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

Research Interests
Information Retrieval Machine Learning Natural Language Processing Recommender Systems Text Mining
Courses Taught
CS-101 - Introduction to Computing [BS]
CSC-104 - Problem Solving & Programming [BS]
CSC-121 - Object Oriented Programming [BS]
CSC-311 - Analysis & Design of Algorithms [BS]
CSC-331 - Theory of Automata [BS]
CSC-445 - Information Systems [BS]
CSC-455 - Introduction to Natural Language Processing [BS]
CSC-457 - Web Application Frameworks [BS]
CSC-652 - Advanced Analysis of Algorithms [MS]
CSC-675 - Information Retrieval Systems [MS]
CSC-843 - Advanced Information Retrieval Techniques [MS/PhD]
CSC-869 - Advanced topics in Machine Learning [MS/PhD]
S. Hussain, A. S. Khattak, R. A. Abbasi, T. Russell-Rose, and V. L. R. Chinthalapati, "Identification of targets in disinformation news articles using supervised machine learning," in Advanced Data Mining and Applications, Q. Z. Sheng, G. Dobbie, J. Jiang, X. Zhang, W. E. Zhang, Y. Manolopoulos, J. Wu, W. Mansoor, and C. Ma, Eds. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2025, pp. 213-227. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-96-0847-8_15

Conference 2025 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-0847-8_15

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

M. Faisal, A. Hameed and A. S. Khattak, "Recommending Movies on User's Current Preferences via Deep Neural Network," 2019 15th International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET), Peshawar, Pakistan, 2019, pp. 1-6.

Conference 2019 DOI: 10.1109/icet48972.2019.8994389

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

F. Imran, R. A. Abbasi, M. A. Sindhu, A. S. Khattak, A. Daud, and T. Amjad, "Finding research areas of academicians using clique percolation," in 14th International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET), Nov 2018, pp. 1-6. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8603549/

Conference 2018 DOI: 10.1109/ICET.2018.8603549

Khattak A.S., Heyer G. (2014) Exploiting Co-Occurrence of Low Frequent Terms in Patents. In: Gruca D., Czachorski T., Kozielski S. (eds) Man-Machine Interactions 3. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 242. Springer, Cham.

Conference 2014 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-02309-0_50

K. Hussain, Z. Saeed, R. Abbasi, M. Sindhu, A. Khattak, S. Arafat, A. Daud, and M. Mushtaq, "Towards understanding the role of content-based and contextualized features in detecting abuse on twitter," Heliyon, vol. 10, no. 8, p. e29593, 2024. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240584402405624X

Journal 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e29593

S. Khan, R. A. Abbasi, M. A. Sindhu, S. Arafat, A. S. Khattak, A. Daud, and M. Mushtaq, "Predicting the victims of hate speech on microblogging platforms," Heliyon, vol. 10, no. 23, p. e40611, 2024. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240584402416642X

Journal 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e40611

S. Bashir and A. S. Khattak, "Private Web Search Using Proxy-Query Based Query Obfuscation Scheme," in IEEE Access, 2023, vol. 11, pp. 3607-3625, ISSN: 2169-3536,

Journal 2023 DOI: 10.1109/access.2023.3235000

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

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

Khawaja Moyeezullah Ghori, Muhammad Awais, Akmal Saeed Khattak, Muhammad Imran, Fazal-E-Amin, Laszlo Szathmary, Treating Class Imbalance in Non-Technical Loss Detection: An Exploratory Analysis of a Real Dataset, IEEE Access, 2021, vol. 9, pp. 98928-98938, ISSN 2169-3536,

Journal 2021 DOI: 10.1109/access.2021.3095145

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 Babar, Akmal Saeed Khattak, Mian Ahmad Jan, Muhammad Usman Tariq, Energy aware smart city management system using data analytics and Internet of Things, Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 2021, vol. 44, ISSN 2213-1388,

Journal 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.seta.2021.100992

Muhammad Usman Tariq, Muhammad Babar, Marc Poulin, Akmal Saeed Khattak , Distributed model for customer churn prediction using convolutional neural network, Journal of Modelling in Management, 2021, ISSN 1746-5664,

Journal 2021 DOI: 10.1108/jm2-01-2021-0032

Muhammad Usman Tariq, Muhammad Babar, Marc Poulin, Akmal Saeed Khattak, Mohammad Dahman Alshehri, Sarah Kaleem, Human Behavior Analysis Using Intelligent Big Data Analytics, Frontiers in Psychology, 2021, vol. 12, ISSN 1664-1078,

Journal 2021 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.686610

Muhammad Usman Tariq, Muhammad Babar, Mian Ahmad Jan, Akmal Saeed Khattak, Mohammad Dahman Alshehri, Abid Yahya, Security Requirement Management for Cloud-Assisted and Internet of Things—Enabled Smart City, Computers Materials and Continua, 2021, vol. 67, pp. 625-639, ISSN 1546-2226,

Journal 2021 DOI: 10.32604/cmc.2021.014165

Shariq Bashir, Akmal Saeed Khattak, Mohammed Ali Alshara, "Automatically transforming full length biomedical articles into search queries for retrieving related articles", Egyptian Informatics Journal, 2020, ISSN 1110-8665.

Journal 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.eij.2020.04.004

F. Haneef, R. A. Abbasi, M. A. Sindhu, A. S. Khattak, M. N. Noor, N. R. Aljohani, A. Daud, and S. Arafat, "Using network science to understand the link between subjects and professions," Computers in Human Behavior, vol. 106, 2020. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563219304479

Journal 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2019.106228

Muhammad Babar, Akmal Khattak, Fahim Arif, and Muhammad Tariq, An Improved Framework for Modelling Data Warehouse Systems Using UML Profile, The International Arab Journal of Information Technology, Vol. 17, No. 4, Pages 562-571 July 2020

Journal 2020 DOI: 10.34028/iajit/17/4/15

Babar, M, Javaid, S, Saeed Khattak, A, Ali, A. Toward energy?efficient data management design for sustainable cities and societies. Transaction on Emerging Telecommunication Technologies, 2019.

Journal 2019 DOI: 10.1002/ett.3821

Bashir, S., Khattak, A.S. Producing efficient retrievability ranks of documents using normalized retrievability scoring function, Journal of Intelligent Information System 42, 457-484 (2014).

Journal 2013 DOI: 10.1007/s10844-013-0274-3