Faculty Seemab Latif

Seemab Latif

HOD Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (AI&DS-DoC)
  • School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • 519085214
Summary

Academic Background
PhD (Artificial Intelligence) University of Manchester September 14, 2006 - May 01, 2010
Honours and Awards
School Best Teacher Award School Best Teacher Award for year 2015-16 June 25, 2018
University Best Innovator University Best Innovator Award for year 2019 December 14, 2020
Publications
A Benchmark Dataset with Larger Context for Non-Factoid Question Answering over Islamic Text June 08, 2026 Data Intelligence - Accepted
Pseudo-Labeling with Large Language Models for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis in Urdu June 08, 2026 Data Intelligence - Accepted
Whisper in Focus: Parameter-Efficient Stuttering Disfluency Classification May 19, 2026 IEEE Access - Volume:14, Pages:74412-74425
Secured-FL: Blockchain-Based Defense against Adversarial Attacks on Federated Learning Models November 10, 2025 Computers, Materials & Continua - Pages 1-24
DRIFTNET-EnVACK: Adaptive Drift Detection in Cloud Data Streams with Ensemble Variational Auto-encoder Featuring Contextual Network June 13, 2024 IEEE Access - Volume 12, Pages 80020-80034
Multi-modal LSTM network for anomaly prediction in piston engine aircraft February 15, 2024 Heliyon - Volume 10, Issue 3, Article Number e25120
LSTMDD: an optimized LSTM-based drift detector for concept drift in dynamic cloud computing January 31, 2024 PeerJ Computer Science - Volume 10, Article Number e1827
Techniques, datasets, evaluation metrics and future directions of a question answering system December 22, 2023 Knowledge and Information Systems - Pages: 34
Assessing Urdu Language Processing Tools via Statistical and Outlier Detection Methods on Urdu Tweets October 13, 2023 ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing - Volume 22, Issue 10, Article Number 234
A Survey of Blockchain Technology: Architecture, Applied Domains, Platforms, and Security Threats July 06, 2022 Social Science Computer Review - Pages 1-22
A Novel Cloud Management Framework for Trust Establishment and Evaluation in a Federated Cloud Environment November 01, 2021 The Journal of Supercomputing - Volume 77, Pages 12537-12560
Analyzing LDA and NMF Topic Models for Urdu Tweets via Automatic Labeling September 21, 2021 IEEE Access - Volume 9, Pages 127531-127547
T-Smart: Trust Model for Blockchain Based Smart Marketplace September 17, 2021 Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research - Volume 16(6), Pages 2405-2423
A novel trust management model for edge computing September 14, 2021 Complex & Intelligent Systems - Pages 1-17
Reducing Arm Fatigue in Virtual Reality by Introducing 3D-Spatial Offset May 04, 2021 IEEE Access - Volume 9, Pages 64085-64104
Predicting Risk of Antenatal Depression and Anxiety Using Multi-Layer Perceptrons and Support Vector Machines March 12, 2021 Journal of Personalized Medicine - Volume 11(3), Article Number 199
Malicious Insider Attack Detection in IoTs Using Data Analytics January 17, 2020 IEEE Access - Volume 8, Pages 11743 - 11753
Detection of Denial of Service (DoS) Attack in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks: A Systematic Literature Review November 22, 2018 Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks - Volume 42 Issue 1-2 Pages 35-61
Malicious insiders attack in IoT based Multi-Cloud e-Healthcare environment: A Systematic Literature Review September 01, 2018 Multimedia Tools and Applications - Vol:77, Pages21947-21965
An Adaptive Rule-Based Approach to Resolving Real-Time VoIP Wholesale Billing Disputes November 01, 2017 Journal of Information Science and Engineering - Volume 33, No. 6, Special Issue: SI, Pages 1433-1446
