Department of Computer Sciences
Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad

Research Interests
Big Data and Visual Analytics Data/Information Visualization Deep Learning Applications Human Aspects of Computing Human Information Interaction Multimedia Computing Multimedia Information Discovery Multimedia Information Retrieval Nonlinear Modeling and Simulation Search User Interface Design User-centered Computing
Courses Taught
CS-101 - Introduction to Computing [BS]
CSC-110 - Applications of ICT [BS]
CSC-211 - Data Structures [BS]
CSC-212 - Human Computer Interaction [BS]
CSC-224 - Database Systems [BS]
CSC-226 - Operating Systems [BS]
CSC-473 - Multimedia Applications and Design [BS]
CSC-479 - Web Information Retrieval [BS]
MA-203 - Discrete Mathematics [BS]
CSC-673 - Multimedia Technology [MS]
CSC-675 - Information Retrieval Systems [MS]
CSC-775 - Digital Libraries [MS]
CSC-821 - Design for Usability [MS/PhD]
CSC-831 - Multimedia Retrieval Techniques [MS/PhD]
CSC-836 - Search Spaces Discovery [MS/PhD]
CSC-837 - Multimodal User Interfaces [MS/PhD]
CSC-851 - Human Information Interaction [MS/PhD]
CSC-852 - Information Architecture [MS/PhD]
CSC-861 - Information Visualization and Presentation [MS/PhD]
Umer Rashid and Bakhtawar Arif, "PERIA-Framework: A Prediction Extension Revision Image Annotation Framework", Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Springer, 738, 25-31, Springer, 2018.

Chapter 2018 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-77028-4_5

Umer Rashid, Marco Viviani, Gabriella Pasi and Muhammad Afzal Bhatti, "The browsing issue in multimodal information retrieval: A navigation tool over a multiple media search result space", Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 400, 271-282, Springer, 2015.

Chapter 2015 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-26154-6_21

Umer Rashid, Iftikhar Azim Niaz and Muhammad Afzal Bhatti, "Unified Multimodal Search Framework for Multimedia Information Retrieval", Advanced Techniques in Computing Sciences and Software Engineering, 129-136, Springer, 2010.

Chapter 2009 DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3660-5_22

Umer Rashid, Iftikhar Azim Niaz, and Muhammad Afzal Bhatti, "Fusion of Multimodal Document Intra-Modality Relevancies Using Linear Combination Model", Advanced Techniques in Computing Sciences and Software Engineering, 575-580, Springer, 2010.

Chapter 2009 DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3660-5_98

Umer Rashid and Muhammad Afzal Bhatti, "Exploration and Management of Web Based Multimedia Information Resources", Innovations and Advanced Techniques in Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering, 500-506, Springer, 2008.

Chapter 2008 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8735-6_93

Abdur Rehman Khan, Umer Rashid, Ayesha Saadia, Amanullah Yasin. (2024). A Heuristic Multimedia Verticals Aggregated Search Approach and User Behavioral Analysis. International Conference on Engineering & Computing Technologies (ICECT). 2024.

Conference 2024 DOI: 10.1109/icect61618.2024.10581027

Muhammad Wajeeh Uz Zaman, Abdur Rehman, Umer Rashid. (2023). Towards Summarization of Aggregated Multimedia Verticals Web Search Results. To be published in the proceedings of ICET 2023.

Conference 2023 DOI: 10.1109/icet59753.2023.10374811

Sumaira Ambreen, Umer Rashid, Maha Saddal. (2023). An Architecture to Research Aggregated Vertical Web Search Results. To be published in the proceedings of INMIC 2023.

Conference 2023 DOI: 10.1109/inmic60434.2023.10465931

Wilayat Ali Khan, Umer Rashid, & Tariq Jamil. (2022, October). A Socialized Geotagging Based Garbage Identification and Severity Ranking Mechanism. In 2022 International Conference on IT and Industrial Technologies (ICIT) (pp. 1-7). IEEE.

Conference 2022 DOI: 10.1109/icit56493.2022.9989105

Abdul Rehman Khan & Umer Rashid (2021, April). A Relational Aggregated Disjoint Multimedia Search Results Approach using Semantics. In 2021 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI) (pp. 62-67). IEEE.

Conference 2021 DOI: 10.1109/icai52203.2021.9445229

Aimen Javid, Umer Rashid, & Akmal Saeed Khattak (2020, November). Marking Early Lesions in Labial Colored Dental Images using a Transfer Learning Approach. In 2020 IEEE 23rd International Multitopic Conference (INMIC) (pp. 1-5). IEEE.

