Summary

I have served as fulltime Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Global Health Infectious Disease Research, College of Public Health, University of South Florida [2021-2022]. I have served as Research Fellow/scientific software engineer at the Brunel University London, College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences Department of Computer Science in the area of Modeling & Simulation [2019-2021]. I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computing, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS), National University of Sciences and Technology, (Pakistan); and the founding Director of the Center for Research in Modeling & Simulation (CRIMSON) [2015-2019]. Earned Doctoral degree in Software & Computer Systems at School of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), KTH-Royal Institute of Technology Sweden in 2013; Earned Master’s degree in Software Engineering of Distributed Systems at School of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), KTH, Sweden in 2007 Research interests in Modern Software Engineering, Modeling & Simulation; Digital Twin Technologies, Geo-spatial Data science, Geo-spatial Visual Analytics, Analysis & formal verification of complex systems and innovative Information and Communication Technologies with several years of experience. Visited or worked in remote collaboration with: University College London, GeorgiaTech, Arizona State University, Georgia State University, State University of New York, Fredonia, EPFL, University of Malaga, Spain, Swedish Defense research agency (FOI), NUS & NTU Singapore and Modeling and Simulation Center (MODSIMMER), METU on different research projects; published quality research papers and delivered different workshops, lectures and invited talks; served in IT industry earlier at various leading roles, at different private and governmental organizations (with experience and special interest in Distance/E-learning technologies).

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