Assoc Prof Dr Mehtab Afzal University of Lahore – Defence Road Campus: The University of Lahore – New Campus, Pakistan
Dr. Mehtab Afzal, received the M.S. degree in Computer Science from COMSATS University Islamabad, Abottabad campus, Pakistan, in 2009 and the Ph.D. degree from Southwest Jiotong University Chengdu, Sichuan, China in 2016. He was a Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science and IT, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abottabad campus, Pakistan, from 2007 to 2009 and Lecturer with the Department of Computer Science, Gujrat University, Gujrat, Pakistan, from 2009 to 2010. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Science, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan. He has authored several research papers in international journals/conferences, such as the Knowledge-based systems (Elsevier), Neurocomputing (Elsevier), International Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley), International Conference on Multiple Classifiers Systems (Springer), etc. He also published couple of books with Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany. He has been serving as a Reviewer for several journals/conferences, including Multimedia Systems (Springer), Computers and Electrical Engineering (Elsevier), Knowledge-based Systems (Elsevier), etc. He is also a General Chair of the 4th International Conference on Advancements in Computational Sciences (ICACS’23). His research interests include multimedia information retrieval, computer vision and big data.
Education:
He completed his PhD in Computer Applied Technology at Southwest Jiaotong University in Chengdu, Sichuan, China, from 2010 to 2016. Prior to that, he pursued his Master of Science in Computer Science at COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Pakistan, from 2007 to 2009. His academic journey began with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Allama Iqbal Open University in Islamabad, which he pursued from 2000 to 2004 at Paramount College of Computer Science in Wah Cantt. Throughout his educational pursuits, he has demonstrated a strong commitment to advancing his knowledge and expertise in the field of computer science.
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Experience:
He has held various academic positions throughout his career, starting as a Lecturer at Allama Iqbal Open University in Islamabad from 2005 to 2007, where he taught undergraduate courses. He then moved to the University of Gujrat in 2009-2010 as a Lecturer, continuing to teach undergraduate level courses. Subsequently, he joined the University of Lahore in 2016 as an Assistant Professor, where he taught courses and supervised thesis work at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels until 2022. Currently, he serves as an Associate Professor at the University of Lahore, where he holds the position of Conference General Chair for the ICACS23 conference and is a member of the Board of Studies.
Publications:
- Web Video Categorization using Category-Predictive Classifiers and Category-Specific Concept Classifiers Cited By : 7, Published By : 2016
- Web Video Classification with Visual and Contextual Semantics Cited By : 4, Published By : 2019
- Semi-supervised Evolutionary Ensembles for Web Video Categorization Cited By : 19, Published By : 2015
- A Base Level Ontology for Disaster Management Published By : 2017
- Detection of Imposter and Tampered Segments in Audio Recording using as Intelligent System Cited By : 2, Published By : 2021
- GA-IRACE: Genetic Algorithm-Based Improved Resource Aware Cost-Efficient Scheduler for Cloud Fog Computing Environment Published By : 2022
- ROCA: Auto-ResolvingOverlapping and Conflicts in ACL Policies for SDN. Published By : 2021
- Energy-Efficient Collaboration-BasedContent Sharing Strategy inDevice-to-Device Communication. Published By : 2021
- Extraction of opinion targets using syntactic rules in Urdu text Published By : 2021
- A Weighted Spatially Constrained Finite Mixture Model for Image Segmentation Published By : 2021