Performance evaluation of Enhanced Very Fast Decision Tree (EVFDT) mechanism for distributed denial-of-service attack detection in health care systems October 01, 2016 Annals of Telecommunications - Volume 71, Issue 9-10, Pages 477-487
A Mobile Application to Improve Learning Performance of Dyslexic Children with Writing Difficulties October 01, 2016 Educational Technology & Society - Volume 19, Issue 4, Pages 151-166
Distributed Denial of Service Attack Source Detection Using Efficient Traceback Technique (ETT) in Cloud-Assisted Healthcare Environment June 01, 2016 Journal of Medical Systems - -
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack detection using data mining approach in cloud-assisted wireless body area networks January 01, 2016 International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing - Volume 23, Issue 1-2, Pages 24-35, Special Issue SI
Designing an Assistive Learning Aid for Writing Acquisition: A Challenge for Children with Dyslexia August 01, 2015 Book on Studies in Health Technology and Informatics-Assistive Technology - NULL
EVFDT: An Enhanced Very Fast Decision Tree Algorithm for Detecting Distributed Denial of Service Attack in Cloud-Assisted Wireless Body Area Network January 01, 2015 Mobile Information Systems - NULL
Conferences
LMS-Whisper: Efficient Lightweight Whisper for Multi-Stutter Speech Classification May 04, 2026 - May 08, 2026 Huma Ameer, Mehwish Fatima, Rabia Latif, SEEMAB LATIF, 51st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
CARGO: Citation-Aware Routing and Grounded Optimization for Faithful and Trustworthy Language Generation December 15, 2025 - December 16, 2025 Faiza Qamar, SEEMAB LATIF, Mehwish Fatima, 2025 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT)
Few-Shot Multilingual Coreference Resolution Using Long-Context Large Language Models November 09, 2025 - November 11, 2025 SEEMAB LATIF, Zuhair Zafar, Muhammad Moazam Fraz, Moiz Sajid, Eighth Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CRAC 2025)
Restaurant Menu Categorization at Scale: LLM-Guided Hybrid Clustering October 29, 2025 - November 02, 2025 SEEMAB LATIF, Ashar Mehmood, Selim Turki, Huma Ameer, Ivan Gorban, Faysal Fateh, Muhammad Sabih, International Natural Language Generation Conference
Retrieval-Augmented LLMs for Context-Aware Islamic Question Answering October 08, 2025 - October 09, 2025 Faiza Qamar, SEEMAB LATIF, 10th Multidisciplinary Research International Conference
Towards Robust Urdu Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis through Weakly-Supervised Annotation Framework August 25, 2025 - August 27, 2025 Zoya , SEEMAB LATIF, Rabia Latif, International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2025)
The Chunking Paradigm: Recursive Semantic for RAG Optimization August 25, 2025 - August 27, 2025 SEEMAB LATIF, Huma Ameer, Muhammad Hannan Akram, Mehwish Fatima, International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2025)
Prompt-Guided Augmentation and Multi-modal Fusion for Argumentative Fallacy Classification in Political Debates July 31, 2025 - July 31, 2025 Abdullah Tahir, Imaan Ibrar , Huma Ameer, Mehwish Fatima, SEEMAB LATIF, 12th Workshop on Argument Mining ACL 2025
NUST Titans at SemEval-2025 Task 11: AfroEmo: Multilingual Emotion Detection with Adaptive Afro-XLM-R July 31, 2025 - August 01, 2025 Mehwish Fatima, Maham Khan, Hajra Binte Naeem, Faiza Khan, Laiba Rana, SEEMAB LATIF, Raja Khurram Shahzad, Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025)
FinRL Contest 2025 Task 1:Market-Aware In-Context Learning Framework for Proximal Policy Optimization in Stock Trading Using DeepSeek May 09, 2025 - May 11, 2025 Sahar Arshad, Huma Ameer, Nikhar Azhar, SEEMAB LATIF, Proceedings - 2025 IEEE 11th International Conference on Intelligent Data and Security, IDS 2025
