Dr. Abid Sohail Bhutta
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Area of Interest: Data Science and Machine Learning, Business Analytics, Intelligent Process design and Improvement
Tel # (Off): 111-001-007  
HEC approved PhD Supervisor

Biography:

Dr. Abid Sohail is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science. He obtained his Ph.D. from Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia, in 2015. Dr. Sohail joined the Computer Science Department at COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus in 2008 as a Lecturer.

With a deep commitment to education, Dr. Sohail has been teaching a wide range of courses at both postgraduate and undergraduate levels. The courses he has taught include:

  • Data Science and Business Analytics
  • Business Process Design and Analysis
  • Distributed Database Management Systems
  • Web-based DBMS
  • Data Mining
  • Management Information Systems
  • E-Commerce
  • Data Sciences
  • Database Systems 1 Link: Database Systems 1
  • Data Warehousing

Dr. Sohail has published more than 32 conference and journal papers with a cumulative impact factor of 55.13. He is also actively involved in the academic community as a reviewer and editor for numerous papers. Additionally, he serves as an examiner for MS and PhD theses at various institutions including PUCIT, UMT, and Bahria University Lahore Campus.

His primary research interests lie in the fields of Process Intelligence and Improvement, Process Mining, Machine Learning, Data Science, and Natural Language Processing (NLP). Dr. Sohail also maintains international collaborations with several esteemed institutions, such as INTI International University Malaysia, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS Malaysia, University of Tabuk KSA, and Universiti Utara Malaysia.

PhD Supervised

  1. Umer Draz (2019-2024): (Supervisory committee)

PhD Under Supervision

  1. Arif Hussan (2019-2023): (Supervisory Committee)
  2. Muhammad Umair (2023-2028) Supervisor
  3. Syed Hamid Ali (2024-2029) Supervisor

MSCS Thesis Supervised

  1. Khalid Hussain, (2009-2010) MSCS  "Sub Table Based Access Security Model (STBAM) for OLAP Tools”,
  2. Aysha Naeem, (2015-2016) “An Exploratory Suudy on Co-Authorship in Business Process Management ”
  3. Rimsha Anam (2016-2017)  “A Structural Variants Process Models Collection for Process Similarities Evaluations”
  4. Saman Abdi (2016-2017)  “A Methodical Exploration of Business Process Management Community”
  5. Saher Zia (2016-2017) “From Enhanced ER to Multidimensional Modeling: A Methodology for DW Design”
  6. Sana Kanwal (2016-2017)  ,“Recall of process models in business process modeling notation ”
  7. Sehar Ali (2018-2019) “Lifestyle Monitoring of Diabetic Patients using
    Business Process Mapping ”
  8. ASMARA AKRAM (2017-2018)  ,“ On Using Business Object Ontology to Map Business Processes from User Feedback”
  9. Nazish Hina (2017-2018)  ,“ Measuring Syntactic Similarity between Business Process Models by Using Domain Specific Dictionary” Recall of process models in business process modeling notation ”
  10. Samra Anum (2017-2018)  ,“ On computing semantic similarity of business process models using domain specific dictionary”
  11. Adeela Tariq (2017-2018) ,“Measuring Syntactic and semantic process models match similarities using user feedback”
  12. Uroog Fatima (2020- 2021) “On enhancing the quality of business process model„s activities labels ”
  13. Aleena Nazir(2020-2021) “Process models generation from textual descriptions for healthcare processes”
  14. Lariab Mumtaz(2020-2021) “Business Processes models semiology mapping using Domain Ontologies and Dictionaries”
  15. Amina Dilawar (2019-2021) “Activity Label Based Technique for Business Process”
  16. Novaria Zahid  (2021-2022) “Using Eye-Tracking And Linked Rules To Expose Effects On Structural Changings To Resolve Similarly Related Issues In BPMN Models ”
  17. Muhammad Usman (2021-2022) “Generating Class Diagrams from Textual Requirements Using Natural Language Processing (NLP) Techniques.”
  18. Mudabbar Hussain Bhatti (2021-2022) : “Automatic Resume Analysis and Classification Using Robotic Process Automation”
  19. Muhammad Zeeshan Ishaq (2021-2022) : “Title Based Urdu Document Classification using Machine and Deep Learning Methodologies”
  20. Khurram Nissar (2021-2022): “Blockchain in Healthcare A Rigor Evaluation of Raising Demands and Challenges”
  21. Yasir Ali (2022-2023): “Security Enhancement Analysis of NTDC”
  22. Saima Nazir (2022-2023): “Automatic Transformation of BPMN Models onto Petri-nets”
  23. Muhammad Uqba (2023-2024): “Robotic Process Automation: A Semantic Similarities based Technique for Pre-Processing of Random Resume:
  24. Sidra Anwar (2024-2025) Semantic Precision: A Methodological Approach for Classifying and Differentiating Business Processes using activities labels.
  25. Muhammad Rizwan (2024-2025): On Predicting US Dollar to Pakistani Rupee Exchange Rate with Public Sentiments
  26.  Hina Idrees(2024-2025): Intelligent Diabetes Management through Advanced Process Modeling and Social Media Analysis.

