Associate Professor, Department Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence

University of Jeddah, Jeddah, KSA

HEC Approved PhD Supervisor

Head of Data Mining Research Group (DMRG)

Email: alimsdb@gmail.com, adaud@uj.edu.sa

SUMMARY

Post Graduate Experience > 16 Years Post PhD Experience > 10 Years

H-Index: 20, i10-Index: 34 Google Scholar Citations: 1235

RG Score: 33.01 Total Papers: 86

Impact Factor (53), EI (7), Conferences (24) Student Supervised: PhD (5), MS (29), BS (26)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Data Mining, Data Science, Natural Language Processing, Internet of Things, Pattern Recognition

EDUCATION

YearsDegree University/Institute

2007-2010PhD Computer Science Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

2003-2005MS Computer Science UAF, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Thesis/Project

  • 2010 PhD “Group Level Temporal Academic Social Network Mining Using Topic Models”
  • 2005 MS “Decision Making through Data Quality Management Using Data Warehouse”

EXPERIENCE

UNIVERSITY

  • 09/2019-Onward, Associate Professor, Department of CS & AI, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
  • 08/2017-01/2020, Associate Professor (TTS-Tenured)-20, Department of CS & SE, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • 09/2016-07/2017, Assistant Professor, Department of IS, Faculty of Computing, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
  • 08/2010-07/2017, Assistant Professor (TTS)-19, Department of CS & SE, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • 09/2007-07/2010, Research Associate, Department of CS and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
  • 11/2003-12/2005, Research Assistant, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
  • 08/2004-12/2006, Visiting Faculty A.I.O.U, MBA Program at Degree College and BS(CS), PGD(IT) Classes and supervisor of PGD (IT) projects at Compete College, Faisalabad, Pakistan

INDUSTRY

  • 12/2015 Onward, CEO Seoplusplus.com
  • 09/2015 Onward, Founder Study361.com
  • 05/2013 Onward, Founder Researchpedia.info
  • 01/2007-06/2007, Junior Software Engineer, Pakistan Revenue Automation Limited (PRAL), Islamabad, Pakistan
  • 07/2005-09/2006, General Manager (GM), Fine Packages, Faisalabad, Pakistan
  • 07/2004-02/2005, Software Developer, Fine Packages, Faisalabad, Pakistan

TEACHING

SPRING (S) SUMMER (Su) FALL (F)

Undergraduate Level

  • Database Technologies [3 Credits] F10, Su11, S13, F13, S14, F14, S15, F15, S16, S17, F18
  • Data Mining [3 Credits] F20
  • Probability and Statistics for Computer Science [3 Credits] S11, F11, S12, F12, S13, F13, S19
  • Database Management System (DBMS) [3 Credits] F04, S05, F05, S06
  • Distributed Databases [3 Credits] F06, S19
  • Introduction to Information Technology [3 Credits] F06

Graduate Level

  • Data warehousing and Big Data Analytics [3 Credits] F20
  • Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques [3 Credits] S11, Sp12, S13, S14, S15, S16, F18
  • Data Mining: Principles and Algorithms [3 Credits] S12, S13, S15, S16
  • Web Search and Information Retrieval [3 Credits] F11, F12, F14, F15, F16, S17
  • Research Methods [3 Credits] F10, F13, F15

SUPERVISION

SUPERVISED

Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science (PhDCS)

2019

  • Abdul Wahab “Generic NLP Framework for Urdu Text Analysis: Hybridization of Heuristics Machine Learning”

2017

  • Muhammad Shahzad Faisal “Community Driven Expert and Resource Ranking in Social Web”

2016

  • Hikmat Ullah Khan Niazi “Social Web Mining based on Link and Content Analysis”

2015

  • Tehmina Amjad “Ranking in Academic Social Networks”
  • Muhammad Shoaib “Disambiguating Authors in Bibliographic Databases”

Master of Computer Science (MSCS)

2020

  • Nafeesa Shahid “Citation Burst Prediction using Bibliometric Networks”
  • Muhammad Hafeez Ullah “Applying Ontological Modeling on “Zakkat” in Pillar of Islam”

2019

  • Faizan Abbas “Finding Rising Stars through Hot Topics Detection in Bibliometric Networks”
  • Muhammad Awais Shaheen “User Satisfaction based Ranking for Yahoo Answers”
  • Saqib Hussain “An Analysis of Supervised Learning Models for Blog Backlinks Malicious Domain Name Detection and Risk Mitigation”
  • Zainab Shaheen “Aspect based Course Feedback Analysis on Massive Open Online Forum to Facilitate Instructor”
  • Amber Malik “CitationBurst: Ranking Authors who Get Citations Fast in a Short Time”

2018

  • Abid Shehzad “Drug-Index: Indexing Important Drugs from Bio Medical Literature”
  • Tayyaba Khaliq “Why Some Rising Stars are Not Really Rising Stars”
  • Yusra Rehmat “Self-Citations based Trend based Prediction and Effects”

2017

  • Zohair Ahmed “Polarity Estimation for Customer Reviews Using Aspect based Sentiment Analysis”
  • Sadia Khan “Prediction of Rising Star in Pakistani Research Network”

2016

  • Naveed Ul Islam “Rising Business Manager Prediction for Fixed Line Operators Using Classification Models”
  • Malik Khizar Hayat “Anomaly Detection in Heterogeneous Bibliographic Information Networks”
  • Atia “Correlational Study of Entropy and Citations Count”

2015

  • Jamal Ahmad Khan “Use of LDA and POS Tags for Efficient Searching in Plagiarized Passages”
  • Waqas Ahmad “Rising Cricketer Prediction Using Classification Models”
  • Akbar Hussain “Link Fusion: A Unified Cricketer Ranking Algorithm”

