitation Techniques" has been accepted for presentation and publication in 14th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, Data Science & Engineering, 18-19 January 2024, Organized by Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh. (Congratulations! Dr. Azra Parveen, Postdoc Fellow at Indraprastha Research Lab, IIIS Private Limited, New Delhi and Virat Raj Saxena, Ph.D. Scholar at Mangalayatan University, Aligarh, India)
[December 2023]: External Examiner for Ph.D. (Computer Science and Engineering) Course Work Paper, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi.
[November 2023]: A paper on "Classification of Stakeholders of an Information System Using Fuzzy Based Adjusted Cosine Similarity Measure During Requirements Elicitation Process” has been accepted for presentation and publication in 3rd International Conference on Evolutionary Computing and Mobile Sustainable Networks, Elsevier, 9-10 November 2023, Organized by Hindustan Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India. (Congratulations! Faiz Akram, Ph. D. Scholar, JMI, New Delhi).
[March 28, 2023]: Congratulations Dr. Mohd. Arif for successfully completing his Ph.D. degree. The external examiner was Prof. M. N. Hoda, Director, Bharati Vidyapeeth's Institute of Computers Applications and Management (BVICAM), New Delhi, India. (Date of Ph.D. Viva: 14/02/2023)
[June 21, 2022]: Congratulations Dr. Javed Ahmad for successfully completing his Ph.D. Thesis. The external examiner was Prof. M. Sarosh Umar, Department of Computer Engineering, AMU Aligarh, India. (Date of Ph.D. Viva: 21/06/2022)
[June 20, 2022-July 18, 2023]: Delivered expert lectures on Software Requirements and Fuzzy Logic as a resource person in the Six Week Industrial Training on Software Development organized by Division of Communications and Information Technology, Indraprastha Institute of Information Sciences (IIIS) Delhi, A Unit of IIIS Private Limited, New Delhi, India.
[January 30, 2022]: A paper on "Fuzzy-soft set approach for ranking the functional requirements of software" is published in Expert Systems with Applications, Elsevier, An SCI Expanded Journal, Impact Factor : 6.954 (Third Paper of Postdoc Research with Prof. V. Susheela Devi, IISc Bangalore, India)
[July-December 2021]: Delivered ten hours expert lectures on fuzzy and rough set theory to M.Tech/Ph.D. students at IISc Bangalore, India
[September 23, 2021]: A paper on "Prioritization and selection of the software requirements using rough-set theory" published in IETE Journal of Research, Taylor and Francis, An SCI Expanded Journal, Impact Factor: 2.33, September, 2021, (Second Paper of Postdoc Research with Prof. V. Susheela Devi, IISc Bangalore, India)
[August 18, 2021]: A paper on "A rough-set based approach for the prioritization of software requirements" published in International Journal of Information Technology, Springer, A Scopus Index Journal, August 2021 (First Paper of Postdoc Research with Prof. V. Susheela Devi, IISc Bangalore, India)
[July 1, 2021]: Joined Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, after the completion of Two Years Postdoc Research from IISc Bangalore, India
[Session 2019- 2021]: Taught Soft Computing (15 Hours) course in odd semester and Intelligent Agents (15 Hours) in even semester to M. Tech. / Ph.D. students at IISc Bangalore with Prof. V. Susheela Devi, Principal Research Scientist, IISc Bangalore, India
[August 2020- December 2021]: Taught Compiler Design and Artificial Intelligence to B. Tech. in Information Technology/Computer Science students as a Resource Person/ Honorary Visiting Faculty at Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Lucknow, India.
[December 31, 2020]: Congratulations Dr. Shadab Khan for successfully completing his Ph.D. Degree. The external examiner was Prof. M. Sarosh Umar, Department of Computer Engineering, AMU Aligarh, India.
[October 2020]: One of my students has received the BEST PAPER AWARD in IEEE International Conference on Computing, Power, and Communication Technologies-2020, Organized by Galgotias University, Greater Noida, India (Congratulations! Mohd. Nazim, Ph.D. Scholar, JMI, New Delhi, India)
[October 2018]: Promoted to Associate Professor (Computer Engineering) from Assistant Professor (Computer Engineering), Jamia Millia Islamia, A Central University, New Delhi, India
[March 2017]: Received Ph.D. degree (Computer Engineering) from National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India. (under the supervision of Prof. S. K. Jain, Department of Computer Engineering)
[October 2005]: Joined Jamia Millia Islamia, A Central University, New Delhi, India, as Lecturer/Assistant Professor (Computer Engineering).
List of Selected Publications in Journals
Faiz Akram, Tanvir Ahmad, and Mohd. Sadiq, "An Integrated Fuzzy Adjusted Cosine Similarity and TOPSIS based Recommendation System for Information System Requirements Selection", Decision Analytics Journal, Elsevier, Vol. 11, pp. 1-13, 2024, Scopus Indexed Journal.
Faiz Akram, Tanvir Ahmad, and Mohd. Sadiq, "Recommendation Systems-Based Software Requirements Elicitation Process: A Systematic Literature Review", Journal of Engineering and Applied Science, Springer, Vol. 71, Issue 29, pp. 1-21, 2024, Scopus Indexed Journal.
