Prof Raheel Nawaz

Who am I?

Main responsibilities:

• Director of Business Transformations Research Centre: where Raheel leads a team of nearly 200 researchers specialising in Digital Transformations, Analytics, Industry 4.0, Transforming Markets and Transforming Places.
• Director of Digital and Technology Solutions: where he heads Manchester Met’s award-winning cross-faculty Digital Degree Apprenticeships portfolio, leading a team of 50+ academic and specialist support colleagues delivering UG/PG programmes to nearly 900 apprentices from over 70 leading technology employers.

Other responsibilities:

• Head of Apprenticeships Research Unit
• Head of Text and Data Mining Lab

Research:

• Raheel holds personal chairs in Applied AI and Digital Education
• He holds several international academic positions in Europe, North America, Middle East and South Asia, including adjunct professorships in 7 universities and adjunct scientific/technical directorships in 5 research organisations.
• He has authored over 120 peer reviewed articles, including over 80 journal articles.
• His career grant capture totals at over £14 million, including £12m in leadership roles.
• He has led over 30 research projects in the UK, European Union and Asia, including projects with European Commission, Commonwealth, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Planning Comission, and UKRI.
• He has delivered keynote and invited talks at prestigious conferences and organisations including Microsoft, Facebook, and Fujitsu.
• He makes frequent media appearances as an expert on Digital Transformation, Digital Education, and Artificial Intelligence.
• He has graduated 19 PhD students.

Pedagogy:

• Raheel is a Principal Fellow of Higher Education Academy (PFHEA)
• He is an active participant in international policy fora on future of education, especially in the context of 4th generation universities and industry-academia collaborations for co-designing and co-delivering high-impact curricula. He has addressed the Westminster Policy Forum, parliamentary select committees and national task forces on several occasions.
• He has recently been commissioned by the QAA to systematically analyse the Degree Apprenticeships pedagogies across English universities and advise the sector on best academic practices. 
• He has over 20 years of experience working with industrial and third sector partners including some of the largest technology employers in the UK.

Before becoming a full-time academic, Raheel served in various senior leadership roles in the Private Higher and Further Education sector; and was an army officer before that.

Other academic service (administration and management)

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Publications

• Journal articles

  S. Iqbal, I. Safder, NR. Aljohani, AS. Alfakeeh, A. Visvizi, et al. R. Nawaz, S-U. Hassan. (2023). Who Cites Whom and How It Impacts the Knowledge Production Process across Disciplines?: A Methodological Insight. Science & Technology Libraries. 42(2), pp.201-214.

  D. Wilson, S-U. Hassan, NR. Aljohani, A. Visvizi, R. Nawaz (2023). Demonstrating and negotiating the adoption of web design technologies: Cascading Style Sheets and the CSS Zen Garden. Internet Histories. 7(1), pp.27-46.

  I. Safder, H. Batool, R. Sarwar, F. Zaman, NR. Aljohani, et al. R. Nawaz, M. Gaber, S-U. Hassan. (2022). Parsing AUC Result-Figures in Machine Learning Specific Scholarly Documents for Semantically-enriched Summarization. Applied Artificial Intelligence. 36(1), pp.2004347-2004347.

  F. Shams, A. Abbas, W. Khan, US. Khan, R. Nawaz (2022). A death, infection, and recovery (DIR) model to forecast the COVID-19 spread. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. 2, pp.100047-100047.

  H. Babbar, S. Rani, AK. Bashir, R. Nawaz (2022). LBSMT: Load Balancing Switch Migration Algorithm for Cooperative Communication Intelligent Transportation Systems. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. 6(3), pp.1386-1395.

  S. Ali, F. Mehmood, Y. Ayaz, M. Sajid, H. Sadia, et al. R. Nawaz. (2022). An Experimental Trial: Multi-Robot Therapy for Categorization of Autism Level Using Hidden Markov Model. Journal of Educational Computing Research. 60(3), pp.722-741.

  Y. Ali, O. Khalid, IA. Khan, SS. Hussain, F. Rehman, et al. S. Siraj, R. Nawaz. (2022). A hybrid group-based movie recommendation framework with overlapping memberships. PLOS ONE. 17(3), pp.e0266103-e0266103.