2014

  • Ammad Shakil Usmani “Unified Author Ranking Based on Adaptive Publication and Venue Ranking”
  • Zahid Rafiq “Finding Rising Stars through Weighted Mutual Influence”
  • Mian Waqas Ahmed “Reciprocal Relationship Prediction in Co-Author Network”
  • Nabila Naz “Variation in Citations Based Fractional Counting of Authorship”
  • Farhat Abbas “Classification of Student Performance Using Analysis of Expenditure Feature Set”
  • Muhammad Ahmed Naseem “Predicting Rising Stars using Discriminative Models”

2013

  • Gohar Rehman “Graph based citation weighting for author’s Productivity Indexing”
  • Shabnam Bibi “Author Productivity Indexing via Topic Sensitive Weighted Citations”

2012

  • S.M. Saleem Yasir “V-Index: an Index based on Consistent Researcher Productivity”
  • Rashid Abbasi “StarRank: Finding Rising Stars in Academic Social Network”
  • Ayesha Manzoor “Semantically Mining Heterogeneous Data Sources of Deep Web”

Bachelor of Computer Science (BSCS)

2019

  • Mustahsan Mustafa and Faizan Ahmad “Mining Features and Summarizing Customer Reviews”
  • Siam Hassan and M. Ahmad Shahab “University Twitter Engagement”
  • Ali Raza “Game: Battleground Rivals”
  • Muhammad Saad “Al-Zainab Bakers Online System”
  • Muhammad Usman Shafqat and Ghulam Mohi Uddin “Smart Home App”
  • Muhammad Waqar Younas and Muhammad Aswad Nawaz “Smart Shopping”
  • Imran “Global Real Estate”
  • Zeeshan Mustafa “An Efficient Liver Tumor Detection Using Machine Learning”

2016

  • Qaisar Shabbir “Food Rate”

2015

  • Muhammad Suhaib and Shayan Ejaz “Islamabad Cyber Estate”
  • Ubaid Ullah Arshad and M. Umer Qureshi “Reservation System of Mawaa Benquet Hall Services Web Portal”

2014

  • Muhammad Anas and Muhammad Shahjahan “Amazon Reviews Summarizer”
  • Kashif Shafique “Popularity Prediction in Microblogging Network”
  • Awais Maqsood and Waleed Waheed “Academic Recycling”
  • Rafey Ahmad and Adnan Shah “Intrinsic Plagiarism Detection and Prevention System”
  • Muhammad Bilal Tahir and Shahzad Ahmad “Unified Job Portal”
  • Ijaz Ulhaq and Shahzad Adil ”All Pak Universities Admission Information System”

2013

  • Mahwish Maqbool and Amona Sarfraz “Plagiarism Detection using Frequent Pattern Mining”
  • Amina Rubab “Multiple Online Computer Publication Database Crawler”

2012

  • Anisa Farooq and Sadia Latif “Cricket Team Ranking Using Unified Team Rank”
  • Kausar Bashir and Shaista Perveen “Topic Sensitive Ranking of Authors”
  • Iqra Bashir “Co-Terminal Citation based Ranking for Authors”

2011

  • Muhammad Aamir and Sabir Hussain “Expert Finding Using Influence Language Models”
  • Muhammad Ahmed Zaka and Mushtaq Ahmed “Name Ambiguity in Academic Social Networks”
  • Rana Azhar Ul Haq and Fakhir Iqbal “Ranking Papers Using Authority Language Model”
  • Aisha Sikandar and Sameen Mansha “Survey Article Finding through Link and Content Analysis”

SUPERVISING

  • Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science (PhDCS)
    • Muhammad Sajid Qureshi “Linked Open Data based Ranking of the Global Higher Education Institutions”
    • Aqeel Feroze “Group Anomaly Detection in Academic Social Networks”
    • Naveed Ahmad “Click Prediction in Online Advertising using Network Features”
    • Zafar Mahmood “Using Machine Learning Techniques for Finding Rising Stars in Team Sports”
  • Master of Computer Science (MSCS)
    • Waseem Bacha “Identification of Important Factors for Citation Classification”
    • Wael Alharbi “Measuring the Impact of Co-Author Count on Citation Count of Research Publications”
    • M. Asim Saeed “Public Satisfaction and Reputation based Sentiment Classification for Policy Making using Twitter”
    • Abdul Qadar “Graph-based term weighting to rank explanatory sentences for opinion summarization”
    • Zaffar Iqbal “A Graph-based term weighting for Urdu information retrieval”

Bachelor of Computer Science (BSCS)

PUBLICATIONS

SELECTED

Journal

  • Ali Daud. Using Time Topic Modeling for Semantics-Based Dynamic Research Interest Finding. Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS). Knowledge-Based Systems, Volume 26, pp. 154-163, 2012. SCI (IF 4.104)
  • Ali Daud, Muhammad Ahmad, MSI Malik, Dunren Che. Using Machine Learning Techniques for Rising Star Prediction in Co-Author Network. Scientometrics, Volume 102, pp. 1687-1711, 2015. SCI (IF 2.18)
  • Tehmina Amjad, Ying Ding, Jian Xu, Chenwei Zhang, Ali Daud, Jie Tang, Min Song. Standing on the Shoulder of Giant. Journal of Informetrics, 2017. (IF: 3.48)
  • Ali Daud, Juanzi Li, Lizhu Zhou, and Faqir Muhammad. Knowledge Discovery through Directed Probabilistic Topic Models. a Survey. Journal of Frontiers of Computer Science (FCS), Volume 4(2), pp. 280-301, June, 2010. SCIE (IF 0.298)

