Dr. Arshad Ahmad

arshad.ahmad@fecid.paf-iast.edu.pk

Assistant Professor

Biography

Arshad Ahmad is currently working as an Assistant Professor of Software Engineering & Computer Science at Department of IT & Computer Science and Sino-Pak Center for Artificial Intelligence, Pak Austria Fachhochschule: Institute of Applied Sciences & Technology, Haripur, Pakistan from October 2020. He has recently completed a Postdoc from the Institute of Software Systems Engineering, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria. He received the MS Software Engineering degree from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola (BTH), Sweden in 2008. He worked as a Research Assistant at Fraunhofer Institute of Experimental Software Engineering (IESE), Germany and Vienna University of Technology, Austria respectively during the years 2010-2014. Afterwards, he received the PhD degree in Computer Science & Technology (specialization in Software Engineering) from Beijing Institute of Technology, China in 2018. Previously, he served as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at University of Swabi, Swabi and City University of Science & Information Technology, Peshawar, respectively during the years 2019-2020. He has published several research papers in well reputed peer reviewed international journals and conferences. His current research interests include requirements engineering, text mining, opinion mining, sentiment analysis and machine learning, among others.

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor Department of IT & CS PAFIAST, October 2020 till date
Senior Researcher Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria, October 2021- September 2022
Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, City University of Science & Information Technology, Peshawar, September 2020-October 2020

Education

PhD Computer Science & Technology Organization Name: Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China , 2018
MS Software Engineering Organization Name: Blekinge Tekniska Högskola (BTH), Sweden , 2008
Bachelor of Computer Science (4 years) Organization Name: University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan , 2006

Publications

Journals

A. Ahmad, K, Li, C. Feng, S.M. Asim, A. Yousif, S. Ge, "An Empirical Study of Investigating Mobile Application Development Challenges”, Vol. 6, Issue: 1, pp. 17711-17728, IEEE Access, 2018,
A. Ahmad, C. Feng, S. Ge, A. Yousif, "A survey on mining Stack Overflow: Question and Answering (Q&A) Community”, Vol. 52 Issue: 2, pp.190-247, Data Technologies and Applications, Emerald, 2018
A. Yousif, Z. Niu, J.K. Tarus, A. Ahmad, "A survey on sentiment analysis of scientific citations”, pp. 1-34, Artificial Intelligence Review, Springer, 2017,
A. Ahmad, C. Feng, K. Li, S.M. Asim, T. Sun, "Towards empirically investigating non-functional requirements of iOS developers on Stack Overflow”, Vol. 7, Issue: 1, pp. 61145-61169, IEEE Access, 2019,
F. Chong, M. Khan, A. Khan, A. Ahmad, “News recommendation systems- Accomplishments, Challenges & Future directions”, vol.8, pp. 16702-16725, IEEE Access, 2020
A. Khan, H. Zhang, J. Shang, N. Boudjellal, A. Ahmad, A. Ali, “Predicting Politician’s Supporters’ Network on Twitter Using Social Network Analysis and Semantic Analysis”, Scientific Programming, 2020
R. Khan, A. Ahmad, et al. “QuPiD Attack: Machine Learning-Based Privacy Quantification Mechanism for PIR Protocols in Health-related web search”, Scientific Programming, 2020,
C. Feng, M. Adnan, A. Ahmad, A. Ullah, H.U. Khan, “Towards energy efficient framework for IoT big data health-care solutions” Scientific Programming, 2020
N. Boudjellal, H. Zhang, A. Khan, A. Ahmad, “Biomedical Relation Extraction Using Distant Supervision” Scientific Programming, 2020,
M. Khan, A. Khan, A. Ahmad, S. Khan, “A Content-based Technique for Linking Dual Language News Articles in an Archive”, Journal of Information Science, Sage Publishers, 2020
A. Ahmad, C. Feng, M. Khan, et al., “A Systematic Literature Review on Using Machine Learning Algorithms for Software Requirements Identification on Stack Overflow”, Security and Communication Networks, 2020,
B. Khan, R. Naseem, M. Binsawad, M. Khan, A. Ahmad, “Software Cost Estimation using Flower Pollination Algorithm”, Journal of Internet Technology, vol. 21, no. 5, p. 1243-1251, 2020,
. Ahmad, A. Ullah, C. Feng, M. Khan, et al., “Towards an Improved Energy Efficient Protocol and End-to-End Secure Protocol for IoT Health Care Applications”, vol. 2020, Security and Communication Networks, 2020
S. Ashraf, M. Gao, Z. Chen, H. Naeem, A. Ahmad, T. Ahmed, “Underwater Pragmatic Routing Approach through Packet Reverberation Mechanism”
A. Tahir, F.Chen, H. Khan, Z. Ming, A. Ahmad, S. Nazir, M. Shafiq, “A Systematic Review on Cloud Storage Mechanisms Concerning e-Healthcare Systems” vol. 20, no. 18, 5392, Sensors, September 2020,
N. Boudjellal, H. Zhang, A. Khan, A. Ahmad, R. Naseem, L. Dai, “A Silver Standard Biomedical Corpus for Arabic Language”, vol. 2020, Complexity, September 2020
M. Khan, S. Khan, A. Ahmad, A. Khan, “The Role of News Title for Linking during Preservation Process in Digital Archives” October 2020, Library Hi-Tech
A. Ahmad, J.L. Barros-Justo, C. Feng, A.A. Khan, “The Impact of Controlled Vocabularies on Requirements Engineering Activities: A Systematic Mapping Study”, vol. 10, no. 21, pp. 7749, October 2020, Applied Sciences,
M.D. Khan, Z. Ullah, A. Ahmad, B. Hayat, A. Almogren, K.H. Kim, M. Ilyas, M. Ali, “Energy Harvested and Cooperative Enabled Efficient Routing Protocol (EHCRP) for IoT-WBAN”, vol. 20, no. 21, pp. 6267, October 2020, Sensors,
S. Malik, A. Sajid, A. Ahmad, A. AlMogren, B. Hayat, M. Awais, K.H. Kim, “An Efficient Skewed Line Segmentation Technique for Cursive script OCR” vol. 2020, pp.12, November 2020, Scientific Programming,
S. Ashraf, O. Alfandi, A. Ahmad, A. M. Khatak, B. Hayat, K.H. Kim, A. Ullah, “Bodacious-instance Coverage Mechanism for Wireless Sensor Network”, vol. 2020, pp.11, October 2020, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/8833767 (SCI Journal, IF= 1.81).
N. Ul Haq, M. Ullah, R. Khan, A. Ahmad, A. Almogren, B. Hayat, B. Shafi “USAD: An Intelligent System for Slang AND Abusive Text Detection in PERSO-ARABIC Scripted URDU”, vol. 2020, pp. 7, November 2020, Complexity, https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/6684995 (SCI Journal, IF=2.46).
B. Khan, R. Naseem, A. Ahmad, A. Almogren, S. Jabeen, B. Hayat, M. A. Shah “Investigating Tree Family Machine Learning Techniques for a Predictive System to unveil Software Defects”, vol. 2020, pp. 21, November 2020, Complexity, https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/6688075 (SCI Journal, IF=2.46).
R. Naseem, Z. Shaukat, M. Irfan, M.A. Shah, A. Ahmad, F. Muhammad, A. Glowacz, L. Dunai, J. Antonino-Daviu, A. Sulaiman “Empirical Assessment of Machine Learning Techniques for Software Requirements Risk Prediction”, vol. 10, no. 2, January 2021, Electronics, https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10020168, (SCI Journal, IF=2.41).
A. Ullah, J. Wang, S. Anwar, A. Ahmad, S. Nazir, F. Zesong, H. Ullah Khan “Fusion of Machine Learning and Privacy Preserving for Secure Facial Expression Recognition”, Accepted in Security and Communication Networks, 2021, (SCI Journal, IF=1.376).
S. Ashraf, A. Ahmad, et al., “Underwater routing protocols: Analysis of link selection challenges”, AIMS Electronics and Electrical Engineering, 4(3): 234–248, 2020 (EI Journal).
Razman, Z. Iqbal, M. Khan, A. Ahmad, R. Naseem, “Fetal Heart Rate Classification and Comparative Analysis of Classifiers Used for CTG”, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 31-42, International Journal of Grid and Distributed Computing (IJGDC), 2019, (ESCI Journal).
A. Ahmad, K. Li, C. Feng, T. Sun, " An Empirical Study on How iOS developers Report Quality Aspects on Stack Overflow”, vol. 8, no. 5, pp.501-506, International Journal of Machine Learning and Computing (IJMLC), 2018, (SCOPUS/EI Journal).
H. Khan, A. Ahmad, M.A. Alnuem, "Knowledge Management: A Solution to Requirements Understanding in Global Software Engineering", Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology 4(14): 2087-2099, 2012, (EI Journal).
Hussain, K., Zhu, W., Salleh, M., Ali, H., Talpur, N., Naseem, R., A. Ahmad, Khan, M., Ullah, A., “A Review on Data Preprocessing Methods for Class Imbalance Problem” International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 2019 (EI Journal).