  M. Shardlow, L. Gerber, R. Nawaz (2022). One emoji, many meanings: A corpus for the prediction and disambiguation of emoji sense. Expert Systems with Applications. 198,

  M. Mateen Yaqoob, W. Khurshid, L. Liu, S. Zulqarnain Arif, I. Ali Khan, et al. O. Khalid, R. Nawaz. (2022). Adaptive Multi-Cost Routing Protocol to Enhance Lifetime for Wireless Body Area Network. Computers, Materials and Continua. 72(1), pp.1089-1103.

  U. Rashid, A. Javid, AR. Khan, L. Liu, A. Ahmed, et al. O. Khalid, K. Saleem, S. Meraj, U. Iqbal, R. Nawaz. (2022). A hybrid mask RCNN-based tool to localize dental cavities from real-time mixed photographic images. PeerJ Computer Science. 8, pp.e888-e888.

  N. Arshad, A. Bakar, SH. Soroya, I. Safder, S. Haider, et al. SU. Hassan, NR. Aljohani, S. Alelyani, R. Nawaz. (2022). Extracting scientific trends by mining topics from Call for Papers. Library Hi Tech. 40(1), pp.115-132.

  MUS. Khan, SMAH. Bukhari, T. Maqsood, MAB. Fayyaz, D. Dancey, et al. R. Nawaz. (2022). SCNN-Attack: A Side-Channel Attack to Identify YouTube Videos in a VPN and Non-VPN Network Traffic. Electronics (Basel). 11(3), pp.350-350.

  R. Nawaz, Q. Sun, M. Shardlow, G. Kontonatsios, NR. Aljohani, et al. A. Visvizi, S-U. Hassan. (2022). Leveraging AI and Machine Learning for National Student Survey: Actionable Insights from Textual Feedback to Enhance Quality of Teaching and Learning in UK’s Higher Education. Applied Sciences. 12(1), pp.514-514.

  I. Safder, Z. Mehmood, R. Sarwar, S. Hassan, NR. Aljohani, et al. R. Nawaz. (2021). Sentiment analysis for Urdu online reviews using deep learning models. Expert Systems. 38(8), pp.e12751-e12751.

  S-U. Hassan, A. Saleem, SH. Soroya, I. Safder, S. Iqbal, et al. S. Jamil, F. Bukhari, NR. Aljohani, R. Nawaz. (2021). Sentiment analysis of tweets through Altmetrics: a machine learning approach. Journal of Information Science. 47(6), pp.712-726.

  KS. Zaidi, S. Hina, M. Jawad, AN. Khan, MUS. Khan, et al. HB. Pervaiz, R. Nawaz. (2021). Beyond the Horizon, Backhaul Connectivity for Offshore IoT Devices. Energies. 14(21), pp.6918-6918.

  H. Hassan, AK. Bashir, M. Ahmad, VG. Menon, IU. Afridi, et al. R. Nawaz, B. Luo. (2021). Real-time image dehazing by superpixels segmentation and guidance filter. Journal of Real-Time Image Processing. 18(5), pp.1555-1575.

  S. Iqbal, S-U. Hassan, NR. Aljohani, S. Alelyani, R. Nawaz, et al. L. Bornmann. (2021). A decade of in-text citation analysis based on natural language processing and machine learning techniques: an overview of empirical studies. Scientometrics. 126(8), pp.6551-6599.

  A. Rashid, J. Saleem, M. Amin, SM. Ali, AA. Khan, et al. MB. Qureshi, S. Ali, D. Dancey, R. Nawaz. (2021). Investigation of 9000 hours multi-stress aging effects on High-Temperature Vulcanized Silicone Rubber with silica (nano/micro) filler hybrid composite insulator. PLOS ONE. 16(7), pp.e0253372-e0253372.

  A. Said, S-U. Hassan, S. Tuarob, R. Nawaz, M. Shabbir (2021). DGSD: Distributed graph representation via graph statistical properties. Future Generation Computer Systems. 119, pp.166-175.

  M. Iqbal, M. Jawad, MH. Jaffery, S. Akhtar, MN. Rafiq, et al. MB. Qureshi, A. Ansari, R. Nawaz. (2021). Neural Networks based Shunt Hybrid Active Power Filter for Harmonic Elimination. IEEE Access. 9, pp.69913-69925.