Conferences

  • Ali Daud, Naif Radi Aljohani, Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi, Miltiadis D. Lytras, Farhat Abbas, Jalal S. Alowibdi. Predicting Student Performance using Advanced Learning Analytics. In Proceedings of 26th International World Wide Web Conference, 2017, pp. 415-421.
  • Ali Daud, Naif Radi Aljohani, Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi, Zahid Rafique, Tehmina Amjad, Hussain Dawood, Khaled H. Alyoubi. Finding Rising Stars in Co-Author Networks via Weighted Mutual Influence. In Proceedings of 26th International World Wide Web Conference, 2017, pp. 33-41.
  • Ali Daud, Juanzi Li, Lizhu Zhou, and Faqir Muhammad. Conference Mining via Generalized Topic Modeling. In Proceedings of 19th International European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practices of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), W. Buntine et al. (Eds.): Part I, LNAI 5781, pp. 244–259, Slovenia, 2009. (Acceptance Rate: 24.88 %) EI
  • Ali Daud, Rashid Abbasi and Faqir Muhammad. Finding Rising Stars in Social Networks. In Proceedings of International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), 22-25 April, 2013, pp. 13-24. (Acceptance Rate: 25.00 %) EI

DETAILS

2020

1. Ali Daud, Min Song, Malik Khizar Hayat, Tehmina Amjad, Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi, Hassan Dawood, Anwar Ghani. Finding Rising Stars in Bibliometric Networks, Scientometrics, 2020. [IF:2.77]

  1. Tehmina Amjad, Yusra Rehmat, Ali Daud, Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi. Scientific impact of an author and role of self-citations. Scientometrics, 2020. [IF: 2.77]
  2. Farah Haneef, Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi, Muddassar Azam Sindhu, Akmal Saeed Khattak, Muhammad Nouman Noor, Naif Radi Aljohani, Ali Daud, Sachi Arafat. Using network science to understand the link between subjects and professions. Computers in Human Behavior, 2020. [IF: 4.31]
  3. Hussain Dawood, Hassan Dawood, Guo Ping, Rashid Mehmood, Ali Daud, Abdullah Alamri, Jalal S Alowibdi. Probability weighted moments regularization based blind image De-blurring. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2019. [IF: 2.10]

5. Ali Daud, Tehmina Amjad, Hussain Dawood and Sajjad Hussain Chauhdary. Topic Sensitive Ranking of Authors. In Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICCIS), Aljouf, KSA, 2020.

  1. Anwar Ghani, Afzal Badshah, Saeedullah Jan, Abdulrahman A Alshdadi, Ali Daud. Issues and challenges in Cloud Storage Architecture: A Survey. Researchpedia Journal of Computing, 1(1): 50-64, 2020.
  2. Farah Haneef, Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi, Muhammad Nouman Noor, Ali Daud, Muddassar Azam Sindhu. A Review of Career Selection Models. Research Journal of Computing, 1(1): 30-38, 2020.

2019

  1. Ali Daud, Tehmina Amjad, Muazzam Ahmed Siddiqui, Naif Radi Aljohani, Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi, Muhammad Ahtisham Aslam. Correlational analysis of topic specificity and citations count of publication venues. Library Hi Tech, 37(1): 8-18, 2019. [IF: 1.26]
  2. Wahab Khan, Ali Daud, Sachi Arafat, Naif Aljohani, Fahad Alotaibi. Named Entity Recognition in Urdu Using Deep Learning Approaches. Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute (ETRI) Journal, 2019. [IF: 0.86]
  3. Muhammad Shahzad Faisal, Ali Daud, Abubakr Usman Akram, Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi, Naif Radi Aljohani, Irfan Mehmood. Expert Ranking for Online Rated Forums, Computers in Human Behavior, 2019. [IF: 4.31]
  4. Wahab Khan, Ali Daud, Jamal Abdul Nasir, Tehmina Amjad, Sachi Arafat, Naif Radi Aljohani, Fahd. S. Alotaibi. Urdu Part of Speech Tagging using Conditional Random Fields. Language Resources and Evaluation, 2019. [IF: 1.03]
  5. Naif Radi Aljohani, Ali Daud, Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi, Jalal S. Alowibdi, Mohammad Basheri, Muhammad Ahtisham Aslam. An Integrated Framework for Course Adapted Student Learning Analytics Dashboard. Computers in Human Behaviour, 2019. [IF: 4.31]
  6. Naif Radi Aljohani, Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi, Fahad Mohammed Bawakid, Farrukh Saleem, Zahid Ullah, Ali Daud, Muhammad Ahtisham Aslam, Jalal S Alowibdi, Saeed-Ul Hassan. Web Observatory Insights: Past, Current, and Future, International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), 15 (4): 52-68, 2019. [IF: 1.83]
  7. Muhammad Waqar, Nadeem Majeed, Hassan Dawood, Ali Daud, Naif Radi Aljohani. An Adaptive Doctor- Recommendation System. Behaviour & Information Technology, 38 (9), 959-973, 2019. [IF: 1.43]
  8. Zafar Saeed, Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi, Onaiza Maqbool, Abida Sadaf, Imran Razzak, Ali Daud, Naif Radi Aljohani, Guandong Xu. What’s Happening Around the World? A Survey and Framework on Event Detection Techniques on Twitter. Journal of Grid Computing, 17 (2): 279-312, 2019. [IF: 3.3]
  9. Malik Khizar Hayat, Ali Daud, Abdulrahman A Alshdadi, Ameen Banjar, Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi, Yukun Bao, Hussain Dawood. Towards Deep Learning Prospects: Insights for Social Media Analytics. IEEE Access, 7: 36958-36979, 2019. [IF: 4.1]
  10. Wahab Khan, Ali Daud, Khairullah Khan, Jamal Abdul Nasir, Mohammed Basheri, Naif Aljohani, Fahd S. Alotaibi. Part of Speech Tagging in Urdu: Comparison of Machine and Deep Learning Approaches. IEEE Access, 7: 38918-38936, 2019. [IF: 4.1]
  11. Saba Mahmood, Anwar Ghani, Ali Daud, Shahaboddin Shamshirband. Reputation-Based Approach Toward Web Content Credibility Analysis. IEEE Access, 7: 139957-139969, 2019. [IF: 4.1]

