Mr. Zohair Ahmed

Lecturer
Department of Software Engineering
International Islamic University Islamabad, Pakistan
Email: [email protected]
Google Scholar Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cEbYPR0AAAAJ
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/zohairahmed007/
Website: https://begindiscovery.com/

Research Interests

Natural Language Processing (NLP), Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Opinion Mining, Sentiment Analysis, Data Mining, Data Science

Education

Years Degree University/Institute
In Progress Ph.D. (Computer Science) Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
2017 MS (Computer Science) International Islamic University, Islamabad (IIUI)
2014 BS (Computer Science) PMAS-Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Professional Certifications

  • How to Increase Grant Success – Clarivate
  • Navigating the pathways of publishing in High-quality journals – Elsevier Researcher Academy
  • NLP: Twitter Sentiment Analysis – Coursera

Professional Experience (7+ Years)

Position Duration
1. Lecturer
Department of Software Engineering
Faculty of Computing and Information Technology
International Islamic University, Islamabad (IIUI), Islamabad, Pk 		Jan 2024 – To Date
Core Responsibilities:

  • Course Development: Designing curriculum, creating course materials, and developing lesson plans for various computer science courses at undergraduate or graduate levels.
  • Lecturing: Delivering lectures, seminars, and workshops on topics such as algorithms, programming languages, software engineering, databases, computer architecture, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.
  • Teaching Assistance: Providing guidance and support to students through office hours, tutoring sessions, and online platforms to help them grasp complex concepts and improve their programming skills.
  • Grading and Assessment: Evaluating assignments, projects, exams, and other assessments to assess student performance objectively and provide constructive feedback for improvement.
  • Research: Conducting research in NLP & Machine Learning, publishing papers in peer-reviewed journals, and presenting findings at conferences to contribute to the academic community.
  • Supervision: Mentoring graduate students on FYP, research projects, theses, and dissertations, guiding them in their academic and professional development.
  • Administrative Duties: Participating in departmental meetings, serving on committees, and contributing to administrative tasks such as curriculum review, program assessment, and accreditation efforts.
  • Community Engagement: Building relationships with industry partners, participating in outreach activities, and promoting computer science education through public lectures, codefest, and other events to collaboration and support the broader community.
2. Team Lead (R&D Lab)
Predictive Analytics Lab
National Center in Big Data & Cloud Computing (NCBC)
SZABIST, Islamabad, Pakistan 		Dec 2021 – Oct 2023
Core Responsibilities:

  • Leads, monitors, and supervises the research lab team to achieve goals that contribute to the growth of the organization.
  • Developing high quality software to business specification whilst understanding processes and requirements.
  • Project Presentations, Versioning, and Quality Control Develop Technical Documentation and modelling of Project.
  • Work closely with the business and Engineers on issues related to design and requirements.
  • Assist other team members and train new hiring of existing systems. Also perform third line support of principal investigator.
3. Research Associate
Predictive Analytics Lab
National Center in Big Data & Cloud Computing (NCBC)
SZABIST, Islamabad, Pakistan		 March 2021 – Nov 2021
Core Responsibilities:

  • Develop a Central Healthcare Data Repository and Intelligent Predictive solutions for healthcare.
  • Participate in multiple projects involving design, implementation, and integration of large-scale datasets and data processing pipelines.
  • Building machine learning algorithms and create visualizations of data.
  • Building and deploying dashboards and dynamic decision support tools.
4. Web Developer
AIR University
Islamabad, Pakistan		 July 2016 – Sep 2018
Core Responsibilities:

  • Create the technical aspects of websites and support existing infrastructure and develop new technologies.
  • Organize content and use web development software to integrate databases and other information systems.
  • Develop external web portals and build applications and services for the Web.
  • Design data-driven applications and find efficient client-server solutions.
5. Web Development Assistant
AIR University
Islamabad, Pakistan 		Sep 2013 – June 2016
Core Responsibilities:

  • Assist with the production and maintenance of web systems documentation for institutional web policies and procedures.
  • Help support the integration of institutional web resources and campus portal systems as they are developed in conjunction with the Applications group.

Technical Skills

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

  • Programming Languages: Python, Java
  • NLP Libraries and Frameworks: NLTK, SpaCy, Gensim, Stanford NLP, TextBlob
  • Machine Learning and Deep Learning Frameworks: TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, Scikit-learn
  • Text Processing and Analysis: Tokenization, Part-of-Speech Tagging, Named Entity Recognition (NER), Lemmatization, Stemming, Sentiment Analysis, Topic Modeling, Text Classification
  • Word Embeddings and Vectorization: Word2Vec, GloVe, FastText, TF-IDF, BERT
  • Speech and Language Processing: Speech Recognition, Text-to-Speech, Language Translation
  • Data Visualization: Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly

Programming & Database Management Systems

  • Web Development Frameworks: Django, Flask
  • Programming Languages: Python, C#, Java, JavaScript
  • Web Technologies: ASP.NET, HTML/CSS, AJAX, JSON
  • Databases: SQL, NoSQL
  • Version Control: Git, GitHub