PhD Openings against following topics:
A) Information Systems Security
Learning With Errors (LWE) based Post Quantum Cryptography Security
B) Natural Language Processing
Large Language Model Generated Information quantization and distillation for Arabic-Scripted Low-Resource Languages
C) Recommendation Systems
Enhancing Accuracy, Personalization, and User Trust with Privacy Preservation through Large Language Models (LLM) and Graph Neural Networks (GNN) in Recommender Systems
MS Data Science Research Topics :
A) Data Lake-house designing for e-commerce recommendation system
B) Personalized Recommender System using Graph Neural Networks
T. Abbas, M. A. Aziz, D. Khalid Saleem and F. Tuz Zuhra, "Multi-label Emoji Prediction on an Urdu Twitter Dataset using Deep Learning," 2025 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT), Islamabad, Pakistan, 2025, pp. 1-6
Conference 2025 DOI: 10.1109/FIT67061.2025.11333609
Aqeel M. Uglah, Khalid B. Saleem, Hussein S. Sultan, Chemseddine Maatki, Mohammed A. Almeshaal, Fatih Selimefendigil, Lioua Kolsi, "Numerical investigation on optimizing the couple geometry of a thermoelectric generator under various thermal conditions", Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, Volume 75, 2025, 107191
Journal 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.csite.2025.107191
F. S. Alamri, A. Rehman, B. Alghofaily, A. Ahmed and K. Saleem, "Leveraging RAG With Transformer for Context-Based Personalized Recommendations," in IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 97472-97486, 2025
Journal 2025 DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3574073
Fatima Tuz Zuhra and Khalid Saleem. 2025. Towards Development of New Language Resource for Urdu: The Large Vocabulary Word Embeddings. ACM Trans. Asian Low-Resour. Lang. Inf. Process. 24, 8, Article 75 (August 2025)
Journal 2025 DOI: 10.1145/3748308
Ali H, Saleem K (2024) Generating large-scale real-world vehicle routing dataset with novel spatial data extraction tool. PLOS ONE 19(6): e0304422
Journal 2024 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0304422
Fatima Tuz Zuhra, Khalid Saleem, Surayya Naz, An accurate transformer-based model for transition-based dependency parsing of free word order languages, Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences, Volume 36, Issue 6, 2024, 102107
Journal 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.jksuci.2024.102107
Rehman A, Ahmed A, Alahmadi TJ, Mirdad AR, Al Ghofaily B, Saleem K. 2024. A framework for generating recommendations based on trust in an informal e-learning environment. PeerJ Computer Science 10:e2386
Journal 2024 DOI: 10.7717/peerj-cs.2386
Farooq MS, Riaz S, Tehseen R, Farooq U, Saleem K. Role of Internet of things in diabetes healthcare: Network infrastructure, taxonomy, challenges, and security model. DIGITAL HEALTH. 2023;9
Journal 2023 DOI: 10.1177/20552076231179056
Fatima Tuz Zuhra, Khalid Saleem, Hybrid embeddings for transition-based dependency parsing of free word order languages, Information Processing & Management, Volume 60, Issue 3, 2023, 103334
Journal 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2023.103334
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
Human psychological disorder towards cryptography: True random number generator from EEG of schizophrenics and its application in block encryption’s substitution box
Journal 2022 DOI: 10.1155/2022/2532497
Khan, M.F., Saleem, K., Alotaibi, M., Hazzazi, M.M., Rehman, E. et al. (2022). Construction and Optimization of TRNG Based Substitution Boxes for Block Encryption Algorithms. Computers, Materials & Continua, 73(2), 2679–2696.
Journal 2022 DOI: 10.32604/cmc.2022.027655
Khan, Muhammad Fahad, Saleem, Khalid, Shah, Tariq, Hazzazi, Mohammad Mazyad, Bahkali, Ismail, Shukla, Piyush Kumar, Block Cipher's Substitution Box Generation Based on Natural Randomness in Underwater Acoustics and Knight's Tour Chain, Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, 2022, 8338508, 17 pages, 2022.