Conference 2020 DOI: 10.1109/inmic50486.2020.9318173

Maha Saddal, Umer Rashid, Akmal Saeed Khattak (2019, November). A browsing approach to explore web image search results. In 2019 22nd International Multitopic Conference (INMIC) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

Conference 2019 DOI: 10.1109/inmic48123.2019.9022781

Umer Rashid, & Muhammad Afzal Bhatti, M. A. (2015, October). Towards a conceptual framework to implement multiple media information search system. In 2015 Tenth International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM) (pp. 154-159). IEEE.

Conference 2015 DOI: 10.1109/icdim.2015.7381866

Umer Rashid, Muhammad Afzal Bhatti, Iftikhar Azim Niaz (2010, April). A task oriented hybrid framework for interface architecture design. In 2010 Seventh International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (pp. 1172-1176). IEEE.

Conference 2010 DOI: 10.1109/itng.2010.160

Umer Rashid, Iftikhar Azim Niaz, Muhammad Afzal Bhatti (2009, April). M3L: architecture for multimedia information retrieval. In 2009 Sixth International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (pp. 1067-1072). IEEE.

Conference 2009 DOI: 10.1109/itng.2009.8

Umer Rashid, Muhammad Afzal Bhatti, Iftikhar Azim Niaz (2009, October). Designing interactions using OAI model: A new interface modeling paradigm. In 2009 International Conference on Emerging Technologies (pp. 422-426). IEEE.

Conference 2009 DOI: 10.1109/icet.2009.5353133

Noor Ul Ain Tahir, Umer Rashid, Hassan Jalil Hadi, Naveed Ahmad, Yue Cao, Mohammed Ali Alshara, Yasir Javed. (2024). Blockchain-Based Healthcare Records Management Framework: Enhancing Security, Privacy, and Interoperability. Technologies, 12(9), 168.

Journal 2024 DOI: 10.3390/technologies12090168

Sadia Rubab, Muhammad Wajeeh Uz Zaman, Umer Rashid, Lingyun Yu, Yingcai Wu. (2024). Audio-visual training and feedback to learn touch-based gestures. Journal of Visualization. 1-26.

Journal 2024 DOI: 10.1007/s12650-024-01012-x

Tajmir Khan, Umer Rashid, Abdur Rehman Khan, Naveed Ahmad, Mohammed Ali Alshara. (2024). End-to-end vertical web search pseudo relevance feedback queries recommendation software. SoftwareX, 27, 101872.

Journal 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.softx.2024.101872

Tajmir Khan, Umer Rashid, Abdur Rehman Khan. (2024). End-to-end pseudo relevance feedback based vertical web search queries recommendation. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 1-39.

Journal 2024 DOI: 10.1007/s11042-024-18559-4

Abdul Rehman Khan & Umer Rashid. (2023). AMED: Aggregated multimedia exploratory and discovery search software. SoftwareX, 21, 101312.

Journal 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.softx.2023.101312

Muhammad Hassan Jamal, Muazzam A Khan, Safi Ullah, Mohammed S. Alshehri, Sultan Almakdi, Umer Rashid, Abdulwahab Alazeb, Jawad Ahmad. (2023). Multi-step attack detection in industrial networks using a hybrid deep learning architecture. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 20(8), 13824-13848.

Journal 2023 DOI: 10.3934/mbe.2023615

Qaisar Abbas, Yassine Daadaa, Umer Rashid, Mostafa EA Ibrahim. (2023). Assist-Dermo: A Lightweight Separable Vision Transformer Model for Multiclass Skin Lesion Classification. Diagnostics, 13(15), 2531.

Journal 2023 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics13152531

Qaisar Abbas, Yassine Daadaa, Umer Rashid, Muhammad Zaheer Sajid, Mostafa EA Ibrahim. (2003). HDR-EfficientNet: A Classification of Hypertensive and Diabetic Retinopathy Using Optimize EfficientNet Architecture. Diagnostics, 13(20), 3236.

Journal 2023 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics13203236

Snober Naseer, Umer Rashid, Maha Saddal, Abdur Rehman Khan, Qaisar Abbas, Yassine Daadaa. (2003). WSREB Mechanism: Web Search Results Exploration Mechanism for Blind Users. Applied Sciences, 13(19), 11007.

Journal 2023 DOI: 10.3390/app131911007

Umer Rashid, Maha Saddal, Abdur Rehman Khan, Sadia Manzoor, Naveed Ahmad. (2023). I- Cubid: a nonlinear cubic graph-based approach to visualize and in-depth browse Flickr image results. PeerJ Computer Science, 9, e1476.

