●  Est. 2012 · COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus

Finding the signal
in the noise of data.

The Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining research group builds methods that extract useful knowledge from data, drawing on statistics, databases, pattern recognition, machine learning, data visualization, optimization and high-performance computing.

fig.01 · k = 4 research clusters2012 → 2026
SOCIAL MEDIASPATIO-TEMPORALBEHAVIOUR MININGACCESSIBILITY
1,100+Citations
50+Cumulative impact factor
36Journal papers
70Alumni · PhD, MS, BS
5Current PhD scholars

02 / Latest publications

Published in DKE, KAIS, IJHCI,
WWW, AAAI and CIKM.

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03 / Group lead

Prof. Dr. Hamid Turab Mirza

Founder & Head, KDDM Research Group
Tenured Professor · In-Charge Computer Science

Department of Computer Science, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus

04 / Highlights

  • SP 20211st of 96 FYPs: Smart Travel Planner
  • SP 20202nd of 180 FYPs: University Expert, later funded by COMSATS SSBC and incubated at NSPIRE
  • 2018Best Journal Paper Award, Data & Knowledge Engineering (USD 1,000 prize)
  • FA 20171st of 53 FYPs: Probabilistic Model for Opinion Spam Detection
  • 2014–17COMSATS Research Productivity Award, four years running

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