2018

  1. Tehmina Amjad, Ali Daud, Naif Radi Aljohani. Ranking Authors in Academic Social Networks. A Survey. Library and Hi Tech, 36 (1): 97-128, 2018. [IF: 0.76]
  2. Masood Isma, Yongli Wang, Ali Daud, Naif Aljohani, Hassan Dawood. Privacy Management of Patient Physiological Parameters. Telematics and Informatics, 35(4): 677-704, 2018. [IF: 3.79]
  3. Anwar Said, Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi, Onaiza Maqbool, Ali Daud, Naif Radi Aljohani. CC-GA: A Clustering Coefficient based Genetic Algorithm for Detecting Communities in Social Networks. Applied Soft Computing, 63:59-70, 2018. (IF: 3.45)
  4. Ali Daud, Jamal Ahmad Khan, Jamal Abdul Nasir, Naif Aljohani, Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi, Jalal S. Alowibdi. Latent Dirichlet Allocation and POS Tags Based Method for External Plagiarism Detection. International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), 14(3): 53-69, 2018. (IF: 1.5)
  5. Abdullah Al-Barakati, Ali Daud. Venue-Influence Language Models for Expert Finding in Bibliometric Networks. International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), 14(3): 184-201, 2018. (IF: 1.5)
  6. Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi, Onaiza Maqbool, Mubashar Mushtaq, Naif R. Aljohani, Ali Daud, Jalal S. Alowibdi, Basit Shahzad. Saving Lives Using Social Media: Analysis of the Role of Twitter for Personal Blood Donation Requests and Dissemination. Telematics and Informatics, 35(4): 892-912, 2018. (IF: 2.26)
  7. Ali Daud, Akbar Hussain, Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi, Naif Radi Aljohani, Tehmina Amjad, Hassan Dawood. Region-Wise Ranking of Sports Players based on Link Fusions. In Proceedings of International Web Conference (WWW), 2018, pp. 259-266.
  8. Tehmina Amjad, Ali Daud, Min Song. Measuring the Impact of Topic Drift in Scholarly Networks. In Proceedings of International Web Conference (WWW), 2018, pp. 273-278.
  9. Haseeb Ahmad, Ali Daud, Licheng Wang, Ibrar Ahmad, Muhammad Hafeez, Yixian Yang. Quantifying Team Precedence in the Game of Cricket. Cluster Computing, 21(1): 523-537, 2018. (IF: 2.04)
  10. Isma Masood, Yongli Wang, Ali Daud, Naif Radi Aljohani, Hassan Dawood. Towards Smart Healthcare: Patient Data Privacy and Security in Sensor-Cloud Infrastructure. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2019. [IF: 1.40]
  11. Hafiz Ahmad Awais Chaudhary, Saeed-Ul Hassan, Naif Radi Aljohani, Ali Daud. Quality Classification of Scientific Publications using Hybrid Summarization Model, In Proceedings of 20th International Conference of Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL), 2018.
  12. Tehmina Amjad, Ali Daud, Sadia Khan, Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi, Faisal Imran. Prediction of Rising Stars from Pakistani Research Communities. 14th International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET), 2018, pp. 1-6.
  13. Faisal Imran, Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi, Muddassar Azam Sindhu, Akmal Saeed Khattak, Ali Daud, Tehmina Amjad. Finding Research Areas of Academicians using Clique Percolation. 14th International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET), 2018, pp. 1-6.

