Dr Zartasha Mustansar, HoD SINES
Associate Professor (Tenured)
Dr Zartasha Mustansar, HoD SINES
Associate Professor (Tenured)
Zartasha Mustansar received her PhD from the University of Manchester, UK sponsored by Microsoft Research Cambridge (MSR) & Dorothy Hodgkin Award, UK . Trained on HPC’s utility in Manchester as well as Scotland on Horace and DIESA respectively she is able to take interdisciplinary research effectively.
Dr. Zartasha Mustansar, an Associate Professor holds the position of the Head of Department (SINES), where she assumes responsibility for the management of cross-disciplinary research, activities, and industrial partnerships, drawing from the 32 labs that are currently housed at SINES. Dr. Mustansar is an accomplished expert in the areas of Image-Based Modeling using Finite elements and Biomechanics. She is actively engaged in advancing the field of Biomedical Engineering research.
Her research is focused on the application of Image-Based Modeling, Finite Elements, and Biomechanics in order to generate outcomes that benefit society as a whole. Her research group is interdisciplinary
& effectively employs numerical methods and computer-aided techniques to gain a more detailed understanding of systems' behavior at a finer scale. The examples of complex a system she works on includes, gait analysis, posture mechanics, material behavior under external loads & musculoskeletal modeling using cutting edge technologies.
Chou, D., Li, Y. D., Mustansar, Z., & Chung, C. Y. (2023). Using a poroelastodynamic model to investigate the dynamic behaviour of articular cartilage. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 233, 107481 (IF 7.02)
Haq UU, Ahmed A, Mustansar Z, et al. Computational Modeling and Simulation of Stenosis of Aqueduct of Sylvius Due to Brain Tumor. Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Dynamics,2022. ISSN: 1997-003X (IF: 8.9)
Nisar, M., Paracha, R. Z., Gul, A., Arshad, I., Ejaz, S., Murad, D., Khan, S. and Mustansar, Z., Interaction analysis of Adenovirus L5 protein with pancreatic cancer cell surface receptor to analyze its affinity for oncolytic virus therapy. Frontiers in Oncology, p.644.Permanent Access Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/19942060.2022.2056511 (IF: 6.24)
T. Iqbal, A. Shaukat, M. U. Akram, A. W. Muzaffar, Z. Mustansar and Y. -C. Byun, "A Hybrid VDV Model for Automatic Diagnosis of Pneumothorax Using Class-Imbalanced Chest X-Rays Dataset," in IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 27670-27683, 2022, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3157316. (IF: 3.36)
Khan, M.J.I., Shakeel, M., Majeed, I., Latif, A., Ahmad, J., Ullah, H., Fakhar-e-Alam, M., Mustansar, Z., Asghar, M. and Abdelmohsen, S.A., 2022. Exploring structural, electronic, optical, magnetic, and thermoelectric properties of Pt doped and Pt-Cu/Au co-doped GaN. Physica Scripta.7670-27683, 2022, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3157316. (IF: 2.52) PUBLICATION DATA
Book Chapter: Mustansar Z., Talay S. (2022) Muscle Health and Lower Back Pain: Architype Towards Simulation-Driven Product Design in Healthcare. In: Subburaj K., Sandhu K., Ćuković S. (eds) Revolutions in Product Design for Healthcare. Design Science and Innovation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9455-4_6
M. Nisar, R. Z. Paracha, A. Gul, I. Arshad, S. Ejaz, D. Murad, Mustansar Z. et al., "Interaction Analysis of Adenovirus L5 Protein With Pancreatic Cancer Cell Surface Receptor to Analyze Its Affinity for Oncolytic Virus Therapy," Frontiers in Oncology, vol. 12, 2022.
Sarmad Iftikhar, Salma Sherbaz, Hafiz Ali Haider Sehole, Adnan Maqsood, Zartasha Mustansar, "Large Eddy Simulation of the Flow Past a Soccer Ball", Mathematical Problems in Engineering, vol. 2022, Article ID 3455235, 13 pages, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/3455235
Ahmed, A., UlHaq, M. U., Mustansar, Z., Shaukat, A., & Margetts, L. (2021). How growing tumour impacts intracranial pressure and deformation mechanics of brain. Royal Society open science, 8(9), 210165. URL: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.210165
Latif, Abid, M. Junaid Iqbal Khan, Zarfishan Kanwal, Iqra Majeed, Murtaza Saleem, Nauman Usmani, Javed Ahmad, Zartasha Mustansar, and Hamid Ullah. "Investigating effect of different Hubbard values on the electronic structure, magnetic and optical properties of Ru doped GaN." Computational Condensed Matter 29 (2021): e00608.