Publications:

Book Chapters:
1. Abid Sohail, Dhanapal Durai Dominic (2014), "A Unified Framework for Business Process Intelligence", Proceedings of the First International Conference on Advanced Data and Information Engineering, edited by: Tutut Herawan, Mustafa Mat Deris, Jemal Abawajy, published by: Springer Singapore, pp: 8, Standard: 978-981-4585-17-0     (External URL)
Journal Papers:
1. Draz, U., Chaudary, M.H., Ali, T., Sohail, A., Irfan, M. and Nowakowski, G. (2022), "Trust-Based Beacon Node Localization Algorithm for Underwater Networks by Exploiting Nature Inspired Meta-Heuristic Strategies. ", Electronics   
2. Umair, M., Zubair, M., Dawood, F., Ashfaq, S., Bhatti, M.S., Hijji, M. and Sohail, A., (2022), " A Multi-Layer Holistic Approach for Cursive Text Recognition. ", Applied Sciences   
3. Kazim Ali, Adnan N. Qureshi, Muhammad Shahid Bhatti, Abid Sohail, Muhammad Hijji and Atif Saeed, (2022), "De-Noising Brain MRI Images by Mixing Concatenation and Residual Learning (MCR)", Computer Systems Science and Engineering   
4. Kazim Ali, Adnan N. Qureshi, Muhammad Shahid Bhatti, Abid Sohail and Muhammad Hijji (2022), "Defending Adversarial Examples by a Clipped Residual U-Net Model, ", Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing,   
5. Hafsa Naveed , Abid Sohail, Jasni Mohamad Zain, Noman Saleem , Rao Faizan Ali and Shahid Anwar, (2022), "Detection of Toxic Content on Social Networking Platforms Using Fine Tuned ULMFiT Model, ", Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing   
6. Abid Sohail, Muhammad Imran Tariq, Sehar Ali, Muhammad Arif Butt , Muhammad Ismail and Farooq Ahmad (2022), "Diabetic patients’ behavior observation on social media using active surveillance", Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems   
7. Ali, K., Quershi, A. N., Arifin, A. A. B., Bhatti, M. S., Sohail, A., & Hassan, R (2021), "Deep Image Restoration Model: A Defense Method Against Adversarial Attacks", COMPUTERS MATERIALS & CONTINUA   
8. Ebrahim. A B.Ghaleb, P. D. D. Dominic, Rao Faizan Ali, Aliza Binti Sarlan, Abid Sohail, (2021), "Digital Technology Innovations and Information Security Policy Impact on Healthcare Transformation In Developing Countries", Journal of Positive Psychology and Wellbeing   
9. Nurul Husna Mahadzir, Mohd Faizal Omar, Mohd Nasrun Mohd Nawi, Anas A. Salameh, Kasmaruddin Che Hussin and Abid Sohail (2021), "MELex: The Construction of Malay-English Sentiment Lexicon", CMC-COMPUTERS MATERIALS & CONTINUA, Vol: 71, Issue: 1, ISSN: 1875-905X, Impact Factor: 3.86   
10. Muhammad Shahid Bhatti, Azmat Ullah , Rohaya Latip , Abid Sohail , Anum Riaz and Rohail Hassan (2021), "Benchmarking Performance of Document Level Classification and Topic Modeling", Computers, Materials & Continua, pp: 125-141, Vol: 71, Issue: 1, ISSN: https://www.techscience.com/cmc/v71n1/45375, DOI: DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.020083, Impact Factor: 3.86   
11. Kazim Ali , Adnan N. Quershi , Ahmad Alauddin Bin Arifin , Muhammad Shahid Bhatti , Abid Sohail and Rohail Hassan (2021), "Deep Image Restoration Model: A Defense Method against Adversarial Attacks ", Computers, Materials & Continua, pp: xx, Vol: xx, Issue: xx, ISSN: 1875-905X, DOI: doi.org/10.3390/app11083383, Impact Factor: 3.77   
