Faculty Profile

Dr. Sayeed Ghani

Professor

Department: Computer Science

Specialization: Applications of Deep Learning and AI in Wireless Networks, Internet of Things and Healthcare

Onboard Status: Long Leave

Email: sghani@iba.edu.pk


Work Experience

  • Professor at Institute of Business Administration, Karachi (Aug-2021 to PRESENT)
  • Professor and Chairman Academic Committee at Institute of Business Administration, Karachi (Mar-2021 to Jul-2021)
  • Associate Professor & Chairman Academic Committee at Institute of Business Administration, Karachi (Jan-2021 to Mar-2021)
  • Associate Professor, Associate Dean FCS at Institute of Business Administration, Karachi (Jul-2020 to Dec-2020)
  • Associate Professor, Associate Dean FCS and Acting Dean and Director IBA at Institute of Business Administration, Karachi (Mar-2016 to Jul-2020)
  • Associate Professor & Associate Dean FCS at IBA, Karachi (Jan-2009 to Mar-2016)
  • Chairman Computer Science & MIS at IBA, Karachi (Oct-2001 to Dec-2009)
  • Director Telecommunications at Newcore Networks, Inc., Karachi (May-2000 to Jun-2001)
  • Consultant & Division Head , Computer Division at State Life Insurance corporation of Pakistan (Jul-1999 to Apr-2000)
  • General Manager Engineering Technology at Acsys Limited, Karachi (Jan-1994 to Jul-1999)
  • Country Technology Head, Automation & Information at ABN AMRO Bank, Karachi (Jul-1992 to Dec-1994)
  • Manufacturing System Engineer, Technology at Lever Brother Pakistan (Jun-1992 to Dec-1993)
  • Member of Technical Staff, at NYNEX, New York (Jan-1989 to May-1992)

Academic Qualification

  • PhD Applications of Deep Learning and AI in Wireless Networks, Internet of Things and Healthcare, Columbia University - 1990
  • MS (Electrical Engineering), Columbia University, USA - 1986
  • BS (Electrical Engineering), MIT, USA - 1984

Research Interests

  • Applications of Deep Learning and AI in Wireless Networks, Internet of Things and Healthcare

Courses Taught

  • ADVANCED TOPICS IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
  • COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORK & SIMULATION
  • COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORK-I
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE PROJECT I
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE PROJECT II
  • COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORK & SIMULATION II
  • DEEP LEARNING FOR THE INTERNET OF THINGS
  • DOCTORAL DISSERTATION
  • FINAL YEAR PROJECT
  • FINAL YEAR PROJECT - CS
  • INTRODUCTION TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
  • INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTING
  • MODELING & SIMULTION OF NETWORKS II
  • MODELING AND SIMULATION OF NETWORKS
  • MS RESEARCH SURVEY
  • MS THESIS
  • PHD COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
  • RECENT ADVANCES IN NETWORKING
  • RESEARCH SEMINAR IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
  • RESEARCH SURVEY
  • SEMINAR IN MODELING AND SIMULATION OF NETWORKS
  • STOCHASTIC MODELING WITH APPLICATIONS IN ENGINEERING
  • TOPICS IN COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
  • WIRELESS & MOBILE NETWORKING - I
  • WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
  • WSN PROTOCOLS AND APPLICATIONS

Research Output


Journal Publication(s)

