Dr. Waqar Mehmood

Associate Professor

Specialization:

Software engineering   |   Model-driven engineering   |   Software Configuration Management   |   Microservice Reusability   |   Microservice Architecture

At present, I am positioned as an associate professor at PAF-IAST. I have also assumed the role of acting chairman for the Department of IT & CS. Furthermore, I hold membership in the National Computing Education Accreditation Council (NCEAC) under the Higher Education Commission (HEC), where I actively contribute to the Accreditation Inspection Committee (AIC), which evaluates the accreditation of BS (CS/SE) degree programs across multiple universities. My involvement extends to serving as a member on the Board of Studies at Khawaja Fareed University of Engineering & Information Technology (KFUEIT) since the year 2018. My expertise lies in the realm of Model-driven software engineering, substantiated by my Doctorate degree acquired from the esteemed University of Innsbruck, Austria. I have further enriched my academic pursuits with a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Software Reusability and Microservice Architecture at John Kepler University, Austria. Throughout my educational journey, I have been fortunate to receive prestigious scholarships from distinguished organizations, including the Higher Education Commission (HEC) Overseas PhD Scholarship, the PAF-IAST Post-Doc Scholarship, and the CUST Talent Scholarship for Master's studies.

Education

Degree	Subject	Year	Board/University
Post Doc.	Software Reusability and Microservice Architecture (MSA)	2022-23	JKU, Austria
Ph.D.	Software Engineering (Model-driven engineering)	2007-2011	Innsbruck University, Austria
M.S	Software Engineering	2002-03	CUST, Islamabad, Pakistan
M.Sc.	Computer Science	2000-2002	CUST, Islamabad, Pakistan
BSc	Maths, Stats	1998-2000/td>	Peshawer University, KPK, Pakistan
F. Sc	Pre-Engineering	1997-98	B.I.S.E Abbottabad, KPK, Pakistan
S.S.C	Science Group	1998	B.I.S.E Abbottabad, KPK, Pakistan

Skills

• 12 years Post-PhD experience as Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, COMSATS University, Wah Campus.
• 2.5 years Pre-PhD experience as Lecturer, Computer Science Department, COMSATS University, Wah Campus.
• 1 year TA experience during MS studies at CUST Islamabad Campus

• Ex-Acting Chairman Department of IT & CS, PAF-IAST
• Member BoS committee, PAF-IAST
• Member Departmental Graduate Committee (DGC), PAF-IAST
• Member Guidance and Examination Committee (GEC)
• Member Inter-Disciplanry Committee (IDC), PAF-IAST
• Member Grievances Committee KPPRA, PAF-IAST
• Coordinator Library, Dept of IT & CS, PAF-IAST
• Coordinator URAAN Event, Dept of IT & CS, PAF-IAST
• many more........

• Member of HEC National Computing Education Accreditation Council (NCEAC) Accreditation Inspection Committee (AIC) for the accreditation of Universities BS (CS/SE) degree program
• Member Board of Studies, Khawaja Fareed University of Engineering & Information Technology (KFUEIT), 2018
• External Examiner for evaluation of MS thesis at CUST Islamabad
• Reviewer: Frontier of Information Technology (FIT) International Conference organized by COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT) technically sponsored by IEEE Islamabad Chapter, IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

• Member Academic Committee 1st International Conference on Communication Networks and Embedded Systems 2023, PAF-IAST
• Member Technical Program Committee (TPC) of Software Engineering track of the 14th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT 2016), COMSATS Isb.
• Technical Program Committee (TPC) of Tutorial track of the 14th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT 2016), COMSATS Isb.
• Reviewer: Frontier of Information Technology (FIT) International Conference organized by COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT) technically sponsored by IEEE Islamabad Chapter, IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
• Reviewer: Sukkur IBA Journal of Computing and Mathematical Sciences- SJCMS