Journal 2022 DOI: 10.1155/2022/8338508
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
M. I. Malik, M. A. Sindhu, A. S. Khattak, R. A. Abbasi, and K. Saleem, "Automating test oracles from restricted natural language agile requirements," Expert Systems, vol 38, no. 1, p. e12608, 2021. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/exsy.12608
Journal 2021 DOI: 10.1111/exsy.12608
Muhammad Fahad, Khan; Khalid, Saleem;Mohammed Ali, Alshara; Shariq, Bashir. Multilevel Information Fusion for Cryptographic Substitution Box Construction based on Inevitable Random Noise in Medical Imaging . Nature Scientific Reports, Springer 2021. (accepted) (w Category)
Journal 2021 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-93344-z
Naseer S, Minhas Q, Saleem K, Siddiqui GF, Bhatti N, Mahmood H. 2021. A game theoretic power control and spectrum sharing approach using cost dominance in cognitive radio networks. PeerJ Computer Science 7:e617. IF [2.98]
Journal 2021 DOI: 10.7717/peerj-cs.617
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
Ghazanfar Farooq Siddiqui, Zafar Iqbal, Khalid Saleem, Zafar Saeed, Adeel Ahmed, Ibrahim A. Hameed, Muhammad Fahad Khan, A Dynamic Three-Bit Image Steganography Algorithm for Medical and e-Healthcare Systems. In IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 181893-181903, 2020. IF [3.745]
Journal 2020 DOI: 10.1109/access.2020.3028315
Wahid, Junaid Abdul; Shi, Lei; Tao, Yongcai; Lin, Wei; Saleem, Khalid. Incorporation of social media indicator in e-Government index. ICCIP '19 : Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Communication and Information ProcessingNovember 2019, Pages 201209. October 1517, 2019, Chongqing, China
Conference 2019 DOI: 10.1145/3369985.3370026
Ahmed, Adeel; Khan, Muhammad Fahad; Saleem, Khalid; Shah, Tariq. A Novel Design of Cryptographic SP-Network Based on Gold Sequences and Chaotic Logistic Tent System . IEEE ACCESS (accepted), 2019 (w Category)
Journal 2019 DOI: 10.1109/access.2019.2925081
Khan, Muhammad Fahad; Ahmed, Adeel; Saleem, Khalid. A Novel Cryptographic Substitution Box Design Using Gaussian . . IEEE ACCESS. Vol 7, Jan 2019 (w Category)
Journal 2019 DOI: 10.1109/access.2019.2893176
Naveed Tariq, Khalid Saleem, Mubashar Mushtaq, Muhammad Ali Nawaz. Snow Leopard Recognition Using Deep Convolution Neural Network. ICISDM '18, April 911, 2018, Lakeland, FL, USA
Conference 2018 DOI: 10.1145/3206098.3206114
Ahmed, Adeel; Khan, Muhammad Fahad; Usman, Muhammad; Saleem, Khalid. Analysis of Coauthorship Network in Political Science using Centrality Measures. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED COMPUTER SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS. 10/9, Oct 2018. (Emerging Index, Clarivate)
Journal 2018 DOI: 10.14569/ijacsa.2018.091040
Batool, Zahra; Usman, Muhammad; Saleem, Khalid; Abdullah-Al-Wadud, M.; Fazal-e-Amin; Al-Eliwi, Abdulhameed. . Disease-Disease Association Using Network Modeling: Challenges and Opportunities. JOURNAL OF MEDICAL IMAGING AND HEALTH INFORMATICS. 4/8, May 2018 (w Category)
Journal 2018 DOI: 10.1166/jmihi.2018.2342
Qasim, Tehreem; Zia, Muhammad; Minhas, Qurratul-Ain; Bhatti, Naeem; Saleem, Khalid; Qasim, Tooba; Mahmood, Hasan. An Ant Colony Optimization Based Approach for Minimum Cost Coverage on 3-D Grid in Wireless Sensor Networks. IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS. 6/22, June 2018 (w Category)
Journal 2018 DOI: 10.1109/lcomm.2018.2819643
Kanwal Kiani, Khalid Saleem . K-Nearest Temperature Trends: A Method for Weather Temperature Data Imputation. ICISDM 2017, April 01-03, 2017. Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Conference 2017 DOI: 10.1145/3077584.3077592
Muhammad Fahad Khan, Khalid Saleem and Mubashar Mushtaq. Optimally Compressed Digital Optimally Compressed Digital Content Delivery Using Short Message Service. ITNG-2017, April 10-12, 2017. Las Vegas, Nevada
Conference 2017 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-54978-1_38
Tehreem Qasim, Qurrat ul Ain Minhas, Alam Mujahid, Naeem Ali Bhatti, Mubashar, Mushtaq, Khalid Saleem, Hasan Mahmood, M.Shujah and Islam Sameem. ACO-Discreet: An efficient node deployment approach in wireless sensor networks. ITNG-2017, April 10-12, 2017. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Conference 2017 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-54978-1_6
