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

Prof. Dr. Muhammad Kamran Malik

• Professor
• PhD Computer Science, PU
• MS Software Project Management , NUCES-FAST, 2008
• M.Sc Computer Science, PU, 2003
• Email: kamran.malik@pucit.edu.pk
• Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Dr. Adnan Abid

• Professor 
• Ph.D. in Computer Science
• Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Muhammad Nadeem Majeed

• Associate Professor 
• Degree Supervisor PhD/MPhil(DS)
• 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

Maj. (Retd.) Dr.
Muhammad Arif Butt

• Assistant Professor 
• PhD Computer Science PUCIT, University of the Punjab, Lahore (2019)
• M.Phil Computer Science, PU, (Gold Medal)
• M.Sc Computer Science, PU, 2005 (Gold Medal)
• JSC (mil), SI&T, Quetta
• B.Sc PMA, Kakul
• Email: arif@pucit.edu.pk
• Research / Teaching Interests: OS Kernel and device driver development, Fuzzification of OS Kernel Modules, Embedded Systems and OS Security
• Video Lectures    SP with Linux, OS with Linux, Internetworking with Linux, C-Refresher  Computer Organization and Assembly Language Programming    

Dr. Muhammad Idrees

• Assistant Professor
• Degree Supervisor BS(DS)
• PhD Computer Science PUCIT, University of the Punjab, Lahore (2019)
• M.Phil Computer Science, PU, 2010 (First Position)
• M.Sc Computer Science, PU, 1995 (3rd Position)
• M.Sc Physics, PU, 1992
• Research / Teaching Interests: Programming (C++/JAVA/.NET), Database Design and Administration, Data Structures, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Theory of Automata.
• Email: idrees@pucit.edu.pk
• Website: https://sites.google.com/site/siridrees/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/siridrees
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sir.idrees/
• Curriculum Vitae

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
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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
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Dr. Muhammad Abdullah

• Assistant Professor
• 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