News Credibility Identification on Facebook May 07, 2025 - May 08, 2025 Maha Zainab, Asad Ali Shah, Sharifullah Khan, SEEMAB LATIF, Safdar Abbas Khan, Abdulwahab Ali Almazroi, 2025 International Conference on Innovation in Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things (AIIT)
NUST Alpha at RIRAG 2025: Fusion RAG for Bridging Lexical and Semantic Retrieval and Question Answering January 19, 2025 - January 24, 2025 Muhammad Rouhan Faisal, Faizyab Ali Shah, Muhammad Abdullah , Shalina Riaz, Huma Ameer, SEEMAB LATIF, Mehwish Fatima, COLING 2025
NUST Nova at RIRAG 2025: A Hybrid Framework for Regulatory Information Retrieval and Question Answering January 19, 2025 - January 24, 2025 SEEMAB LATIF, Mehwish Fatima, Mariam Babar Khan, Huma Ameer, 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025)
NUST Omega at RIRAG 2025: Investigating Context-Aware Retrieval and Answer Generation-Lessons Learned and Challenges January 19, 2025 - January 24, 2025 Huma Ameer, Muhammad Hannan Akram, SEEMAB LATIF, Mehwish Fatima, COLING 2025
Personality Prediction using Multiple Textual Datasets and Deep Learning Models December 09, 2024 - December 10, 2024 Arsalan Shaukat, SEEMAB LATIF, Faiza Arshad, 2024 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology, FIT 2024
Event-Driven Investment Recommendations using Synthesized Financial News for Stock Market August 23, 2024 - August 25, 2024 SEEMAB LATIF, Sana Sajid, Sahar Arshad, Nikhar Azhar, Huma Ameer, 8th International Conference on Applied Economics and Business
NLPColab at FigNews 2024 Shared Task: Challenges in Bias and Propaganda Annotation for News Media August 16, 2024 - August 16, 2024 Hammad Afzal, SEEMAB LATIF, Sadaf Abdul Rauf, Huda Sarfraz, Saadia Ishtiaq Nauman, Arooj Fatima, Sadaf Ziafat, Alishba Abdul Suboor, Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference
Fine-tuning Urdu NER Models Using Context-Aware Embeddings August 16, 2024 - August 18, 2024 SEEMAB LATIF, Sahar Arshad, Nikhar Azhar, Proceedings - 2024 14th International Conference on Software Technology and Engineering, ICSTE 2024
Interpretability in Financial Forecasting: The Role of eXplainable AI in Stock Market August 16, 2024 - August 18, 2024 SEEMAB LATIF, Hira Tanveer, Sahar Arshad, Huma Ameer, 2024 14th International Conference on Software Technology and Engineering (ICSTE)
Leveraging Large Language Models and Prompt Settings for Context-Aware Financial Sentiment Analysis February 19, 2024 - February 20, 2024 SEEMAB LATIF, Rabbia Ahmed, Sadaf Abdul Rauf, 2024 5th International Conference on Advancements in Computational Sciences, ICACS 2024
Comparison of Transformer Models for Information Extraction from Court Room Records in Pakistan November 16, 2022 - November 18, 2022 Nida Ahmed, Seemab Latif, Rabia Irfan, Adnan ul-Hassan, Faisal Shafait, International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering, ICECCME 2022
Text Summarization from Judicial Records using Deep Neural Machines November 16, 2022 - November 18, 2022 Ayesha Sarwar, Seemab Latif, Rabia Irfan, Adnan ul-Hassan, Faisal Shafait, International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering, ICECCME 2022
Dynamic Big Data Drift Visualization of CPU and Memory Resource Usage in Cloud Computing June 17, 2022 - June 20, 2022 Tajwar Mehmood , Seemab Latif, Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations AIAI 2022
Roman Urdu Sentiment Analysis Using Pre-trained DistilBERT and XLNet March 28, 2022 - March 29, 2022 Nikhar Azhar, Seemab Latif, Fifth International Conference of Women in Data Science
