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Dr Waqar Shahid Qureshi

B.Sc., M.Sc., PhD

Contact Details

Lecturer - Contract B
3rd Floor, School of Computer Science
University of Galway, South Campus
E: waqarshahid.qureshi@universityofgalway.ie
https://www.linkedin.com/in/waqar-s-qureshi/
 
researcher
 

Biography

Dr. Waqar Shahid Qureshi has 20 years of research and development experience in both industry and academia, encompassing various domains of computer science and engineering. Dr. Waqar Shahid Qureshi joined the University of Galway's School of Computer Science in January 2024. He is co-leading a project to develop a surface condition assessment rating and sensing system for cycle tracks. This project is in close cooperation with Transport Infrastructure Ireland, Road Management Office, collaborator from Pavement Management Services Ireland, mentors from Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin), and other vehicle users. This initiative builds on his prior work at TU Dublin, where he developed a deep learning based automated image analysis of visual pavement surface condition rating system for regional and local roads. His work contributed to a patent, which PMS has agreed to buy a 3-year evaluation license. Dr. Qureshi is an entrepreneurial academic with significant industry engagement. He has previously held the role of Vice Chief Software Engineer at XYZ Printing Ltd, during which he developed three commercial products and secured multiple patents for a novel 3D scanning method. During his five-year tenure at the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) in Pakistan, Dr. Qureshi supervised ten master¿s students and co-supervised two Ph.D. candidates, who have since pursued academic careers. His international collaborations span countries such as Australia, Thailand, Czech Republic, Taiwan, China, and the USA, leading to significant publications and generating industry interest. As the leader of the Agriculture Robotics group at National Center for Robotics and Automation (NCRA), NUST Pakistan, Dr. Qureshi focused on developing smart agricultural technologies that include on tree mango maturity device, crop health analysis mobile application, and utilization of aerial spraying drones. His work culminated in the formation of Robotics Private Limited, a start-up that pioneered locally assembled drones for pesticide spraying in sugarcane crops¿a breakthrough in combating the white fly pest in Pakistan. Dr. Qureshi's influence extends into policymaking; he was a vital member of the Ministry of Science and Technology's committee at NUST, where he helped draft Pakistan's first drone policy.

Research Interests

My research interest lies in the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to create effective solutions and technologies utilizing affordable sensing systems for real-world environmental monitoring, and various visual analyses in the areas of precision agriculture, horticulture, and civil engineering. 

My expertise encompasses 3D computer vision, automated image analysis, and automated analysis of NIR spectral analysis using point spectroscopy or satellite imagery.

Additionally, my proficiency extends to robot localization and target tracking. A specific focus of my interest lies in aerial robotics, with a particular emphasis on low-altitude flying. I am intrigued by challenges related to localization and mapping in this context, aiming to advance the field and address real-world applications.

From 2016 - 2023, I won various research grants and development projects. The following list provides details of my research grants:

Research Grant by Enterprise Ireland
·        Automated road pavement condition assessment - a deep learning approach - Enterprise Ireland Marie Curie Career Fit Fellowship

International Software and Hardware Development Projects
·        Development of FreMEn advisory notification App - CTU Prague (Project Funds: 3000 USD, 03/20 - 05/20)
·        Development of Farmer App for crop health and crop input (Project Funds: 3000 USD, 05/20 - 08/20)
·        Development of Cough Audio recording App and Contact Tracing App for Umm-ul-Qura University (Project Funds: 6,000 USD, 07/20-09/20)



Higher Education Commission of Pakistan

·        National Research Program University - 2021 (Grant: 50,000 USD, 6/21-6/24), ¿Design and development of smart spraying system for agricultural drones.
·        Technology Development Program - 2018 (Grant: 76,500 USD, 7/18-6/20), Low-cost precision agriculture services using high-resolution multi-spectral imaging and map­ping software.
·        Public Sector Development Project - 2018 (Grant: 615,384 USD, 7/18-12/20), Establishment of Robot and Design and Development Lab  Agriculture Domain (specified projects), NCRA
·        HEC startup research grant - 2016 (Grant: 4500 USD, 8/16-12/17), Indigenous Development of Robotic Arm Using Rapid Prototyping Techniques for Application Such as in Field Crop Monitoring.
·        HEC startup research grant - 2017 (Grant: 4500 USD, 2/17-2/18), Development of a low-cost teleoperated sprayer drone for precision agriculture.