2017

  1. Tehmina Amjad, Ying Ding, Jian Xu, Chenwei Zhang, Ali Daud, Jie Tang, Min Song. Standing on the Shoulder of Giants. Journal of Informetrics, 11(1): 307-323, 2017. (IF: 3.48)
  2. Ali Daud, Wahab Khan, Dunren Che. Urdu Language Processing. A Survey. Artificial Intelligence Review, 47(3), 279-311, 2017. (IF: 2.1)
  3. Malik Khizar Hayat, Ali Daud. Anomaly Detection in Heterogeneous Bibliographic Information Networks using Co-Evolution Pattern Mining. Scientometrics, 113(1): 149-175, 2017. (IF: 2.15)
  4. Hikmat Ullah Khan, Ali Daud. Finding the Top Influential Bloggers based on Productivity and Popularity Features. New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 23(3): 189-206, 2017. [IF: 1.0]
  5. Ali Daud, Waqas Ahmed, Tehmina Amjad, Jamal Abdul Nasir, Naif Radi Aljohani, Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi, Ishfaq Ahmad. Who Will Cite you back? Reciprocal Link Prediction in Citation Networks. Library Hi Tech, 35(4): 509-520, 2017. (IF: 0.76)
  6. Hikmat Ullah Khan, Ali Daud, Umer Ishfaq, Tehmina Amjad, Naif Aljohani, Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi, Jalal S. Alowibdi. Modelling to Identify Influential Bloggers in the Blogosphere: A Survey. Computers in Human Behavior, 68: 64-82, 2017. (IF:2.88)
  7. Tehmina Amjad, Ali Daud. Indexing of Authors According to their Domain of Expertise. Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science, 22(1): 69-82, 2017. (IF: 0.47)
  8. Muhammad Aslam Jarwar, Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi, Mubashar Mushtaq, Onaiza Maqbool, Naif R. Aljohani, Ali Daud, Jalal S. Alowibdi, J.R. Cano, S. García, Ilyoung Chong. CommuniMents: A Framework for Detecting Community based Sentiments for Events. International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), 13(2): 87-108, 2017. (IF: 1.5)
  9. Muhammad Ali Masood, Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi, Onaiza Maqbool, Mubashar Mushtaq, Naif R. Aljohani, Ali Daud, Muhammad Ahtisham Aslam, Jalal S. Alowibdi. MFS-LDA: A Multi-Feature Space Tag Recommendation Model for Cold Start Problem. Program-Electronic Library and Information Systems, 51(3): 218-234, 2017. (IF: 1.0)
  10. Haseeb Ahmad, Ali Daud, Licheng Wang, Haibo Hong, Hussain Dawood, and Yixian Yang. Prediction of Rising Stars in the Game of Cricket. IEEE Access, 5: 4104-4124, 2017. (IF: 3.2)
  11. Muhammad Faisal, Ali Daud, Abubakr Akram. Expert Ranking using Reputation and Answer Quality of Co-Existing Users. IAJIT, 14(1): 118-126, 2017 (IF 0.51)
  12. Hikmat Ullah Khan, Ali Daud. Using Machine Learning Techniques for Subjectivity Analysis based on Lexical and Non- Lexical Features.IAJIT, 14(4): 481-487, 2017 (IF 0.51)
  13. Ammad Usmani, Ali Daud. Unified Ranking based on Integrated Publication and Venue Rank. IAJIT, 14(1): 111-117, 2017 (IF 0.51)
  14. Ali Daud, Naif Radi Aljohani, Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi, Zahid Rafique, Tehmina Amjad, Hussain Dawood, Khaled H. Alyoubi. Finding Rising Stars in Co-Author Networks via Weighted Mutual Influence. In Proceedings of 26th International World Wide Web Conference, 2017, pp. 33-41.
  15. Ali Daud, Naif Radi Aljohani, Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi, Miltiadis D. Lytras, Farhat Abbas, Jalal S. Alowibdi. Predicting Student Performance using Advanced Learning Analytics. In Proceedings of 26th International World Wide Web Conference, 2017, pp. 415-421.
  16. Shanshan Ruan, Rashid Mehmood, Jalal S. Alowibdi, Hussain Dawood, Ali Daud. An adaptive method for clustering by fast search-and-find of density peaks. In Proceedings of 26th International World Wide Web Conference, 2017, pp. 119-127.

2016

  1. Tehmina Amjad, Ali Daud, Dunren Che, Atia Akram. MuICEMutual Influence and Citation Exclusivity Author Rank. Information Processing and Management (JIPM), Volume 52(3), 374-386, 2016. (IF 1.26)
  2. Muhammad Faisal, Ali Daud, Faisal Imran, Seungmin Rho. A Novel Framework for Social Web Forums’ Thread Ranking based on Semantics and Post Quality Features. Journal of Supercomputing, Volume 72 (11), 4276-4295, 2016 (IF: 1.08)
  3. Muhammad Shoaib, Ali Daud, Malik Sikandar Hayat Khiyal. Role of References in Similarity Estimation of Publications. International Arab Journal of Information Technology, Volume 13 (3), pp. 256-263, 2016 (IF 0.51)
  4. Tehmina Amjad, Ali Daud, Atia Akram, Faqir Muhammed. Impact of mutual influence while ranking authors in a co-authorship network. Kuwait Journal of Science, Volume 43 (2), pp. 11-19, 2016. SCI (IF 0.09)
  5. Wahab Khan, Ali Daud, Jamal A. Nasir, Tehmina Amjad. A survey on the state-of-the-art machine learning models in the context of NLP.Kuwait Journal of Science, Volume 43 (4) pp. 95-113, 2016.
  6. Tehmina Amjad, Shabnam Bibi, Muhammad Akram Shaik, Ali Daud. Author Productivity Indexing via Topic Sensitive Weighted Citations. Science International, Volume 28(4), pp. 4135-4139, 2016.
  7. Wahab Khan, Ali Daud, Jamal Abdul Nasir, Tehmina Amjad. Named Entity Dataset for Urdu Named Entity Recognition Task. In Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Language and Technology (CLT), 2016.

2015

  1. Ali Daud, Muhammad Ahmad, MSI Malik, Dunren Che. Using Machine Learning Techniques for Rising Star Prediction in Co-Author Network. Scientometrics, Volume 102, pp. 1687-1711, 2015. SCI (IF 2.18)
  2. Ali Daud, Faqir Muhammad, Hassan Dawood, Hussain Dawood. Ranking Cricket Teams. Information Processing and Management, 51: 62-73. (IF: 1.40)
  3. Tehmina Amjad, Ying Ding, Ali Daud, Jian Xu, Vincent Malic. Topic-based Heterogeneous Rank. Scientometrics, Volume 104 (1), pp. 313-334, 2015. SCI (IF 2.18)
  4. Hikmat Ullah Khan, Ali Daud, Tahir Afzal Malik. MIIB: A Metric to Identify Top Influential Bloggers in a Community. PLOS ONE. (IF 3.23) [DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0138359]
  5. Muhammad Shoaib, Ali Daud and Malik Sikandar Hayat Khiyal. Improving Similarity Measures for Publications with Special Focus on Author Name Disambiguation. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, Volume 40 (6), pp. 1591-1605, 2015. (IF 0.36 )
  6. Tehmina Amjad, Ali Daud, Atia Akram. Mutual Influence based Ranking of Authors. Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering & Technology, Volume 34(S1), pp. 103-112, August 2015. EI

2014

  1. Muhammad Shoaib, Ali Daud, Malik Sikandar Hayat Khiyal. An Improved Similarity Measure for Text Documents. Journal of Basic and Applied Science Research (JBASR), Volume 4(6), pp. 215-223, 2014. EI
  2. Ali Daud and Faqir Muhammad. Consistent Annual Citations based Researcher Index. COLLNET Journal of Scientoemtrics and Information Management, Volume 8 (2), pp. 209-216, 2014. EI

