School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Faculty Hasan Ali Khattak

Hasan Ali Khattak

Associate Professor
Summary

Currently working as an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST). I graduated as a PhD Researcher from the Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy, in April 2015, where I was pursuing my PhD in Computer Engineering. I was working with SISINFLAB, where our group was engaged in pursuing research in different topics ranging from the Semantic Web to the Internet of Things and recently started working on the Semantic Web of Things, which has applications in Building Automation, Transportation, Healthcare and many other domains. My research interests are the Semantic Web and its integration with emerging technologies, such as Leveraging Linked Data with Future Internet technologies, such as Fog Computing, Content-Centric Networks and the Internet of Things (IoT). I hold a Master’s degree in System Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, where I studied subjects related to Software Engineering as well as Software-based network development. Recently, I was engaged in research work on enabling semantic annotations and resource discovery in a wireless sensor network based on Contiki OS, allowing these devices to seamlessly integrate into the web and provide grounds for building smart cities, smart homes and the Semantic Web of Things (SWoT). As part of the same effort, I am working on applications of the same concept in real-life scenarios under an HEC Startup Research Grant. Moreover, I am also working on an HEC-funded project on Semantic Web and Linked Data to deploy an extensible semantic web application for research discovery and showcase Research and Academic Resources at the University Level. In the future, I am interested in exploring using machine learning and future internet architectures for Smart City applications.

Academic Background
PhD (Semantic Web Of Things) Polytechnic Institute of Bari January 01, 2012 - December 31, 2014
Honours and Awards
School / College Best Researcher Award -2022
Publications
Efficient fruit disease diagnosis on resource-constrained agriculture devices June 11, 2026 Journal of the Saudi Society of Agricultural Sciences - Accepted
Current Trends and Advances in Extractive Text Summarization: A Comprehensive Review January 13, 2025 IEEE Access - Volume:13, Page(s): 28150-28166
Vision Based 3D Localization of UAV Using Deep Image Matching July 02, 2024 IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing - Volume: 17, Pages: 12020-12030
Summarization of Scholarly Articles Using BERT and BiGRU: Deep Learning-Based Extractive Approach September 13, 2023 Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences - Article in Press
Intracranial Hemorrhage Detection Using Parallel Deep Convolutional Models and Boosting Mechanism February 09, 2023 Diagnostics - Volume 13(4), Article Number 652
Multi-branch sustainable convolutional neural network for disease classification January 01, 2023 International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology - Pages:13
EdgeTrust: A Lightweight Data-Centric Trust Management Approach for IoT-Based Healthcare 4.0 December 28, 2022 Electronics - Volume 12(1), Article Number 140
Compact Convolutional Transformer (CCT)-Based Approach for Whitefly Attack Detection in Cotton Crops September 23, 2022 Agriculture - Volume 12(10), Article Number 1529
Carpooling in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles: Current Solutions and Future Directions September 13, 2022 ACM Computing Surveys - Volume 54, Issue 10, Article No: 218, Pages:1-36
Smart Healthcare System for Severity Prediction and Critical Tasks Management of COVID-19 Patients in IoT-Fog Computing Environments July 19, 2022 Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience - Volume 2022, Article ID 5012962, 17 pages
Cross-Domain Security and Interoperability in Internet of Things July 15, 2022 IEEE Internet of Things Journal - Volume: 9, Issue: 14, Page(s): 11993-12000
Towards an effective model for lung disease classification: Using Dense Capsule Nets for early classification of lung diseases July 01, 2022 Applied Soft Computing - Volume 124, Article Number 109077
