Prof. M. M. Sufyan Beg
e-mail: mmsbeg[AT]hotmail.com
Biographical Information
- Ph.D. (Computer Technology) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
in 2002.
- M. Tech. (Microelectronics) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
in 1994.
- B. Tech. (Electronics and Communication) from A. M. U., Aligarh, India
in 1992.
- Held teaching assistantship position at the Department of Electrical Engg.,
I.I.T. Kanpur, India
(1992-1994)
- Lecturer in Electronics
Engineering Department, A. M. U.,
Aligarh, India (April 1994-August 1994)
- Lecturer in Computer
Engineering Department, A. M. U.,
Aligarh, India (August 1994 - April 1999)
- Senior Lecturer in Computer
Engineering Department, A. M. U.,
Aligarh, India (April 1999 – April 2004)
- Lecturer (Selection Grade) in Computer
Engineering Department, A. M. U.,
Aligarh, India (April 2004 – May 2004)
- Reader in Computer
Engineering Department, A. M. U., Aligarh,
India (May 1999 – February 2007)
- BT Fellowship at the Berkeley
Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC), Department of Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley, USA
(November 2005 – October 2006)
- Professor in Computer Engineering
Department, J. M. I., New
Delhi, India
(March 2007 – current)
- Head of the Computer Engineering
Department, J. M. I., New
Delhi (February 2008 –
current)
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Research Interests
- Computer Architecture
- Parallel and Distributed Computing
- High Performance Data Mining
- Web Mining and Searching
- Fuzzy Logic and Systems
- Genetic Algorithms
- Question Answering Systems
- Natural Language Processing
- B.Sc. Engg. Project Title : Custom Specific IC
Design of a Digital Frequency Meter Using VINYAS-GX
- M.Tech. Project Title : Design of ADSP
2100-Based Multiprocessor Array
- Ph.D. Title : On Measurement and Enhancement
of Web Search Quality
- Postdoctoral Work : Precisiating Natural Language for a Question Answering System
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Research Work
Book Chapters:
- M. M. S. Beg, N. Ahmad, "Fuzzy
Logic and Rank Aggregation for the World Wide Web," In
"Fuzzy Logic and the Internet" (V. Loia, M. Nikravesh, L. A.
Zadeh, Eds), Springer-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-540-20180-7,
pp. 27-46.
- M. M. S. Beg, N. Ahmad, "Subjective
Enhancement and Measurement of Web Search Quality," In
"Enhancing the Power of the Internet" (M. Nikravesh, B. Azvine,
R. Yager, L. A. Zadeh, Eds), Springer-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-540-20237-4,
pp. 95-130.
- M. M. S. Beg, N. Ahmad, "Measuring User Satisfaction in Web
Searching" In “Computational Intelligence for Modelling and
Predictions” (S. K. Halgamuge, L. Wang, Eds), Springer-Verlag, 2005,
ISBN 3-540-26071-4, pp. 321-336.
- Z. Qin, M. Thint, M. M. S. Beg, “Deduction
Engine Design for PNL-based Question Answering System,” In “Foundations of Fuzzy Logic and Soft
Computing” (P. Melin, O. Castillo, L. T. Aguilar, J. Kacprzyk, W.
Pedrycs, Eds.), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, LNAI 4529,
Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2007, ISBN
978-3-540-72917-4, pp. 253-262.
- R. Ali, M. M. S. Beg, "Aggregating Subjective and Objective
Measures of Web Search Quality using Modified Shimura Technique"
In “Forging the New Frontiers: Fuzzy Pioneers II, Studies in Fuzziness
and Soft Computing” (M. Nikravesh, J. Kacprzyk, L.A. Zadeh, Eds), Springer-Verlag,
2008, ISBN 978-3-540-73184-9, pp. 269-293.
- M. M. S. Beg, "Parallel
and Distributed Discovery of Association Rules" In “Artifical
Intelligence Application Book” (Fadzilah Siraj, Eds), University Utara
Malaysia,
(Accepted).
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Journal Papers:
- M. M. S. Beg, C. P. Ravikumar, "Application
of Parallel and Distributed Data Mining in e-Commerce", J. IETE Technical Review (special issue on
e-Commerce), vol. 17, no. 4, July-August, 2000, pp. 189-195.
- M. M. S. Beg, N. Ahmad, "Harnessing
the Hyperlink Structure of the Web", J. IETE Technical Review (special issue on
IT-Enabled Services), vol. 18, no. 4, July-August, 2001, pp. 337-342.
