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

Research Interests
Agents Modelling (computational modelling) Computer Vision Cryptography Data Analytics Data Mining Environmental Modelling Health Informatics Machine Learning
Courses Taught
CS-423 - Computer Graphics [BS]
CSC-104 - Problem Solving & Programming [BS]
CSC-121 - Object Oriented Programming [BS]
CSC-211 - Data Structures [BS]
CSC-224 - Database Systems [BS]
CSC-226 - Operating Systems [BS]
CSC-313 - Computer Architecture [BS]
CSC-324 - Web Application Development [BS]
CSC-414 - Artificial Intelligence [BS]
CSC-445 - Information Systems [BS]
CSC-464 - Modeling and Simulation [BS]
CSC-65X - Intelligent Information System [MS]
CSC-660 - Research Methods [MS]
CSC-702 - Advanced Operating Systems [MS]
CSC-772 - Data Mining [MS]
CSC-828 - Computational Modeling [MS/PhD]
Saqib Iqbal, Ghazanfar Farooq Siddiqui, Zafar Iqbal; Modelling Trust Developing Procedure between Pet and Owner, in 14th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies, ICET 2018.

Conference 2018 DOI: 10.1109/icet.2018.8603596

Tariq Shah, Tanveer ul Haq, Ghazanfar Farooq Siddiqui. Serpent Algorithm: An improvement by 4 × 4 S-box from finite Chain ring. In International Conference on Applied and Engineering Mathematics, ICAE 2018.PP 32-37.

Conference 2018 DOI: 10.1109/icaem.2018.8536293

Umar Aftab, Ghazanfar Farooq Siddiqui., Big Data Augmentation with Data Warehouse: A Survey. In (4th International Workshop on Methodologies to Improve Big Data Projects) the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 2018.pp 2774-2783.978-1-5386-5035-6/18/$31 2018 IEEE

Conference 2018 DOI: 10.1109/bigdata.2018.8622182

Bosse, T., Gratch, J., Hoorn, J.F., Pontier, M., and Siddiqui, G.F., Comparing Three Computational Models of Affect. In: Demazeau, Y., Dignum, F., Corchado, J.M., and Bajo, J. (eds.), Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS'10. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol. 70. Springer Verlag, 2010, pp. 175-184.

Conference 2010 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12384-9_22

Bosse, T., Siddiqui, G.F., and Treur, J., An Intelligent Virtual Agent to Increase Involvement in Financial Services. In: Allbeck, J., Badler, N., Bickmore, T., Pelachaud, C., and Safonova, A. (eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA'10. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 6356. Springer Verlag, 2010, pp. 378-384.

Conference 2010 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15892-6_40

Bosse, T., Siddiqui, G.F., and Treur, J., Modelling Greed of Agents in Economical Context. In: Garcia-Pedrajas, N., Herrera, F., Fyfe, C., Benitez, J.M., and Ali, M. (eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE'10, Part II. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 6097. Springer Verlag, 2010, pp. 407-417

Conference 2010 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13025-0_43

Bosse, T., Siddiqui, G.F., and Treur, J., Supporting Financial Decision Making by an Intelligent Agent Estimating Greed and Risk. In: Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence, HAI'10. Published as part of: Hoeber, O., Li, Y., and Huang, X.J. (eds.), Proceedings of the WI/IAT'10 Workshops, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2010, pp. 365-370

Conference 2010 DOI: 10.1109/wi-iat.2010.233

Pontier, M.A., Siddiqui, G.F., and Hoorn, J., Speed Dating with an Affective Virtual Agent - Developing a Testbed for Emotion Models. In: J. Allbeck et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA'10, 2010, , Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6356, pp. 91-103

Conference 2010 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15892-6_10

Matthijs Pontier, Ghazanfar F. Siddiqui, "Silicon Coppelia: Integrating Three Affect-Related Models for Establishing Richer Agent Interaction," wi-iat, vol. 2, pp.279-284, 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, 2009.

Conference 2009 DOI: 10.1109/wi-iat.2009.164

Pontier, M., Siddiqui, G.F., Affective Agents Perceiving each other's Actions. In: Otamendi, J., Bargiela, A., Montes, J.L., Pedrera, L.M.D. (eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, ECMS'2009. European Council for Modelling and Simulation, 2009, pp. 194-202. . Nominated for best paper award

Conference 2009 DOI: 10.7148/2009-0194-0202

Pontier, M.A., and Siddiqui, G.F., An Affective Agent Playing Tic-Tac-Toe as Part of a Healing Environment In: J.-J. Yang et al.(Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems, PRIMA'09, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol 5925 Springer Verlag, 2009, pp. 33-47.

