Top

Dr Iftikhar Ahmed Khan

  /  Dr Iftikhar Ahmed Khan
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Specialization:

Software Engineering, Human Computer Interaction 


Email: iftikharahmed@cuiatd.edu.pk
Phone: +92-992-383591-6

Academics/ Degrees:

  • Ph.D., 2009, Brunel
    University, West London, UK
  • MCS, 2004, COMSATS
    Institute of IT, Pakistan
  • BCS, 2001, Allama Iqbal
    Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan
 
Journal Publications
1. AN Khan,Abid Mehmood,Muhammad Nasir Mumtaz Bhutta,I.A.Khan,Atta ur Rehman Khan An efficient and compromise-resilient image encryption scheme for resource-constrained environments, PLOS ONE, 2024
2. W.Jadoon,I.A.Khan Short-term wind power forecasting through stacked and bi directional LSTM techniques, PeerJ Computer Science, 2024
3. Ibrar Hussain,I.A.Khan,W.Jadoon,RN Jadoon,AN Khan,Muhammad Shafi Touch or click friendly: Towards adaptive user interfaces for complex applications, PLOS ONE, 2024
4. W.Jadoon,I.A.Khan Computing Offloading Strategy in Mobile Edge Computing Environment: A Comparison between Adopted Frameworks, Challenges, and Future Directions, Electronics , 2023
5. I.A.Khan Can Nonliterates Interact as Easily as Literates with a Virtual Reality System? A Usability Evaluation of VR Interaction Modalities, Systems, 2023
6. I.A.Khan Towards Automatic Detection of Social Anxiety Disorder via Gaze Interaction, Applied Sciences, 2022
7. W.Jadoon,I.A.Khan,Nosheen Gul Secure Reversible Data Hiding in Images Based on Linear Prediction and Bit-Plane Slicing, Mathematics, 2022
8. M Swati,I.A.Khan Enhanced Accessibility of Facebook Messenger for Blind Users, KIET Journal of Computing and Information Sciences, 2022
9. S.K.Zaman,J.Shujah,I.A.Khan,S.S.Hussain,T. Iqbal,S. F. Ahmed, Y. Jararweh, K. Ko. PreDiKT‐OnOff: A complex adaptive approach to study the impact of digital social networks on Pakistani students' personal and social life, Concurrency and Computation Practice & Experience, 2020
10. Muhammad Amir Khan,I.A.Khan,Ahmad Din,W.Jadoon,R.Jadoon,F.G Khan,AN Khan,Usman Ali Khan Towards a Complete Set of Gym Exercises Detection Using Smartphone Sensors, Scientific Programming, 2020
11. I.A.Khan,J.Shujah,AN Khan Resource-based direct manipulation: a user-centric visual interface for operational customization of future smart appliances, Telecommunication Systems, 2020
12. S.S.Hussain,I.A.Khan,W.Jadoon,B.Nazir,Attiqa Rehman Redesign and validation of a computer programming course using Inductive Teaching Method, PLOS-One, 2020
13. I.A.Khan A Systematic Feasibility Analysis of User Interfaces for Illiterate Users, Proceedings of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences, 2020
14. I.A.Khan,S.S.Hussain,B.Nazir,W.Jadoon,I.Khan Design and evaluation of a dynamic job search website for non-literate users of Pakistan, New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 2019
15. I.A.Khan,Ahmad Khan,B.Nazir,S.S.Hussain,F.G Khan,I.Khan Urdu Translation: the Validation and Reliability of the 120-Item Big Five IPIP Personality Scale, Current Psychology, 2019
16. R.Jadoon,W.Jadoon,Ahmad Khan,Dr. Zia ur Rehman,I.A.Khan,Sajid.Shah Linear Discriminative Learning for Image Classification, 20 October 2019, 2019
17. F.G Khan,Sajid.Shah,I.A.Khan,W.Jadoon,Ahmad Khan A Deep Learning Ensemble Approach for Diabetic Retinopathy Detection, IEEE Access, 2019
18. Muhammad Amir Khan,Shahbaz Akhtar Abid,Nauman Ali Khan,R.Jadoon,I.A.Khan,WuYang Zhou Performance Evaluation of Zone-Based Routing with Hierarchical Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2019
19. Adnan Anwar,Muhammad Amir Khan,Dr. Ayaz Ali,Dr. Aamir Shahzad,B.Nazir,I.A.Khan,W.Jadoon,Aqdas Naveed Malik,Naveed Shahzad,R.Jadoon Quality of Service-Based Node Relocation Technique for Mobile Sensor Networks, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2019
20. Muhammad Amir Khan,R.Jadoon,I.A.Khan,W.Jadoon,WuYang Zhou EEHRT: Energy Efficient Technique for Handling Redundant Traffic in Zone-Based Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2019
