School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Faculty Ayesha Hakim

Ayesha Hakim

Assistant Professor
Summary

Dr. Ayesha Hakim has a Ph.D. in Computer Science with specialisation in Artificial Intelligence from Massey University, New Zealand. She joined the University of Auckland as Research Specialist and then joined the Waikato Institute of Technology (WINTEC) as a Lecturer in Computer Science. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Computing at School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS), National University of Science and Technology and Associate Fellow of Higher Education, UK. She is the academic lead and founder of 3 tech start-ups: SMARTRAPS that is an AI and IoT-based device for flying insect pest surveillance; FoodTrace that is a blockchain and AI-based food traceability system; and Smart Storage Chamber that is an AI and IoT-based chamber to optimise shelf-life of perishable food items. She is president of Rotary International and Technology Co-Chair for UNESCO Chair on Low Carbon and Sustainable Agriculture in Biosphere Reserves. Her research interests include artificial intelligence, data science, precision agriculture, and shape, and audio analysis.

Academic Background
PhD (Computer Science) Massey University April 01, 2009 - November 27, 2013
Honours and Awards
Publications
Evaluation of YOLOv7-v13 models for multi-class small insect pest detection using the five-pest dataset July 01, 2026 Scientific Reports - Accepted
Pollination Effectiveness of Solitary and Social Bees Enhances Postharvest Parameters of Grewia asiatica L. (Malvaceae) December 18, 2025 Sociobiology - Volume 72(4), Article Number e11915
Driving sustainability in agri-food supply chains: how coordination, analytic capability, data driven decision-making, agility and innovation shape the future? December 15, 2025 Journal of Enterprise Information Management - Pages 1-31
Insect Pollination Enhances Yield and Physicochemical Quality Traits in Three Jujube Cultivars November 21, 2025 Insects - Volume:16, Issue:12, Article Number 1183
Yolo-pest: an optimized YoloV8x for detection of small insect pests using smart traps April 23, 2025 Scientific Reports - Volume:15, Issue:1, Article Number: 14029
Farmer to consumer–An online supply chain process system using blockchain technology May 01, 2024 Agricultural Sciences Journal - Volume 6, No. 1, Pages 1-11
Cucumis melo seed oil: agro-food by-product with natural anti-hyperlipidemic potential March 15, 2023 Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture - Volume:103, Issue:4, Pages 1644-1650
Antimicrobial potential of banana peel: A natural preservative to improve food safety January 01, 2023 Asian Journal of Agriculture and Biology - Volume:2023, Issue:1, Pages 1-6
Presence of selected organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in sediments and biota of River Satluj, Pakistan: first report Presença de pesticidas organoclorados selecionados (OCPs) em sedimentos e biota do Rio Satluj, Paquistão: primeiro relatório January 01, 2023 Brazilian Journal of Biology - Volume:83, Article Number e243905
Identification of rice purity level from mixed rice varieties using deep learning December 01, 2022 Journal of Agricultural Research (JAR) - Volume 60(4), Pages 325-332
An image dataset of fruitfly species (Bactrocera Zonata and Bactrocera Dorsalis) and automated species classification through object detection August 01, 2022 Data in Brief - Volume 43, Article Number 108366
Dengue Vector Surveillance using Acoustic Signals through Sequential Model of Convolutional Neural Networks June 15, 2022 Sukkur IBA Journal of Computing and Mathematical Sciences - Volume 6, No. 1, Pages 42-48
Computational representation and analysis of emotion dynamics June 01, 2022 Multimedia Tools and Applications - Volume:81, Issue:15, Pages 21111-21133
Classification and Grading of Harvested Mangoes Using Convolutional Neural Network March 01, 2022 International Journal of Fruit Science - Volume 22, Issue 1, Pages 95-109
Automated birdsong clustering and interactive visualization tool August 01, 2021 Pakistan Journal of Agricultural Sciences - Volume:58, Issue:4, Pages 1395-1403
Fatty acid profile and bio-efficacy of wheat germ oil in hyperlipidemic rabbits April 01, 2021 Pakistan Journal of Agricultural Sciences - Volume 58, Issue 2, Pages 621-625
Conferences
MangoTrace: An Intelligent Supply Chain Decision Support System October 03, 2022 - October 04, 2022 Ayesha Hakim, Sundus Shafique, Irfan Ahmad Baig, Mubashir Mehdi, 2022 International Conference on IT and Industrial Technologies, ICIT 2022
Improving Healthcare Systems through Process Mining November 05, 2020 - November 07, 2020 Ayesha Hakim, Proceedings - 2020 23rd IEEE International Multi-Topic Conference, INMIC 2020
Computational analysis of emotion dynamics September 02, 2013 - September 05, 2013 Ayesha Hakim, Stephen Marsland, Hans W. Guesgen, Proceedings - 2013 Humaine Association Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, ACII 2013
Assistant Professor MNS University of Agriculture, Multan, Pakistan March 12, 2019 - September 16, 2024
Academic Staff Member/ Lecturer Waikato Institute of Technology (WINTEC), New Zealand March 20, 2017 - September 14, 2018
Research IT Specialist University of Auckland, New Zealand June 01, 2016 - December 31, 2016
Assistant Professor The Women University, Multan June 29, 2015 - February 22, 2016
Assistant Professor Bahauddin Zakarya University, Multan, Pakistan June 03, 2014 - June 03, 2015