KDDM / Achievements

Awards, grants
& firsts.

Recognition for the group's papers, its head's research productivity, and the final-year projects that went on to win competitions, funding and incubation.

USD 1,000Best Journal Paper Award, Data & Knowledge Engineering, 2018
4×COMSATS Research Productivity Award, 2014–2017
1stAmong 96 FYPs (Spring 2021) and among 53 FYPs (Fall 2017)
4Incubators and launchpads backed University Expert

Timeline

Every achievement

  • SP 20211st position among 96 FYPs of Spring 2021. Smart Travel Planner, by Abbas Ali, Muhammad Saeed and Ibad Ur Rehman (BSCS).
  • 2020Grant awarded: PKR 0.3 million from COMSATS SSBC to the FYP University Expert, an automated university application submission and admission guidance system.
  • 2020Incubation. University Expert was incubated or shortlisted by:
    • NSPIRE by NetSol Technologies
    • SSBC, COMSATS Lahore
    • NIC LUMS Lahore (shortlisted as a startup)
    • Plan 9 Launchpad 13 (pitched and shortlisted)
  • SP 20202nd position among 180 FYPs of Spring 2020. University Expert, by Haris Akhtar, Ahmad Rizwan and Wahab Ahmad Khan (BSCS). universityexpert.pk
  • 2018Best Journal Paper Award, with a USD 1,000 prize. “A system for mining interesting tourist locations and travel sequences from public geo-tagged photos” was selected as best paper in the Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE) journal.
  • FA 20171st position among 53 FYPs of Fall 2017. Probabilistic Model for Opinion Spam Detection, by Raheel Riaz, Muhammad Salman Siddiqi and Hafiza Chandani Munir (BSCS).
  • 2014–17COMSATS University Research Productivity Award to Dr. Hamid Turab Mirza for 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.