Dr. Zahid Halim |Assistant Professor
Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering
Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute
of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi
HEC approved PhD Supervisor
Email: zahid.halim@giki.edu.pk 
Phone: +92 (0938) 271858 x 2263


About

Currently working as an assistant professor at GIK Institute. Previously has served as assistant professor at the department of computer science of National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences. Prior to that he was working as a software engineer at Techlogix Pakistan (Pvt.) limited.

Qualifications

Ph.D Computer Science - Computational Intelligence (2010)
FAST-National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
Dissertation: Measuring Entertainment and Automatic Generation Of Entertaining Games Download Dissertation
Advisor: Dr. A. Rauf Baig

MS Computer Science - Data Mining and Data warehousing (2007)
FAST-National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
Dissertation: Sonification A Novel Approach towards Data Mining

BS Computer Science (2005)
Department of Computer Science, University of Peshawar
Final Year Project: Pattern Matching Based Optical Character Reorganization

Experience  

Post BS Post MS Post PhD
6.3 years 5.5 years 2.2 years


1. Assistant Professor [Current], Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering. 1st August 2011 --- till date

2. Assistant Professor, FAST-National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad. 1st August 2009 to 31st July 2011 [2 Years]

3. Lecturer, FAST-National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad.
1st August 2007 to 31st July 2009 [2 Years]

4. Software Engineer, Techlogix Pakistan (Pvt.) Limited Ltd. 25th September 2006 to 31st July 2007 [1 Year]

Research Interests
Computational Intelligence
Computational Intelligence in Games
Machine Learning and Data Mining
Software Visualization


Publications

Conference Journal Chapter Total
17 8 1 26

 
Chapter

  1. [Book Chapter] Zahid Halim and Rauf Baig, "Evolutionary Algorithms towards Generating Entertaining Games", Next Generation Data Technologies for Collective Computational Intelligence, Studies in Computational Intelligence Series, pp 383-413, Springer, 2011.  

Journal

  1. Bacha Rehman, Zahid Halim and Mushtaq Ahmad, "ASCII Based GUI System for Arabic Scripted Languages: A Case Study of Urdu", International Arab Journal of Information Technology,  [ISSN: 1683-3198] (ISI – SCI - Impact factor 2011: 0.127). Accepted and in Press

  2. Zahid Halim, A. Rauf Baig and Hasan Mujtaba, "Evolutionary Search for Entertainment in Games", Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 33-47, January 2012. [ISSN: 1079-8587] (ISI – SCI - Impact factor 2010: 0.187). Download

  3. Atif Aftab Ahmed Jilani, Aamer Nadeem, Zafar I. Malik, Muhammad Usman and Zahid Halim "Comparative Study on DFD to UML Diagrams Transformations", World of Computer Science and Information Technology Journal, Vol.1, No.1, pp. 10-16, February 2011. [ISSN: 2221-0741]. Download

  4. Kashif Zafar, Rauf Baig, Nabeel Bukhari and Zahid Halim, "Route planning and optimization of route using Simulated ant agent system", Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers, Vol.20, No.30, pp. 457-478, May 2011. [ISSN: 1793-6454; ISI – SCI - Impact Factor JCR 2008: 0.264]. Download

  5. Hasan Mujtaba, Rauf Baig, Zahid Halim and Amjad Iqbal , “Self-Motivated and Task-Oriented, Multi-Dimensional Learning in a Dynamic and Uncertain Environment without Human intervention”, International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control, Vol.7, No.4, pp. 1603-1620, April 2011. [ISSN: 1349-4198; ISI – SCI - Impact Factor 2010: 1.664]. Download

  6. Atif Aftab Ahmed Jilani, Muhammad Usman, Zahid Halim, "Model Transformations in Model Driven Architecture", Universal Journal of Computer Sciences and Engineering Technology, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 50-54, October 2010. Download

  7. Zahid Halim, A. Rauf Baig and Hasan Mujtaba , “Measuring Entertainment And Automatic Generation Of Entertaining Games”, International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence. Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 92–107, pp.92-107, January 2010,  [ISSN: 2042-3217]. Download

  8. Zahid Halim, M. Fazal-ur-Rehman and A. Rauf Baig, “Evolution of Entertainment in Computer Games”, International Journal of Computer Applications, Volume 3 – No.9, pp. 38-45, July 2010, [ISSN:0975-8887]. Download

Conference

  1. Shawana Jamil, Azam Khan, Zahid Halim and A. Rauf Baig, "Weighted MUSE for Frequent Sub-graph Pattern Finding in Uncertain DBLP Data", 2nd International Conference on Internet Technology and Applications, Wuhan, China, August 16-18, 2011. Download