12. Muhammad Shahid Bhatti, Saman Azhar , Abid Sohail , Mohammed Adnan M Hijji , Hamna Ayemen and Areesha Ramzan (2021), "Multilingual Sentiment Mining System to Prognosticate Governance", Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol: xx, Issue: xx, ISSN: 1875-905X, Impact Factor: 3.86   
13. Arif Husen, Muhammad Hasanain Chaudary,Farooq Ahmad, Abid Sohail, Muhammad Asif (2021), "Improving scheduling performance in congested networks ", PeerJ Computer Science, pp: xx, Vol: xx, Issue: xx, Impact Factor: 1.39   
14. Abid Sohail, Muhammad Imran Tariq, Sehar Ali, Muhammad Arif Butt , Muhammad Ismail and Farooq Ahmad. (2021), "Diabetic patients’ behavior observation on social media using active surveillance", Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, pp: xx, Vol: xx, Issue: xx, Impact Factor: 1.851   
15. Ebrahim. A B.Ghaleb, P. D. D. Dominic, Rao Faizan Ali and Abid Sohail (2021), "Digital technology innovations and information security policy impact on healthcare transformation in developing countries", Journal of Management Information and Decision Sciences, Vol: xx, Issue: xx, Impact Factor: .28   
16. Abid Sohail, Ammar Haseeb, Mobashar Rehman, Dhanapal Durai Dominic, Muhammad Arif Butt (2021), "An Intelligent Graph Edit Distance-Based Approach for Finding Business Process Similarities ", CMC-COMPUTERS MATERIALS & CONTINUA, pp: 3603-3618, Vol: 69, Issue: 3, DOI: 10.32604/cmc.2021.017795, Impact Factor: 3.86    (External URL)
17. Muhammad Imran Tariq , Natash Ali Mian, Abid Sohail, Tahir Alyas, and Rehan Ahmad (2021), "Evaluation of the Challenges in the Internet of Medical Things with Multicriteria Decision Making (AHP and TOPSIS) to Overcome Its Obstruction under Fuzzy Environment", Mobile Information Systems, Vol: 2020, ISSN: 1875-905X, Impact Factor: 1.802   
18. Rao Faizan Ali, PDD Dominic, Syed Emad Azhar Ali, Mobashar Rehman, Abid Sohail (2021), "Information security behavior and information security policy compliance: A systematic literature review for identifying the transformation process from noncompliance to compliance", Applied Sciences, pp: 3383, Vol: 11, Issue: 8, DOI: doi.org/10.3390/app11083383, Impact Factor: 2.679    (External URL)
19. Abid Sohail, Dhanapal Durai Dominic, Mohammad Hijji, Muhammad Arif Butt (2021), "Competency Driven Resource Evaluation Method for Business", CMC-COMPUTERS MATERIALS & CONTINUA, pp: 1141-1157, Vol: 69, Issue: 1, Impact Factor: 4.89    (External URL)
20. Abid Sohail, Khurram Shahzad, PDD Dominic, Muhammad Arif Butt, Muhammad Arif, Muhammad Imran Tariq (2021), "On Computing the Suitability of Non-Human Resources for Business Process Analysis", CMC-COMPUTERS MATERIALS & CONTINUA, pp: 303-319, Vol: 67, Issue: 1, DOI: 10.32604/cmc.2021.014201, Impact Factor: 4.89    (External URL)
21. Abid Sohail, Dhanapal Durai Dominic, K. Shahzad (2016), "Business Process Analysis: A Process Warehouse based Resource Preference Evaluation Method", International Journal of Business Information Systems, Vol: 21, Issue: 2, ISSN: 1746-0980, DOI: doi.org/10.1504/IJBIS.2016.074255, Impact Factor: SJR 0.319    (External URL)
22. Abid Sohail, Dhanapal Durai Dominic (2015), "From ER model to star model: a systematic transformation approach", International Journal of Business Information Systems, pp: 249-267, Vol: 18, Issue: 3, ISSN: 1746-0980, Impact Factor: SJR 0.319, Scopus(Elsevier)    (External URL)
23. Abid Sohail and Khalid Hassain (2013), "Sub Table Based Access Security Model (STBAM) for OLAP Tools", International Journal of Computer and Communication Engineering, pp: 5, Vol: 2, Issue: 6, Standard: 2010-3743 , Impact Factor: 0.0  Abstract  (External URL)