Pakistan Agriculture Research Council
·      Agriculture Linkage Program - 2018 (Grant: 40,600 USD, 7/18-12/20), Smart Phone Based on-tree Mango Fruit Quantity and Quality Estimation using near In­frared Spectroscopy and Machine Vision.


Peer Reviewed Journals

  Year Publication
(2024) 'Aerial imagery-based tobacco plant counting framework for efficient crop emergence estimation'
Shahid, Ramsha and Qureshi, Waqar S. and Khan, Umar S. and Munir, Arslan and Zeb, Ayesha and Moazzam, Syed Imran (2024) 'Aerial imagery-based tobacco plant counting framework for efficient crop emergence estimation'. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 217 (108557):1-14 [Details]
(2023) 'Deep learning framework for intelligent pavement condition rating: A direct classification approach for regional and local roads'
Qureshi, Waqar S and Power, David and Ullah, Ihsan and Mulry, Brian and Feighan, Kieran and McKeever, Susan and O'Sullivan, Dympna (2023) 'Deep learning framework for intelligent pavement condition rating: A direct classification approach for regional and local roads'. Automation in Construction, 153 [Details]
(2023) 'Towards Sweetness Classification of Orange Cultivars using Short-Wave NIR Spectroscopy'
Zeb, Ayesha and Qureshi, Waqar Shahid and Ghafoor, Abdul and Malik, Amanullah and Imran, Muhammad and Mirza, Alina and Tiwana, Mohsin and Alanazi, Eisa (2023) 'Towards Sweetness Classification of Orange Cultivars using Short-Wave NIR Spectroscopy'. Scientific Reports, 3 [Details]
(2023) 'A W-Shaped Convolutional Network for Robust Crop and Weed Classification in Agriculture'
Moazzam, Syed Imran and Nawaz, Tahir and Qureshi, Waqar S. and Khan, Umar S. and Tiwana, Mohsin Islam (2023) 'A W-Shaped Convolutional Network for Robust Crop and Weed Classification in Agriculture'. Precision Agriculture, [Details]
(2023) 'A Connective Framework to Minimize the Anxiety of Collaborative Cyber-Physical System'
Islam, Ossamah Bin and Lugmani, Waqas and Qureshi, Waqar S. and Khalid, Azfar (2023) 'A Connective Framework to Minimize the Anxiety of Collaborative Cyber-Physical System'. International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing (TCIM), [Details]
(2023) 'New FxLMAT based Algorithms for Active Control of Impulsive Noise'
Mirza, Alina and Afzal, Farkhanda and Zeb, Ayesha and Wakeel, Abdul and Qureshi, Waqar S. and Akgul, Ali (2023) 'New FxLMAT based Algorithms for Active Control of Impulsive Noise'. IEEE Access, [Details]
(2023) 'Towards automated weed detection through two-stage semantic segmentation of tobacco and weed pixels in aerial Imagery'
Moazzam, S. Imran and Khan, Umar S. and Qureshi, Waqar S. and Nawaz, Tahir and Kunwar, Faraz (2023) 'Towards automated weed detection through two-stage semantic segmentation of tobacco and weed pixels in aerial Imagery'. Smart Agricultural Technology, 4 [Details]
(2022) 'A new method for pixel classification for rice variety identification using spectral and time series data from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery'
Rauf, Usman and Qureshi, Waqar S. and Jabbar, Hamid and Zeb4, Ayesha and Mirza, Alina and Alanazi, Eisa and Khan, Umar S. and Rashid, Nasir (2022) 'A new method for pixel classification for rice variety identification using spectral and time series data from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery'. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 193 [Details]
(2022) 'NIR Spectroscopy for Fruit Quality Evaluation: A Case Study for Pakistani Apple, Mango, Orange and Loquat Production''
Zeb, Ayesha and Walsh, Kerry and Qureshi, Waqar S. and Malik, Aman and Shah, Sohaib and Ghafoor, Abdul and Alanazi, Eisa (2022) 'NIR Spectroscopy for Fruit Quality Evaluation: A Case Study for Pakistani Apple, Mango, Orange and Loquat Production''. International Food Research Journal, [Details]
(2022) 'Patch-wise weed coarse segmentation mask from aerial imagery of sesame crop'
Moazzam, S. Imran and Khan, Umar S. and Qureshi, Waqar S. and Tiwana, Mohsin I. and Rashid, Nasir and Hamza, Amir and Nawaz, Tahir H. (2022) 'Patch-wise weed coarse segmentation mask from aerial imagery of sesame crop'. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, [Details]