Conference 2009 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11161-7_3

Hoorn, J. F., Pontier, M., and Siddiqui, G. F., When the User Is Instrumental to Robot Goals: First Try - Agent Uses Agent. In: Jain, L., Gini, M., Faltings, B.B., Terano, T., Zhang, C., Cercone, N., Cao, L. (eds.), Proceedings of the 8th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, IAT'08. IEEE Computer Society Press, 2008, pp. 296-301.

Conference 2008 DOI: 10.1109/wiiat.2008.113

Pontier, M., Siddiqui, G.F., A Virtual Therapist that responds Empathically to your Answers. In: H. Prendinger, J, and M. Ishizuka (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA'08. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol 5208 Springer Verlag, 2008, pp. 417-425.

Conference 2008 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85483-8_42

Bosse, T., Pontier, M., Siddiqui, G.F., and Treur, J., Incorporating Emotion Regulation into Virtual Stories. In: Pelachaud, C., Martin, J.C., Andre, E., Chollet, G., Karpouzis, K., and Pele, D. (eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA'07. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 4722. Springer Verlag, 2007, pp. 339-347.

Conference 2007 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74997-4_31

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

Fasiha Safdar, Muhammad Fahim Khokhar, Muhammad Imad Ud Din, Ghazanfar Farooq Siddiqui, Waleed Khattak. Spatial trends of maximum and minimum temperatures in different climate zones of Pakistan by exploiting ground-based and space-borne observations. International Journal of Global Warming 2020. IF [0.78]Online.

Journal 2021 DOI: 10.1504/ijgw.2021.116715

I. Tariq, M. A. Sindhu, R. A. Abbasi, A. S. Khattak, O. Maqbool, and G. F. Siddiqui, "Resolving cross-site scripting attacks through genetic algorithm and reinforcement learning," Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 168, p. 114386, 2021. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957417420310599

Journal 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2020.114386

Muhammad Tanveer, Tariq Shah, Amjad Rehman,Asif Ali, Ghazanfar Farooq Siddiqui, Tanzila Saba, and Usman Tariq . Multi-Images Encryption Scheme Based on 3D Chaotic Map and Substitution Box. IEEE Access 2021. IF [3.745]

Journal 2021 DOI: 10.1109/access.2021.3081362

Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, and, Ghazanfar Farooq Siddiqui, MFCC and Machine Learning Based Speech Emotion Recognition on TESS and IEMOCAP Datasets. Foundation University Journal of Engineering and Applied Science (FUJEAS)Vol 1 No 2(2021) . HEC Recognized Journal

Journal 2021 DOI: 10.33897/fujeas.v1i2.321

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

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

Nazli Sanam, Asif Ali, Tariq Shah, Ghazanfar Farooq. Non-Associative Algebra Redesigning Block Cipher with Color Image Encryption CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua 2020. IF [4.89]

Journal 2021 DOI: 10.32604/cmc.2021.014442

Saqib Iqbal, Ghazanfar Farooq Siddiqui,Amjad Rehman , Lal Hussain , Tanzila Saba , Usman Tariq, and Adeel Ahmed Abbasi. Prostate Cancer Detection Using Deep Learning and Traditional Techniques. IEEE Access 2021. IF [3.745]

Journal 2021 DOI: 10.1109/access.2021.3057654

Saqib Iqbal, Lal Hussain ,Ghazanfar Farooq Siddiqui ,Mir Aftab Ali, Faisal Mehmood But, Mahnoor Zaib. Image Enhancement Methods on Extracted Texture Features to Detect Prostate Cancer by Employing Machine Learning Techniques. Waves in Random and Complex Media . IF [4.83]

Journal 2021 DOI: 10.1080/17455030.2021.1996658

Syeda Mahnoor Ali, Fatima Malik, Muhammad Shehzaib Anjum, Ghazanfar Farooq Siddiqui, Muhammad Naveed Anwar, Su Shiung Lam, Abdul-Sattar Nizami, Muhammad Fahim Khokhar. Exploring the linkage between PM2.5 levels and COVID-19 Spread and its implications in socio-economic circles. Environmental research 2020. IF [5.7] Online.

