Research
Research in the department is carried out through faculty-led research groups spanning artificial intelligence, networks, software engineering, and human-computer interaction.
396
Publications
367
J/C Papers
4
Active Projects
1,543.1M
PKR Funded
197
Supervised
24
Under Supervision
Research Groups
Publication Trend
By Type
- Journal 251
- Conference 116
- Chapter 19
- Workshop 8
- Book 1
- Book Chapter 1
Supervision Activity
MSc
70 (36%)
BS
53 (27%)
MPhil
48 (24%)
MS
15 (8%)
PhD
11 (6%)
197
Total Supervised
24
Currently Active
Research Interests
Machine Learning 5
Computer Vision 2
Data Analytics 2
Data Science 2
Image Processing 2
Natural Language Processing 2
Pattern Recognition 2
Agentic AI & AI Agents
Agents Modelling (computational modelling)
AI Based Solutions For IoTs & Secure Nets
AI Systems & Model Deployment
Algorithms
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data and Visual Analytics
Biomedical Informatics
Block Chain & IOTA
Clinical Natural Language Processing
Computational Intelligence
Computing
Cryptography
Data Mining
Data/Information Visualization
Deep Learning
Deep Learning Applications
Environmental Modelling
Formal Methods
Health Informatics
Human Aspects of Computing
Human Information Interaction
Information Retrieval
Information Systems
Interactive systems
Internet of Medical Things
Large Language Models & Generative AI
Machine Learning & Deep Learning
Machine Learning on Graphs
Medical Image Analysis
Model mining / Grammatical Inference
Multimedia Computing
Multimedia Information Discovery
Multimedia Information Retrieval
Multimodal AI
Network Science
Nonlinear Modeling and Simulation
Quantum Cryptography
Recommender Systems
Requirements Engineering and Management
Search User Interface Design
Social Media Analytics
Social Network Analysis
Software (Re)Engineering
Software Architecture Recovery
Software Quality Assurance
Software Testing
Static Analysis for Vulnerability Analysis in Software
Text Mining
Usability
User-centered Computing
Web Engineering
Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks
Recent Publications
All Faculty →An Attention‐Based Gated Recurrent Unit for Intrusion Detection in MQTT‐Enabled IoT.
Short-Term Solar Irradiance Forecasting Using Deep Learning Models and Agentic RNN-LSTM for Localized Energy Decisions.
AG-GANs: A Game-Theoretic Framework for Mitigating Membership Inference Attacks in AI-Powered Consumer Electronics.
Bayesian Framework for Confidence-Calibrated Phishing Email Detection in Consumer Communication Systems.
Proactive Threat Hunting and Anomaly Detection in Intelligent Green Transportation: A Federated Edge-AI Framework for In-Vehicle Consumer Networks.
Shariq Bashir and Akmal Saeed Khattak, "User-Controlled Post-Hoc Watermarking for LLM-Generated Text Without Model Access," IEEE Access, vol. 14, pp. 65023-65042.
FoMoSkinNet: A Dual-Stream Deep Learning Model for Early Detection and Classification of Non-Dermoscopic Skin Lesions via Focal Modulation and Local Feature Integration
Sadad, A., Khattak, A.S., Abbasi, R.A., Sindhu, M.A., Bashir, S. Multi-features Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation using graph neural network. Multimed Tools Appl 85, 175 (2026)
MediFact at PerAnsSumm 2025: Leveraging lightweight models for perspective-specific summarization of clinical Q&A forums
Maryam Ahmad, Akmal Saeed Khattak, Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi, Muhammad Tayyab Zamir, Fida Ullah, Alexander F. Gelbukh, Grigori Sidorov, Edgardo Manuel Felipe-Riveron: A Social Network Based Approach to Detec...
Active Research Projects
All Projects →Beyond Stigma: Assessing and Supporting ADHD and ASD Higher Education Students in a UK-Pakistan Partnership the Intelli-Student Platform
2025–2026
Comprehensive Scientific and innovative system for training pedagogical staff for the development of gifted children in Kazakhstan
PKR 1,530.00M
2025–2027
Establishment of Farabi Research Center For AI and Cybersecurity
2025–present
Ongoing
Establishment of ICESCO Chair Big Data Analytics and Edge Computing
2023–2027