  • NIDA SADDAF KHAN, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"A Survey of Deep Learning Based Models for Human Activity Recognition",Wireless Personal Communications,May 07, 2021,United States,
  • Anwar Ul Haque, Dr. Sayeed Ghani, Dr. Muhammad Saeed ,"Image Captioning With Positional and Geometrical Semantics",IEEE Access,Nov 30, 2021,,
  • , NIDA SADDAF KHAN, Dr. Sayeed Ghani, Dr. Gulnaz Anjum ,"ADAM-sense: Anxiety-displaying Activities Recognition by Motion Sensors",Pervasive and Mobile Computing,Dec 01, 2021,,
  • ZARMEEN NASIM, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"Sentiment Analysis on Urdu Tweets Using Markov Chains",SN Computer Science,Aug 14, 2020,,
  • Anwar A. Khan, Dr. Sayeed Ghani, Shama Siddiqui ,"FROG-MAC: A Fragmentation based MAC Scheme for Prioritized Heterogeneous Traffic in Wireless Sensor Networks",Wireless Personal Communications,May 17, 2020,,
  • Tabassum Waheed, Aqeel-ur-Rehman, Faisal Karim, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"QoS Enhancement of AODV Routing for MBANs",Wireless Personal Communications,Jun 23, 2020,,
  • Hamida Qumber, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"Multi-Sensor Based MK/HyperK/1/M Queuing Model for Heterogeneous Traffic",Computer Networks,Aug 29, 2020,,
  • Anwar Ahmed Khan, Dr. Sayeed Ghani, Shama Siddiqui ,"A Taxonomy for MAC Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks based on Traffic Prioritization",Wireless Personal Communications,Feb 08, 2019,,
  • NIDA SADDAF KHAN, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"Predicting Collective Synchronous State of Sentiments for Users in Social Media",Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering & Technology,Jul 01, 2019,Pakistan,
  • Anwar Ahmed Khan, Dr. Sayeed Ghani, Shama Siddiqui ,"A Preemptive Priority-Based Data Fragmentation Scheme for Heterogeneous Traffic in Wireless Sensor Networks",Sensors,Dec 17, 2018,,
  • Shama Siddiqui, Dr. Sayeed Ghani, Anwar Ahmed Khan ,"PD-MAC: Design and Implementation of Polling Distribution-MAC for Improving Energy Efficiency of Wireless Sensor Networks",International Journal of Wireless Information Networks,Jun 08, 2018,,
  • NIDA SADDAF KHAN, Dr. Sayeed Ghani, Dr. Sajjad Haider ,"Real-Time Analysis of a Sensor’s Data for Automated Decision Making in an IoT-Based Smart Home",Sensors,May 25, 2018,,
  • Shama Siddiqui, Dr. Sayeed Ghani, Anwar Ahmed Khan ,"ADP-MAC: An Adaptive and Dynamic Polling based MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks",IEEE Sensors Journal,Nov 09, 2017,,
  • Shama Siddiqui, Dr. Sayeed Ghani, Anwar Ahmed Khan ,"ADP-MAC: An Adaptive and Dynamic Polling based MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks",IEEE Sensors Journal,Nov 09, 2017,,
  • Anwar Ahmed Khan, Dr. Sayeed Ghani, Shama Siddiqui ,"A Study on Channel Sharing for Congestion Control in WSN MAC Protocols",International Journal of Wireless Networks and Broadband Technologies (IJWNBT) V,Jun 01, 2017,Korea, Republic of,
  • Muhammad Waseem Arain, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"Meta-Survey on Medium Access Control Surveys in Wireless Sensor Networks",International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (IJDSN),Aug 24, 2016,,
  • Hamida Ali, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"A Comparative Analysis of Protocols for Integrating IP and Wireless Sensor Networks",Journal of Networks,Jan 01, 2016,Finland,
  • Dr. Quratulain Nizamuddin Rajput, Dr. Sajjad Haider, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"Lexicon-Based Sentiment Analysis of Teachers’ Evaluation",Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing,Sep 05, 2016,,
  • Dr. S.M. Faisal Iradat, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"Revisiting IEEE 802.11 Backoff Process Modeling Through Information Entropy Estimation",Wireless Internet: Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering,Apr 24, 2015,,
  • Khan, Anwar Ahmed, Shama Siddiqui, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"A Study on Channel Polling Mechanisms for the MAC Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks",International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks,Nov 24, 2015,Egypt,Cairo
  • Dr. S.M. Faisal Iradat, Sergey Andreev, Dr. Sayeed Ghani, Engr. Dr. Syed Irfan Nabi, Muhammad Waseem Arain ,"Revisiting Assumptions in Backoff Process Modeling and Queueing Analysis of Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs)",The Computer Journal,May 21, 2014,England,
  • Engr. Dr. Syed Irfan Nabi, Dr. Zaheeruddin Asif, Dr. S.M. Faisal Iradat, Muhammad Waseem Arain, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"FocalPoint - Proposed Grounded Methodology for Collaborative Construction of Information Systems Security Ontologies",Information – an International Interdisciplinary Journal,Mar 01, 2013,,
  • Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"Analysis of Pareto Distribution on Delay Performance in Networks",Systemics and Informatics World Network,Aug 01, 2010,,
  • Dr. Sayeed Ghani, Mischa Schwartz ,"A Decomposition Approximation for the Analysis of Voice/Data Integration",IEEE Transactions on Communications,Jul 01, 1994,,
  • PETER O’REILLY, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"Data Performance in Burst Switching when the voice silence periods have a hyper-exponential distribution",IEEE Transactions on Communications,Oct 01, 1987,,

Case(s)


    Book(s)


      Conference(s)