2013

  1. Ali Daud, Rashid Abbasi and Faqir Muhammad. Finding Rising Stars in Social Networks. In Proceedings of International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), 22-25 April, 2013, pp. 13-24. (Acceptance Rate: 25.00 %) EI
  2. Umara Noor, Ali Daud, Ayesha Manzoor. Latent Dirichlet Allocation based Semantic Clustering of Heterogeneous Deep Web Sources. In Proceedings of 5th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS-2013), September 9 – 11, 2013, pp. 132-138. EI
  3. Ali Daud, S M Saleem Yasir and Faqir Muhammad. V-Index. An Index Based on Consistent Researcher Productivity. In Proceedings of INMIC, 2013. EI
  4. Ali Daud, Aisha Sikandar, Sameen Mansha. Finding Survey Papers via Link and Content Analysis. In Proceedings of IMTIC, 2013. (Accepted, Acceptance Rate: 22.22%) EI

2012

  1. Ali Daud. Using Time Topic Modeling for Semantics-Based Dynamic Research Interest Finding. Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS), Volume 26, pp. 154–163, 2012. SCI (IF 4.104)
  2. Ali Daud and Faqir Muhammad. Group Topic Modeling for Academic Knowledge Discovery. Journal of Applied Intelligence, Volume 36(4), pp. 876-886, 2012. SCI (IF 1.853)
  3. Tehmina Amjad, Ali Daud, Sher Muhammad. A Survey of Dynamic Replication Strategies for Improving Data Availability in Data Grids. Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 28, pp. 337–349, 2012. SCI (IF 1.864)
  4. Ali Daud, Muhammad Akram Shaikh and Faqir Muhammad. Research Community Mining via Generalized Topic Modeling. Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering & Technology, Volume 31(4), pp. 599-612, October, 2012. EI
  5. Ali Daud and Sabir Hussain. Publication Venue based Language Modeling for Expert Finding. In International Conference on Future Communication and Computer Technology (ICFCCT 2012), 19-20 May, 2012.
  6. Faqir Muhammad, Wardah Ali and Ali Daud. Impact of Social Networking Websites on the Perception of Organizational Culture and its Adoption for Recruitment. In Proceedings of the 4th South Asian International Conference (SAICON), Pakistan, 2012.

2011

  1. Ali Daud. Exploiting Explicit Semantics-Based Grouping for Author Interest Finding. In International Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb), China, April 18-20, pp. 41-52, 2011. (Acceptance Rate: 25.00 %) EI

74. 2010

  1. Ali Daud, Juanzi Li, Lizhu Zhou, and Faqir Muhammad. Temporal Expert Finding through Generalized Time Topic Modeling. Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS), Volume 23(6), pp. 615-625, July 2010. SCI (IF 1.54)
  2. Ali Daud, Juanzi Li, Lizhu Zhou, and Faqir Muhammad. Knowledge Discovery through Directed Probabilistic Topic Models. a Survey. Journal of Frontiers of Computer Science (FCS), Volume 4(2), pp. 280-301, June, 2010. SCIE (IF 0.298)
  3. Ali Daud, Juanzi Li, Lizhu Zhou, Lei Zhang, Ying Ding and Faqir Muhammad. Modeling Ontology of Folksonomy with Latent Semantics of Tags. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI), Canada, September 1-3, pp. 516-523, 2010. (Acceptance Rate: 16.6 %) EI
  4. Ali Daud, Muhammad Akram Shaikh, and Yan’an Jin. Investigation of Input Optimization problem for Topic Modeling. Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering & Technology, Volume 29(2), pp. 377-388, April, 2010. EI
  5. Ali Daud. A Topic Modeling Approach for Research Community Mining. In Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Computer Science and Convergence Information Technologies (ICCIT), Korea, Nov. 30-Dec 02, pp. 1078-1083, 2010. EI
  6. Yan’an Jin, Ruixuan Li, Yi Cai, Qing Li, Ali Daud, and Yuhua Li. Semantic Grounding of Hybridization for Tag Recommendation. In Proceedings of 11th International Web-Age Information Management (WAIM), L. Chen et al. (Eds.): LNCS 6184, pp. 139–150, China, 2010. (Acceptance Rate: 28.00 %) EI

2009

  1. Ali Daud, Juanzi Li, Lizhu Zhou, and Faqir Muhammad. Conference Mining via Generalized Topic Modeling. In Proceedings of 19th International European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practices of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), W. Buntine et al. (Eds.): Part I, LNAI 5781, pp. 244–259, Slovenia, 2009. (Acceptance Rate: 24.88 %) EI
  2. Ali Daud, Juanzi Li, Lizhu Zhou, and Faqir Muhammad. A Generalized Topic Modeling Approach for Maven Search.In Proceedings of International Asia-Pacific Web Conference and Web-Age Information Management (APWEB-WAIM), Q. Li et al. (Eds.): LNCS 5446, pp. 138–149, China, 2009. (Acceptance Rate: 22.70 %) EI
  3. Ali Daud, Juanzi Li, Lizhu Zhou, and Faqir Muhammad. Exploiting Temporal Authors Interests via Temporal-Author-Topic Modeling.In Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Advance Data Mining and Applications (ADMA), R. Huang et al. (Eds.): LNAI 5678, pp. 435–443, China, 2009.(Short Paper, Acceptance Rate: 28.57 %) EI
  4. Ali Daud, Muhammad Akram Shaikh, and Altaf Hussain Rajpar. Scientific Reference Mining using Semantic Information through Topic Modeling. Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering & Technology, Volume 28(2), pp. 253-262, April, 2009. EI
  5. Faqir Muhammad, Gulshan Ara Majid, and Ali Daud. Frequency Analysis of Seismic Data for Imminent Hazard. In Proceedings of First International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Optimization (CMSO), pp. 107-110, 26-27 December, China, 2009. (Acceptance Rate: 19.33 %) ISTP

2008

  1. Ali Daud, Muhammad Akram Shaikh, Faqir Muhammad. Pattern Mining in Telecom Data. In Proceedings of ICICT, Pakistan, 2008.