Collaborative multi-agents in dynamic industrial internet of things using deep reinforcement learning July 01, 2022 Environment, Development and Sustainability - Volume 24, Issue 7, Pages 9481-9499
Recovering Latent Data Flow from Business Process Model Automatically June 20, 2022 Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing - Volume 2022, Article ID 7579515, 11 pages
Deep reinforcement learning approach towards a smart parking architecture May 10, 2022 Cluster Computing - Pages 1-12
Overview of smart grid implementation: Frameworks, impact, performance and challenges May 01, 2022 Journal of Energy Storage - Volume 49, Article Number 104056
Secure Delegation Using Enhanced Capability Model April 13, 2022 Security and Communication Networks - Volume 2022, Article ID 8500278, 9 pages
Effective Task Scheduling in Critical Fog Applications March 31, 2022 Scientific Programming - Volume 2022, Article ID 9208066, 15 pages
Fast Data Access through Nearest Location-Based Replica Placement March 16, 2022 Scientific Programming - Volume 2022, Article ID 2496269, 13 pages
A Dynamic Load Balancing Mechanism for Fog Computing Environment March 01, 2022 International Journal of Web and Grid Services - Volume 18, No. 3, Pages 337-360
Research Collaboration Influence Analysis Using Dynamic Co-authorship and Citation Networks March 01, 2022 International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 7, No. 3, Pages 103-116
Multi-Factor Rear-End Collision Avoidance in Connected Autonomous Vehicles January 20, 2022 Applied Sciences - Volume 12(3), Article Number 1049
Achieving data privacy for decision support systems in times of massive data sharing January 10, 2022 Cluster Computing - Pages 1-13
Location-Dependent Query Processing: Semantic Cache for Real-Time Smart City Analytics December 21, 2021 Applied Bionics and Biomechanics - Volume 2021, Article ID 9958647, 9 pages
Named Data Networking-Based On-Demand Secure Vehicle-To-Vehicle Communications November 26, 2021 Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing - Volume 2021, Article ID 1615015, 15 pages
Augmentation of Contextualized Concatenated Word Representation and Dilated Convolution Neural Network for Sentiment Analysis November 25, 2021 Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing - Volume 2021, Article ID 1428710, 13 pages
Proactive scheduling and resource management for connected autonomous vehicles: a data science perspective November 15, 2021 IEEE Sensors Journal - Volume 21, Issue 22, Pages 25151-25160
Machine Learning-based Mist Computing Enabled Internet of Battlefield Things August 01, 2021 ACM Transactions on Internet Technology - Volume 21, No. 4, Article Number 101
Secure Transmission Lines Monitoring and Efficient Electricity Management in Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Industrial Internet of Things August 01, 2021 Computer Standards & Interfaces - Volume 77, Article Number 103500
Fog Based Architecture and Load Balancing Methodology for Health Monitoring Systems July 13, 2021 IEEE Access - Volume 9, Pages 96189-96200
A Systematic Review of Bio-Cyber Interface Technologies and Security Issues for Internet of Bio-Nano Things July 07, 2021 IEEE Access - Volume 9, Pages 93529-93566
A Hybrid Machine Learning Framework to Predict Early Risk of Mortality in Paralytic Ileus Patients using Electronic Health Records March 01, 2021 Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing - Volume 12, Pages 3283-3293
Leveraging Deep Learning for Designing Healthcare Analytics Heuristic for Diagnostics February 02, 2021 Neural Processing Letters - Pages 1-27
Dynamic pricing in industrial internet of things: Blockchain application for energy management in smart cities December 01, 2020 Journal of Information Security and Applications - Volume 55, Article Number 102615
A bio-inspired clustering in mobile adhoc networks for internet of things based on honey bee and genetic algorithm November 01, 2020 Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing - Volume 11, Pages 4347-4361