(2022) 'An exploration of recent intelligent image analysis techniques for visual pavement surface condition assessment'
Qureshi, Waqar S and Hassan, Syed Ibrahim and McKeever, Susan and Power, David and Mulry, Brian and Feighan, Kieran and Sullivan, Dympna O (2022) 'An exploration of recent intelligent image analysis techniques for visual pavement surface condition assessment'. Sensors, [Details]
(2022) 'Human Gait Recognition Subject to Different Covariate Factors in a Multi-View Environment'
Asif, Muhammad and Tiwana, Mohsin and Khan, Umar S. and Ahmad, Muhammad Waqas and Qureshi, Waqar S. and Iqbal, Javaid (2022) 'Human Gait Recognition Subject to Different Covariate Factors in a Multi-View Environment'. Results in Engineering, [Details]
(2022) '3D printable Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU) Energy Efficient Passive Foot'
Ahmed, M Hassan and Jamshid, Asharib and Amjad, Usman and Azhar, Aashir and Hassan, M. Zawar Ul and Tiwana, Mohsin Islam and Qureshi, Waqar S. and Alanazi, Eisa (2022) '3D printable Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU) Energy Efficient Passive Foot'. 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing, [Details]
(2022) 'Analysis of Human Gait Cycle With Body Equilibrium Based on Leg Orientation'
ASIF, MUHAMMAD and TAYYAB, MUHAMMAD A and SHAHID, MUHAMMAD H. and ARIF, USAMA and TIWANA, MOHSIN I. and KHAN, UMAR S. and QURESHI, WAQAR S. (2022) 'Analysis of Human Gait Cycle With Body Equilibrium Based on Leg Orientation'. IEEE Access, [Details]
(2022) 'Single Image 3D Beard Face Reconstruction Approaches'
Munir, Hafiz Muhammad Umair and Qureshi, Waqar Shahid (2022) 'Single Image 3D Beard Face Reconstruction Approaches'. International Journal of Cyber-Physical Systems (IJCPS), 4 (1):1-17 [Details]
(2021) 'Autonomous Navigation for a Wolfberry picking robot Using Visual Cues and Fuzzy control'
Ma, Yue and Zhang, Wenqiang and Qureshi, Waqar S (2021) 'Autonomous Navigation for a Wolfberry picking robot Using Visual Cues and Fuzzy control'. Information Processing in Agriculture, [Details]
(2021) 'AirMatch: An automated mosaicing system with video preprocessing engine for multiple aerial feeds'
RASHEED, Nida and QURESHI, Waqar S. and A. KHAN, Shoab and NAQVI, Manshoor A. and ALANAZI, Eisa (2021) 'AirMatch: An automated mosaicing system with video preprocessing engine for multiple aerial feeds'. IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, 104 (4) [Details]
(2021) 'The rise of 3D Printing entangled with smart computer aided design during COVID-19 era'
Nazir, Aamer and Azhar, Aashir and Nazir, Usman and Liu, Yun-Feng and Qureshi, Waqar S and Chen, Jia-En and Alanazi, Eisa (2021) 'The rise of 3D Printing entangled with smart computer aided design during COVID-19 era'. Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 60 :774-786 [Details]
(2021) 'Analysis of visual features and classifiers for Fruit classification problem'
Sumaira Ghazal, Waqar S. Qureshi, Umar S. Khan, Javaid Iqbal, Nasir Rashid, Mohsin I Tiwana (2021) 'Analysis of visual features and classifiers for Fruit classification problem'. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, [Details]
(2021) 'Improving classification performance of four class FNIRS-BCI using Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC)'
Ghaffar, Muhammad Saad Bin Abdul and Khan, Umar S and Iqbal, J and Rashid, Nasir and Hamza, Amir and Qureshi, Waqar S and Tiwana, Mohsin I and Izhar, Umer (2021) 'Improving classification performance of four class FNIRS-BCI using Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC)'. Infrared Physics \& Technology, 112 [Details]
(2021) 'Mango maturity classification instead of maturity index estimation: A new approach towards handheld NIR spectroscopy'
Shah, Syed Sohaib Ali and Qureshi, Waqar Shahid and Zeb, Ayesha and Malik, Aman Ullah and Tiwana, Mohsin and Walsh, Kerry and Alasmary, Waleed and Alanazi, Eisa and Amin, Muhammad (2021) 'Mango maturity classification instead of maturity index estimation: A new approach towards handheld NIR spectroscopy'. Infrared Physics and Technology, [Details]