• C, C++, Java
• MyEclipse, IntelliJ IDEA
• Spring Framework, MVC
• Django Framework, MVT
• Web Services and APIs
• Node.js, Vue.js, D3.js
• Microsoft SQL Server / MySQL / Oracle 9i

• Microservices
• Microsoft AZURE Cloud Platform
• API and Services
• Containers and Kubernetes

Scholarships and Distinctions

• Post-Doc scholarship PAF-IAST.
• PhD Scholarship HEC
• MCS and MS Scholarship – CUST
• Award of Honorarium for the devoted job performance in year 2016-17
• COMSATS Research Productivity Awards for years 2014 to 2017
• Supervised Two ICT Funded BS FYP Project under scheme of National Grassroots ICT Research Initiatives
• HEC Approved Supervisor

Research

Research Interst

1. Model-driven Software Engineering
2. Software Reusability
3. Microservice Architecture
4. Software Configuration Management
5. Version Control Systems

Publications

1. Islam Ali, Waqar Mehmood, et al., CMMI Compliant Workflow Model to Establish Software Configuration Management Integrity, Accepted in Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing (IF 1.26), Nov 2020. link
2. Musawwer Khan, Waqar Mehmood, et al., CMMI Compliant Modernization Framework to Transform Legacy Systems, Accepted in Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing (IF 1.26), October 2020.
3. Mehmood, Waqar; Jari, Hassan; Tahir, Ali; Aslam, Waqar; Kamran, Muhammad, UCDiff: Difference Detection in Use Case Models of Healthcare System, Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics, Volume 10, Number 10, 1st October 2020, pp. 2369-2377(9), (0.659) DOI: link
4. Mehmood, Waqar; Shafiq, Muhammad; Saleem, Muhammad Qaiser; Alowayr, Ali Saeed; Aslam, Waqar, A Feature-Based Evaluation of Model Merge Methods for e-Health Solutions, Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics, Volume 10, Number 10, 1st October 2020, pp. 2473-2480(8), IF (0.659) DOI: doi:10.1109/TBDATA.2017.2701817
5. Touseef Tahir, Ghulam Rasool, Waqar Mehmood, Cigdem Gencel, “An Evaluation of Software Measurement Processes in Pakistani Software Industry”, IEEE Access, Vol 6, pp 57868 – 57896, October 2018. IF (3.24), ISSN: 2169-3536 DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2872956 (SCI)
6. Waqar Mehmood, Nadir Shah, Zahoor-ur-din, Ehsan ullah Munir, “Fine-Granular Model Diff Solution in Model-based Version Control Systems”, Malaysian Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp 152-165, June 2015. (IF 0.60) Link
7. Mukhtiar Memon, Waqar Mehmood, et al., “Security modeling for service-oriented systems using security pattern refinement approach”, Software & Systems Modeling , Volume 13, Issue 2, pp 549-572, May 2014 (IF 1.65) Link
8. Waqar Mehmood, Nadir Shah, Majid Jamal Khan, Mukhriar Memon, M Ikramullah. “Fine-granular model merge solution for model-based version control system”, Malaysian Journal of Computer Science. Vol. 29(3), pp 225-246. 2016. IF (0.60) Link
9. Zamir, A., Khan, H.U., Mehmood, W., Iqbal, T. and Akram, A.U. (2020), "A feature-centric spam email detection model using diverse supervised machine learning algorithms", The Electronic Library, Vol. 38 No. 3, pp. 633-657. 4 July 2020. (IF 0.954) Linkn
10. Saliha Zahoor, Ikram Ullah Lali, Muhammad Attique Khan*, Kashif Javed and Waqar Mehmood, “Breast Cancer Detection and Classification using Traditional Computer Vision Techniques: A Comprehensive Review”, Current Medical Imaging (2020) 16: 1. (IF 0.53) Link
