Summary

Dr. Hafsa Iqbal received her BSc degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, Pakistan in 2016 and her MS degree in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan, in 2018. Her outstanding performance during her MS studies earned her the Presidential Gold Medal. She was awarded a scholarship for her PhD and was part of an EU-funded project within a joint doctorate program between the Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy, and the Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Spain. She graduated with a PhD cum laude in 2022. During her PhD, she also served as lab assistant at the Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy, where she was organized labs for Master’s level courses of cognitive data fusion and cognitive telecommunication systems. After completing her PhD, she joined the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) as an Assistant Professor in 2022. At NUST, she teaches robotics, computer vision, and data mining for big data to undergraduate students, and stochastic systems as well as machine and deep learning with graph neural networks, to graduate students. Her PhD research focused on autonomous vehicles, specifically improving their perception models. Additionally, she has research experience in automation, robotics, computer vision, and AI techniques for cognitive environments. She serves as a reviewer for several prestigious journals and conferences, including IEEE Transactions of Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Access, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium and the International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications.

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