Zafar Saeed
Assistant Professor
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Dr. Zafar Saeed is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information Technology, University and Central Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. He has more than ten years of working experience as Teaching Faculty, Research Associate, and Software Engineer. Dr. Zafar received his Ph.D. and M.Phil. degrees from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan. He has over four years of industry experience at national and international organizations performing hands-on tasks under Software Development, Project Management, Academic Research, and Social Development roles. He has one year of working experience with Data Science and Machine Intelligence (DSMI) Research Lab at Advanced Analytical Institute (AAI), University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia, where he was actively involved in research, teaching, and development activities. Dr. Zafar’s research interest includes Social Computing, particularly Social Network analysis, Social Media Analytics, Spammer & Bot Detection, Information Diffusion, Event Detection, Event Evolution, Text Mining, and Machine Learning. His research work has been published in highly reputed journals and conferences such as ESWA, CIM, JOGC, ECIR, and PAKDD.
| Ph.D. | Computer Science | Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan | 2013-2020 |
| M.Phil | Computer Science | Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan | 2007-2010 |
| BS | Computer Science | Balochistan University of Information Technology and Management Sciences | 2004-2007 |
| Assistant Professor | University of Central Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan | Present |
| Lecturer (Visiting) | Quaid-i-Azam Unviersity, Islamabad, Pakistan | 2009-2011, 2018-2019 |
| Casual Academic | University of Technology Sydney, Australia | 2018-2018 |
| Researcher/Software Developer | University of Technology Sydney, Australia | 2017-2018 |
| Lecturer (Visiting) | PMAS-Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan | 2010-2010, 2013-2015 |
| Lecturer (Visiting) | Federal Urdu University of Science Arts and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan | 2012-2013 |
| Lecturer | University of Central Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan | 2012-2012 |
| Software Engineer | Diyatech, Islamabad, Pakistan | 2012-2012 |
| Software Engineer | M-Net IT Solutions, Islamabad, Pakistan | 2010-2012 |
| Project Developer | BUITMS, Quetta, Pakistan | 2006-2007 |
| 1 | Siddique M. Z., Iqbal M. Z., Saleem K., Saeed Z., Ahmed A., Ahmed I. A., Khan M. F. (2020). A Dynamic Three-Bit Image Steganography Algorithm for Medical and e-Healthcare Systems, IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 181893-181903 - (IF: 3.745, SJR: Q1) (online) |
| 2 | Saeed, Z., Abbasi, R. A., Razzak, M. I., and Xu, G. (2019). Event detection in Twitter stream using weighted dynamic heartbeat graph approach, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 14(3):29-38. (IF: 9.083, SJR: Q1) (online) |
| 3 | Saeed, Z., Abbasi, R. A., Razzak, M. I., Maqbool, O., Sadaf, A., and Xu, G. (2019). Enhanced Heartbeat Graph for emerging event detection on Twitter using time series networks, Expert Systems with Applications, 136:115-132. (IF: 5.452, SJR: Q1) (online) |
| 4 | Saeed, Z., Abbasi, R. A., Maqbool, Sadaf, A., Razzak, I., Ali, D., Aljo-hani, N. R., and Xu, G. (2019). What’s happening around the world? A Survey and Framework on event detection techniques on Twitter, Journal of Grid Computing, 17(2):279-312. (IF 2.095, SJR: Q1) (online) |
| 5 | Seemab, U., ul Ain, Q., Nawaz, M. S., Saeed, Z., & Rashid, S. (2012). TrFAST: A Tool to Predict Signaling Pathway-specific Transcription Factor Binding Sites. Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics, 10(6), 354-359. (IF 6.6, SJR: Q1) (online) |