      • Anwar ul Haque, Dr. Sayeed Ghani, Dr. Tariq Mahmood ,"Decentralized Transfer Learning using Blockchain & IPFS for Deep Learning",International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN),May 01, 2020,Spain,Barcelona
      • Anwar ul Haque, Dr. Tariq Mahmood, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"A R2N2 Approach For Cardiac Behavior Forecast on Non-Trending Big HealthCare Data",2019 International Conference on Advances in the Emerging Computing Technologies (AECT),Sep 10, 2020,Saudi Arabia,Al Madinah Al Munawaara
      • Uzair Adamjee, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"Malaria Cell Identification from Microscopic Blood Smear Images",8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICICT 2019),Nov 16, 2019,Pakistan,Karachi
      • Masood Alam Abbasi, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"My Data: A Framework for Transfer of User Data Using NS2 Simulator",17th International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS),Jun 06, 2018,Singapore,Singapore
      • Shama Siddiqui, Dr. Sayeed Ghani, Anwar Ahmed Khan ,"Effect of Polling Interval Distributions on the Performance of MAC Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks",ACM Proceedings on International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing,Jul 05, 2017,,
      • Anwar Ahmed Khan, Dr. Sayeed Ghani, Shama Siddiqui ,"Design & Implementation of Distributed Congestion Control Scheme for Heterogeneous Traffic in Wireless Sensor Networks",International Conference on Multi-sensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI 2017),Dec 11, 2017,Korea, Republic of,Daegu
      • Shama Siddiqui, Anwar Ahmed Khan, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"Investigating Dynamic Polling Intervals for Wireless Sensor Network Applications with Bursty Traffic",Proceedings of International Conference on Multi-sensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI 2017),Nov 29, 2017,Korea, Republic of,Daegu
      • Shama Siddiqui, Anwar Ahmed Khan, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"DPR-MAC: A Dynamic Polling MAC for Disaster Management in Wireless Sensor Networks.",Proceedings of Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery (CyberC),,Oct 14, 2017,China,
      • Anwar Ahmed Khan, Dr. Sayeed Ghani, Shama Siddiqui ,"Contention Window Prioritization for Heterogeneous Traffic in Wireless Sensor Networks",ACM Proceedings on International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing,Jul 05, 2017,Italy,Turin
      • Hamida Ali, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"Heterogeneous Traffic Modeling and Analysis for Wireless Sensor Networks",The International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems (MobiWis-2016),Aug 22, 2016,Austria,Vienna
      • Shama Siddiqui, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"Towards Dynamic Polling: Survey and Analysis of Channel Polling Mechanisms for Wireless Sensor Networks",2016 International Conference on Intelligent Systems Engineering (ICISE),Jan 15, 2016,Pakistan,Islamabad
      • Saman Zehra Rizvi, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"Predicting Higher Education MOOCs Engagement-Level Odds; A Stochastic Approach",Society for Research in Higher Education International Annual Research Conference,Dec 07, 2016,United Kingdom,Newport
      • Shama Siddiqui, Anwar Ahmed Khan, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"A Survey on Data Aggregation Mechanisms in Wireless Sensor Networks",2015 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICICT),Dec 12, 2015,Pakistan,Karachi
      • Ali Ahmed Hassan Thawerani, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"Evolving HMM for Ranking Twitter Influence",International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies,Dec 12, 2015,Pakistan,Karachi
      • Dr. S.M. Faisal Iradat, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"Revisiting IEEE 802.11 Backoff Process Modeling through Information Entropy Estimation",Proceedings of WICON 2014, 8th International Internet Wireless Conference - Symposium on Wireless and Vehicular Communication,Nov 14, 2014,Poland,Lisbon
      • Shama Siddiqui, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"ES-MAC: Energy Efficient Sensor-MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks",IEEE Proceedings on 10th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC),Apr 30, 2013,France,Paris
      • Shama Siddiqui, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"Analytical Model for Delay Distribution of PRMAC",IEEE Proceedings on 11th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT),Dec 18, 2013,Pakistan,Islamabad
      • Shama Siddiqui, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"Analytical Model for Delay Distribution of PRMAC",IEEE Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology, (FIT),Dec 16, 2013,Pakistan,Islamabad
      • Shama Siddiqui, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"ES-MAC: Energy Efficient Sensor-MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks",International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC),Apr 10, 2013,France,Paris-Evry University