  N. Shabbir, L. Kütt, MM. Alam, P. Roosipuu, M. Jawad, et al. MB. Qureshi, AR. Ansari, R. Nawaz. (2021). Vision towards 5G: Comparison of radio propagation models for licensed and unlicensed indoor femtocell sensor networks. Physical Communication. 47,

  S. Shahzad Farooq, M. Fiaz, I. Mehmood, A. Kashif Bashir, R. Nawaz, et al. K. Kim, S. Ki Jung. (2021). Multi-Modal Data Analysis Based Game Player Experience Modeling Using LSTM-DNN. Computers, Materials and Continua. 68(3), pp.4087-4108.

  BH. Zaidi, I. Ullah, M. Alam, B. Adebisi, A. Azad, et al. AR. Ansari, R. Nawaz. (2021). Incentive Based Load Shedding Management in a Microgrid Using Combinatorial Auction with IoT Infrastructure. Sensors. 21(6),

  S. Ahmed, S-U. Hassan, NR. Aljohani, R. Nawaz (2021). FLF-LSTM: A novel prediction system using Forex Loss Function. Applied Soft Computing. 97, pp.106780-106780.

  MUS. Khan, A. Abbas, A. Rehman, R. Nawaz (2021). HateClassify: A Service Framework for Hate Speech Identication on Social Media. IEEE Internet Computing. 25(1), pp.40-49.

  R. Sarwar, A. Zia, R. Nawaz, A. Fayoumi, NR. Aljohani, et al. S-U. Hassan. (2021). Webometrics: evolution of social media presence of universities. Scientometrics. 126(2), pp.951-967.

  S-U. Hassan, M. Shabbir, S. Iqbal, A. Said, F. Kamiran, et al. R. Nawaz, U. Saif. (2021). Leveraging Deep Learning and SNA approaches for Smart City Policing in the Developing World. International Journal of Information Management. 56, pp.102045-102045.

  K. Wakil, A. Tahir, MQU. Hussnain, A. Waheed, R. Nawaz Mitigating Urban Visual Pollution through a Multistakeholder Spatial Decision Support System to Optimize Locational Potential of Billboards. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 10(2), pp.60-60.

  W. Khan, A. Hussain, SA. Khan, M. Al-Jumailey, R. Nawaz, et al. P. Liatsis. (2021). Analysing the impact of global demographic characteristics over the COVID-19 spread using class rule mining and pattern matching. Royal Society Open Science. 8(1), pp.201823-201823.

  N. Taimoor, I. Khosa, M. Jawad, J. Akhtar, I. Ghous, et al. MB. Qureshi, AR. Ansari, R. Nawaz. (2020). Power outage estimation: the study of revenue-led top affected states of U.S. IEEE Access. 8, pp.223271-223286.

  MHA. Nizami, ZA. Shah, Y. Ayaz, MJ. Khan, S. Ali, et al. M. Naveed, K. Akhtar, D. Dancey, R. Nawaz. (2020). Proximal Actuation of an Elastically Loaded Scissors Mechanism for the Leg Design of a Quadruped Robot. IEEE Access. 8, pp.208240-208252.

  W. Ahmed, HA. Ansari, B. Khan, Z. Ullah, SM. Ali, et al. CA. Mehmood, MB. Qureshi, I. Hussain, M. Jawad, MUS. Khan, A. Ullah, R. Nawaz. (2020). Machine Learning based Energy Management Model for Smart Grid and Renewable Energy Districts. IEEE Access. 8, pp.185059-185078.

  PS. Teh, N. Zhang, S-Y. Tan, Q. Shi, WH. Khoh, et al. R. Nawaz. (2020). Strengthen user authentication on mobile devices by using user’s touch dynamics pattern. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing. 11(10), pp.4019-4039.

  P. Sampath, G. Packiriswamy, N. Pradeep Kumar, V. Shanmuganathan, O-Y. Song, et al. U. Tariq, R. Nawaz. (2020). IoT Based Health—Related Topic Recognition from Emerging Online Health Community (Med Help) Using Machine Learning Technique. Electronics. 9(9), pp.1469-1469.

