Dr. Muhammad Arshad Islam

Faculty Member

Dr. Muhammad Arshad Islam

HoD (Computer Science) & Professor

HEC Approved PhD Supervisor
(+9251 111 128 128) 3200
arshad.islam@nu.edu.pk

Education

P.hD (Computer Science), University of Konstanz, Germany, 2011

MS (Computer Science), Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, 2004

BS (Computer Science), Foundation University, Islamabad, 2002

Summary

Dr. Islam's academic and research expertise spans parallel and distributed computing, operating systems, DevOps and Kubernetes administration, natural language processing (NLP), graph-based retrieval and recommendation systems, and AI for education. He has also contributed to applied projects in domains such as financial technology, cloud computing, and network analysis. Dr. Islam has supervised numerous undergraduate and postgraduate research projects, including final-year projects (FYPs) and industry-linked collaborations. He is actively engaged in capacity-building initiatives, such as the Erasmus+ SSAPI project, and has conducted training workshops in areas including speed programming, AI integration in teaching. In addition to his teaching and research, Dr. Islam has managed nationally funded projects (e.g., HEC NRPU), collaborated on industry?academia partnerships, and contributed to policy discussions on quality assurance and accreditation in higher education. He also plays an active role in IEEE activities, supporting initiatives that bridge academia with industry and enhance student engagement.

Publications

Journal Papers

  1. SK Belle, MA Islam, M Waldvogel, I seek for knowledge: Exploiting social properties in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. 2008 1st IFIP Wireless Days, 1-5, 2008
  2. A Hussain, M Aleem, MA Iqbal, MA Islam, Investigation of Cloud Scheduling Algorithms for Resource Utilization Using CloudSim. COMPUTING AND INFORMATICS 38 (3), 525-554, 2019
  3. B Munier, M Aleem, MA Islam, MA Iqbal, W Mehmood, A Fast Implementation of Minimum Spanning Tree Method and Applying it to Kruskal’s and Prim’s Algorithms. Sukkur IBA Journal of Computing and Mathematical Sciences 1 (1), 58-66 , 2017
  4. M Aleem, MA Islam, MA Iqbal, A Comparative Study of Heterogeneous Processor Simulators. International Journal of Computer Applications 148 (12)
  5. A Samad, M Qadir, I Nawaz, MA Islam, M Aleem, A Comprehensive Survey of Link Prediction Techniques for Social Network, EAI Endorsed Trans. Indust. Netw. & Intellig. Syst. 7 (23), e3, 2020
  6. H Murtaza, MA Iqbal, MA Islam, M Aleem, Content-Aware Reliable and Energy-Efficient MAC (CARE-MAC) Protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks. Adhoc & Sensor Wireless Networks 41, 2018
  7. M Islam, Evaluation and Innovation in Opportunistic Networks, 2011
  8. MA Shagufta, MA Islam, M Azhar, Comparison Analysis of multicore Simulation Tools.
  9. S Maqsood, MA Islam, MT Afzal, N Masood, A comprehensive author ranking evaluation of network and bibliographic indices, Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science 25 (1), 31-45, 2020
  10. YN Khalid, M Aleem, R Prodan, MA Iqbal, MA Islam, E-OSched: a load balancing scheduler for heterogeneous multicores. The Journal of Supercomputing 74 (10), 5399-5431, 2018
  11. Z Babar, M Waqas, Z Halim, MA Islam, Analyzing History Quality for Routing Purposes in Opportunistic Network Using Max-Flow. Wireless Engineering and Technology 3 (03), 132
  12. F Shahid, M Aleem, MA Islam, MA Iqbal, MM Yousaf, A review of technological tools in teaching and learning computer science, EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 15 (11), em1773, 2019
  13. Z Babar, M Waqas, Z Halim, MA Islam, Genetic programming based degree constrained spanning tree extraction. Eighth International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM …), 2013
  14. A Samad, MA Islam, MA Iqbal, M Aleem, Centrality-Based Paper Citation Recommender System. EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems 6 (19), 2019
  15. A Hussain, M Aleem, MA Islam, M Iqbal, A Rigorous Evaluation of State-of-the-Art Scheduling Algorithms for Cloud Computing. IEEE Access 6, 75033-75047, 2018
  16. Z Halim, AR Baig, G Abbas, MA Islam, Computational Intelligence-Based Search of Entertaining Rules in the Space of Predator/Prey Games. Journal of Multiple-Valued Logic & Soft Computing 28 (6), 2017
  17. MA Islam, M Waldvogel, Analysis of Cognitive Radio Enabled Flooding in Opportunistic Networks. International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences 7, 2014
  18. SUR Khan, MA Islam, Event-Dataset: Temporal information retrieval and text classification dataset. Data in brief 25, 104048, 2019
  19. U Ahmed, L Zafar, F Qayyum, MA Islam, Irony Detector at SemEval-2018 Task 3: Irony Detection in English Tweets using Word Graph. Proceedings of The 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, 581-586, 2018
  20. MA Iqbal, MA Islam, M Aleem, H Murtaza, Computer Network Simulation Using OMNeT++, Higher Education Commission Pakistan.

Conference Papers

  1. M Mateen, MA Iqbal, M Aleem, MA Islam, A hybrid approach for spam detection for Twitter. 14th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and …2017
  2. L Zafar, U Ahmed, MA Islam, Citation Context Analysis using Word-Graph. 2019 2nd International Conference on Communication, Computing and Digital …2019
  3. L Zafar, I Ahmed, M Aleem, MA Islam, MA Iqbal, Analyzing adverbs impact for sentiment analysis using hadoop. 2017 13th International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET), 1-6, 2017
  4. MA Islam, MA Iqbal, M Aleem, Z Halim, Analysing connectivity patterns and centrality metrics for opportunistic networks. International Conference on Communication, Computing and Digital …, 2017
  5. A Samad, MA Islam, MA Iqbal, M Aleem, JU Arshed, Evaluation of features for social contact prediction. 2017 13th International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET), 1-6, 2017
  6. J Hussain, MA Islam, Evaluation of graph centrality measures for tweet classification. International Conference on Computing, Electronic and Electrical …2016
  7. MA Iqbal, M Aleem, M Ibrahim, S Anwar, MA Islam, Amazon cloud computing platform EC2 and VANET simulations. International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing 30 (3), 127-136, 2019
  8. MA Islam, MA Iqbal, M Aleem, Z Halim, Analysing connectivity patterns and centrality metrics for opportunistic networks. 2017 International Conference on Communication, Computing and Digital …, 2017
  9. R Asif, MA Islam, Finding most collaborating mathematicians a co-author network analysis of mathematics domain. International Conference on Computing, Electronic and Electrical …2016
  10. A Ishtiaq, MA Islam, MA Iqbal, M Aleem, U Ahmed, Graph Centrality Based Spam SMS Detection. 2019 16th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences, 2019