- M. M. S. Beg, "From Content
Based to Connectivity Based Search on the World Wide Web - A Journey Trail",
Journal of Scientific & Industrial Research, vol. 61, September 2002,
pp. 667-679.
- M. M. S. Beg, N. Ahmad, "Soft
Computing Techniques for Rank Aggregation on the World Wide Web",
World Wide Web - An International Journal, Kluwer Academic Publishers,
vol. 6, issue 1, March 2003, pp. 5-22.
- M. M. S. Beg, “A
Subjectivce Measure of Web Search Quality,” International Journal of
Information Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 169, no. 3-4, 2005, pp. 365-381.
- M. M. S. Beg, “User
Feedback Based Enhancement in Web Search Quality,” International
Journal of Information Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 170, no. 2-4, 2005, pp.
153-172.
- M. M. S. Beg, N. Ahmad, "Modified
Rank Coefficient for Subjective Measurement of Web Search Quality,” International
Journal of Lateral Computing, vol. 1, no. 1, May 2005, pp. 31-36.
- R. Ali, M. M. S. Beg, “A Framework for Evaluating Web Search
Systems,” WSEAS Transactions on Systems, vol. 6, issue 2, Feb. 2007
(ISSN 1109-2777), pp. 257-264.
- M. M. S. Beg, N. Ahmad, “Web
Search Enhancement by Mining User Actions,” International Journal of
Information Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 177, Issue 23, December 2007, pp.
5203-5218.
- R. Ali, M. M. S. Beg, “Aggregating Subjective Measure of Web
Search Quality with Boolean Similarity Measures,” Journal of Computer
Science, ICFAI University Press, vol. 1, no. 1, July 2007, pp. 25-40.
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International Conference Papers:
- M. M. S. Beg, C. P. Ravikumar, "Measuring
the Quality of Web Search Results", Proc. Sixth International
Conference on Computer Science and Informatics - a track at the Sixth
Joint Conference on Information Sciences (JCIS 2002), Durham, NC, USA,
March 8-13, 2002, pp. 324-328.
- M. M. S. Beg, N. Ahmad, "Web
Search by Feedback Learning", Proc. Sixth International
Conference on Computer Science and Informatics - a track at the Sixth
Joint Conference on Information Sciences (JCIS 2002), Durham, NC, USA,
March 8-13, 2002, pp. 334-338.
- M. M. S. Beg, N. Ahmad, "Genetic
Algorithm Based Rank Aggregation for the Web", Proc. Sixth
International Conference on Computer Science and Informatics - a track at
the Sixth Joint Conference on Information Sciences (JCIS 2002), Durham,
NC, USA, March 8-13, 2002, pp. 329-333.
- N. Ahmad, M.
M. S. Beg, "Fuzzy Logic Based Rank Aggregation Methods for
the World Wide Web", Proc. International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence in Engineering and Technology (ICAIET 2002), Malaysia,
June 17-18, 2002, pp.
363-368.
- M. M. S. Beg, N. Ahmad, "Web
Searching Personalized," Proc Twelfth International Conference on
Applications of Neural Networks in Engineering - Smart Engineering System
Design using Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Programming, Data
Mining and Artificial Life (ANNIE 2002), St. Louis, USA. November
10-13, 2002, pp. 1025-1032.
- M. M. S. Beg, N. Ahmad, "An
Improved Method of Measuring the Quality of Web Search Results,"
Proc. International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery
(FSKD'02), Singapore,
November 18-22, 2002,
pp. 423-427.
- M. M. S. Beg, "Novel Fuzzy
Queries for Searching the World Wide Web," Proc. International
Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2002) Workshop on Soft
Computing (WOSCO 2002), Bangalore,
December 18, 2002.
- N. Ahmad, M.
M. S. Beg, "Improved Methods for Rank Aggregation on the
World Wide Web," Proc. International Conference on Knowledge
Based Computer Systems (KBCS 2002), Mumbai,
India, December
19-21, 2002, pp. 193-202.
- M. M. S. Beg, N. Ahmad, "Improved
Shimura technique for Rank Aggregation on the World Wide Web,” Proc. 5th
International Conference on Information
Technology (CIT
2002), Bhubaneswar,
India, December, 21-24, 2002.
- M. M. S. Beg, " Parallel
Rank Aggregation for the World Wide Web,” Proc. International
Conference on Intelligent Sensing and Information Processing (ICISIP –
2004), Chennai, India,
January 4-7, 2004,
IEEE Press, pp. 385-390.