  M. Jawad, MB. Qureshi, SM. Ali, N. Shabbir, MUS. Khan, et al. A. Aloraini, R. Nawaz. (2020). A Cost-Effective Electric Vehicle Intelligent Charge Scheduling Method for Commercial Smart Parking Lots Using a Simplified Convex Relaxation Technique. Sensors. 20(17), pp.4842-4842.

  J. Chen, J. Wu, H. Liang, S. Mumtaz, J. Li, et al. K. Konstantin, AK. Bashir, R. Nawaz. (2020). Collaborative Trust Blockchain Based Unbiased Control Transfer Mechanism for Industrial Automation. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. 56(4), pp.4478-4488.

  F. Zaman, M. Shardlow, S-U. Hassan, NR. Aljohani, R. Nawaz (2020). HTSS: A novel hybrid text summarisation and simplification architecture. Information Processing & Management. 57(6), pp.102351-102351.

  L. Liu, W. Li, NR. Aljohani, MD. Lytras, S-U. Hassan, et al. R. Nawaz. (2020). A framework to evaluate the interoperability of information systems – Measuring the maturity of the business process alignment. International Journal of Information Management. 54, pp.102153-102153.

  S. Ali, F. Mehmood, MJ. Khan, Y. Ayaz, U. Asgher, et al. H. Sadia, E. Edifor, R. Nawaz. (2020). A Preliminary Study on Effectiveness of a Standardized Multi-Robot Therapy for Improvement in Collaborative Multi-Human Interaction of Children with ASD. IEEE Access. 8,

  Y. Shi, S. Qayyum, SA. Memon, U. Khan, J. Imtiaz, et al. I. Ullah, D. Dancey, R. Nawaz. A Modified Bayesian Framework for Multi-Sensor Target Tracking with Out-of-Sequence-Measurements. Sensors. 20(14), pp.3821-3821.

  I. Safder, S-U. Hassan, A. Visvizi, T. Noraset, R. Nawaz, et al. S. Tuarob. (2020). Deep Learning-based Extraction of Algorithmic Metadata in Full-Text Scholarly Documents. Information Processing & Management. 57(6), pp.102269-102269.

  F. Mehmood, B. Khan, SM. Ali, MB. Qureshi, C. Diver, et al. R. Nawaz. (2020). Multi-Renewable Energy Agent Based Control for Economic Dispatch and Frequency Regulation of Autonomous Renewable Grid. IEEE Access. 8, pp.89534-89545.

  B. Gul, IA. Khan, S. Mustafa, O. Khalid, SS. Hussain, et al. D. Dancey, R. Nawaz. (2020). CPU and RAM Energy-based SLA-aware Workload Consolidation Techniques for Clouds. IEEE Access. 8, pp.62990-63003.

  M. Ahmad, A. Muazzam, A. Anjum, A. Visvizi, R. Nawaz (2020). Linking Work-Family Conflict (WFC) and Talent Management: Insights from a Developing Country. Sustainability. 12(7), pp.2861-2861.

  S-U. Hassan, NR. Aljohani, N. Idrees, R. Sarwar, R. Nawaz, et al. E. Martínez-Cámara, S. Ventura, F. Herrera. (2020). Predicting literature’s early impact with sentiment analysis in Twitter. Knowledge-Based Systems. 192, pp.105383-105383.

  B. Ejaz, A. Muazzam, A. Anjum, G. Pollock, R. Nawaz (2020). Measuring the Scale and Scope of Social Anxiety among Students in Pakistani Higher Education Institutions: An Alternative Social Anxiety Scale. Sustainability. 12(6), pp.2164-2164.

  Z. Mahmood, I. Safder, RMA. Nawab, F. Bukhari, R. Nawaz, et al. AS. Alfakeeh, NR. Aljohani, S-U. Hassan. (2020). Deep sentiments in Roman Urdu text using Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network model. Information Processing & Management. 57(4), pp.102233-102233.

  H. Waheed, S-U. Hassan, NR. Aljohani, J. Hardman, R. Nawaz (2020). Predicting Academic Performance of Students from VLE Big Data using Deep Learning Models. Computers in Human Behavior. 104, pp.106189-106189.