Students Personality Assessment using Deep Learning from University Admission Statement of Purpose March 01, 2022 - March 03, 2022 Salma Kulsoom , Seemab Latif, Tanzila Saba, Rabia Latif, 2022 7th International Conference on Data Science and Machine Learning Applications (CDMA)
Question Classification Using Universal Sentence Encoder and Deep Contextualized Transformer December 07, 2021 - December 10, 2021 Najam Arif, Seemab Latif, Rabia Latif, 14th International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE)
A Survey of Sentiment Analysis of Internet Textual Data and Application to Pakistani YouTube User Comments May 20, 2021 - May 21, 2021 Mehwish Rani, Seemab Latif, Muhammad Ali Tahir, Rafia Mumtaz, IEEE International Conference on Digital Futures and Transformative Technologies (ICoDT2)
Sentiment Analysis on COVID Tweets: An Experimental Analysis on the Impact of Count Vectorizer and TF-IDF on Sentiment Predictions using Deep Learning Models May 20, 2021 - May 21, 2021 Ghulam Musa Raza, Zainab Saeed Butt, Seemab Latif, Abdul Wahid , 2021 International Conference on Digital Futures and Transformative Technologies (ICoDT2)
From Transformers to Reformers May 20, 2021 - May 21, 2021 Nauman Riaz, Seemab Latif, Rabia Latif, International Conference on Digital Futures and Transformative Technologies (ICoDT2)
Transfer Learning Grammar for Multilingual Surface Realisation May 20, 2021 - May 21, 2021 Atif Khurshid, Seemab Latif, Rabia Latif, IEEE 2021 International Conference on Digital Futures and transformative Technologies (ICoDT2)
Fine Tuning BERT for Unethical Behavior Classification May 20, 2021 - May 21, 2021 Syeda Faizan Fatima, Seemab Latif, Rabia Latif, IEEE 2021 International Conference on Digital Futures and transformative Technologies (ICoDT2),
MAD-Malicious Activity Detection Framework in Federated Cloud Computing December 14, 2020 - December 17, 2020 Akash Gerard, Rabia Latif, Seemab Latif, Mian Muhammad Waseem Iqbal, Tanzila Saba , Naqash Gerard, Waseem Iqbal, IEEE 13th International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE)
Crowdsourcing Cybercrimes through Online Resources December 14, 2020 - December 17, 2020 Naila Amir, Rabia Latif, Narmeen Shafqat, Seemab Latif, IEEE 13th International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE)
Backward-Forward Sequence Generative Network for Multiple Lexical Constraints June 05, 2020 - June 07, 2020 Seemab Latif, Sarmad Bashir, Mir Muntasar Ali Agha, Rabia Latif, Seemab Latif, Sarmad Bashir, Mir Muntasar Ali Agha, Rabia Latif, AIAI 2020 16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations
i* (iStar) Security Hierarchy for Cloud Computing November 24, 2019 - November 28, 2019 Fiza Saher Faizan, Seemab Latif, Rabia Latif, Fiza Saher Faizan, Seemab Latif, Rabia Latif, 14th International Conference on Software Engineering Advances
Prediction Of Cloud Computing Resource Utilization October 08, 2018 - October 10, 2018 Tajwar Mehmood, Seemab Latif, Sheheryaar Malik, 15th International Conference on Smart Cities: Improving Quality of Life Using ICT & IoT (HONET-ICT)
Identification and improvement of design issues of a sales management system for VOIP wholesaler December 17, 2015 - December 17, 2015 SEEMAB LATIF, Maham Jahangir, Nazish Yaqoob, 2015 National Software Engineering Conference, NSEC 2015
Synthesis of an Adaptive CPR Filter for Identification of Vehicle Make & Type November 11, 2014 - November 12, 2014 Ahmed Bilal Awan, Saad Rehman, Seemab Latif, 2014 National Software Engineering Conference
Analyzing feasibility for deploying very fast decision tree for DDoS attack detection in cloud-assisted WBAN August 03, 2014 - August 06, 2014 Rabia Latif, Haider Abbas, Saïd Assar, Seemab Latif, 10th International Conference, ICIC 2014