- M. M. S. Beg, N. Ahmad, "Modified
Rank Coefficient for Subjective Measurement of Web Search Quality,” First World Congress on Lateral Computing
(WCLC 2004), Dec. 17-19, 2004,
Bangalore, India
(Bagged the Best Paper Award).
- M. M. S. Beg,
R. Ali, “A Subjective cum Objective Measure of Web Search Quality,”
2nd International Conference on Intelligent Sensing and
Information Processing, (ICISIP-2005), Jan.
4-7, 2005, Chennai, India, IEEE Press, pp. 365-370.
13. R. Ali, M. M. S. Beg, “Aggregating
Subjective Measure of Web Search Quality with Boolean Similarity Measures,”
Second World Congress on Lateral Computing (WCLC 2005), Dec.
16-18, 2005, Bangalore, India
(Accepted).
14. R. Ali, M. M. S. Beg, “Aggregating Subjective & Objective
Measures of Web Search Quality using Modified Shimura Technique”, 4th WSEAS
International Conference on Information Security, Communications and Computers
(ISCOCO 2005), Dec. 16-18, 2005, Puerto De La Cruz, Tenerife, Canary Islands,
Spain.
15. R. Ali, M. M. S. Beg, “Aggregating Subjective Measure of Web Search
Quality with PageRank”, 2006 International Conference on Information and
Knowledge Engineering (IKE'06) - a track at the 2006 World Congress on Computer
Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'06), June
26-29, 2006, Las Vegas, USA, pp.
167-173.
16. R. Ali, M. M. S. Beg, “A Comprehensive Model for Web Search
Evaluation”, 5th WSEAS International Conference on Circuits,
Systems, Electronics, Control & Signal Processing (CSECS '06), Nov. 1 – 3,
2006, Dallas, USA.
17. R. Ali, M. M. S. Beg, “Aggregating Subjective and Objective
Measures of Web Search Quality using Modified Shimura Technique”, Proc. 9th
IEEE International Conference on Information Technology (ICIT 2006), Dec. 18 –
21, 2006, Bhubaneshwar, India, IEEE
Press, pp. 231-234.
18. R. Ali, M. M. S. Beg, “Aggregating Content and Connectivity based
Techniques for the Measurement of Web Search Quality”, 14th
International Conference on Advance Computing and Communication (ADCOM 2006),
Dec. 20 – 23, 2006, NIT Surathkal, India, IEEE
Press, pp. 44-49.
19. Z. Qin, M. Thint, M.
M. S. Beg, “Deduction Engine Design for PNL-based Question Answering
System,” World Congress of the International Fuzzy Systems Association
(IFSA’07), Cancun, Mexico, June 18-21, 2007, pp. 253-262.
20. M. Thint, M. M. S. Beg, Z. Qin, “Precisiating Natural Language for a Question Answering System”,
11th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI
2007), Orlando, USA, July 8-11, 2007, pp. 165-170.
21. M. M. S. Beg, M. Thint, Z. Qin, “PNL-Enhanced Restricted Domain Question
Answering System”, 2007 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems
(FUZZ-IEEE 2007), Imperial College, London, UK, July 23-26, 2007, pp.
1277-1283.
22. H. Farheen, M. M. S. Beg, “Query Expansion using
Parallel Search and Learn Technique”, 5th Annual Conference on Information
Science Technology and Management (CISTM 2007), Hyderabad, India, July 16-18,
2007, pp. 33-1 to 33-16.
23. R. Ali, M. M. S. Beg, “Rough Set Based Rank Aggregation for the Web”,
3rd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-07),
Pune, India, December 17-19, 2007, pp. 683-698.
24. R. Ali, M. M. S. Beg, “A Learning Algorithm for Metasearching using
Rough Set Theory”, 10th
International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT 2007),
Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 27-29, 2007.
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National Conference Papers:
- M. M. Sufyan Beg, A. Mahanta, R. Moona,
"Design of ADSP
2100-Based Multiprocessor Array", Proc. Eighteenth National
Systems Conference-94, Dyalbagh Educational Institute, Agra, Jan. 14-16, 1995,
pp. 92-95 (bagged the High Quality Presentation Award).
- M. M. Sufyan Beg, Omar Farooq, "Simulator
for Signal Processor ADSP
2100", Proc. National Conference SDS-95,
Anjuman Engineering College, Bhatkal, Nov. 28-30, 1995, pp. 198-201,
(bagged the High Quality Presentation Award).