  R. Yunus, S. Ali, Y. Ayaz, M. Khan, S. Kanwal, et al. U. Akhlaque, R. Nawaz. (2020). Development and Testing of A Wearable Vibrotactile Haptic Feedback System For Proprioceptive Rehabilitation. IEEE Access. 8, pp.35172-35184.

  F. Riaz, S. Rehman, M. Ajmal, R. Hafiz, A. Hassan, et al. NR. Aljohani, R. Nawaz, R. Young, M. Coimbra. (2020). Gaussian Mixture Model Based Probabilistic Modeling of Images for Medical Image Segmentation. IEEE Access. 8, pp.16846-16856.

  S. Ali, F. Mehmood, Y. Ayaz, MJ. Khan, H. Sadia, et al. R. Nawaz. (2020). Comparing the Effectiveness of Different Reinforcement Stimuli in a Robotic Therapy for Children With ASD. IEEE Access. 8, pp.13128-13137.

  D. Iqbal, A. Abbas, M. Ali, MUS. Khan, R. Nawaz (2020). Requirement Validation for Embedded Systems in Automotive Industry Through Modeling. IEEE Access. 8, pp.8697-8719.

  MA. Rustam, B. Khan, SM. Ali, MB. Qureshi, CA. Mehmood, et al. MUS. Khan, R. Nawaz. (2020). An Adaptive Distributed Averaging Integral Control Scheme for Micro-Grids with Renewable Intermittency and Varying Operating Cost. IEEE Access. 8, pp.455-464.

  H. Ur Rehman, U. Habib, U. Ijaz, N. Islam, AUR. Khan, et al. R. Nawaz. (2019). Identification of Yeast’s Interactome Using Neural Networks. IEEE Access. 7, pp.179634-179645.

  H. Ahmed, I. Ullah, U. Khan, MB. Qureshi, S. Manzoor, et al. N. Muhammad, MU. Shahid Khan, R. Nawaz. (2019). Adaptive Filtering on GPS-Aided MEMS-IMU for Optimal Estimation of Ground Vehicle Trajectory. Sensors. 19(24),

  R. Irfan, O. Khalid, MUS. Khan, F. Rehman, AUR. Khan, et al. R. Nawaz. (2019). SocialRec: A Context-Aware Recommendation Framework With Explicit Sentiment Analysis. IEEE Access. 7, pp.116295-116308.

  O. Arif, H. Afzal, H. Abbas, MF. Amjad, J. Wan, et al. R. Nawaz. (2019). Accelerated Dynamic MRI Using Kernel-Based Low Rank Constraint. Journal of Medical Systems. 43(8),

  S. Ali, F. Mehmood, D. Dancey, Y. Ayaz, MJ. Khan, et al. N. Naseer, RDC. Amadeu, H. Sadia, R. Nawaz. (2019). An Adaptive Multi-Robot Therapy for Improving Joint Attention and Imitation of ASD Children. IEEE Access. 7, pp.81808-81825.

  A. Said, TD. Bowman, RA. Abbasi, NR. Aljohani, SU. Hassan, et al. R. Nawaz. (2019). Mining network-level properties of Twitter altmetrics data. Scientometrics. 120(1), pp.217-235.

  A. Anjum, A. Muazzam, F. Manzoor, A. Visvizi, R. Nawaz (2019). Mediating Bullying and Strain in Higher Education Institutions: The Case of Pakistan. Sustainability. 11(8),

  K. Wakil, MA. Naeem, GA. Anjum, A. Waheed, MJ. Thaheem, et al. MQU. Hussnain, R. Nawaz. (2019). A Hybrid Tool for Visual Pollution Assessment in Urban Environments. Sustainability. 11(8),

  R. Yunus, O. Arif, H. Afzal, MF. Amjad, H. Abbas, et al. HN. Bokhari, ST. Haider, N. Zafar, R. Nawaz. (2019). A Framework to Estimate the Nutritional Value of Food in Real Time Using Deep Learning Techniques. IEEE Access. 7, pp.2643-2652.

  H. Qadir, O. Khalid, MUS. Khan, AUR. Khan, R. Nawaz (2018). An Optimal Ride Sharing Recommendation Framework for Carpooling Services. IEEE Access. 6, pp.62296-62313.

  S-U. Hassan, M. Imran, S. Iqbal, NR. Aljohani, R. Nawaz Deep context of citations using machine‑learning models in scholarly full‑text articles. Scientometrics.