From Conventional to State-of-the-Art IoT Access Control Models October 15, 2020 Electronics - Volume 9(10), Article Number 1693
Towards Energy-Efficient Mobile Ad Optimization: An App Developer Perspective October 01, 2020 Applied Sciences - Volume 10(19), Article Number 6889
Towards Energy Efficient Smart Grids Using Bio-Inspired Scheduling Techniques September 11, 2020 IEEE Access - Volume 8, Pages 158947-158960
FIViz: Forensics Investigation through Visualization for Malware in Internet of Things September 04, 2020 Sustainability - Volume 12(18), Article Number 7262
Performance Evaluation of Data Dissemination Protocols for Connected Autonomous Vehicles July 22, 2020 IEEE Access - Volume 9, Pages 126896-126906
Proactive Forensics in IoT: Privacy-Aware Log-Preservation Architecture in Fog-Enabled-Cloud Using Holochain and Containerization Technologies July 19, 2020 Electronics - Volume 9(7), Article Number 1172
Towards Energy and Performance-aware Geographic Routing for IoT-enabled Sensor Networks July 01, 2020 Computers & Electrical Engineering - Volume 85, Article Number 106643
Named Data Networking for Efficient IoT-based Disaster Management in a Smart Campus April 12, 2020 Sustainability - Volume 12(8), Article Number 3088
Energy and delay efficient fog computing using caching mechanism March 15, 2020 Computer Communications - Volume 154, Pages 534-541
Calculating trust using multiple heterogeneous social networks February 21, 2020 Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing - Volume 2020, Article ID 8545128, 14 pages
5G vehicular network resource management for improving radio access through machine learning January 14, 2020 IEEE Access - Volume 8, Pages 6792-6800
Doodle-Based Authentication Technique Using Augmented Reality January 08, 2020 IEEE Access - Volume 8, Pages 4022-4034
Energy forecasting using multiheaded convolutional neural networks in efficient renewable energy resources equipped with energy storage system December 04, 2019 Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies - Pages 1-14, Article Number e3837
Leveraging utilization as performance metric for CDN enabled energy efficient internet of things December 01, 2019 Measurement - Volume 147, Article Number 106814
Energy and performance aware fog computing: A case of DVFS and green renewable energy December 01, 2019 Future Generation Computer Systems - Volume 101, Pages 1112-1121
Towards a fog enabled efficient car parking architecture November 13, 2019 IEEE Access - Volume 7, Pages 159100-159111
Perception layer security in Internet of Things November 01, 2019 Future Generation Computer Systems - Volume 100, Pages 144-164
ICAFE: Intelligent congestion avoidance and fast emergency services October 01, 2019 Future Generation Computer Systems - Volume 99, Pages 365-375
Methodology for the quantification of the effect of patterns and anti-patterns association on the software quality October 01, 2019 IET Software - Volume 13, Issue 5, Pages 414-422
Energy-effective cooperative and reliable delivery routing protocols for underwater wireless sensor networks July 09, 2019 Energies - Volume 12(13), Article Number 2630
Multi‐tier authentication schemes for fog computing: Architecture, security perspective, and challenges June 23, 2019 International Journal of Communication Systems - Article Number e4033
Predicting cyberbullying on social media in the big data era using machine learning algorithms: review of literature and open challenges June 11, 2019 IEEE Access - Volume 7, Pages 70701-70718
Spammer detection and fake user identification on social networks June 06, 2019 IEEE Access - Volume 7, Pages 68140-68152
Degraded image enhancement by image dehazing and Directional Filter Banks using Depth Image based Rendering for future free-view 3D-TV May 23, 2019 PLoS ONE - Volume 14(5), Pages e0217246
Utilization and load balancing in fog servers for health applications April 08, 2019 Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Volume 2019, Article Number 91
Toward integrating vehicular clouds with IoT for smart city services April 01, 2019 IEEE Network - Volume 33, Issue 2, Pages 65-71
A hybrid approach toward research paper recommendation using centrality measures and author ranking March 26, 2019 IEEE Access - Volume 7, Pages 33145-33158
