Dr. Sharifullah Khan
Associate Professor
Department of Computing

Academic Background:

PhD (Computer Sciences) in 1998-2002 from School of Computing, the University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. The thesis title was ‘The Optimisation of Continual Queries'. Key feature includes:

• Design of a new architecture for a scalable continual queries system in the Internet environment

• Design of a scalable and dynamic grouping technique to optimise the evaluation of continual queries

• Design of a simple model for differential evaluation of continual queries to bypass a complete evaluation after initial evaluation.Development of a technique for differential evaluation of grouped continual queries

Post Doctorate in 2005-2006 from Institute de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), UMR 5505 CNRS, Universite Paul Sabatier (UPS), Toulouse, France.

Academic Distinctions:

• First Class First Position among the successful candidates of MSc in Gomal University, D. I. Khan, Pakistan, 1994

• First Class First Position among the successful candidates of BSc in Gomal University, D. I. Khan, Pakistan, 1991

• IZAZ-I-SABQAT Award conferred by the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan for obtaining highest percentage marks in the MSc Computer Sciences Examination for the year 1994 in the Province of NWFP Pakistan

Academic Awards:

• Quaid-e-Azam Merit Scholarship for PhD Studies (1998 – 2002) awarded by Ministry of Education, Govt. of Pakistan in 1997

• Scholarship for Information Technology Educational Methodology, Third Country Training Programme in Indonesia (August 30 – September 29, 2004) awarded by JICA Japan

• Scholarship for Post Doctorate Research at Institute de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), UMR 5505 CNRS, Universite Paul Sabatier (UPS), Toulouse, France (September 2005 – August 2006) awarded by CNRS France

Appreciation Letters:

• Letter of Appreciation from Director General, NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science for Excellent Event Committee Convener of SEECS 3rd UG Convocation in year 2009

• Letter of Appreciation from Director General, NUST Institute of Information technology for Excellent Event Committee Convener of NIIT 2nd UG Convocation in year 2007

• Letter of Appreciation from Director General, NUST Institute of Information technology for Excellent Promotion Committee Convener of NIIT 1st UG Convocation in year 2005

• Letter of Appreciation from Director General, NUST Institute of Information technology for valuable contribution in bringing out Growth Plan of NIIT, 2005

• Letter of Appreciation from Director General, NUST Institute of Information technology for valuable contribution in preparation of NIIT Academic Report, 2005

Professional Experience:

National University of Science and Technologies (NUST), Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Associate Professor (2008–todate), Department of Computing (DoC), NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS) (i.e., formerly NUST Institute of Information Technology (NIIT)).

National University of Science and Technologies (NUST), Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Head of Department / Assistant Professor (2004–2007), Information System Engineering (ISE) department, NUST Institute of Information Technology (NIIT).

National University of Science and Technologies (NUST), Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Assistant Professor. (2003–2004), NUST Institute of Information Technology (NIIT).

University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Part time-Demonstrator (1998–2002), the school of Computing.

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd (PTCL), Pakistan
Lecturer (1996–2002), Regional Telecom Training School (RTTS), Peshawar.
(On leave for PhD studies since 1998 – 2002)

Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan
Lecturer (1995–1996), the department of Business Administration.