- M. M. Sufyan Beg, Omar Farooq, "Analog
Computation Using Digital Computers", Proc. XXXI Annual
Convention of the Computer Society of
India, Bangalore, Oct.
30-Nov.3, 1996, pp. 433-436.
- M. Hasan, A. Hasan, M. M. Sufyan Beg, "PC-Based
Text to Speech Converter", Twentieth National Systems
Conference-96, Thiruvanthapuram, Dec.
18-21, 1996.
- M. M. Sufyan Beg, M. Faisal Beg, M.
Imran Manzoor, S. A. Abbasi, "Gate Array Design Using Vinyas-GX",
Proc. National Seminar on Recent Trends in the Design of Electronics and
Other Engineering Systems (NSDES-97), organized by the Institution of
Engineers at the Aligarh Muslim
University, Nov. 29-30, 1997, pp. 213-217.
- M. M. Sufyan Beg, Omar Farooq, "Software
Tool for Health Monitoring of Telephone Exchanges", Proc.
National Seminar on Recent Trends in the Design of Electronics and Other
Engineering Systems (NSDES-97), organized by the Institution of Engineers
at the Aligarh Muslim University, Nov.
29-30, 1997, pp. 303-306.
- M. M. Sufyan Beg, "Realization
of a PC-Based Telephone Answering and Recording Machine", Proc.
National Seminar on Recent Trends in the Design of Electronics and Other
Engineering Systems (NSDES-97), organized by the Institution of Engineers
at the Aligarh Muslim University,
Nov. 29-30, 1997, pp. 307-312.
- M. M. Sufyan Beg, "Assembly
Language Embedded C-Code for Data Acquisition Systems", National
Symposium and Exposition on Modern Instrumentation Challenges and Visions,
organized by the Institution of Electronics and
Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) at the Department of Electronics
Engineering, Aligarh Muslim University, Feb. 27-28, 1999.
- M. M. Sufyan Beg, C. P. Ravikumar, "Distributed
Resource Discovery from the Internet for e-Commerce Applications",
43rd Annual Technical Convention (ATC-2000) of IETE, New Delhi,
September 30 - October 1, 2000.
- A. Srivastava, C. P. Ravikumar, M. M. Sufyan Beg, "Enhanced
Similarity Measure for Client-Directory-Server Model", Proc.
National Conference on Communication (NCC-2001),
IIT Kanpur, Jan. 26-28, 2001, pp.
42-46.
- M. M. Sufyan Beg, "Integrating
the Notion of Hubs and Authorities into that of PageRank for the Web",
Proc. 25th National Systems Conference (NSC
2001), Coimbatore, India,
Dec. 13-15, 2001, pp.
332-336.
- M. M. Sufyan Beg, "Improved
Meta-Search for the World Wide Web", Proc. Eighth National
Conference on Communications (NCC
2002), IIT
Bombay, India,
Jan. 25-27, 2002, pp.
135-139.
- Huma Farheen, M. M. Sufyan Beg, "Online
Rank Aggregation", National Conference on Modern Trends in
Electronics and Communication Systems (MTECS-05), March 5-6, 2005,
Aligarh, India, pp.174-179.
- Rashid Ali, M. M. Sufyan Beg, "Vector
Space Model for Web Search Evaluation", National Conference on
Modern Trends in Electronics and Communication Systems (MTECS-05), March
5-6, 2005, Aligarh, India,
pp. 185-191.
- S. A. Nahvi, H. Ashfaq, M. S. J. Asghar, M. M. Sufyan Beg, "Development
of a Personal-Computer based Power-Electronic Controller for Induction
Motors", National Conference on Power Electronics and Drives
(PEDC '06), March 7-9, 2006, Karaikudi, India, pp. 146-149.
- Rashid Ali, M. M. Sufyan Beg, M. Q.
Rafiq, "Effectiveness of an Objective Technique for Automatic
Performance Evaluation of Web Search Systems", National
Conference on Intelligent Computing Models (NCICM-2008), Feb. 22-23, 2008,
Salem, India.
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Invited Talks:
- "Web Search Techniques", Department of
Computer Science, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi,
Sept. 13, 2002.
- "Fuzzy
Logic in Measurement and Enhancement of Web Search Quality", Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing
(BISC), EECS Department, Computer Science Division, University of
California at Berkeley, USA,
Nov. 14, 2002.
- "Internet Information Services", Short
Term Training Program on "Computer Networking Using Windows
2000", Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India, Dec. 16-27, 2002.