Latif, Abid, M. Junaid Iqbal Khan, Zarfishan Kanwal, Murtaza Saleem, Javed Ahmad, Hamid Ullah, and Zartasha Mustansar. "First principle investigations of the structural, electronic, magnetic, and optical properties of GaN co-doped with carbon and gold (C–Au@ GaN)." Computational Condensed Matter (2021): e00565. URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352214321000307
T. Iqbal, A. Shaukat, M. U. Akram, Z. Mustansar and A. Khan, "Automatic Diagnosis of Pneumothorax From Chest Radiographs: A Systematic Literature Review," in IEEE ACCESS, vol. 9, pp. 145817-145839, 2021, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3122998. URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9585605
Ali, H., Mustansar, Z., Talay, S., Masood, A., Zahoor, S., & Sherbaz, S. (2021, July). Time-Dependent Analysis and Classification of Deformation Mechanism in Head Impact Injury Using Image Based Finite Element Method (FEM). In 2021 12th International Conference on Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (ICMAE) (pp. 576-581). IEEE. URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9522452
Mustansar, Z., Talay, S., Hafeez, A., Zafar Paracha, R., Iqbal Khan, M. J., & Madarati, A. (2021, June). Investigating the Mechanical Strength of an Endodontically Treated Human Canine using Image-based Finite Element Analysis. In 2021 The 13th International Conference on Computer Modeling and Simulation (pp. 38-43). URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3474963.3474969
Mustansar, Z., Rathore, M., Shaukat, A., Nadeem, F., Farooq, N. and Sherbaz, S., 2019, July. Geometrical Vitality of Human Head model to Calculate Intra Cranial Pressure for Procognitive Computing. In 2019 IEEE 18th International Conference on Cognitive Informatics & Cognitive Computing (ICCI* CC) (pp. 83-89). IEEE.
15. Shaukat, A., Younis, A., Akram, U., Mohsin, M. and Mustansar, Z., 2019, July. Towards Automatic Recognition of Sounds Observed in Daily Living Activity. In 2019 IEEE 18th International Conference on Cognitive Informatics & Cognitive Computing (ICCI* CC) (pp. 66-74). IEEE.
Mustansar Z, McDonald S A, Sellers W.I, Mummery P, Kugler H, Manning P. L, Withers P J and Margetts L, Progression of strain using x-ray micro-tomography and digital volume correlation: 2017 PeerJ 5:e3416; DOI 10.7717/peerj.3416
Munawar Qureshi, A., Z. Mustansar, and S. Mustafa, Finite-element analysis of microwave scattering from a three-dimensional human head model for brain stroke detection. Royal Society Open Science, 2018. 5(7)
Qureshi, A.M. and Mustansar, Z., 2017. Levels of detail analysis of microwave scattering from human head models for brain stroke detection. PeerJ, 5, p.e4061.
Munawar HS, Maqsood A, and Mustansar Z (2017). Isotropic surround suppression and Hough transform based target recognition from aerial images. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 4(8): 37-42
Zartasha Mustansar, Arslan Shaukat and Lee Margetts, 2016 IEEE - 7th International Conference on Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (ICMAE), London United Kingdom Vol:108 - 13002 (2017)
Awais Munawar, Zartasha Mustansar, Ahmed E. Nadeem and Mahmood Akhtar, An investigation into electromagnetic based impedance tomography using realistic human head model. Vol. 8. 2016. 35.3.
Rimsha Khan and Zartasha Mustansar, Reliability of using values of elastic modulus for nonhomogeneous materials, volume 49, Issue 09001, 6th International Conference on Bioscience, Biochemistry and Bioinformatics, January 2016, Pattaya-Thailand.
Awais Munawar, Zartasha Mustansar and Adnan Maqsood., 2016 JPIER – M ; Progress In Electromagnetics Research M, Vol. 52, 45–56, 20165.
Mustansar Z., Margetts L., Manning P.L., Kuglar. H, and Sellers W.I, The relationship between level of detail and accuracy in the predictive modeling of mechanical loading in extant vertebrate long bones (submitted in the Journal of PLoSONE)
Mustansar Z., Margetts L., Manning P.L and Kuglar. H, A study of bone remodeling after injury in Tyrannosaurus rex, (submitted in Journal of Royal Society Interface).