11. Naz, Farah & Kamran, Muhammad & Mehmood, Waqar & Khan, Wilayat & Alkatheiri, Mohammed & Alghamdi, Ahmed & Alshdadi, Abdulrahman. (2019). Automatic identification of sarcasm in tweets and customer reviews. Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems. 37. 6815-6828. 10.3233/JIFS-190596
12. Saleem Zahid, Nadir Shah, Waqar Mehmood, “Distributed Partition Detection with Dynamic Replication Management in DHT-based MANET”, IEEE Access, Vol: 6(1), March 2018. IF (3.24), Link
13. Raza Ul Mustafa, M Saqib Nawaz, M Ikram Ullah Lali, Tehseen Zia, Waqar Mehmood, “Predicting The Cricket Match Outcome Using Crowd Opinions On Social Networks: A Comparative Study Of Machine Learning Methods.” Malaysian Journal of Computer Science . Vol. 30 Issue 1, p 63-76. 14p. 2017, IF (0.6), Link
14. Amin, Rashid; Shah, Nadir; Mehmood, Waqar, 2019. "Enforcing Optimal ACL Policies Using K-Partite Graph in Hybrid SDN." Electronics 8, no. 6: 604. Link
15. Waqar Aslam, Farah Ijaz, M. Ikramullah Lali, Waqar Mehmood, “Risk Aware and Quality Enriched Effort Estimation for Mobile Applications in Distributed Agile Software Development”, Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Nov 2017, Vol. 33 No. 6, pp. 1481-1500. IF (0.47) Link
16. Nadir Shah, Ayaz Ahmad, Waqar Mehmood, Depei Qian, Rui Wang “An Efficient and Scalable Routing for MANETs”, Wireless Personal Communications, Springer, USA, vol. 75, no. 2, pp. 987-1004, March 2014, (IF= 0.95) Link
17. Majid Jamal Khan, Dildar Hussain, Waqar Mehmood, "Why do firms adopt enterprise risk management (ERM)? Empirical evidence from France", Management Decision, Vol. 54 Iss: 8, pp.1886 – 1907, 2016 (IF 2.5). Link
18. Nadir Shah, Waqar Mehmood “A survey of P2P content sharing in MANETs”, Computer and Electrical Engineering, Elsevier, Volume 57, January 2017, Pages 55–68, IF (1.57) Link
19. W. Mehmood, A. Ali, A. Qayyum, M. E. Quershi, “Model-based Version Management System Framework”, Technical Journal, University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Taxila, April 2015, Vol. 20 No. IV-2015, PP 120-125, Link
20. Mussarat Yasmin, Muhammad Sharif, Isma Irum, Waqar Mehmood, Steven Lawrence Fernandes, “Combining Multiple Color And Shape Features For Image Retrieval”, IIOABJ, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp: 97-110. Link
21. Junaid Rashid, Waqar Mehmood, “A Survey of Model Comparison Strategies and Techniques in Model Driven Engineering”, International Journal of Computer, Electrical, Automation, Control and Information Engineering Vol:9, No:6, PP 1377-1385, 2015. Link
22. W. Mehmood, A. Ali, A. Qayyum, M. E. Quershi, “Model-based Version Management System Framework”, Technical Journal, University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Taxila, April 2015, Vol. 20 No. IV-2015, PP 120-125, Link
23. W. Mehmood, A. Ali, A. Qayyum, M. E. Quershi, “Model-based Version Management System Framework”, Technical Journal, University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Taxila, April 2015, Vol. 20 No. IV-2015, PP 120-125, Link

Certifications

Getting Started with Git and GitHub (IBM)

Specializations

• Version Control System - GitHub (IBM)
• Getting Started with Git and GitHub

Projects

Languages

Languages

• Urdu
• English
• German
• Pushto
• Hindko
• Punjabi
• Arabic

World Exposure

World Exposure

• Austria
• UK
• France
• Itly
• Germany
• Switzerland
• Swedeen
• Finland
• Czech Republic
• Saudi Arabia

Social Work

Social Work

• Conducted three seminar talks on the impact of using “Social media for the promotion of cultural heritage of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa” under the RICH project of Directorate of Culture Govt. of KPK.