- “High Performance Mining
of Association Rules”,
Department of Computer Engineering, Sir Syed University of Engineering and
Technology, Karachi, Pakistan,
April 15, 2004.
- “Mining and Searching the
Web”,
Department of Computer Engineering, Sir Syed University of Engineering and
Technology, Karachi, Pakistan,
April 17, 2004.
- “Internet
Resource Discovery”, Plexus (pvt) Limited (a subsidary of Pak Kuwait
Investment Company), Karachi,
Pakistan, April
19, 2004.
- “Mining User Actions for Enhancing Web Search”,
Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy,
NY, USA, June 10, 2004.
- “Performance Evaluation of Web Search Engines”,
Pre-Conference Tutorial at the Joint International Conference on
Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (Sponsored by ACM SIGMETRICS
and IFIP Working Group 7.3), Columbia University, New York, June 13, 2004.
- “Internet Technology”, Resource Person at the
Refresher Course for University and College Teachers on the theme of “Algebra
and its Applications”, U.G.C. Academic Staff College, A. M. U.,
Aligarh, India, September 20, 2004.
- “Distributed Systems”,
A series of lectures at Shivdan Singh Institute of Technology and
Management, Aligarh, India,
March-April, 2005.
- “Discrete Mathematical Structures”,
A series of lectures at Shivdan Singh Institute of Technology and
Management, Aligarh, India,
September-October, 2005.
- “Soft Computing for
Enhancing Web Search”,
Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC), EECS Department, Computer Science
Division, University of California at Berkeley, USA, Dec. 6, 2005.
- “Web Search Enhancement by Mining User Actions”, British
Telecommunications’ Research Centre at Adastral
Park, near Ipswich,
UK, Jan.
16, 2006.
- “Fuzzy Logic for Web Search Enhancement”, Department of
Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Scotland,
UK, Jan.
20, 2006.
- “Precisiating Natural
Language”, Berkeley
Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC), EECS Department, Computer Science Division,
University of California at Berkeley, USA, June 6, 2006.
- “Information
Extraction for a Q&A System”,
Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC), EECS Department, Computer
Science Division, University of California at Berkeley, USA, July 28, 2006.
- “PNL for a Questing
Answering System”, British
Telecommunications’ Research Centre at Adastral Park, near Ipswich, UK,
Nov. 22, 2006.
- “Web Searching”,
Resource Person at the Subject Refresher Course for University and College
Teachers on the theme of “Recent Trends in Information Technology”,
U.G.C. Academic Staff College, A. M. U., Aligarh, India, February 20,
2007.
- “Precisiated Natural
Language for Computation with Perceptions”, National Seminar on
Artificial Intelligence (NSAI 2007), Hindustan College of Science and
Technology, Mathura, India, April 28, 2007.
- “Measurement and
Enhancement of Web Search Quality”, Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, Kind Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, K.S.A.,
September 17, 2007.
- “Multi-Criteria
Decision Making”, Integral
University, Lucknow, India, March 29, 2008.
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Courses Taught
- Algorithms and Data Structures
- Discrete Mathematical Structures
- Operating Systems
- Computer Systems Design
- Microelectronics
- Logic Theory
- Digital Electronics Systems
- Advance Computer Architectures
- Information Technology
- Parallel Non-Numerical and Semi-Numerical Algorithms
- Web Mining and Searching
- Automata Theory
- Compiler
Design
- Distributed Systems
- Artificial Intelligence
- Data Mining
- Microprocessors
- Computer Organization
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Research Supervision
Ph.D. Thesis
Supervising
1.
Performance
Evaluation of Web Search Systems (The thesis is being written).
2.
Image Retrieval
Using Extended Fuzzy Logic (Ongoing).
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Postgraduate Dissertations Supervised
- Query
Expansion Using Parallel Search and Learn Technique.
- Development
of a Personal Computer based Power Electronic Controller.
- Performance
of an Algorithm Based on Data-and-Document-Centric XML Documents.
- Tree Based
Algorithms for Association Rule Mining.
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Postgraduate Projects Supervised
- Online Rank Aggregation.
- Finding the
Interesting Rules First.
- Implementation
of Spell Checking Algorithm.
- Design and
Realization of an Interfacing System for a Personal Computer based Power
Electronic Controller.
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Undergraduate
Projects Supervised
- Simulator for Signal Processor ADSP
2100.
- Health Monitoring and Control of Telephone Exchanges.
- Analog Computation Through Digital Computers.
- PC - Based Text-to-Speech Converter.