Publications

Conferences

A. Ahmad, C. Feng, M. Tao, S. Ge, A. Yousif, "Challenges of Mobile Applications Development: Initial Results” IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering and Service Science (ICSSES), Beijing, China, Nov. 2017 (EI Conference).
M.A. Alnuem, A. Ahmad, H. Khan " Requirements Understanding: a challenge in Global Software Development Industrial Surveys in Saudi Arabia" The IEEE Signature Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications, Turkey, COMPSAC 2012, (EI Conference).
H. Khan, A. Ahmad, et al, "Requirements Understanding in Global Software Engineering: Industrial Surveys” International Conference on Computer and Software Modelling, Singapore, Sept. 2011, (EI Conference).
Hussain, K., Zhu, W., Salleh, M., Ali, H., Talpur, N., Naseem, R., A. Ahmad, Ullah, A., “Enhanced Bat Algorithm for Solving Non-Convex Economic Dispatch Problem” 4th International Conference on Soft Computing and Data Mining (SCDM), 22-23 January, 2020, Melaka, Malaysia (ISI /Scopus Indexed Conference).
Bian, X., Feng, C., A. Ahmad, “Targeted Sentiment Classification with Knowledge Powered Attention Network“, 31st International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), 4-6 November, 2019, Portland, USA (EI Conference).
R. Naseem, G. Ullah, A. Ahmad, et al., "Planquarium: A context aware rule based indoor kitchen garden" 8th EAI International Conference on Context-Aware Systems and Applications (ICCASA 2019), My Tho, Vietnam, November 28-29, 2019 (WoS/Scopus Indexed).
A. Ahmad, Feng, C., et al. “An Empirical evaluation of machine learning algorithms for requirements identification on Stack Overflow” 10th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering and Service Science (ICSESS 2019) (EI Conference).
M. Adnan, A. Ahmad, Ayaz. U., Luqman. K., “E-Learning Prototype designing with quality attributes”, 1st International Conference on Software Engineering and Computing Disciplines (ICSECD 2019), University of Swabi, 12-14 November, 2019.

Awards & Prizes

Year: 2014 Award Title: PhD Scholarship Awarding Institute Name: China Scholarship Council, China