  S. Ayyaz, U. Qamar, R. Nawaz (2018). HCF-CRS: A Hybrid Content based Fuzzy Conformal Recommender System for providing recommendations with confidence. PLoS ONE. 13(10),

  R. Zafar, S. Malik, M. Maryam Khalid, M. Nisar, A. Siddiqa, et al. Z. Hussain, R. Nawaz, A. Ali, J. Ahmad. (2018). MicroRNAs and their target mRNAs as Potential Biomarkers among Smokers and Non-Smokers with Lung AdenocarciCannoma. IET Systems Biology.

  Z. Tahir, A. Qureshi, Y. Ayaz, R. Nawaz (2018). Potentially Guided Bidirectionalized RRT* for Fast Optimal Path Planning in Cluttered Environments. Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 108, pp.13-27.

  F. Riaz, S. Naeem, R. Nawaz, MT. Coimbra (2018). Active Contours Based Segmentation and Lesion Periphery Analysis For Characterization of Skin Lesions in Dermoscopy Images. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 23(2), pp.489-500.

  P. Thompson, R. Nawaz, J. McNaught, S. Ananiadou (2017). Enriching news events with meta-knowledge information. Language Resources and Evaluation. 51(2), pp.409-438.

  S. Ananiadou, P. Thompson, R. Nawaz, J. McNaught, DB. Kell (2015). Event-based text mining for biology and functional genomics. Briefings in Functional Genomics. 14(3), pp.213-230.

  S. Ananiadou, P. Thompson, R. Nawaz (2013). Mining events from the literature for bioinformatics applications. ACM SIGWEB Newsletter. pp.1-12.

  R. Nawaz, P. Thompson, S. Ananiadou (2013). Negated bio-events: Analysis and identification. BMC Bioinformatics. 14,

  RT. Batista-Navarro, G. Kontonatsios, C. Mihăilă, P. Thompson, R. Rak, et al. R. Nawaz, I. Korkontzelos, S. Ananiadou. (2013). Facilitating the Analysis of Discourse Phenomena in an Interoperable NLP Platform. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). 7816 LNCS(PART 1), pp.559-571.

  S. Ananiadou, P. Thompson, R. Nawaz (2013). Enhancing Search: Events and Their Discourse Context. Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. pp.318-334.

  A. Anjum, A. Muazzam, F. Manzoor, A. Visvizi, G. Pollock, et al. R. Nawaz. Measuring the Scale and Scope of Workplace Bullying: An Alternative Workplace Bullying Scale. Sustainability. 11(17), pp.4634-4634.

  X. Wang, R. Rak, A. Restificar, C. Nobata, CJ. Rupp, et al. RTB. Batista-Navarro, R. Nawaz, S. Ananiadou. (2011). Detecting experimental techniques and selecting relevant documents for protein-protein interactions from biomedical literature. BMC Bioinformatics. 12(SUPPL. 8),

• Chapters in books

  H. Waheed, M. Anas, S-U. Hassan, NR. Aljohani, S. Alelyani, et al. EE. Edifor, R. Nawaz. (2021). Balancing sequential data to predict students at-risk using adversarial networks. In: SI: The Impact of Technological Advancements on Educational Innovation. Elsevier BV, pp.107274-107274.

  E. Edifor, R. Nawaz (2019). Dependability analysis of IoT systems using dynamic fault trees analysis. In: Big Data-Enabled Internet of Things. Institution of Engineering and Technology, pp.433-453.

  E. Edifor, R. Nawaz (2019). A Framework for Analysing the Risks Associated with the Implementation of IoT Devices. In: Big Data-Enabled Internet of Things. The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET),

• Conferences

  D. Baig, MUS. Khan, D. Dancey, A. Abbas, M. Ali, et al. R. Nawaz. (2021). Malware Detection and Classification along with Trade-off Analysis for Number of Features, Feature Types, and Speed. In: 2021 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT). 13/12/2021. pp.246-251.

  G. Raja, Y. Baskar, P. Dhanasekaran, R. Nawaz, K. Yu (2021). An Efficient Formation Control mechanism for Multi-UAV Navigation in Remote Surveillance. In: 2021 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps). 7/12/2021.