- PC - Based Telephone Answering and Recording Machine.
- Design and Realization of PC - Based Power Electronic
Controller.
- A GUI Approach to Library Management Using Visual
Basic.
- Prospects of a Computer Maintenance Firm at Aligarh.
- Touch - Screen Interactive Kiosk.
- Source Based Delay Bounded Multicasting in Multimedia
Networks.
- FPGA Based Design and Implementation of a Calculator
Chip.
- Application of Artificial Neural Networks in (a) Author
Recognition. (b) Medical Diagnosis.
- Design and Implementation of PC - Based Remote switching
of Electrical appliances via telephone lines.
- PC - Based Furnace Temperature Control by Discontinuous
Phase Controlled Switching.
- Simulator for Analog Computation.
- Design and Realization of Personal Computer Based Speed
Controller of Master - Slave Induction Motor.
- Design and Realization of Microcomputer Based Versatile
Power Electronic Controller.
- Entrepreneur Resource Planning for Corporate Sectors.
- DOS Help Mate
- Enhanced Meta Search on the
World Wide Web.
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Awards and Achievements
- Completed Hifz (the memorization by heart
of the Holy Quran) at a tender age of less than eight years.
{Listen to a sample of my recitation : A .wav file (211.1 Kbytes)
or a .ra file (74.8 Kbytes)}
- Awarded Lang Medal for standing First
(all streams combined) at S.S.C. (Class X) Examinations.
- Ranked Second in S.S.S.C. (Class XII)
Examinations (all streams combined).
- Awarded Maulana Tufail Medal for standing First
at B.Sc. (Engg.) Examinations in Electronics and Communication.
- Awarded University Gold Medal for standing First
at B.Sc. (Engg.) Examinations (all branches combined).
- Qualified All India Graduate Aptitude Test in
Engineering (GATE-92)
with 96.96 percentile in the year 1992.
- Obtained a TOEFL score of 613 and a TWE score of 5.5 in
tests taken on Dec. 12, 1997.
- Won several prizes in national level debates and essay writing
competitions (both in English and Urdu) during the student life.
- Bagged the Best Paper Award for the paper
"Neuro-Computing : An Overview" presented at the Seminar
organized by the Students' Chapter of the Institution of Engineers (India)
at A. M. U. Aligarh on Feb. 25,
1992.
- Twice bagged the High Quality Presentation Awards for
presenting research papers in national conferences.
- Qualified for the Indian Government Scholarship worth Indian Rupees 6,000/
p.m. for a total duration of 3 years and 3 months under the Quality
Improvement Program (QIP) to pursue doctoral studies at IIT
Delhi, India, starting from July 1999.
- Bagged the Best Paper
Award at the World Congress on Lateral Computing (WCLC 2004), Dec.
17-19, Bangalore, India.
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Professional Activities
- Chaired a session on Data Mining at the Sixth
International Conference on Computer Science and Informatics - a track at
the Sixth Joint Conference on Information Sciences (JCIS 2002), Durham,
NC, USA,
March 8-13, 2002.
- Reviewed manuscripts for IEEE Transaction
on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transaction on Neural
Networks and IEEE Internet Computing, besides many conferences
of repute.
- Technical Program Committee Member, First World
Congress on Lateral-Computing (WCLC 2004), December
17-19, 2004, Bangalore, India.
- Technical Program Committee Member, Second World
Congress on Lateral-Computing (WCLC 2005), December
17-19, 2005, Bangalore, India.
- Member, Scientific Committee, 5th WSEAS International
Conference on Circuits, Systems, Electronics, Control & Signal
Processing, Miami, Florida, November 1-3, 2006.
- Co-Chair, BISC-SIG-FLINT-Q&A (Berkeley Initiative in Soft
Computing Special Interest Group on Fuzzy Logic and the Internet, Question
and Answering).
- Chaired a session on Knowledge
Representation, Acquisition, and Processing + Related Issues at the
2006 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering
(IKE'06) - a track at the 2006 World Congress on Computer Science,
Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'06), June 26-29,
2006, Las Vegas, USA.
- Member, Scientific Committee, 5th WSEAS International
Conference on Circuits, Systems, Electronics, Control & Signal
Processing, Dallas, Texas, USA, November 1-3, 2006.
- Member, International Advisory Board, International Conference on Information and Communication
Technology in Electrical Sciences (ICTES 2007), Chennai, India, Dec.
20-22, 2007.
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Professional Memberships and Affiliations
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