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]
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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, 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, 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, & 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 (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

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 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, 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

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