Mohd. Sadiq, “Selection of Goals with Incomplete Preference Relations”, International Journal of Business Information Systems, Inderscience, Vol. 42, No.1, pp. 85-102, 2023, Scopus and C Type ABDC Listed.
Farhana Mariyam, Shabana Mehfuz, and Mohd. Sadiq, “RAGOSRA: Rough Attributed Goal Oriented Software Requirements Analysis Method” Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems: Applications in Engineering and Technology, Vol. 44, Issue 5, 2023, IOP-SAGE, An SCI Expanded, Impact Factor: 1.2.
Mohd. Nazim, Mohd. Arif, Chaudhary Wali Mohammad, and Mohd. Sadiq, Generating Large Dataset for Software Requirements Prioritization and Selection Under Fuzzy Environment, Journal of Information and Optimization Sciences, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 285-299, 2023, C-Type ABDC Journal.
Tanveer Hassan, Chaudhary Wali Mohammad, and Mohd. Sadiq, “Using Social Network and Fuzzy Set Theory for Elicitation and Prioritization of Software Requirements,” International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 126-134, 2022, Scopus Indexed Journal.
Mohd. Nazim, Chaudhary Wali Mohammad, and Mohd. Sadiq, "A Comparison between Fuzzy AHP and Fuzzy TOPSIS Methods to Software Requirements Selection", Alexandria Engineering Journal, Elsevier, Vol. 61, pp. 10851-10879, 2022, SCI Expanded, Impact Factor: 3.732.
Mohd. Arif, Chaudhary Wali Mohammad, and Mohd. Sadiq, "Software Requirements Modeling from a Selected Set of Requirements Using Fuzzy Based Approach", ECTI Transactions on Computer and Information Technology, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 152-164, June 2022, A Scopus and ESCI Journal.
Mohd. Sadiq and V. Susheela Devi, "Fuzzy-Soft Set Approach for Ranking the Functional Requirements of Software", Expert Systems with Applications, Elsevier, 2022, SCI Expanded, Impact Factor: 6.954.
Mohd. Sadiq and V. Susheela Devi, “Prioritization and Selection of the Software Requirements using Rough Set Theory”, IETE Journal of Research, Taylor and Francis, 2021, SCI Expanded, Impact Factor: 2.33.
Mohd. Sadiq and V. Susheela Devi, “A Rough-Set Based Approach for the Prioritization of Software Requirements”, International Journal of Information Technology, Springer, 2021, Scopus Indexed Journal.
Mohd. Sadiq, V. Susheela Devi, Javed Ahmad, and Chaudhary Wali Mohammad, “Fuzzy Logic Driven Security Requirements Engineering Process”, Journal of Information and Optimization Sciences, Taylor and Francis, 2021, Web of Science (ESCI) and C Type ABDC listed Journal, Vol. 42, Issue 7.
Mohd. Sadiq, Azra Parveen, and S. K. Jain, “Software Requirements Selection with Incomplete Linguistic Preference Relations”, Business & Information Systems Engineering, Springer, 2021, SCI Expanded and A type Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) listed Journal, Impact Factor: 5.837.
Mohd. Sadiq, Mohd. Sadim, and Azra Parveen, "Applying Statistical Approach to Check the Consistency of Pairwise Comparison Matrices during Software Requirements Prioritization Process", International Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and Management, Springer, 2021, Scopus and Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) Journal.
Mohd. Sadiq, Shadab Khan, and Chaudhary Wali Mohammad, “Selection of Software Requirements using TOPSIS under Fuzzy Environment”, International Journal of Computers and Applications, Taylor and Francis, 2020, Scopus Index Journal, pp. 1-10.
Mohd. Sadiq and Sanjida Nazneen, “Elicitation of Software Testing Requirements from the Selected Set of Software’s Requirements in GOREP”, International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering, Inderscience, 2019, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 152-160, UGC approved Journal, Government of India.
Mohd. Sadiq, “A Fuzzy-Set Based Approach for the Prioritization of Stakeholders on the basis of the Importance of Software Requirements”, IETE Journal of Research, Taylor and Francis, 2017, Vol. 63, Issue 5, pp. 616-629, SCI Expanded , Impact Factor: 2.33.
Mohd. Sadiq and S. K. Jain, “A Fuzzy Based Approach for the Selection of Goals in Goal Oriented Requirements Elicitation Process”, International Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and Management, Springer, 2015, Vol. 6, Issue 2, pp. 157-164, Scopus and ESCI Listed Journal
Mohd. Sadiq and S. K. Jain, “Applying Fuzzy Preference Relation for Requirements Prioritization in Goal Oriented Requirements Elicitation Process”, International Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and Management, Springer, 2014, Vol. 5, Issue 4, pp. 711-723, Scopus and ESCI Listed Journal
Mohd. Sadiq and Mohd. Shahid, “A Systematic Approach for the Estimation of Software Risk and Cost using esrcTool”, CSI Transactions on ICT, Springer, 2013, Vol. 1, Issue 3, pp. 243-252.