(2021) 'A patch-image based classification approach for detection of weeds in sugar beet crop'
Moazzam, S Imran and Khan, Umar S and Qureshi, Waqar S and Tiwana, Mohsin I and Rashid, Nasir and Alasmary, Waleed S and Iqbal, Javaid and Hamza, Amir (2021) 'A patch-image based classification approach for detection of weeds in sugar beet crop'. IEEE Access, 9 :121698-121715 [Details]
(2021) 'Advancements, Trends and Future Prospects of Lower Limb Prosthesis'
Asif, Muhammad and Mohsin Tiwana, Waqar S. Qureshi, Umar S. Khan (2021) 'Advancements, Trends and Future Prospects of Lower Limb Prosthesis'. IEEE Access, [Details]
(2021) 'Is this Melon Sweet? A quantitative classification for near-infrared spectroscopy'
Zeb, Ayesha and Qureshi, Waqar S. and Ghafoor, Abdul and Malik, Amanullah and Imran, Muhammad and Iqbal, Javaid and Alanazi, Eisa (2021) 'Is this Melon Sweet? A quantitative classification for near-infrared spectroscopy'. Infrared Physics and Technology, [Details]
(2020) 'Real time estimation of leaf area index and groundnut yield using multispectral UAV'
Tahir, Muhammad Naveed and Lan, Yubin and Zhang, Yali and Wang, Yingkuan and Nawaz, Faisal and Shah, Muhammad Arslan Ahmed and Gulzar, Asim and Qureshi, Waqar Shahid and Naqvi, Syed Manshoor and Naqvi, Syed Zaigham Abbas (2020) 'Real time estimation of leaf area index and groundnut yield using multispectral UAV'. International Journal of Precision Agricultural Aviation, 3 (1) [Details]
(2020) 'Towards Fruit Maturity Estimation Using NIR Spectroscopy'
Syed,Sohaib, Ali, Shah and Zeb, Ayesha and Shahid, Waqar and Arslan, Muhammad and Malik, AmanUllah and EisaAlanazi and Alasmary, Waleed (2020) 'Towards Fruit Maturity Estimation Using NIR Spectroscopy'. Infrared Physics and Technology, [Details]
(2019) 'Exploiting visual cues for safe and flexible cyber-physical production systems'
Islam, Syed Osama Bin and Lughmani, Waqas Akbar and Qureshi, Waqar Shahid and Khalid, Azfar and Mariscal, Miguel Angel and Garcia-Herrero, Susana (2019) 'Exploiting visual cues for safe and flexible cyber-physical production systems'. Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 11 (12):1-13 [Details]
(2019) 'Automated analysis of visual leaf shape features for plant classification'
Gulshan, Saleem and Mahmood, Akhtar and Naveed, Ahmad and Waqar S., Qureshi (2019) 'Automated analysis of visual leaf shape features for plant classification'. Computer and Electronics in Agriculture, 157 :270-280 [Details]
(2018) 'Impact of androgenetic alopecia on the psychological health of young men'
Danyal, MUHAMMAD and Shah, SIA and Hassan, MS and Qureshi, W (2018) 'Impact of androgenetic alopecia on the psychological health of young men'. Pakistan Journal of Medical and Health Sciences, 12 (1):406-410 [Details]
(2016) 'Machine vision for counting fruit on mango tree canopies'
Qureshi, W. S. and Payne, A. and Walsh, K. B. and Linker, R. and Cohen, O. and Dailey, M. N. (2016) 'Machine vision for counting fruit on mango tree canopies'. Precision Agriculture, 17 (3):1-21 [Details]
(2015) 'QuickBlaze: Early fire detection using a combined video processing approach'
Qureshi, W.S. and Ekpanyapong, M. and Dailey, M.N. and Rinsurongkawong, S. and Malenichev, A. and Krasotkina, O. (2015) 'QuickBlaze: Early fire detection using a combined video processing approach'. Fire Technology, [Details]
(2014) 'Joint Localization of Pursuit Quadcopters and Target Using Monocular Cues'
Basit, Abdul and Qureshi, Waqar S. and Dailey, Matthew N. and Krajn\'\ik, Tom\'a\vs (2014) 'Joint Localization of Pursuit Quadcopters and Target Using Monocular Cues'. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, [Details]
(2009) 'Object tracking using MACH filter and optical flow in cluttered scenes and variable lighting conditions'
Qureshi, Waqar Shahid and Alvi, Abu-Baqar Nisar (2009) 'Object tracking using MACH filter and optical flow in cluttered scenes and variable lighting conditions'. World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, 60 :709-712 [Details]

