CURRICULUM VITAE

DR. AASIA KHANUM

1. PERSONAL

 Name: Aasia Khanum

 Telephone: 051-9278050-4114 (Office)
 E-mail: aasiakh@yahoo.com
aasia@ceme.nust.edu.pk

2. EDUCATION

 PhD (Software Engineering):

2008, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan
Research Topic: Intelligent Expression Blending for Performance Driven
Facial Animation
First Female Engineering PhD from NUST (CGPA 3.9)

 MS (Software Engineering):
2004, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan
Research Topic: Secure Mobile IP for Wireless Networks
Awarded President’s Gold Medal for Securing First Position in NUST,
CGPA 3.938

3. EXPERIENCE

 2008- to date Assistant Professor, College of Electrical and Mechanical

Engineering, NUST, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

 2004- 2008 Lecturer, College of Electrical and Mechanical

Engineering, NUST, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

 1999- 2004 Demonstrator, College of Electrical and Mechanical

Engineering, NUST, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

4. COURSES TAUGHT

 Undergraduate:
Algorithms and Computing
Data Structures
Programming Languages and Environment
Computer Graphics
Computer System Architecture
Object-Oriented Programming
  Postgraduate:
Advanced Artificial Intelligence
Software Quality Engineering
Advanced Software Engineering
Software Requirements Engineering
Machine Learning

 Curriculum Development:
Object-Oriented Programming (UG)

 Short Course:
Software Quality (in Series of Short Courses on Total Quality Management,
College of E&ME, NUST), June 2011.

5. RESEARCH/PUBLICATIONS

 Poster/Research Exhibition

Mohsin Ikram, Aasia Khanum, “Facial Expression Bio-Informatic”

(Research Project), Bio-Informatics Exhibition, International Islamic
University, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2nd November 2010 (1st prize)

 Conference Papers

1. Muid Mufti and Aasia Khanum, “Design and Implementation of a Secure

Mobile IP Protocol,” In Proc. International Networking and Communications
Conference (INCC), pp. 53-57, Lahore, Pakistan, 2004.
2. Assia Khanam, “When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Gets CMM,” In
Proc. International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications
(ICSEA), pp. 84-90, Islamabad, Pakistan, Dec. 30-31, 2004.
3. Assia Khanam and Zubair Shafiq, “Facial Expression Recognition Using
Case Based Reasoning,” In Proc. 1st International Conference on Space
Technologies (ICAST), pp. 147-151, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2-3 Sept 2006.
4. Muid Mufti, Assia Khanum, “Fuzzy Rule-Based Facial Expression
Recognition,” In Proc. International Conference on Computational
Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation (CIMCA), pp. 57-61,
Sydney, Australia, 29 Nov. - 1 Dec 2006.
5. M. Zubair Shafiq and Assia Khanum, “A ‘Personalized’ Facial Expression
Recognition System using Case Based Reasoning”, In Proc. 2nd IEEE
International Conference on Emerging Technologies, pp. 630-635, Peshawar,
Pakistan, 13-14 Nov., 2006
6. Assia Khanum, M. Zubair Shafiq, “CBR: Fuzzified Case Retrieval Approach
for Facial Expression Recognition,” In Proc. 25th IASTED International
Conference of Artificial Intelligence and Applications, pp. 162-167,
Innsbruck, Austria, Feb. 12-14, 2007
7. M. Usman Akram, Assia Khanam, “Optimal Core Point Detection,” In Proc.
3rd All Pakistan Electrical Engineering Conference (APE2C), Pakistan, Nov.
2007 (Runner-up Award).
8. Usman Akram, Aasia Khanum, “Core Point Detection using Improved
Segmentation and Orientation,” In Proc. 6th ACS/IEEE International
Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA), pp. 637-644,
Doha, Qatar, March 31 - April 4, 2008.
9. Waqas Ahmed, Shaleeza Sohail and Aasia Khanum, “On Simplification of
Grid Scheduling and Resource
Discovery Problem: A Survey and Proposal,”
In Proc. International Computer Science and Technology Conference
(ICSTC), pp. 175-185, California, USA, April 1-3, 2008.
10. Shaleeza Sohail, Aasia Khanum, Madiha Sarfaraz, Javeria Sana, Umber
Iqbal, “Fuzzy Bandwidth Broker: Machine Learning Based Approach to
Resolve Architectural Issues,” In Proc. International Networking and
Communications Conference (INCC), pp. 44-48, Lahore, Pakistan, May 1-3,
2008.
11. Shaleeza Sohail, Aasia Khanum, “Simplifying Network Management with
Fuzzy Logic,” In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications
(ICC), pp. 195-201, Beijing, China, 19-23 May, 2008.
12. Aasia Khanum, M. Zubair Shafiq, M. Usman Akram, “Fuzzy Based Facial
Expression Recognition,” In Proc. International Congress on Image and
Signal Processing (CISP), pp. 598-602, Sanya, Hainan, China 27-30 May
2008.
13. Aasia Khanum, M. Younus Javed, Muid Mufti, Akhlaq Ahmed, Shaleeza
Sohail, “A Heuristically Guided Hybrid Approach to Face Detection for
Content Based Image Retrieval in Internet Images”, In Proc. IEEE
International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET), pp. 237-241,
Rawalpindi, Pakistan, 18-19 Oct., 2008.
14. Aasia Khanum, Muid Mufti, “A Bi-Level Hierarchical Fuzzy Object Based
Approach for Natural Scene Classification,” In Proc. IEEE International
Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET), pp. 17-20, Rawalpindi,
Pakistan, 18-19 Oct., 2008
15. Huma Qayyum, Shaleeza Sohail, Ghalib A.Shah and Aasia Khanum, “A
Fuzzy Decision Maker for Wireless Sensor Network in Ubiquitous Network
Environment,” In Proc. Fifth IEEE International Workshop on Heterogeneous
Wireless Networks (HWISE)/The IEEE 23rd International Conference on
Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA) pp. 359-364,
Bradford, UK, May 26-29, 2009.
16. Mohsin Ikram, Aasia Khanum, “Spatial Rule Based Facial Expression
Recognition,” In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Emerging
Technologies (ICET), pp. 134-138, Islamabad, Pakistan, 18-19 Oct. 2010.
17. Sumaira Kausar, Saima Tariq, Saba Riaz, Aasia Khanum, “Guidelines for
Selecting Requirement Elicitation Techniques,” In Proc. IEEE International
Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET), pp. 265-269, Islamabad,
Pakistan, 18-19 Oct, 2010.
18. M. Asif Ali, Aftab Khan, M.Younus Javed, and Aasia Khanum, “Lossless
Image Compression Using Kernel Based Global Structure Transform (GST),”
 In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET),
pp. 170-174, Islamabad, Pakistan, 18-19 Oct. 2010.
19. M. Usman Akram, Aasia Khanum, “Retinal Images: Blood Vessel
Segmentation by Threshold Probing,” In Proc. IEEE Symposium on
Industrial Electronics and Applications (ISIEA), pp. 475-479, Langkawi,
Malaysia, 3-6 October, 2010.
20. Aftab Khan, M. Younus Javed, Aasia Khanum, “Lossless Image
Compression: Improvement to Kernel Global Structure Transform (KGST)
based Burrows-Wheeler Compression Algorithm (BWCA),” In Proc.
International Conference on Machine Vision, Islamabad, Pakistan, December
29-31, 2010.
21. Kashif Kamran, Wasi Haider Butt, Aasia Khanum, “Shop Floor Scheduling
using Fuzzy Logic and Knowledge Based System,” In Proc. IADIS
International Conference e-Society, , Avila, Spain, 10 - 13 March 2011.
22. Asif Nawaz, Aasia Khanum, “Ranked Neuro Fuzzy Inference System
(RNFIS) for Information Retrieval,” In Proc. International Symposium on
Neural Networks, Guilin, China, May 29-June 1, 2011 (Advances in Neural
Networks – ISNN 2011, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2011, Volume
6675/2011, 578-586, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21105-8_67)
23. Muhammad Asif Raza, Muhammad Tanvir Afzal, Aasia Khanum,
“Discovering, Structuring and Visualizing Organizations from Linked Open
Data,” 6th International Conference on Computer Sciences and Convergence
Information Technology (ICCIT), Jeju Island, Korea, Nov. 29-Dec.1, 2011
24. Rabia Bashir, Aasia Khanum, Farooque Azam, “IWSS: Intelligent Web
Service Selection for Service-Oriented Applications”, 6th International
Conference on New Trends in Information Science, Service Science, and Data
Mining, ISSDM, Oct. 23-25, Taipei, Taiwan, 2012 (Accepted)
25. Shaleeza Sohail, Aasia Khanum, “Fuzzy Logic Based Adaptive Update
Mechanism for Routing Information Protocol”, International Conference on
Computing, Networking and Digital Technologies, ICCNDT, Bahrain, Nov.
11-13, 2012

 Journal Papers

1. Assia Khanum, Muid Mufti, “Intelligent Expression Blending for

Performance Driven Facial Animation,” IEEE Transactions on Consumer
Electronics (ISSN: 0098-3063), vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 578-584, May, 2007.
2. Aasia Khanum, Muid Mufti, M. Younus Javed, M. Zubair Shafiq, “Fuzzy
Case Based Reasoning for Facial Expression Recognition,” Elsevier Fuzzy
Sets and Systems (ISSN: 0165-0114), vol 160, pp. 231-250, 2009. (At no. 5
in hottest articles, January-March 2009)
3. Aasia Khanum, “An Intelligent Framework for Natural Object Identification
in Images,” International Journal of Advancements in Computing Technology
(ISSN. 2005-8039), vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 122-129, AICIT Press(South Korea),
June 2010.
4. Rizwan Ahmad, Aasia Khanum, “Document Topic Generation in Text
Mining by Using Cluster Analysis with EROCK,” International Journal of
 Computer Science & Security (Online ISSN: 1985-1553), vol. 4, Issue 2, pp.
176-182, CSC Journals (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), May 2010.
5. Umber Iqbal, Younas Javed, Saad Rehman, Asia Khanum, “SIP-Based QoS
Management Framework for IMS Multimedia Services”, International Journal
of Computer Science and Network Security (ISSN: 1738-7906), vol. 10, no. 5,
pp. 181-188, May 2010.
6. M. Aqeel Iqbal, Aasia Khanum, Saleem Iqbal and M. Asif, “Emerging
Requirements Of Reconfigurable Computing Systems For Performance
Enhancement,” International Journal on Computer Science and Engineering
(ISSN : 0975-3397), vol. 02, no. 05, pp. 1572-1579, August 2010.
7. M. Usman Akram, Aasia Khanum, and Khalid Iqbal, “An Automated System
for Liver CT Enhancement and Segmentation,” ICGST International Journal
on Graphics, Vision and Image Processing, vol. 10, issue 04, pp. 17-22, Oct
2010.
8. Kush Kumar Kella, Aasia Khanum, “APCFS: Autonomous and Parallel
Compressed File System,” Springer International Journal of Parallel
Programming, vol. 39 no. 4, pp. 522–532, 2011.
9. Muhammad Salman Zafar, Junaid Zubairi, Aasia Khanum, “Automated
Traffic Engineering Using Adaptive Inter-Class Mixing”, EURASIP Journal
on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2011
10. Hasan Tahir, Aasia Khanum, Ruhma Tahir, “SCAM – Software Component
Assessment Model,” International Journal of Computer Science and
Information Security, 2011
11. Munazza Ishtiaq, Fareeha Choudhry, Fahim Ashraf Awan, Aasia Khanum,
“Analysis & Selection of Requirements Elicitation Techniques for OSSD”,
International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security
12. Rabia Bashir, Farooque Azam, M. Aqeel Iqbal,Aasia Khanum and Hufsa
Malik, A Comparative Model for Tradeoff Analysis of QoS Attributes in
SOA, Journal of Basic and Applied Scientific Research, ISSN: 2090-424X,
TextRoad Publications (Accepted)

 Edited Conference Proceedings

o IEEE International Conference on Micro-Electronics (ICM), 2005
o IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET)
2008

6. AREAS OF INTEREST

 Multimedia Information Processing

 Artificial Intelligence
 Software Engineering
 Computer Networks
 Data Mining

7. INSTITUTIONAL SERVICES
 Jan 2010 to date: Deputy Director ABET, Department of Computer Engineering,
College of E&ME, NUST, Rawalpindi.
 Jan 2010 to date: Quality Assurance Officer, Department of Computer
Engineering, College of E&ME, NUST, Rawalpindi.
 2007-2008: Member, Discipline Committee, College of E&ME, NUST,
Rawalpindi
 2004- 2008: OIC, Computer Lab PG, Department of Computer Engineering,
College of E&ME, NUST, Rawalpindi.
 2004- 2009: Class Coordinator, Department of Computer Engineering, College of
E&ME, NUST, Rawalpindi.
 2004-2008: President, Organizing Committee (Website and E-mail ), All Pakistan
Computer Software Competition and Exhibition, COMPPEC
 2008: Deputy OIC R&D (Publications), Department of Computer Engineering,
College of E&ME (NUST), Rawalpindi
 2012:
o Founded Emerging Technologies Lab (ETL) as an R&D initiative to carry
out multi-disciplinary research and development at College of EME.
o ETL has conducted internships for students in diverse areas including
Digital Image Processing, EEG Signal Processing, Electro-Mechanical
Systems, and FPGA-based Digital Systems.
o ETL has also conducted successful workshops on Web Development and
Scientific Programming using MATLAB.
o As Director ETL, established liaison with IBM, leading to an MoU
declaring EME as academic partner of IBM.

8. NATIONAL SERVICES/HONORS

 Member, Curriculum Committee, Intermediate Computer Science, Ministry of

Education, Pakistan
 Appeared in Central Superior Services Exam held by the Government of Pakistan
(CSS 1999), secured 10th position in the country.

9. PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

 Reviewer/Member PC (Conference):
 IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET2008),
Islamabad, Pakistan
 Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT2009), Islamabad, Pakistan
 INMIC 2011
 Frontiers in Information Technology (FIT), 2011
 ICAMS2011
 ICRAI2012

 Reviewer (Journal):
 Soft Computing Journal
 IET-IPR
  International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness, and Knowledge Based
Systems (World Scientific Journals)

 Reviewer/External Examiner (Thesis)

 BE (Computer/Electrical Engineering) for University of Engineering and
Technology, Taxila (2008-2009)
 BSc (Software Engineering) for Fatima Jinnah Women University,
Rawalpindi (2009-2012)
 MCS for Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi (2009-2012)

 Publications Chair
 IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET2008),
Islamabad, Pakistan

 Co-Editor:
 International Journal of Advancements in Computing Technology
(IJACT)

10. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP:

 International Association of Engineers (IAENG)