21. S.S.Hussain,I.A.Khan Fighting adult illiteracy with the help of the environmental print material, PLOS One, 2018
22. W.Jadoon,Dr. Zia ur Rehman,I.A.Khan,B.Nazir,F.G Khan Robust Face Recognition under Limited Training Sample Scenario using Linear Representation, KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, 2018
23. I.A.Khan A review and comparison of the traditional collaborative and online collaborative techniques for requirement elicitation, Journal of Independent Studies and Research – Computing, 2018
24. R.Jadoon,W.Jadoon,I.A.Khan RARZ: Ring-Zone Based Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks, APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL , 2018
25. R.Jadoon,I.A.Khan,W.Jadoon A Reliable Scheme for Synchronizing Multimedia Data Streams under Multicasting Environment, APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL , 2018
26. Dr. Zia ur Rehman,Ahmad Khan,I.A.Khan,W.Jadoon Ligature categorization based Nastaliq Urdu recognition using deep neural networks, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 2018
27. AN Khan,Dr. Mazhar Ali,F.G Khan,I.A.Khan,W.Jadoon A comparative study and workload distribution model for re‐encryption schemes in a mobile cloud computing environment , Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley, 2017, 2017
28. Attiqa Rehman,S.S.Hussain,I.A.Khan A SURVEY ON USAGE OF TOUCHSCREEN VERSUS MOUSE FOR INTERACTION, Science International , 2017
29. I.A.Khan,B.Nazir,S.Khan Load balancing in grid computing: Taxonomy, trends and opportunities, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2017
30. I.A.Khan,S.S.Hussain,T.Iqbal Job search website for illiterate users of Pakistan, Telematics and Informatics, 2017
31. F.G Khan,AN Khan,W.Jadoon,I.A.Khan An optimized magnetostatic field solver on GPU using open computing language, Concurrency and Computation practice and experience, 2017
32. I.A.Khan,B.Nazir Search-based routing in wireless mesh network, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking , 2017
33. F.G Khan,I.A.Khan Analyzing Virtualization based Energy Efficiency Techniques in Cloud Data Centers, International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security (IJCSIS), 2016
34. I.A.Khan Mining Social Media photos to Measure Point-of-Interest Connectivity, Sindh University Research Journal-SURJ (Science Series), 2015
35. I.A.Khan Towards an Efficient Urdu Keyboard Layout, Sind University Research Journal, 2015
36. I.A.Khan Role of Software Architect: A Pakistani Software Industry Perspective, Research Journal of Recent Sciences, 2014
37. I.A.Khan Role of Software Architect: A Pakistani Software Industry Perspective, Research Journal of Recent Sciences, 2014
38. I.A.Khan A Framework for Word Spotting in Scanned Urdu Documents by Exploiting the Dot Orientation , Life Sciences Journal , 2013
39. I.A.Khan Tourist’s Spots Popularity Measurement in Pakistan Through Mining Publically Available Social Media Data, Middle East Journal of Scientific Research, 2013
40. I.A.Khan Predicating Computer Users Moods from Keyboard and Mouse Interaction, Frontiers of Computer Science, 2013
41. I.A.Khan Do Moods affect Programmers’ Debug Performance?, Cognition, Technology and Work, 2011
 
 
 
Profile/Bio
  • Feb. 2004 – Oct 2005: Software
    Engineer, COMSATS Information Technology Centre (CITC), COMSATS Institute
    of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan
  • Jan 2006 – Mar 2009: Ph.D.
    Researcher
  • April 2009 – Feb 2014:
    Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science / Computer Software Engineering,
    University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar Pakistan
  • Feb 2014 – April 2022:
    Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, COMSATS University
    Islamabad, Pakistan
  • April 2022 till now: Associate Professor, Department
    of Computer Science, COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan
 