Qadri, Salman; Khan, Dost Muhammad; Qadri, Syed Furqan; Razzaq, Abdul; Ahmad, Nazir; Jamil, Mutiullah; Shah, Ali Nawaz; Muhammad, Syed Shah; Saleem, Khalid; Awan, Sarfraz Ahmad. Multisource Data Fusion Framework for Land Use/Land Cover. Journal of Sensors, 2017 (w Category)
Journal 2017 DOI: 10.1155/2017/3515418
Faisal Baig, Muhammad Fahad Khan , Saira Beg, Tariq Shah, Khalid Saleem. Onion steganography: a novel layering approach. Nonlinear Dynamics, Springer. January 2016. DOI: 10.1007/s11071-015-2580-5. (w Category)
Journal 2016 DOI: 10.1007/s11071-015-2580-5
Muhammad Mazhar Abbas, Zia Muhammad, Khalid Saleem, Nazar Abbas Saqib, Hasan Mahmood. Energy Harvesting and Management in Wireless Networks for Perpetual Operations. Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers. Vol. 24, No. 3, 2015. World Scientific Publishing Company. (w Category)
Journal 2015 DOI: 10.1142/s0218126615500413
R. Jahangir, W. Masood, M. Siddiq, Nazia Batool, Khalid Saleem. Interaction of fast magnetoacoustic solitons in dense plasmas. Physics of Plasmas 09/2015; 22(9):092312. DOI:10.1063/1.4930270. (w Category)
Journal 2015 DOI: 10.1063/1.4930270
Muhammad Mazhar Abbas, Mohamed Tawhid, Khalid Saleem, Hassan Mahmood, Hafiz Malik, Muhammad Zia and Nazar Abbas Saqib. Solar Energy Harvesting and Management in Wireless Sensor Networks. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, vol. 2014, Article ID 436107, 8 pages, 2014. (w Category)
Journal 2014 DOI: 10.1155/2014/436107
Schema Matching and Integration When schemas are in thousands, Khalid Saleem, ISBN-13 : 978-3-8484-3566-1, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, April 2012
Book 2012 DOI: 9783848435661
Adeel Ahmed and Khalid Saleem, Title: Haplotype Segment Algorithm for Predicting Disease Gene Locus based on Distance/Similarity Measures, Book Title: Emerging Trends and Applications in Information Communication Technologies, Series Title: Communications in Computer and Information Science, Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN: 978-3-642-28962-0 (Online), ISSN: 1865-0929, March 2012, Volume 281, pp 31-42, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-28962-0_4
Conference 2012 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-28962-0_4
Khalid Saleem and Zohra Bellahsene. Complex Schema Match Discovery and Validation through Collaboration.. Publisher: Springer Berlin / Heidelberg , Book Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ISSN: 0302-9743 (Print) 1611-3349 (Online), Volume : 5870/2009, Book: On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems, ISBN: 978-3-642-05147-0, Pages: 406-413, November 2009. Vilamoura , Portugal . DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-05148-7_30.
Conference 2009 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-05148-7_30
Khalid Saleem, Zohra Bellahsene, Automatic Extraction of Structurally Coherent Mini-Taxonomies. Publisher: Springer Berlin / Heidelberg , Book Series : Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ISSN: 0302-9743 (Print) 1611-3349 (Online), Volume : 5231/2008, Book: Conceptual Modeling, ISBN: 978-3-540-87876-6, Pages: 341-354, October 2008. Barcelona , Spain . DOI : 10.1007/978-3-540- 87877-3_25.
Conference 2008 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87877-3_25
Khalid Saleem, Zohra Bellahsene and Ela Hunt, PORSCHE: Performance ORiented SCHEma mediation, Journal: Information Systems, Publisher: Elsevier, ISSN: 0306-4379, Volume 33, Issues 7-8, Pages 637-657, November-December 2008. DOI:10.1016/j.is.2008.01.010. (w Category)
Journal 2008 DOI: 10.1016/j.is.2008.01.010
Khalid Saleem, Zohra Bellahsene and Ella Hunt, Performance Oriented Schema Matching. Publisher: Springer Berlin / Heidelberg , Book Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ISSN: 0302-9743 (Print) 1611-3349 (Online), Volume : 4653/2007, Book: Database and Expert Systems Applications, ISBN: 978-3-540-74467-2, Pages: 844-853, August 2007. Regensburg , Germany . DOI : 10.1007/978-3-540-74469-6_82.
Conference 2007 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74469-6_82