Journal 2023 DOI: 10.7717/peerj-cs.1476

Umer Rashid, Maha Saddal, Ghazanfar Farooqm & Naveed Ahmad. (2023). An SUI-based approach to explore visual search results cluster-graphs. PloS one, 18(1), e0280400.

Journal 2023 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0280400

Umer Rashid, Samra Naseer, Abdur Rehman Khan, Muazzam A Khan, Gauhar Ali, Naveed Ahmad, Yasir Javed. (2023). Sampling fingerprints from multimedia content resource clusters. IEEE Access,

Journal 2023 DOI: 10.1109/access.2023.3343190

Abdur Rehman Khan, Umer Rashid & Naveed Ahmed. (2022). An explanatory study on user behavior in discovering aggregated multimedia web content. 10, pp. 56316-56330.

Journal 2022 DOI: 10.1109/access.2022.3177597

Adeel Ahmed, Khalid Saleem, Jiechao Gao, & Umer Rashid (2022). Trust-aware denoising autoencoder with spatial-temporal activity for cross-domain personalized recommendations. Neurocomputing, 511, 477-494.

Journal 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2022.09.023

Jameel Arif, Muazzam A Khan, Baraq Ghaleb, Jawad Ahmad, Arslan Munir, Umer Rashid, Ahmed Y Al-Dubai (2022). A Novel Chaotic Permutation-Substitution Image Encryption Scheme Based on Logistic Map and Random Substitution. IEEE Access, 10, 12966-12982.

Journal 2022 DOI: 10.1109/access.2022.3146792

Maha Saddal, Umer Rashid, Akmal Saeed Khattak and Ghazanfar Farooq. ISRE-Framework: nonlinear and multimodal exploration of image search result spaces. Multimed Tools and Applications . IF [2.1]

Journal 2022 DOI: 10.1007/s11042-022-12561-4

Umer Rashid, Aiman Javid, Abdur Rehman Khan, Leo Liu, Adeel Ahmed, Osman Khalid, Khalid Saleem, Shaista Meraj, Uzair Iqbal, Raheel Nawaz, A hybrid mask RCNN-based tool to localize dental cavities from real-time mixed photographic images. PeerJ Computer Science, 8, e888.

Journal 2022 DOI: 10.7717/peerj-cs.888

Abdur Rehman Khan, Umer Rashid, Khalid Saleem, Adeel Ahmed (2021). An architecture for non-linear discovery of aggregated multimedia document web search results. PeerJ Computer Science, 7, e449.

Journal 2021 DOI: 10.7717/peerj-cs.449

Ahmed, Adeel; Saleem, Khalid; Khalid, Osman; Rashid, Umer; Baz, Abdullah. On Deep Neural Network for Trust Aware Cross Domain Recommendations in E-commerce . Expert Systems with Applications, Elseveir 2021. (accepted) (w Category)

Journal 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2021.114757

Multi-level aspect based sentiment classification of Twitter data: using hybrid approach in deep learning, [Sadaf H. Janjua, Ghazanfar F. Siddiqui, Muddassar A. Sindhu, Umer Rashid] PeerJ Computer Science 7, e433, 2021online[IF 3.8]

Journal 2021 DOI: 10.7717/peerj-cs.433

Umer, Rashid; Khalid, Saleem; Ahmed, Adeel. MIRRE approach: nonlinear and multimodal exploration of MIR aggregated search results . Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer2021. (accepted) (w Category)

Journal 2021 DOI: 10.1007/s11042-021-10603-x

Ahmed, Adeel; Saleem, Khalid; Rashid, Umer; Baz, Abdullah. Modeling Trust Aware Recommendations with Temporal Dynamics in Social Networks . IEEE ACCESS, 2020. (w Category)

Journal 2020 DOI: 10.1109/access.2020.3014051

Umer Rashid, Muhammad Afzal Bhatt (2017). A framework to explore results in multiple media information aggregated search. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 76(24), 25787- 25826.

Journal 2017 DOI: 10.1007/s11042-017-4769-8

Umer Rashid, Marco Viviani, Gabriella Pasi (2016). A graph-based approach for visualizing and exploring a multimedia search result space. Information Sciences, 370, 303-322.

Journal 2016 DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2016.07.072

Umer Rashid (2015). ANN based Expert System to Predict Disease in Cardiac Patients at Initial Stages. International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications (IJEHMC), 6(2), 1-9.

Journal 2015 DOI: 10.4018/ijehmc.2015040101