PROJECTS

Principal Investigator

• ISESCO-COMSTECH Research Grants (2014-2016)

Title: Social Web Mining based on Link and Content Analysis

Project Funding: 1 Million PKR or 10,000 USD

• HEC Interim Placement of Fresh PhDs (IPFP) Project (2011-2012)

Title: Investigative study of Journals, Conferences, and Researchers Citation Impact Methods

Project Funding: 0.5 Million PKR or 5820 USD

Member (Co-PI)

• DSR, University of Jeddah (2019-2020)

Title: Blog Backlinks Malicious Domain Name Detection via Supervised Learning

Project Funding: 10,000 SAR

• HEC Interim Placement of Fresh PhDs (IPFP) Project (2015-2016)

Title: Uplift Modeling for Cancer Patients Data

Project Funding: 2,96,125 PKR

Member (Research Associate)

• IBM THU Joint Research Project funded by IBM China Research Lab (2008-2010)

Title: Text Mining in Web 2.0

Project Funding: 20,000 RMB or 260, 0000 PKR or 30,240 USD

• National Natural Science Foundation of China Project Grant No. 90604025 (2006-2008)

Title: Research of Key Technologies and their Application in Domain-specific Semantic Web Content Management

Project Funding: 320,000 RMB or 416, 0000 PKR or 48,420 USD

• National Natural Science Foundation of China Project Grant No. 60703059 (2008-2010)

Title: Research of Unified Models for Semantic Content Annotation

Project Funding: 650,000 RMB or 845, 0000 PKR or 98,260 USD

• National Natural Science Foundation of China Project Grant No. 60973102 (2010-2012)

Title: Risk Minimization based Ontology Mapping

Project Funding: 210,000 RMB or 273, 0000 PKR or 31,750 USD

• Chinese National Key Foundation Research and Development Plan Project Grant No. 2007CB310803

Title: Software Engineering for Complex System, Requirement Validation and Management

Member (Developer)

• CBR Collection Automation Monitoring Project(2006-2007)

Title: Revenue Collection Monitoring Dash Board for Central Board of Revenue, Islamabad, Pakistan

Used Oracle 10G Database and Oracle Application Express Tool

• Fine Packages Faisalabad Computerization Systems(2004-2006)

Titles: Payroll System, Sales Tax System, Order System, Inventory System, and Accounting System for Fine Packages, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Used MS Access, SQL Server 2000 Databases and Visual Basic 6.0 Language

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Departmental

  • Member BS Data Science and Analytics course curriculum development committee as per ABET accreditation and ACM standards (2019-UJ)
  • Member MS Data Science course curriculum development committee as per HEC accreditation and international standards (2019-IIUI)
  • In-charge Accreditation Visit (National Computing Education Accreditation Council (NCEAC)) (2019-IIUI)
  • Member MS Information Systems course curriculum development committee as per international standards (2017-KAU)
  • Member Graduate Research Committee (September-2016 to June-2018-KAU)
  • Member Undergraduate Project Evaluation Committee (September-2016 to June-2018-KAU)
  • Member Board of Study Committee (August-2017 onward-IIUI)
  • Member Demonstration Committee of the Applicants for the post of Assistant Professor and Lecturer (2015-IIUI)
  • Secretary Faculty of Basic and Applied Sciences PC1 Committee (2015-IIUI)
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee for Doctoral Students (May-2015 onward-IIUI)
  • In-charge Accreditation Visit (National Computing Education Accreditation Council (NCEAC)) (2014-IIUI)
  • In-charge IIU Faculty of Basic and Applied Sciences Future Vision Committee (2013-IIUI)
  • In-charge PhD Comprehensive Committee (September -2011 August-2016-IIUI)
  • In-charge Graduate Research Committee (September-2011 to January-2014-IIUI)
  • Member Graduate Research Committee (September-2011 onward-IIUI)
  • Member Undergraduate Project Evaluation Committee (September-2011 onward-IIUI)
  • Member Admission Committee (February-2011 onward-IIUI)
  • Member QEC Committee (January-2012 onward-IIUI)
  • In-charge Course Monitoring Committee (February-2011 to January-2012-IIUI)
  • MS Batch Advisor (February-2011 to January-2014-IIUI)

External Reviewer in Universities [BS, MS, PhD theses Examiner; Faculty Applications Evaluator; MS Program Evaluator]

  • 2018-2019, Sohar University, Oman
  • 2019, Muslim Youth University, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • 2018, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
  • 2018-Onward, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, Pakistan
  • 2015-Onward, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • 2014-Onward, FAST University, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • 2014-Onward, Allama Iqbal University, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • 2012-2013, Iqra University, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • 2012-2013, Comsats University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Session Chair

International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET), Islamabad, 2018

PhD Symposium Expert

Member Expert Panel PhD Symposium at Mohammad Ali Jinnah University on 13th December, 2014.