  2. Zahid Halim, Mian Maqsood Gul, Najam ul Hassan, Rauf Baig, Shafiq Ur Rehman and Farhat Naz, "Malicious Users’ Circle Detection in Social Network Based on Spatio-Temporal Co-Occurrence", International Conference on Computer Networks and Information Technology, Bara Gali, Pakistan, 11-13, July, 2011. Download

  3. Aneequa Sundus, Muhammad Hammad Ali, Waleed Qaiser, Zeeshan Ahmed and Zahid Halim, "Applicative Implementation of D-Stream Clustering Algorithm for the Real-Time Data of Telecom Sector", International Conference on Computer Networks and Information Technology, Bara Gali, Pakistan, 11-13, July, 2011. Download

  4. Shafiq ur Rehman, Zahid Halim, Adeel Hashmi, Zeshan Nawaz and Muhammad Fahim , "Classifying Of Electroencephalographic Data a Rhythmic Model", International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Venice, Italy, November 24-26, 2010.

  5. Sameer Qayyum, Shaheer Mansoor, Adeel Khalid, Khushbakht, Zahid Halim and A.Rauf Baig, "Fraudulent Call Detection for Mobile Networks", IEEE International Conference on Information and Emerging Technologies, Karachi, Pakistan, June 14-16, 2010. Download

  6. Shafiq ur Rehman, Zahid Halim and Farhan Rafique, "Frequent Itemsets through Bayesian Network Modeling" , International Conference On Computer, Electrical, And Systems Science, And Engineering, Rome, Italy, April 28-30, 2010.

  7. Zahid Halim and A. Rauf Baig, "Towards Evolutionary Game Generation", International Arab Conference on Information Technology, Sana'a, Yemen, December 15-17, 2009.

  8. Zahid Halim, A. Rauf Baig and Salabat Khan, "Modular Indoor Games: A Hybrid of Video and Outdoor Games", International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering (CiSE), Wuhan, China, December 11-13, 2009.

  9. Zahid Halim and A. Rauf Baig, “Automatic Generation of Interesting Games”, Proceedings of  2nd International Conference on Computer Science and Its Applications (CSA 2009), Jeju Island, Korea, December 10-12, 2009.

  10. Shafiq ur Rehman, Naveed Ejaz, Zahid Halim and Jan E Alam, "Artificial Neural Network Based Software Defect Prediction", International Conference On Computer, Electrical, And Systems Science, And Engineering, Venice, Italy, October 28-30, 2009.

  11. Syed Salman Ahmed, Zahid Halim, Rauf Baig and Nusrat Habib, "Association Rule Mining Towards Business Solution", 1st National Conference On Security Computing & Communication, Kohat, Pakistan, 23-25 May, 2008. Download

  12. Muhammad Aniq, Zahid Halim and Rauf Baig, "MST and SFMST based Clustering", 1st National Conference On Security Computing & Communication, Kohat, Pakistan, 23-25 May, 2008. Download

  13. Shariq Bashir, Zahid Halim and Rauf Baig, “Mining Fault-Tolerant Frequent Patterns using Pattern Growth Approach”, 6th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA-08),Doha, Qatar, March 31 - April 4, 2008. Download

  14. Syed Salman Ahmed, Zahid Halim, Rauf Baig, and Shariq Bashir, “Web Content Mining: A Solution to Consumer’s Product Hunt”, International Conference on Computer, Electrical, and Systems Science, and Engineering, Cairo, Egypt, February 06-08, 2008.

  15. Zahid Halim, Rauf Baig, Shariq Bashir “Temporal Patterns Analysis in EEG Data using Sonification”, First IEEE International Conference on Information and Emerging Technologies, Karachi, Pakistan, 6-7 July, 2007.

  16. Zahid Halim, Rauf Baig, Shariq Bashir “Classifying EEG data based on Rhythms Extraction Technique”, (NCICT-2007) National Conference on Information and Communication Technologies, Bannu, Pakistan ,9th June, 2007.

  17. Zahid Halim, Rauf Baig, Shariq Bashir “Sonification: A Novel Approach towards Data Mining”, Second IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies, Peshawar, Pakistan, 13th -14th November, 2006 . Download
     

Teaching

  • Computer Programming
  • Programming Techniques
  • Databases
  • Data Mining
  • Data Structures
  • Computer Graphics
  • Knowledge Engineering and Expert System

PhD Students

  1. Mr.  Tufail Muhammad ( tufail@giki.edu.pk ): Software Visualization (Research in progress)

MS Students

  1. Mr. Bacha Rehman ( bacha@giki.edu.pk , bachapk@gmail.com ) : Novel Methodologies for Urdu Interface Design and Speech Recognition (Graduated) 2012

  2. Ms. Rizwana Kalsoom ( rizwana.kalsoom@gmail.com ) : Early Warning System for Accident Prediction (Research in Progress)

Other Activities/Achievements

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