Mustansar Z., Margetts L., and Kugler H "A critical review of the derivation of values for the elastic properties of bone" (to be submitted in the Journal of PLoSONE)
Manning, P., Margetts, L., Johnson, M., Mustansar, Z. & Mummery, P. 2009 A finite element approach to the biomechanics of dromaeosaurid dinosaur claws. In Journal of vertebrate
paleontology (pp. 141a-141a), Soc vertebrate paleontology 60 revere dr, ste 500,Northbrook, IL 60062 USA.
Margetts, L., Manning, P. L., Mustansar, Z. and Johnson, M. "Reliability of image-based finite element modeling in vertebrate palaeontology", Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology, Pittsburgh (USA), October 2010. 3
Mustansar Z., Johnson, M., Manning P.L., Design and evaluation of a virtual rig for mechanical testing of fossil bones, Oral Talk: Simpleware Users Meeting-ARUP, Solihull (UK), June 2010.
Johnson, M. R., Mustansar, Z., Margetts, L., Mummery, P. M., Manning, P. L. Image Based modelling of dinosaurs, Poster presentation: Biomedical Imaging Institute Showcase-University of Manchester (UK), November 2009.
Mustansar Z., Margetts L., Manning P.L. and Kugler H., Reverse engineering dinosaurs, poster presentation: Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK), 29 June-4 July 2009.
Mustansar Z., Margetts L., Manning P.L., Kuglar. H, and Sellers W.I, Computer aided insights into biomechanics of dinosaurs, Poster presentation and Oral Talk: University of ArizonaTucson (USA), 29th September-3rd October 2009.
Johnson, M., Mustansar, Z., Manning, P., Margetts, L., Mummery, P., Virtual repair of fossil CT Scan Data, Oral Talk: Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology and the 57th Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy (SVPCA) - University of Bristol (UK), 22nd - 26th September, 2009.
Mustansar Z., Johnson M., Margetts L., Mummery P.M. and Manning P.L., Reverse engineering dinosaurs, poster presentation, Henry Moseley X-ray Imaging facility opening, 8 June 2009.
Manning, P., Margetts, L., Johnson, M., Mustansar, Z., Mummery, P., Finite element approach to the biomechanics of dromaeosaurid dinosaur claws, Technical session oral talk: Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology-University of Bristol (UK), 22nd-26th September, 2009.
Mustansar Z., Johnson M., Margetts L., Manning P.L. and Sellers W.I , Reverse engineering dinosaurs, Oral talk: Progressive Palaeontology Association- University of Birmingham (UK), 27-29 May 2009.
Johnson, M. R., Mustansar, Z., Manning, P. L., Margetts, L., and Mummery, P. M. Breathing new life into old fossils, Progressive Palaeontology Association-University of Birmingham, (UK), May, 2009.
Johnson M and Mustansar Z., A study of the biomechanics of the terminal ungual phalanx from Velociraptor using computer aided engineering, 4th North West Biomechanics Research Day, Institute for Health and Social Care Research-University of Salford (UK), 15 May 2009.
Mustansar Z., Hashmi Z. , Muzaffar R.,Qurat-ul-ain , Biocruise, An interactive Graphical User Interface GUI to Protein Modeller9v1 for Protein Homology Modeling.,Technical Poster, Grace Hopper conference for women in computing, October 1-3 2008, Keystone Colarado USA. 4
Khalid S., Mehmood F. ,Shahzad M. , Syed Z. ,Mustansar Z. , Fatima A. and Khanum A.Cloning, Expression and Modeling of Bovine Somatotropin Harmone with Local Breed Nili . Journal of Chemical Society of Pakistan. Volume 30 No: 4 August2008 (http://jcsp.org.pk/index.php/jcsp/article/viewFile/594/268)
Book Chapters
Z. Mustansar and S. Talay (2022); Book Chapter, Muscle Health and Lower Back Pain: Architype Towards Simulation-Driven Product Design in Healthcare, Book
Title: Revolutions in Product Design for Healthcare: Advances in Product Design and Design Methods for Healthcare. Print ISBN: 978-981-16-9454-7 Electronic ISBN: 978-981-16-9455-4 Copyright Year: 2022 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9455-4, Publisher: Springer Nature. (Book Chapter)