I am a Tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI), Lahore Campus, Pakistan. I am working as an In-charge of Software Engineering Program in the Department. I received my Ph.D. degree from the Department of Software Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). I have around 13 years of teaching and research experience at various educational and research institutes along with 2.5 years of software development experience in the software industry as a software engineer. I have published more than 35 peer-reviewed articles (cumulative IF 70+ with more than 550 citations and 14 H-index) and have supervised 20+ students (Master + Ph.D.). Moreover, I also have served different public sector universities as a member of the selection and board of studies along with delivering a keynote talk on various topics at the national and international conferences. Whereas to date, I have organized three international workshops in Europe while currently, I am organizing a workshop on Knowledge Management in Ambient Intelligent Systems (KnowMAIS-24). The workshop will take place in conjunction with the the 15th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT 2024) April 23-25, 2024, Hasselt, Belgium. My research interests include Service-Oriented Computing, Intelligent Recommender Systems, Software Engineering, Software Project Management, Knowledge Management, and Self-Organizing Systems. I am a reviewer, technical committee, and editorial member of many reputed national and international conferences and Journals.

E-mail: drzfurkh@cuilahore.edu.pk

Research Group:  https://sana510.wixsite.com/wss-semantic-web/members

Google Scholar:  https://scholar.google.com.pk/citations?user=ovLj3RcAAAAJ&hl=en

 Journal Special Issue: 

• Arranged a Special Issue of Computers, Materials and Continua (CMC). Impact Factor: 3.86;  Country: USA, “The Next Generation of Artificial Intelligence and the Intelligent Internet of Things.”   https://www.techscience.com/cmc/special_detail/ai-iot

IGI-Global: Book Edited:

“Recent Advancements in Smart Remote Patient Monitoring, Wearable Devices, and Diagnostics Systems.”  https://www.igi-global.com/book/recent-advancements-smart-remote-patient/301604 

Research Projects:

• Service Composition Framework for Self Organizing Ubiquitous Systems,  No:21-169SRGP/R&D/HEC/2014; R&D-Division/Higher Education Commission/Sector H-9/lslamabad-Pakistan.  (completed)

Professional Trainings: 

• Project Management Professional (PMP-PMI)
• Agile Certified Professional (ACP-PMI)
• Project Monitoring Evaluation and Controlling
• Statistical Techniques for Effective Decision Making
• Data Analysis With Python

Conference / Workshop Organization

• You are invited to submit your work to the workshop on Knowledge Management in Ambient Intelligent Systems (KnowMAIS-24): Present and Future of Knowledge Management Technologies. The workshop will take place in conjunction with the 15th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT 2024), April 23-25, 2024, Hasselt, Belgium.

Conference Keynote / Invited Talks: 

• Keynote Talk at the 4th International Conference of Computer Science and Allied Technologies 2022 (ICCSAT-2022) on 14-15 November 2022, organized by Lahore Garrison University.
• A keynote Talk on “An Intelligent Healthcare Framework for Remote Patient Monitoring” DSnT University of Education, Lahore, Pakistan  (RACSIT-2024).
• Keynote Speaker at the 1st International Conference on Machine Perception and Artificial Intelligence (ICMPAI-2022) on 17th and 18th June 2022 organized by the Department of Artificial Intelligence (Islamia University Bahawalpur).

Honor: 

• Higher Education Commission (HEC) Approved Supervisor.
• Selection Board Member of University of the Punjab Lahore (Served).
• Selection Board Member of University of Education (Township Campus- Served)
• Selection Board Member of Government College Women University Sialkot (Served).
• Member of Board of Studies, Government College Women University Sialkot (Served).
• Member of Board of Studies, University of Education (Township Campus-

Supervision / Co-Supervision

• Muhammad Hamid (PhD Student). “Intelligent Recommender and Decision Support System for Effective Management of Software Projects.” 
•  Amber Sarfraz (PhD Student) “Cloud Federation Architectures for Dynamic Systems” (Ongoing)
• Muhammad Tahir (PhD Student) “Rights sharing approach for online privacy preservation in Social Networks” (Ongoing).
• Sabih Jamal (PhD Student) “Fine Grained Data Driven Process Model for Machine Learning Systems” (Ongoing).
• Mohammad Ahmad, (PhD Student)  “Data provenance” (Ongoing).
• Alia Samreen “Content validation in OSN” 
• Ushna Khalil “A trust model for delegation in IoT” 
• Zainab Dar “A Context-Aware Encryption Protocol Suite in 6LoWPAN for IoT” 
• Hira Shahid (MS Student). “Software Project Time and Cost Estimation Using Semantic Web Technolgies.” 
• Ghulam Mohayyud Din. “Customized Web Scrapping for Information Authenticity” 
• Rida Fatima “Requirement Change Prediction Model for Small Software Systems”
• Shahzad Sharif, Approach Towards the Development of an Intelligent Legal Agent.
• Nimra Aziz. “Ontology Based Multi-Agent Framework for Knowledge Sharing In Distributed Software Enviornment” 
• Sania Qamar “Impact of Trust and knowledge sharing on software development projects.” 
• Ahmad Amjad, “A Deep Learning Model for Efficient Effort Estimation in Serum Projects”