Conference Papers:
1. Abid Sohail, Sehar Zia, Abdul Qayyum Khan, Muhammad Shahid Bhatti, Muhammad Usman Akram and Muhammad Imran Tariq, (2020) "From Enhanced ER to Multidimensional Model: A Methodology for Data Warehouse Design", SOFA Conferences   
2. Abid Sohail, Sehar Ali, Muhammad Arif Butt, Muhammad Khurram Shehzad Rana , Muhammad Shakeel Anjum and Muhammad Imran Tariq (2020) "Lifestyle Monitoring of Diabetic Patients using Business Process on Social Media", SOFA 2020   
3. Abid Sohail, Saman Abdi, Abdul Qayyum Khan, Muhammad Shahid Bhatti, Aysha Abid and Muhammad Imran Tariq (2020) "Taxonomy of Business Process Management: A Social Network Analysis based Systemic Literature Exploration", SOFA Conferences   
4. Abid Sohail, PDD Dominic (2016) "Process warehouse based agent's competencies measurement method for business process improvement", 2016 3rd International Conference On Computer And Information Sciences (ICCOINS)   
5. Abid Sohail, Dhanapal Durai Dominic, K. Shahzad (2014) "A process warehouse based resource performance evaluation method for business processes improvement,", Computer and Information Sciences (ICCOINS), 2014 International Conference , pp: 1 - 6, Issue: 2014, Standard: 978-1-4799-4391-3, Impact Factor: IEEE, SCOPUS    (External URL)
6. Abid Sohail, Dhanapal Durai Dominic, K. Shahzad (2014) "A process warehouse based resource suitability evaluation method for business process improvement", International Conference on Computer, Communications, and Control Technology (I4CT), 2014 , pp: 75 - 79, Standard: 978-1-4799-4556-6, Impact Factor: IEEE, SCOPUS    (External URL)
7. Abid Sohail, Dhanapal Durai Dominic (2014) "Resources Classification Framework based Preference Construction Method for Business Process Performance Evaluations", BIAPC, Vol: 2   
8. Abid Sohail, P Dhanapal Durai Dominic (2013) "Requirements Elections for Business Process Improvement", Annual Postgraduate Conference 2013, Impact Factor: 0.0  Abstract 
9. Abid Sohail, P Dhanapal Durai Dominic (2012) "A gap between Business Process Intelligence and redesign process", Computer & Information Science (ICCIS), 2012, pp: 136 - 142, Vol: 1, Standard: 978-1-4673-1937-9, Impact Factor: IEEE, SCOPUS  Abstract  (External URL)
10. Abid Sohail, Khalid Hassain (2010) "Sub Table Based Access Security Model (STBAM) for OLAP Tools", ICIIT 2010 Conference october 28-30 2010  Abstract  (External URL)
11. Khurram Shahzad, Abid Sohail (2009) "A systematic approach for transformation of ER schema to dimensional schema", Proceeding FIT '09 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Techn  Abstract  (External URL)
12. J S Mirza, Zubair Khalid, Abid Sohail (2007) "Statistical study of Urdu,", Published in 5th CWRC   

Qualification

PhD
UNIVERSITY TEKNOLOGY PETRONAS, Malaysia
Oct 2011 to Jan 2015
   
MS(CS)
CIIT, Lahore, Pakistan
Oct 2006 to Feb 2009
   

Experience

Associate Professor
COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus
May 2023 to Date
   
Assistant Professor
COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus
Jun 2015 to May 2023
   
Graduate Assistant
UNIVERSITY TEKNOLOGY PETRONAS, Malaysia
Oct 2011 to May 2015
   
Lecturer
COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus
Mar 2008 to May 2015
   
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