Book Chapters

  Year Publication
(2020) '3D Single Image Face Reconstruction Approaches With Deep Neural Networks'
Munir, Hafiz Muhammad Umair and Qureshi, Waqar S (2020) '3D Single Image Face Reconstruction Approaches With Deep Neural Networks' In: :262-281 IGI Global. [Details]

Conference Publications

  Year Publication
(2023) 2023 International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Industry (ICRAI)
Shahzad, Muhammad Osama and Aqeel, Anas Bin and Qureshi, Waqar Shahid (2023) Detection of Grape Clusters in Images Using Convolutional Neural Network 2023 International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Industry (ICRAI) , pp.1-5 [Details]
(2023) 2023 International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Industry (ICRAI)
Anjum, Muhammad Umar and Khan, Umar Shabaz and Qureshi, Waqar Shahid and Hamza, Ameer and Khan, Wajih Ahmed (2023) Vision-Based Hybrid Detection For Pick And Place Application In Robotic Manipulators 2023 International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Industry (ICRAI) , pp.1-5 [Details]
(2022) ICMRE 2022
Zeb, Ayesha and Qureshi, Waqar Shahid and Ghafoor, Abdul and Sullivan, Dympna O’ (2022) Learning fruit class from short wave near infrared spectral features, an AI approach towards determining fruit type ICMRE 2022 [Details]
(2022) International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP 2022)
Qureshi, Waqar S. and Power, David and Mulry, Brian and McHale, Joseph and Feighan, Kieran and O' Sullivan, Dympna (2022) Learning pavement surface condition ratings through visual cues using a deep learning classification approach International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP 2022) [Details]
(2022) 2022 13th Asian Control Conference (ASCC)
Arif, Arshia and Alanazi, Eisa and Zeb, Ayesha and Qureshi, Waqar Shahid (2022) Analysis of rule-based and shallow statistical models for COVID-19 cough detection for a preliminary diagnosis 2022 13th Asian Control Conference (ASCC) , pp.465-469 [Details]
(2021) International Conference of Robotics and Automation in Industry (ICRAI)
Ahmed, Dawood and Qureshi, Waqar Shahid and Aijaz, Syed Arsalan and Imran, Basit Muhammad and Naqvi, Syed Manshoor Ali and Lin, Chyi-Yeu (2021) Towards Selfie Drone: Spatial Localization and Navigation of drone Using Human Pose Estimation International Conference of Robotics and Automation in Industry (ICRAI) [Details]
(2020) 2020 4rd International Conference on Electrical, Telecommunication and Computer Engineering (ELTICOM)
Mundial, Imran Qayyum and Hassan, M Sohaib Ul and Tiwana, M Islam and Qureshi, Waqar Shahid and Alanazi, Eisa (2020) Towards facial recognition problem in COVID-19 pandemic 2020 4rd International Conference on Electrical, Telecommunication and Computer Engineering (ELTICOM) , pp.210-214 [Details]
(2019) 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Industry (ICRAI)
Moazzam, Syed I and Khan, Umar Shahbaz and Tiwana, Mohsin Islam and Iqbal, Javed and Qureshi, Waqar S and Shah, Syed Irfan (2019) A review of application of deep learning for weeds and crops classification in agriculture 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Industry (ICRAI) , pp.1-6 [Details]
(2019) 5th International Conference on Control, Automation and Robotics (ICCAR)
Hussain, Muhammad Altaf and Islam, Syed Osama Bin and Tiwana, MI and Ubaid-Ur-Rehman and Qureshi, W. S. (2019) Detection and Classification of Hard Exudates with Fundus Images Complements and Neural Networks 5th International Conference on Control, Automation and Robotics (ICCAR) , pp.206-211 [Details]
(2019) Proceedings of the13th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization, Computer Vision and Image Processing (CGVCVIP). Academic Press
Munir, Hafiz Muhammad Umair and Qureshi, Waqar S (2019) Towards 3D Facial Reconstruction using Deep Neural Networks Proceedings of the13th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization, Computer Vision and Image Processing (CGVCVIP). Academic Press [Details]
(2019) 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Industry (ICRAI)
Azhar, Aashir and Nazir, Aamer and Qureshi, WS and Jeng, Jeng-Ywan (2019) Accelerating research and development using 3D printing and its potential opportunities in pakistan: a review 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Industry (ICRAI) , pp.1-8 [Details]
(2019) 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Industry (ICRAI)
Jamil, Zukhraf and Gulraiz, Abdullah and Qureshi, WS and Lin, Chyi-Yeu (2019) Human head motion modeling using monocular cues for interactive robotic applications 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Industry (ICRAI) , pp.1-5 [Details]
(2018) 13th International conference on Knowledge,Information, and creativity support System
Samart Moodleah, Pornsuree Jamsri, Waqar Shahid (2018) Generating GIF from 3D Mesh and Point Cloud: An Automated Software 13th International conference on Knowledge,Information, and creativity support System [Details]
(2016) Advances in Visual Computing: 12th International Symposium, ISVC 2016, Las Vegas, NV, USA, December 12-14, 2016, Proceedings, Part II 12
Mahmood, Fahad and Mahmood, Jawad and Qureshi, Waqar Shahid and Khan, Umar Shahbaz (2016) 3-D Shape Recovery from Image Focus Using Rank Transform Advances in Visual Computing: 12th International Symposium, ISVC 2016, Las Vegas, NV, USA, December 12-14, 2016, Proceedings, Part II 12 , pp.514-523 [Details]
(2015) Image Analysis and Processing—ICIAP 2015: 18th International Conference, Genoa, Italy, September 7-11, 2015, Proceedings, Part I 18
Nakaguro, Yoichi and Qureshi, Waqar S and Dailey, Matthew N and Ekpanyapong, Mongkol and Bunnun, Pished and Tungpimolrut, Kanokvate (2015) Volumetric 3D Reconstruction and Parametric Shape Modeling from RGB-D Sequences Image Analysis and Processing—ICIAP 2015: 18th International Conference, Genoa, Italy, September 7-11, 2015, Proceedings, Part I 18 , pp.500-516 [Details]
(2014) 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP 2014)
Qureshi, Waqar S. and Satoh, Shin'ichi and Dailey, Matthew N. and Ekpanyapong, Mongkol (2014) Dense Segmentation of Textured Fruits in Video Sequences 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP 2014) , pp.441-447 [Details]
(2010) World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
Azad, Hafiz ul and Lazic, Dragan V. and Qureshi, Waqar S. (2010) FPGA Based Longitudinal and Lateral Controller Implementation for a Small UAV World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology , pp.735-740 [Details]