Research Interest

• Data Sharing & Integration

• Query Processing & Optimization

• Semantic Heterogeneity

• Ontology Engineering & Management

• Semantic-based Information Retrieval

• Institutional Digital Repositories

Current Research Projects

R & D Projects

No	Year	Title
17	2010 - to date	NUST Knowledge Repository
16	2009 - to date	National Digital Repository for Pakistan Science Abstracts
15	2009 - 2010	Evaluation of Semantic (RDF) Storage Systems
14	2008 - 2009	Alignment of digital documents with Hierarchical Domain Ontology
13	2008 - 2009	Bridging Hierarchical Ontologies
12	2008 - 2009	Semantic Based Mapping and Query Rewriting in Information Integration
11	2008 -2009	Generation and Storage of Context Aware Metadata for Digital Documents
10	2007 -2008	Semantic-based Information Retrieval in Digital Documents
9	2007 -2008	Ontology Driven Relevance Reasoning for Source Selection in Data Integration
8	2007 - 2008	Transforming Database Relations to Source Ontology in Data Integration
7	2006 - 2007	Ontology-driven Query Expansion
6	2005 - 2006	Integrating Biomedical Data Sources on the Internet
5	2004 - 2005	Optimization of Semantic Caching for XML Databases
4	2004 - 2005	Expertise Matching System
3	2004 - 2005	Efficient Data Storage for Dynamically Grouped CQs in XML Databases
2	2004 - 2005	Optimization of Web Caching
1	1999 - 2002	Optimization of Continual Queries

Journal Papers

A. S. Butt,S. khan, "Scalability and Performance Evaluation of Semantic Web databases", Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering (AJSE),, 2013.

S. Khan,M. Bilal, "Bitmap Index in Ontology Driven Relevance Reasoning for Source Selection", Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering (AJSE), pp. , 2012.

S. Khan,I. Fatima,R. Irfan,K. Latif, "A Refined Methodology for Automatic Keyphrase Assignment to Digital Libraries", Journal of Digital Information Management (JDIM), Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 55–63, Apr, 2011.

S. Khan, K. Sonia, "R2O: Relation to Ontology Transformation System", Journal of Information & Knowledge Management (JIKM), Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 71–89, Mar, 2011.

Conference Papers

R. Irfan,S. Khan,I. Ali Khan,M. Asif, "KeaKAT – An Online Automatic Keyphrase Assignment Tool", Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT 2012), Islamabad, Pakistan, pp. , Dec, 2012, Islamabad Pakistan.

A. Usman,S. Khan, "Exploiting semantics in subject-based searching of DSpace", Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL), November 2012, Taipei Taiwan, pp. , Nov, 2012, Taipei Taiwan.

R. Irfan,S. Khan,A. Hayat, "Restructuring Refinement Methodology for Automatic Keyphrase Assignment", Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, Mar, 2012, Al Ain United Arab Emirates.

S. Khan,A. Usman,R. Irfan, "DSpace@SEECS: Implementing SEECS Institutional Repository System", Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET-2011), pp. , Sep, 2011, Islamabad Pakistan.

I. Qasim,J. W. Jeong,S. Khan,D.H. Lee, "Automatic Acquisition of Domain Concepts for Ontology Learning using Affinity Propagation", Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET-2011), Sep, 2011, Islamabad Pakistan.

A. S. Anila,S. Khan,K. Latif, "Comparative Evaluation of Native RDF Stores", Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET 2010), pp. 321-326, Oct, 2010, Islamabad Pakistan.

I. Fatima, S. Khan, K. Latif, "Refinement Methodology for Automatic Document Alignment using Taxonomy in Digital Libraries", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC2009), No. 3, pp. -, Sep, 2009, Berkeley, CA United States.

I. Qasim, S. Khan, K. Latif, "Semantic Mapping between Global and Source Ontology using WordNet", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer, Control & Communication (IEEE-IC4 2009), No. 2, pp. 1 – 5, Feb, 2009, Karachi Pakistan.

A.M. Khattak, J. Mustafa, N. Ahmed, K. Latif, S. Khan, "Intelligent Search in Digital Documents", Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence, No. -, pp. 558 – 561, Dec, 2008, Sydney Australia.

M. Safyan, S. Khan, "Bridging Hierarchical Ontologies for Interoperability and Query Reformulation", Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Computer Theory and Engineering (ICACTE 2008), No. -, pp. 832 – 836, Dec, 2008, Phuket Island Thailand.

A.M. Khattak, K. Latif, S. Khan, N. Ahmed, "Managing Change History in Web Ontologies", Proceedings of the International Conference on Semantic, Knowledge and Grid, No. 4, pp. 347 – 350, Dec, 2008, Beijing China.