Associations
  • EIAS Data Science and
    Blockchain Lab, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Prince
    Sultan University, Riyadh 11586, Saudi Arabia
  • Faculty of Computing and
    Information Technology, Sohar University, Sohar, Oman
  • Jeju National University,
    Jeju City, 960-756, South Korea
 
Research Interests
  • Interactive computing
  • Usability studies
  • Affective computing
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Software architectures 
 
Awards
  • MCS – Bronze Medalist
  • UET Scholarship for doing
    Ph.D. from the UK
 
Research Projects
  • The online context-aware
    collaborative learning system of PKR, 0.5 million funded by HEC, Co-PI
  • A basic learning
    environment for adult illiterates of  PKR
    0.1 million by ICT R&D, Completed, Co-PI
 
Students Supervised

MS/PhD students supervised:

 

Student Name

Title of Research

Degree

Completed / Not Completed

Supervisor / Co-supervisor

1

Ibtisam Gul

Virtual Reality in Educating the illiterate population of Pakistan

Ph.D.

Thesis submitted

Supervisor

2

M. Umer

Face recognition using Collaborative filters
(tentative)

Ph.D.

Synopsis submitted

Co-supervisor

3

Fizza Seemab

Use of ICTs in imparting effective software
engineering conceptualization process (tentative)

Ph.D.

Research in progress

Co-Supervisor

4

Engr. Sohail Khan(UET)

Keyboard and Mouse Interaction Based Mood
Measurement using Artificial Neural Networks

MS

Completed

2013

5

Engr. Ahmad Khan (UET)

Big Five IPIP NEO Personality Assessment Instrument:
An Urdu Translation

MS

Completed

2014

6

Engr. Zafar Ali Shah (UET)

Job Search Website for illiterate and
semi-illiterate Users of Pakistan

MS

Completed

2014

7

Arif Shah (UET)

Role of Software Architect in the Pakistani Software
Industry

MS

Completed

2014

8

Waheed Ur Rehman (CU)

Towards an Efficient Urdu Keyboard Layout

MS

Completed

2015

9

Mehreen Iftikhar (CU)

Design and evaluation of Inductive teaching course
for computer programming students

MS

Completed

2016

10

Khan Zeb (CU)

Multi-objective Live
VM management strategy for Cloud

MS

Completed

2017

11

Naveeda Bibi (CU)

User-Centered Urdu
keyboard layouts testing

MS

Completed

2017

12

Ibrar Hussain (CU)

Characterizing
Touch vs Mouse friendly MSWord tasks

MS

Completed

2017

13

Muhammad Jawad (CU)

Urdu
Nastaleeq ligature classification and recognition via RNN

MS

Completed

2018

14

Allah Noor (CU)

User
Interface control via BCI

MS

Completed

2018

15

Ayesha Kalsoom (CU)

Toward
a Dynamic Job Search Website for the Illiterate Users of Pakistan

MS

Completed

2018

16

M. Usman (CU)

Gym
exercise detection via mobile sensors

MS

Completed

2018

17

Muhammad Asif (UET)

A
Comparison between traditional and online requirement elicitation techniques

MS

Completed

2019

18

Sara Sheikh

Automated
Social Anxiety Detection with Gaze Avoidance Technique

MS

Completed

2019

19

Waseem Khan Jadoon

Design
and Development of a Judgement helper for Pakistani court Judges and its
Usability Analysis

MS

Completed

2020

20

Anam Arif

Empowering
the non-literate population – An application to report cost discrepancies in
the vegetable market

MS

Completed

2021

21

Saira Khan

Urdu
Idiom detector AND translator via search and replace strategy

MS

Completed

2022

22

Javaid Raza

Improving
pronunciation problems in Urdu speaking dataset

MS

Completed

2022

23

Bahadur Ali

Predicting
Neuroticism and its Sub-traits By Specifically Designed Interfaces

MS

Completed

2023

26

Danial Khan

Design
and Evaluation of a Job Search Android Application for the Non-literate
Population of Pakistan

MS

In Progress

5th Semester

27

Attia Batool

Are
video contents the same as the video creator tagged them?

MS

In Progress

4th Semester