Honours and Awards

  Year Title Awarding Body
2018 International Visiting Researcher Grant Ministry of Education Taiwan
2013 International Internship Grant Award National Institute of Informatics Japan
2009 Faculty Development Fellowship in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence National University of Science and Technology

Patents

  Patent Number Title Granted
US10495459B2 The three-dimensional point cloud model generating device and generation method of entity article 03-DEC-19

Disclosures

  Title Submitted
Comprehensive and Efficient Pavement Condition Rating using Deep Learning-based Direct Classification Methodology 17-JUL-23

Employment

  Employer Position From / To
XYZPrinting Inc. Thailand Vice Chief Software Engineer 03-MAR-15 / 14-JAN-16
National Engineering and Scientific Commision Assistant Manager Electronics 19-FEB-04 / 15-NOV-08
National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan Assistant Professor 06-JAN-16 / 10-OCT-21
Technological University Dublin Marie Curie Post Doctoral Researcher 18-OCT-21 / 18-SEP-23
Atlantic Technological University Lecture in Robotics and Automation 18-SEP-23 / 22-JAN-24
Air University Islamabad Assistant Professor 04-AUG-08 / 04-AUG-10
Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Teaching/ Research Associate 11-JAN-11 / 01-FEB-15

Education

  Year Institution Qualification Subject
2007 Center for Advanced Studies in Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, Pakistan Master of Science in Computer Engineering Computer Architecture and Digital Signal Processing
2015 Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Doctor of Engineering in Mechatronics Computer Vision and Digital Image Processing
2003 University of Engineering and Technology Lahore Bachelor of Science (Honors) Electrical Engineering Electronics and Communication

Reviews

  Journal Role
Artificial Intelligence Review Reviewer
Computers And Electronics In Agriculture Reviewer

Teaching Interests

Computer Vision, Digital Image Processing, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Organisation and Design, Digital Design, Electronics, Data Structures, Object Oriented Programming, Programming Languages, Programming for Embedded Systems, Real Time Embedded Systems

Modules Taught

  Term/Year Module Title Module Code Subject / Desc
2024 Computer Networks and Data Communications CT1357
2024 Computer Systems CT1100