W. Ali, S. Khan, "Ontology Driven Query Expansion in Data Integration", Proceedings of the International Conference on Semantic, Knowledge and Grid, No. 4, pp. 57 – 63, Dec, 2008, Beijing China.

N. Ahmed, S. Khan, K. Latif, A. M. Khattak, "Extracting Semantic Annotation and their Correlation with Document", Proceedings of the IEEE international conference on Emerging Technology (ICET 2008), No. 4, pp. 32-37, Oct, 2008, Rawalpindi Pakistan.

A. Aslam, S. Khan, K. Latif, "Semantic Based Query Rewriting in Distributed Systems", Proceedings of the IEEE international conference on Emerging Technology (ICET 2008), No. 4, pp. 292-297, Oct, 2008, Rawalpindi Pakistan.

A. Latif, M. Y. Javed, S. Khan, "Semi-Automated Approach for Converting ERD to Semi-Star Schema", Proceedings of the IEEE international conference on Emerging Technology (ICET 2008), No. 4, pp. 264-268, Oct, 2008, Rawalpindi Pakistan.

A.M. Khattak, K. Latif, S. Khan, N. Ahmed, "Ontology Recovery and Visualization", Proceedings of the International Conference on Next Generation Web Services and Practices, No. 4, pp. 90 – 96, Oct, 2008, Seoul South Korea.

I. Qasim, S. Khan, K. Latif, "Semantic Mapping between Global and Source Ontologies for Scalable Data Integration System", Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICICT), No. 2, pp. -, Sep, 2008, Bannu Pakistan.

A. Aslam, S. Khan, "Semantic Based Query Rewriting in Data Integration", Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICICT), No. 2, pp. -, Sep, 2008, Bannu Pakistan.

A. Aslam, S. Khan, "Semantic Based Query Rewriting in Data Integration", Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICICT), No. 2, pp. -, Sep, 2008, Bannu Pakistan.

M. Bilal, S. Khan, " Ontology Driven Relevance Reasoning Architecture for Data Integration Techniques.", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS'08), No. 4, pp. 22.8-22.13, Sep, 2008, Varna Bulgaria.

J. Mustafa, S. Khan, K. Latif, "Ontology Based Semantic Information Retrieval", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS'08), No. 4, pp. 22.14-22.19, Sep, 2008, Varna Bulgaria.

K. Sonia, S. Khan, "Transforming Relational Model to Source Ontology for Data Integration", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS'08), No. 4, pp. 22.2-22.7, Sep, 2008, Varna Bulgaria.

K. Sonia, S. Khan, "R2O Transformation System: Relation to Ontology Transformation for Scalable Data Integration", Proceedings of the International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS'08), No. 12, pp. 291-295, Sep, 2008, Coimbra Portugal.

J. Mustafa, S. Khan, K. Latif, "Intelligent Informational Retrieval", Proceedings of the National Conference on Security, Computing, & Communication, No. 1, pp. 58-62, May, 2008, Kohat Pakistan.

M. Bilal, S. Khan, "Ontology-Driven Relevance Reasoning in Data Integration Techniques", Proceedings of the international workshop on the Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT 2007), No. 5, pp. -, Dec, 2007, Islamabad Pakistan.

K. Sonia, S. Khan, " Building Local Ontology from Database Relations in Data Integration", Proceedings of the international conference on Emerging Technology (ICET 2007), No. 3, pp. 108-113, Nov, 2007, Islamabad Pakistan.

W. Ali, S. Khan, "Global Query Generation over Diverse Data Sources Using Ontology", Proceedings of the National conference on Information and Communication Technologies (NCICT 2007), No. 1, pp. -, Jun, 2007, Bannu Pakistan.

S. Khan, F. Marvon, "Identifying Relevant Sources in Query Reformulation", Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS2006, No. 8, pp. 357-366, Dec, 2006, Yogyakarta Indonesia.