      • Dr. S.M. Faisal Iradat, S. Andreev, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"Load Based Approach for Backoff Process Modeling and Queueing Analysis in IEEE 802.11 based Wireless LANs",10th New Zealand Computer Science Research Student Conference,Apr 11, 2012,New Zealand,Dunedin
      • Dr. Sayeed Ghani, Dr. S.M. Faisal Iradat ,"Loss Probability in Networks with Pareto Distributed Traffic",Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Modelling and Simulation (ISMS 2011),Jan 27, 2011,,Phnom Penh
      • Dr. Sayeed Ghani, Muhammad Z. Akram ,"Performance and Call Admission Control of WiMAX Networks",International Conference on Modelling, Simulation, and Identification (MSI 2011),Nov 07, 2011,United States,Pittsburgh
      • Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"Performance of VoIP in Wireless Networks in Presence of Self Similar Data Traffic",International Symposia on Modelling and Simulation,Jul 04, 2011,Canada,Calgary, AB
      • Raza H. Abedi, Nauman Aslam, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"Fault Tolerance Analysis of Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Network",24th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE/CCGÉI 2011),May 08, 2011,Canada,Niagara Falls, Ontario
      • Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"The Impact of Self Similar Traffic on Wireless LAN",International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2010),Jul 02, 2010,France,Caen
      • Dr. S.M. Faisal Iradat, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"Limitations of Using Existing Queueing Models for Modeling IEEE 802.11 DCF",International Conference on Computer, Electrical, and Systems Science, and Engineering (ICCESSE 2010),Jun 28, 2010,France,Paris
      • Raza H. Abedi, Dr. Sayeed Ghani, Dr. Sajjad Haider ,"Selection of Cluster Heads in Wireless Sensor Networks using Bayesian Network",In Proceedings of International Conference on Computer, Electrical, Systems, Science and Engineering,Jan 01, 2010,Netherlands,Amsterdam
      • Muhammad Waseem Arain, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"Impact of Load-balancing in M-TORA",International Conference on Computer, Electrical and Systems Science and Engineering (ICCESSE 2010),Jul 28, 2010,France,Paris
      • Dr. S.M. Faisal Iradat, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"Determining Normalized Measure of Dispersion for Evaluating the Performance of IEEE 802.11",10th International IEEE Conference on Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking (NEW2AN 10), LNCS 6294,Aug 23, 2010,Russian Federation,St. Petersburg
      • Dr. S.M. Faisal Iradat, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"Average End-to-End Packet Delay Performance of IEEE 802.11 with Gamma Distributed Mean Service Time Intervals",18th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (Softcomm 10),Sep 23, 2010,Croatia,Split - Adriatic Islands
      • Muhammad Waseem Arain, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"Impact of Offered Load on Performance of Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks",UKSim 4th European Modeling Symposium on Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulation (EMS 2010),Nov 17, 2010,Italy,Pisa
      • Muhammad Waseem Arain, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"An instantiation of Way Point Routing for Mobile ad hoc Networks",International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies, 2009 (ICICT 2009),Aug 15, 2009,Pakistan,Karachi
      • Rashid Faruqui, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"A Simulation Study of Block Acknowledgements and TXOPs under Varying Channel Conditions",12th IEEE International Multitopic Conference (IEEE INMIC 2008),Dec 23, 2008,Pakistan,Karachi
      • Dr. S.M. Faisal Iradat, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"Study of Guard-Channel-Based Call Admission Control Schemes for 4G Cellular",Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT 2007),Dec 20, 2007,Pakistan,Islamabad
      • Dr. S.M. Faisal Iradat, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"Study of CDMA and TDMA Based Channel Access Techniques for IEEE 802.16 Broadband Wireless Networks",2nd International Workshop on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT 2004),Dec 20, 2004,Pakistan,Islamabad
      • Dr. Sayeed Ghani, Mischa Schwartz ,"A Decomposition Approximation for the Performance Evaluation of Non-Preemptive Priority in GSM/GPRS",The First International Conference on Broadband Networks (BroadNets 2004),Oct 25, 2004,United States,San Jose
      • Dr. Sayeed Ghani, Mischa Schwartz ,"A Hierarchical Analysis of Access Multiplexers with Multimedia Traffic",The Ninth IEEE Symposium on Computer and Communication (ISCC’2004),Jun 29, 2004,Egypt,Alexandria
      • Dr. Sayeed Ghani, Mischa Schwartz ,"Comparison of DQDB and FDDI MAC Access Protocols",Proceedings of the 16th Local Computer Networks Conference,Oct 01, 1991,United States,Minneapolis

      Other(s)

      • Shama Siddiqui, Dr. Sayeed Ghani ,"A Study on Channel Polling Mechanisms for Wireless Sensor Networks",13th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology, FIT 2015,Dec 16, 2015,Pakistan,Islamabad

      Projects

      List to come