Integrating fog computing with VANETs: A consumer perspective March 01, 2019 IEEE Communications Standards Magazine - Volume 3, Issue 1, Pages 19-25
Human Bond Communications: Architectures, Challenges, and Possibilities February 21, 2019 IEEE Communications Magazine - Volume: 57, Issue: 2 Article Number 18470649
Cross-layer design and optimization techniques in wireless multimedia sensor networks for smart cities February 02, 2019 Computer Science and Information Systems - Volume 16(1), Pages 1-17
Leveraging named data networking for fragmented networks in smart metropolitan cities November 22, 2018 IEEE Access - Volume 6, Pages 75899-75911
Social internet of vehicles: Complexity, adaptivity, issues and beyond November 14, 2018 IEEE Access - Volume 6, Pages 62089-62106
Evaluation and Analysis of Bio-Inspired Optimization Techniques for Bill Estimation in Fog Computing November 07, 2018 International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications - Volume 9, No. 7, Pages 191-198
A generic internet of things architecture for controlling electrical energy consumption in smart homes November 01, 2018 Sustainable Cities and Society - Volume 43, Pages 443-450
Towards ontology-based multilingual URL filtering: a big data problem October 01, 2018 Journal of Supercomputing - Volume 74, Pages 5003–5021
Counter Measuring Conceivable Security Threats on Smart Healthcare Devices May 02, 2018 IEEE Access - Volume 6, Pages 20722-20733
Conferences
Combining UAV Multispectral Data & Crop Morphological Features for Sunflower Oil Content Estimation August 03, 2025 - August 08, 2025 Karsten Berns, Hasan Ali Khattak, Zuhair Zafar, Muhammad Moazam Fraz, Muhammad Ali, Usama Athar, IGARSS 2025 - 2025 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
Task Offloading Using Multi-Armed Bandit Optimization in Autonomous Mobile Robots May 20, 2023 - May 20, 2023 ANIS UR RAHMAN, ASAD WAQAR MALIK, HASAN ALI KHATTAK, Moayad Aloqaily, IEEE INFOCOM 2023 - Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2023
Empirical Performance Evaluation of Open Source SDN Controllers in different Network Topologies May 08, 2023 - May 12, 2023 Hafiz Mati ur Rahman, Ghulam Bahoo, Lamees Zafar, Ibrahim Al-oqily, asan Ali Khattak, Arsalan Ahmad, IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 2023, NOMS 2023
Optimization Techniques for Scheduling IoT tasks in Fog-based Environments December 19, 2022 - December 21, 2022 Rija Tariq, Hareem Ashraf, Hasan Ali Khattak, Maira Sohail, IEEE 19th International Conference on Smart Communities: Improving Quality of Life Using ICT, IoT and AI, HONET 2022
Preventing Adversarial Attacks on Autonomous Driving Models November 17, 2022 - November 18, 2022 Junaid Sajid, Bareera Anam, HASAN ALI KHATTAK, ASAD WAQAR MALIK, Assad Abbas, Samee U. Khan, International Wireless Internet Conference
An Efficient Fault-Prediction Mechanism for Improving Yield in Industry 5.0 October 21, 2022 - October 22, 2022 Fariha Maqbool, Haroon Mehmood Khan, Hasan Ali Khattak, 24th International Multitopic Conference, INMIC 2022
Explainable Prediction of Medical Codes through Automated Knowledge Graph Curation Framework August 16, 2022 - August 20, 2022 Mutahira Khalid, Hasan Ali Khattak, Arsalan Ahmad, Syed Ahmad Chan Bukhari, 19th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and Technology, IBCAST 2022
Ontology Alignment for Accurate Ontology Matching: A Survey July 07, 2022 - July 08, 2022 Syed Imran Ali, Muhammad Saqib, Hasan Ali Khattak, Sungyoung Lee, Hasham Khan, 20th International Conference on Smart Living and Public Health, ICOST 2023
A Decentralized Environment for Biomedical Semantic Content Authoring and Publishing July 05, 2022 - July 08, 2022 Hasan Ali Khattak, Asim Abbas, Steve Fonin Mbouadeu, Fazel Keshtkar, Tahir Hameed, Syed Ahmad Chan Bukhari, International Conference on Web Engineering
Data Mining Techniques for Heart Disease Prediction: A Computational Model May 25, 2022 - May 26, 2022 Shifa Syyeda, Ausaf Sharif, Maryam Ezat Ullah, Hasan Ali Khattak, Asif Nawaz, Sheeraz Ahmed, 2022 8th International Conference on Information Technology Trends (ITT).
