Department of Data Science

Department of Data Science

Department of Data Science was established on January 1st, 2021

Chairman Department of Data Science

Dr. Shahid Manzoor

  • Chairman Department of Data Science
  • Associate Professor 
  • PhD in Bioinformatics, Swedish University of Agricultural Science, Uppsala, Sweden
  • MS in Bioinformatics, Swedish University of Agricultural Science, Uppsala, Sweden
  • M.Sc in Computer Science, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
  • B.Sc (Hons), University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
  • Research / Teaching Interests:  Bioinformatics, Comparative Genomics, Genome Assembly and Annotation, Metagenomics, Biological Databases, Correlation network analysis, Microbiome analysis, Proteomic, Transcriptomic and Metabolic Pathway analysis, Database Systems, Database Administration.
  • Email: chairman.dds@pucit.edu.pk, chairman.dds@pu.edu.pk
  • Curriculum Vitae

Programs Offered

Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Computer Data Science

M.Phil in Data Science

Faculty

Dr. Shahid Manzoor

  • Chairman Department of Data Science
  • Associate Professor 
  • PhD in Bioinformatics, Swedish University of Agricultural Science, Uppsala, Sweden
  • MS in Bioinformatics, Swedish University of Agricultural Science, Uppsala, Sweden
  • M.Sc in Computer Science, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
  • B.Sc (Hons), University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
  • Research / Teaching Interests:  Bioinformatics, Comparative Genomics, Genome Assembly and Annotation, Metagenomics, Biological Databases, Correlation network analysis, Microbiome analysis, Proteomic, Transcriptomic and Metabolic Pathway analysis, Database Systems, Database Administration.
  • Email: chairman.dds@pucit.edu.pk, chairman.dds@pu.edu.pk
  • Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Muhammad Nadeem Majeed

  • Associate Professor 
  • Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila.
  • MS in Computer Engineering, CASE, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila.
  • Research / Teaching Interests: Communication & Networks, Data Science and Machine learning, Business Intelligence & Strategy-Making.
  • Email: nadeem.majeed@pucit.edu.pk
  • Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/jjt-vaxr-rub
  • Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Syed Faisal Bukhari

  • Associate Professor
  • Ph.D., Computer Science, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand
  • M.S., Computer Science, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand
  • M.Sc., Computer Science, Punjab University
  • M.Sc., Statistics, Punjab University
  • Research / Teaching Interests: Computer Vision, Image Processing, Machine Learning, and Statistics
  • Email: faisal.bukhari@pucit.edu.pk

Dr Khurram Shahzad

  • Associate Professor
  • PhD Computer and Systems Sciences, KTH – Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
  • MS Information Technology, KTH – Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, 2006
  • M.Sc Computer Science, PU, 2004
  • Research / Teaching Interests: Data Warehousing, Business Process Management and Academic Social Network
  • Email: khurram@pucit.edu.pk
  • Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Waheed Iqbal

  • Associate Professor
  • PhD Computer Science Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
  • Research / Teaching Interests: Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Mobile and Web Computing, Scalable Applications and Architectures, Algorithms Analysis, Data Structures, Operating Systems
  • Website: http://www.waheediqbal.info/
  • Email: waheed.iqbal@pucit.edu.pk

Dr. Muhammad Idrees

Tariq Mahmood Butt

  • Assistant Professor
  • M.Sc Electrical Engineering UET Lahore (Thesis in progress)
  • M.Sc Computer Science, Al-Khair University , Lahore, 2002
  • MBA, Punjab University, 1998
  • B.Sc Electrical Engineering, UET Lahore, 1992
  • Research / Teaching Interests: Digital Logic and Design, Microprocessors, Computer Architecture, Operating Systems
  • Email: tariq.butt@pucit.edu.pk

Dr. Syed Muhammad Ali

  • Assistant Professor
  • PhD Computer Science, University of Central Florida, USA, 2016
  • MS Computer Science, University of Central Florida, USA, 2014
  • M.Sc Computer Science, University of the Punjab, Lahore, 2003
  • B.Sc Engineering, University of Engg. & Tech. (UET), Lahore, 2000
  • Research / Teaching Interests: Machine Learning, Image Processing, Computer Vision
  • Email: muhammad.ali@pucit.edu.pk
  • Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Ather Ashraf

  • Assistant Professor
  • PhD. Computer Science, PU
  • M.S. Computer Science, UCP, Lahore, 2003 (First Position)
  • B.Sc. Civil Engineering, UET, Lahore, 2000
  • M.Sc. GIS, Punjab University, 2003
  • Research / Teaching Interests: Geo-Spatial System Design, Geo-Spatial data bases & Web GIS
  • Email: ather@pucit.edu.pk
  • Curriculum Vitae

Imran Javed

  • Assistant Professor
  • PhD Computer Science (In Progress)
  • M.Phil Computer Science, PU
  • M.Sc Computer Science, PU, 2001
  • PGD in Computer Science, PU, 1999
  • Research / Teaching Interests: Theory of Formal Languages and Automata, Design and Implementation of Compilers, Programming Languages
  • Email: Imranj@pucit.edu.pk
  • Curriculum Vitae

Dr Zubair Nawaz

  • Assistant Professor
  • PhD Computer Engineering, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, 2011
  • MS Computer Science, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan, 2002
  • BS Mechanical Engineering, Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan, 1997
  • Research / Teaching Interests: Analysis of Algorithms, Advanced Algorithms, High Performance Computing
  • Email: znawaz@pucit.edu.pk
  • Curriculum Vitae

Dr.Rukhsana Kausar

  • Assistant Professor (Adhoc)
  • PhD in Applied Mathematics , Systems and controls theory Group, Department of Mathematics, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany.
  • MS in Industrial Mathematics(scientific computing)  ,  Bio Mathematics Group, Department of Mathematics, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany.
  • PGD (Computer Science), Govt, College University, Lahore, Pakistan
  • M.Sc (Applied Mathematics), Department of Mathematics, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
  • Research / Teaching Interests: Modeling and analysis of networks, Switched systems, Hybrid systems, Artificial Intelligence, Neural networks, Differential algebraic equations, Numerics of hyperbolics systems for gas networks,Higher order numerics for modeling via Partial differential equations, Modeling via stochastic differential equations,Probability and algorithms, Machine learning, Atomisation and controls, Finite element analysis software
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Email: rukhsana@pucit.edu.pk

Dr. Muhammad Abdullah

  • Assistant Professor (Adhoc)
  • Ph.D. Computer Science PUCIT, University of the Punjab (2020)
  • M.Phil Computer Science, PUCIT, University of the Punjab (2016)
  • BS Computer Science, University of the Punjab (2014)
  • Teaching: Programming Fundamentals, Object-Oriented Programming, Analysis of Algorithms, Computer Architecture, Cloud Computing
  • Research / Teaching Interests: Cloud Computing, Scalable Applications, Machine Learning, System Performance Management.
  • Email:  muhammad.abdullah@pucit.edu.pk