Morning session:

http://streaming.hec.gov.pk/tcs/#page:recordingList&pageNumber:1&id:2F0C696F-6403-4AB3-A168-E1F66DE2728F

After Lunch session:

http://streaming.hec.gov.pk/tcs/#page:recordingList&pageNumber:1&id:F514E54F-055F-4451-B6CE-5F9C450DA06B

Conference Presentations / Attendee

  • Session Chair 14th International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET), 2018
  • Attended High Performance Computing, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 12-14 March, 2018
  • Research Paper in DASFAA, China, April 22-25, 2013
  • Research Paper in ICFCCT, China, May19-20, 2012
  • Research Paper in APWeb, China, April 18-20, 2011
  • Research Paper in ICCIT, Korea, Nov. 30-Dec 02, 2010
  • Research Paper inApWeb-WAIM, China, 2009
  • Research Paper in ADMA, China, 2009

Program Committee Member

  • 2018: 14th International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET)
  • 2016: PhD Symposium MAJU Track of FIT
  • 2015: PhD Symposium MAJU Track of FIT
  • 2014: PhD Symposium MAJU
  • 2013: ADMA, ICDIM, ICET, FIT, ICOSST
  • 2012: ADMA, ICET
  • 2011: ADMA, IJCNLP

Paper Reviewer

Journals

Scientometrics Journal, Knowledge Based Systems (KBS), Journal, Library Hi-Tech, World Wide Web (WWW) Journal, Telematics and Informetrics, International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), Knowledge and Information Systems Journal (KAIS), Transactions on Affective Computing, Journal of Information Processing and Management, Artificial Intelligence Review, Frontiers of Computer Science, Applied Intelligence, Journal of Information Science, Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB), IET Software, Pakistan Journal of Computer and Information Systems, Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering & Technology, MS Pakistan Academy of Sciences Journal

Conferences

    • 2020: ICCIS
    • 2018: WWW, ICADL, ICET, HPC
    • 2017: WWW
    • 2015: FIT
    • 2010: WI, ASONAM, IEEE ICCASM
    • 2009: WI, ASWC, WWW Posters and Workshop

Memberships

  • IEEE Student Member (2010)

HONORS & AWARDS

Self

  • 2011: Special Appreciation from DG Research (HEC) of Project Concept Paper Idea among 34 submitted under Interim Placement of Fresh PhDs (IPFP)
  • 2007: Received Pakistani Government (Higher Education Commission) Foreign PhD Study Full Scholarship
  • 2002-2005: Played for University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan Cricket Team and Captained in 2005
  • 2000: Played for Faisalabad Division, Pakistan U-19 Cricket Team
  • 1999-2001: Captained Government College of Science Cricket Team, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Students

  • 2014: National Grassroots ICT Research Initiative 2013-2014 [My two Student BS Final Year Projects are approved among total 9 from our University]
  • 2011: BSCS F07 students Muhammad Aamir and Sabir Hussain working under my supervision have won third position in Speed Programming and Gaming Competition (SPAGCOM) among 35 teams participated. A mega inter-departmental event from 17th – 20th May, 2011 at CASE Tools Lab, DSE, FBAS, Block-C, IIUI.

CERTIFICATIONS

  • 2007: Basic Chinese Language “30-06-2007 to 31-08-2007”, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China
  • 2006: National Testing Services, GAT-General Exam, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • 1999: English Language (4 months) from Rehman English Language Home, FSD, Pakistan

TRAININGS /WORKSHOPS / SEMINARS

  • 2013: Attended seminar on Future of Research in Pakistan organized by Higher Education Pakistan (HEC) on May 18, 2013 at Sector H-9, HEC, Islamabad
  • 2012: Attended 2 day workshop on Technological Innovation Governance for Sustainable Development organized by COMSATS on December 18-19, 2012 at Serena Hotel, Islamabad on nomination from International Islamic University, Islamabad.
  • 2012: Attended World Science Day organized by Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF) on November 14, 2012 at COMTECH, Islamabad on special invitation of Director General, Pakistan Scientific and Technological Information Center (PASTIC).
  • 2012: Attended Seminar on EU seventh framework program (FP7, 2007-2013) organized by Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF) on September 12, 2012 at Islamabad Hotel, Islamabad on special invitation of Director General, Pakistan Scientific and Technological Information Center (PASTIC).
  • 2005: Linux End User Training “09-05-2005 to 13-06-2005”, Petroman, FSD, Pakistan Computer Bureau

HOBBIES

Cricket ‘hard and soft ball’ (High), Table Football (High), Billiards (High), Arm Wrestling (High), Cooking (Medium), Snooker (Medium), Badminton (Medium)

SOCIAL WORK

I am doing occasional online social work to help people in finding scholarships, admission and to perform research activities on the following blogs.

SKILLS

Perl, METLAB, Weka, Minitab, Visual C++, MS Visio, Word, Excel, Power Point, WordPress Scientific paper writing and making presentations

KNOWLEDGE

  • Databases: Microsoft Access 2000, SQL Server 2000, MySQL, Oracle 9i, 10g
  • Languages or Tools: Visual Basic 6.0, Developer 6i, HTML, Java Script, SQL, Oracle Application Express
  • Reports: Crystal 9, Developer 2000 and 6i Reports
  • Networking: Window 2000 Client Server Environment, Window 2000 Exchange Server, Mdaemon Server, Win proxy, ISA
  • Data warehousing: Oracle 9i, Tera Data 5.0

EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Editor-in-Chief

Researchpedia Journal of Computing (https://rpjc.researchpedia.info/ )

Founding Editor

Researchpedia Journal of Informetrics and Learning Analytics (https://rpjila.researchpedia.info/ )

Researchpedia Journal of Social Computing (https://rpjsc.researchpedia.info/ )

Researchpedia Journal of Digital Economy (https://rpjde.researchpedia.info/ )

REFERENCES

Lizhu Zhou (PhD Supervisor)

Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology

Head of Databases Group (DB), Chair of the Academic Committee, Tsinghua University, China

Telephone Office: (0086-10) 62771603, Email: dcszlz@tsinghhua.edu.cn

Juanzi Li (Mentor)

Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology

Head of Knowledge Engineering Group (KEG), Deputy chair of Institute of Software, Tsinghua University, China

Telephone Office: (0086-10) 62781461, Email: ljz@keg.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn