(On Leave)

• MS (Computer Science), LUMS BS (Computer Science), FAST-NU, Karachi

Formerly:
• Assistant Professor, Computer Science, FAST-NU Software Engineer, Core Development Group, Avanza Solutions

Research Interests:

• Big Data Analytics • Data Mining • Machine Learning • Human Computer Interaction

Publications:

• Jemal H. Abawajy, Syed I. Jami, Zubair A. Shaikh, Syed Hammad Ahmed, A Framework for Scalable Distributed Provenance Storage System, Computer Standards & Interfaces (2012)

• Muhammad Shoaib Siddiqui and Syed Hammad Ahmed, Policy-based Network Management in a Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Network, in 15th International Multi Topic Conference (INMIC) 2012, Islamabad, Pakistan, December 2012 (published by IEEE)

• Tariq Mahmood, Syed Hammad Ahmed, and Saqib Mahmood, Optimal Dynamic Personalization in Conversational Recommender Systems, In Proceedings of the 2nd Malaysian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MJCAI 2010), 26-30 July, Malaysia, Springer • Tariq Mahmood, Syed Hammad Ahmed, and Saqib Mahmood, Comparing Reward-based Optimal Behaviors in User-Adapted Recommender Systems, In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (ICCSIT 2010), July 9 -11, Chengdu, China. IEEE

Significant Achievements:

• Received Best Teacher Award (University) – Spring 2013 • Received Best Teacher Award (Department) – Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2012

• Introduced novel effective teaching methodologies

• Received LUMS Merit Scholarship for MS(CS) • Placed in the Dean Honor List at LUMS (MS-CS)

• Placed in the Dean Honor List at FAST-NU (BS-CS)

Contact Information:

Email: hammad@dsu.edu.pk

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