Evaluating Readiness for Technology Integration in the Classroom Post-Pandemic February 21, 2022 - February 24, 2022 Fahad Ansari, Muhammad Muzyyab Ajmal, Abdul Basit, Hasan Ali Khattak, Asif Nawaz, Sheeraz Ahmed, 2022 Advances in Science and Engineering Technology International Conferences (ASET)
Evaluation of Response Time for Linked Data applications using CoAP and HTTP March 17, 2021 - March 18, 2021 Vishwesh Akre, Muhammad Shahzad, Asif Nawaz, Om Parkash, Anis Ul Rehman, Hasan Ali Khattak, Doulat Khan, Sheeraz Ahmed, Pankaj Mohindru, 2021 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Knowledge Economy (ICCIKE)
Android based Emotion Detection Using Convolutions Neural Networks March 17, 2021 - March 18, 2021 Rabia Qayyum, Vishwesh Akre, Talha Hafeez, Hasan Ali Khattak, Asif Nawaz, Sheeraz Ahmed, Pankaj Mohindru, Doulat Khan, Khalil ur Rahman, 2021 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Knowledge Economy (ICCIKE)
Leveraging Traffic Condition using IoT for Improving Smart City Street Lights December 17, 2020 - December 20, 2020 Syeda Roushan Arshad, Aman Saeed, Vishwesh Akre, Hasan Ali Khattak, Sheeraz Ahmed, Zia Ullah Khan, Zahoor Ali Khan, Asif Nawaz, 9th IEEE International Conference on Communication, Networks and Satellite, Comnetsat 2020
Latest Advances in Interent Of Things and Big Data with Requirments and Taxonomy November 25, 2020 - November 26, 2020 Asif Nawaz, Sheeraz Ahmed, Hasan Ali Khattak, Vish Akre, Amala Rajan, Zahoor Ali Khan, 2020 Seventh International Conference on Information Technology Trends (ITT)
Blockchain based Smart Model for Agricultural Food Supply Chain August 20, 2020 - August 21, 2020 Sabir Hussain Awan, Asif Nawaz, Sheeraz Ahmed, Zeeshan Najam, Sabir Hussain Awan, Asif Nawaz, Sheeraz Ahmed, Zeeshan Najam, Hasan Ali Khattak, Khalid Zaman, International Conference on UK-China Emerging Technologies (UCET)
Driving Behaviour Analysis in Connected Vehicles August 20, 2020 - August 21, 2020 Muhammad Abdul Basit, Hasan Ali Khattak, Sheeraz Ahmed, Asif Nawaz, Masood Habib, Khalid Zaman, 2020 International Conference on UK-China Emerging Technologies (UCET)
Cardiovascular Care in the Era of Machine Learning enabled Personalized Medicine January 07, 2020 - January 10, 2020 Seemal Niazi, Hasan Ali Khattak, Zoobia Ameer, Muhammad Afzal, Wajahat Ali Khan, 2020 International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN)
A Novel Technique of Dynamic Resource Allocation in Software Defined Network December 02, 2019 - December 03, 2019 Muhammad Awais Khan, Munam Ali Shah, Farkhanda Zafar Raja, Hasan Ali Khattak , 2019 15th International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET)
Leveraging ebXML for HL7 V3 Message Transportation October 22, 2019 - October 24, 2019 Hasan Ali Khattak, Maqbool Hussain, Muhammad Afzal, Raihan Ur Rasool, Farooq Ahmad, 14th International HL7 Interoperability Conference (IHIC), Sydney, Australia
Evaluation of the impact of traffic congestion based on SUMO September 05, 2019 - September 07, 2019 Fehda Malik, Hasan Ali Khattak , Munam Ali Shah , 2019 25th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC)
A framework for dengue surveillance and data collection in pakistan July 15, 2019 - July 19, 2019 Komal Minhas, Munazza Tabassam, Rida Rasheed, Assad Abbas, Hasan Ali Khattak, Samee U. Khan, 2019 IEEE 43rd Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)