Journal 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2020.110421

Tanveer Ul Haq, Tariq Shah, Ghazanfar Farooq Siddiqui, Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, Ibrahim A. Hameed and Huma Jamil . IMPROVED TWOFISH ALGORITHM: A DIGITAL IMAGE ENCIPHERING APPLICATION. IEEE Access 2021(Accepted). IF [3.745]

Journal 2021 DOI: 10.1109/access.2021.3081792

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

Hajira Haroon, Jehanzeb Ali Shah, Muhammad Saqib Khan, Tatheer Alam, Romana Khan, Saeed Ahmad Asad, Muhammad Arif Ali, Ghazanfar Farooq, Mazhar Iqbal, Muhammad Bilal, Activated carbon from a specific plant precursor biomass for hazardous Cr (VI) adsorption and recovery studies in batch and column reactors: Isotherm and kinetic modeling. Journal of Water Process Engineering volume (38) (2020). IF [3.465] .

Journal 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.jwpe.2020.101577

Malik A, Butt TA, Naqvi STA, Yousaf S, Qureshi MK, Zafar MI, Farooq G, Nawaz I and Iqbal M. (2020). Lead tolerant endophyte Trametes hirsuta improved the growth and lead accumulation in the vegetative parts of Triticum aestivum L. Heliyon. Volume (6), e04188. (2020).

Journal 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e04188

Metamorphic Testing of an Artificially Intelligent Chess Game, [Aisha Liaqat, Muddassar A. Sindhu, Ghazanfar F. Siddiqui], IEEE Access, 2020. online [IF 3.75, Q1]

Journal 2020 DOI: 10.1109/access.2020.3024929

Muhammad Umair Mushtaq, Ameena Iqbal, Ismat Nawaz, Cyrus Raza Mirza, Sohail Yousaf, Ghazanfar Farooq, Muhammad Arif Ali, Aqib Hassan Ali Khan, Mazhar Iqbal, Enhanced uptake of Cd, Cr, and Cu in Catharanthus roseus (L.) G.Don by Bacillus cereus : application of moss and compost to reduce metal availability. Environmental Science and Pollution Research volume 27, pages39807-39818 (2020). IF [3.056] .

Journal 2020 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-020-08839-5

Naveed Aftab, Kanza Saleem, Aqib Hassan Ali Khan, Tayyab Ashfaq Butt, Cyrus Raza Mirza, Jamshaid Hussain, Ghazanfar Farooq, Ayesha Tahir, Sohail Yousaf, Mazhar Iqbal Zafar, Ismat Nawaz, and Mazhar Iqbal. Cosmos sulphureus Cav. is more tolerant to lead than copper and chromium in hydroponics system. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology (JEST) 2020. IF [2.54]

Journal 2020 DOI: 10.1007/s13762-020-02981-w

Sajid Ali, Shafaqat Ali, Ismail Shah, Ghazanfar Farooq Siddiqui, Tanzila Saba, Amjad Rehman, Reliability Analysis for Electronic Devices Using Generalized Exponential Distribution. In IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 108629-108644, (2020). IF [3.745].

Journal 2020 DOI: 10.1109/access.2020.3000951

Tariq Shah, Asif Ali, Majid Khan, Ghazanfar Farooq, Antonio Aparecido de Andrade, Galois Ring GR (2^3,8) Dependent 24 × 24 S Box Design: An RGB Image Encryption Application. Wireless Personal Communications (113, pages1201-1224(2020). IF[1.061]

Journal 2020 DOI: 10.1007/s11277-020-07274-6

Tariq Shah, Tanveer Ul Haq, Ghazanfar Farooq, Improved SERPENT Algorithm: Design to RGB Image Encryption Implementation. In IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 52609-52621, 2020 (2020). IF [3.745].

Journal 2020 DOI: 10.1109/access.2020.2978083

Tariq Shah, Sadia Medhit, Ghazanfar Farooq, Intuitionistic Fuzzy Soft Set Decision Criterion for Selecting Appropriate Block Cipher. 3D Research (springer). 6(32). 2015

Journal 2015 DOI: 10.1007/s13319-015-0063-6

Johan F. Hoorn, Matthijs Pontier, Ghazanfar F. Siddiqui, Coppelius, concoction, Similarity and complementarity among three affect-related agent models. Cognitive Systems Research 15: 33-49 (2012). IF [1.902]

Journal 2012 DOI: 10.1016/j.cogsys.2011.04.001

Tibor Bosse, S. Waqar Jaffry, Ghazanfar F. Siddiqui, Jan Treur, Comparative analysis of agent-based and population-based modelling in epidemics and economics. Multiagent and Grid Systems 8(3): 223-255 (2012)

Journal 2012 DOI: 10.3233/mgs-2012-0193