  A. Mahany, MM. Fouad, A. Aloraini, H. Khaled, R. Nawaz, et al. NR. Aljohani, S. Ghoniemy. (2021). Supervised Learning for Negation Scope Detection n Arabic Texts. In: 2021 Tenth International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Information Systems (ICICIS). 5/12/2021. pp.177-182.

  Y. Tsado, O. Jogunola, R. Nawaz, G. Gui, B. Adebisi (2021). Quantifying Self-consumption and Flexibility Provision through Battery Storage, a Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach. In: ICFNDS. pp.633-640.

  W. Khan, S. Ali, USK. Muhammad, M. Jawad, M. Ali, et al. R. Nawaz. (2020). AdaDiffGrad: An Adaptive Batch Size Implementation Technique for DiffGrad Optimization Method. In: Proceedings of the 2020 14th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, IIT 2020. Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, 17/11/2020. pp.209-214.

  RH. Kabir, B. Pervaiz, TM. Khan, A. Ul-Hasan, R. Nawaz, et al. F. Shafait. (2019). DeepRank: Adapting Neural Tensor Networks for Ranking the Recommendations. Istanbul, Turkey, 22/12/2019. pp.162-176.

  F. Rehman, H. Masood, A. Ul-Hasan, R. Nawaz, F. Shafait (2019). An Intelligent Context Aware Recommender System for Real-Estate. In: Communications in Computer and Information Science 2019. Istanbul, Turkey, 22/12/2019. pp.177-191.

  PS. Teh, N. Zhang, SY. Tan, Q. Shi, R. Nawaz, et al. WH. Khoh. (2019). Sensing Your Touch: Strengthen User Authentication via Touch Dynamic Biometrics. In: ICTC 2019 - 10th International Conference on ICT Convergence: ICT Convergence Leading the Autonomous Future. Jeju Island, South Korea, 16/10/2019. pp.289-294.

  W. Khan, A. Hussain, B. Khan, R. Nawaz, T. Baker (2020). Novel Framework for Outdoor Mobility Assistance and Auditory Display for Visually Impaired People. In: 2019 12th International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE). Kazan, Russia, 7/10/2019. pp.984-989.

  S. Khalid, S. Ul Hassan, M. Shardlow, D. Dancey, R. Nawaz Author Name Disambiguation on Ambiguous Data of Chinese Authors using Machine Learning Approaches. 26/9/2019.

  S. Rahi, I. Safder, S. Iqbal, S-U. Hassan, I. Reid, et al. R. Nawaz. (2020). Citation Classification Using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning Models. In: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. 26/9/2019. pp.357-365.

  . Noor-e-Hira, SA. Rauf, K. Kiani, A. Zafar, R. Nawaz (2019). Exploring Transfer Learning and Domain Data Selection for the Bio-medical translation. In: FOURTH CONFERENCE ON MACHINE TRANSLATION (WMT 2019), VOL 3: SHARED TASK PAPERS, DAY 2. Florence, ITALY, 1/8/2019. pp.156-163.

  D. Wilson, R. Nawaz, O. Kayas, D. Dancey, K. Welch 'The web is not print’: tracing historical influences on changing web coding practices. Amsterdam, 19/6/2019.

  S-U. Hassan, S. Iqbal, M. Imran, NR. Aljohani, R. Nawaz (2018). Mining the Context of Citations in Scientific Publications. In: Proceedings Maturity and Innovation in Digital Libraries: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 11279. University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, 19/11/2018.

  K. Khalid, H. Afzal, F. Moqaddas, N. Iltaf, AM. Sheri, et al. R. Nawaz. (2018). Extension of Semantic Based Urdu Linguistic Resources Using Natural Language Processing. In: Proceedings - 2017 IEEE 15th International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, 2017 IEEE 15th International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, 2017 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Big Data Intelligence and Computing and 2017 IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress, DASC-PICom-DataCom-CyberSciTec 2017. pp.1322-1325.

  P. Thompson, R. Nawaz, I. Korkontzelos, W. Black, J. McNaught, et al. S. Ananiadou. (2013). News search using discourse analytics. In: 2013 Digital Heritage International Congress (DigitalHeritage). Marseille, 28/10/2013. pp.597-604.

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