On Efficiency of Scrambled Image Forensics Service Using Support Vector Machine June 25, 2019 - June 30, 2019 Sahibzada Muhammad Shuja, Raja Farhat Makhdoom Khan, Munam Ali Shah, Hasan Ali Khattak, Assad Abbass, Samee U. Khan, 15th World Congress on Services, SERVICES 2019
Maintaining Fog Trust Through Continuous Assessment June 25, 2019 - June 30, 2019 Hasan Ali Khattak, Muhammad Imran, Assad Abbas, Samee U. Khan, 15th World Congress on Services, SERVICES 2019 held as part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2019
An Internet of Things (IoT)-Based Coverage Monitoring for Mission Critical Regions June 24, 2019 - June 26, 2019 Shagufta Henna, Alan Davy, Hasan Ali Khattak, Abid Ali Minhas, 2019 10th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS)
Towards smart utility monitoring and management March 06, 2019 - March 07, 2019 Rajesh Kumar, Kuldeep Khatri, Muhammad Imran, Hasan Ali Khattak, 2019 2nd International Conference on Communication, Computing and Digital systems (C-CODE)
Home Energy Monitoring System using Wireless Sensor Network November 21, 2018 - November 22, 2018 Muhammad Tayyab Shafique, Hassan Kamran, Hafsa Arshad, Hasan Ali Khattak, 2018 14th International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET)
Data quality techniques in the internet of things: Random forest regression November 21, 2018 - November 22, 2018 M. Mashab Farooqi, Hasan Ali Khattak, Muhammad Imran , 2018 14th International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET)
Towards Efficient Energy Monitoring Using IoT November 01, 2018 - November 02, 2018 Samia Kiran, Hoorish Iqbal Butt, Hasan Ali Khattak, Akhlaque Ahmed, 2018 IEEE 21st International Multi-Topic Conference (INMIC)
Redesign of Clinical Decision Systems to Support Precision Medicine October 28, 2018 - October 31, 2018 Muhammad Afzal, Maqbool Hussain, Sungyoung Lee, Hasan Ali Khattak, TENCON 2018-2018 IEEE Region 10 Conference
Evaluating Bio-Inspired Optimization Techniques for Utility Price Estimation in Fog Computing September 21, 2018 - September 23, 2018 Hafsa Arshad, Munam Ali Shah, Hasan Ali Khattak , Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University, Assad Abbas, Samee Ullah Khan, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Smart Cloud (SmartCloud)
Intelligent Transport System: An Important Aspect of Emergency Management in Smart Cities September 06, 2018 - September 07, 2018 Fehda Malik, Munam Ali Shah, Hasan Ali Khattak, 2018 24th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC)
Internet of Vehicles: Integrated Services over Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks November 27, 2017 - November 29, 2017 Hasan Ali Khattak, Rasheed Hussain, Zoobia Ameer, 1st International Conference on Infrastructure, Technologies and Applications, SCITA 2017
CoAP-based healthcare sensor networks: A survey January 14, 2014 - January 18, 2014 Hasan Ali Khattak, Michele Ruta, Eugenio, Eugenio Di Sciascio, 2014 11th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences & Technology (IBCAST) Islamabad
Assistant Professor COMSATS University Islamabad February 01, 2016 - October 04, 2020
Assistant Professor Iqra National University September 28, 2015 - January 31, 2016
Research Associate Politecnico di Bari January 23, 2012 - April 24, 2015