S. Khan, "The Role of Ontology in Query Mediation", Proceedings of the International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Semantic Grid (MASSG06), No. 4, pp. -, Dec, 2006, Rawalpindi Pakistan.

K. Munir, M. Odeh, R.McClatchey, S. Khan, I. Habib, "Semantic Information Retrieval from Distributed Heterogeneous Data Sources", Proceedings of the international workshop on the Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT 2006), No. 4, pp. -, Dec, 2006, Islamabad Pakistan.

S. Khan, F. Marvon, "Integrating Biomedical Sources on the Internet", Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS), No. 19, pp. 165-170, Sep, 2006, San Francisco, California United States.

S. Khan, F. Marvon, "Scalable Integration of Biomedical Sources", Proceedings of the Workshop on Ontology, Grid and Semantic Integration for Biology (OGSB), pp. -, Jul, 2006, Bordeaux France.

M. A. Iqbal, S. Khan, "Content-based Hierarchical Web Cache", Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing and Informatics (ICOCI), No. 1, pp. -, Jun, 2006, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.

J. Ahmed, S. Khan, A. Kamal, "An Integrated Framework for Schema Integration in Object Oriented Data Warehousing", Proceedings of the PAK-US International Symposium on High Capacity Optical Networks and Enabling Technologies, No. 1, pp. -, Dec, 2005, Islamabad Pakistan.

S. Khan, S. M. Nabeel, "OPEMS: Online Peer-to-Peer Expertise Matching System", Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Communication Technology (ICICT 2005), No. 1, pp. 148-151, Aug, 2005, Karachi Pakistan.

A. Hamid, S. Khan, "Optimization of Semantic Caches for XML Databases", Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Communication Technology (ICICT 2005), No. 1, pp. 201-205, Aug, 2005, Karachi Pakistan.

M. S. Khan, S. Khan, "Distance Education through Weblogs", Proceedings of the International Conference on Contemporary Issues in Information Technology in OIC Member States, No. -, pp. -, Jul, 2005, Islamabad Pakistan.

A. Hamid, S. Khan, "Optimized Matching for Semantic Caches Through Indexing", Proceedings of the IADIS Virtual Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCIS 2005), No. -, pp. -, Apr, 2005, virtual Sweden.

S. Khan , S. Azam, H. Bukhari, M. R. Khan, "View Support in Object Oriented Database Systems", Proceedings of the International Science Conference, No. 4, pp. -, Oct, 2004, Muzafarabad Pakistan.

S. Khan, P. Mott, "A Scalable and dynamic Grouping of Continual Queries", Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Information Systems (ADVIS), No. 2, pp. 31-42, Oct, 2002, Izmir Turkey.

S. Khan, P. Mott, "LeedsCQ: A Scalable Continual Queries System", Proceedings of the International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), pp. 607-617, Sep, 2002, Aix-en Provence , France France.

Books/Chapters Published

[Chapter]S. Khan, "Optimization of Continual Queries", Idea-Group Inc, Vol. 1, Ed. 1, ISBN -, Oct, 2005.

Teaching

1. Advanced Database Concepts (PG-Course), Fall – 2003, 2004,2006,2007, 2008, 2009, 2011
2. Object-Oriented Databases (PG Course), Spring – 2004
3. Introduction to Database Systems (UG Course), Fall – 2004.
4. Database Design and Implementation(UG Course), Spring - 2010, Fall-2010, Fall-2011  
5. RDBMS using ORACLE (UG Course), Fall – 2006, 2008
6. Data Warehousing (UG Course), Fall – 2009.
7. Software Engineering (UG Course), Spring – 2003, 2004, 2005.
8. Object-Oriented Software Engineering (UG Course), Fall – 2003.
9. Distributed Database Systems (PG Course), Spring – 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
   
10. Advanced Topics in Databases (PG Course), Summer – 2007, 2010