Assistant Professor
sgillani@su.edu.om Phone: +968 26850100 Extn: 221 Location: Rustaq Building
sgillani@su.edu.om Phone: +968 26850100 Extn: 221 Location: Rustaq Building
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Dr Zubair holds a PhD in information technology and graduated from the University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM). He completed his second postdoctoral study as a senior researcher at the Soft Computing and Data Mining (SCDM) Center in UTHM, Malaysia, before joining Sohar University as an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Computing and Information Technology. He also held the position of Assistant Professor at the University of Lahore, Pakistan. He has published more than fifty research articles in reputed journals and peer-reviewed conferences. His research interests include Swarm Intelligence, Game Development, Computer Vision, and IoT.
- Ph.D. in Information Technology, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), Malaysia, 2016.
- MS in Information Technology, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), Malaysia, 2012.
- BS (HONS) in Computer Science, University of the Punjab, Pakistan, 2008.
- Algorithm Design
- Geographical Information Systems
- Spatial Databases
- Mobile Application Development
- Object-Oriented Programming
- Data Mining
- Artificial Intelligence
- Data Structures
- Systems Design and Modeling
- Game Development
- Rehman, M.Z., Zamli, K. Z., Almutairi, M., Chiroma, H., Aamir, M., and Kader, M. A. (2021). A novel state space reduction algorithm for team formation in social networks. PLoS ONE. 16(12).
- Shahzad, A., Nawi, N. M., Rehman, M. Z., and Khan, A. (2021). An Improved Framework for Content- and Link-Based Web-Spam Detection: A Combined Approach. COMPLEXITY. 2021.
- Rehman, M. Z., Khan, A., Ghazali, R., Aamir, M., Nawi, N. M. (2021). A new Multi Sine-Cosine algorithm for unconstrained optimization problems. PLoS ONE. 16(8).
- Rehman, M. Z., Mohd. Nawi, N., Arshad, M., & Khan, A. (2021). Recognition of Cursive Pashto Optical Digits and Characters with Trio Deep Learning Neural Network Models. Electronics, 10(20), 2508.
- Aamir, M., Nawi, N.M., Wahid, F., Hasan Zada, M. S., and Rehman, M. Z. (2021). Hybrid Contractive Auto-encoder with Restricted Boltzmann Machine For Multiclass Classification. Arab Journal of Science and Engineering 46.
- Rehman, M.Z., Zamli, K. Z., and Nasser, A. 2020. An Improved Genetic Bat algorithm for Unconstrained Global Optimization Problems. 9th International Conference on Software and Computer Applications (ICSCA 2020). Malaysia.
- Rehman, M. Z., Tanveer, A., Nawi, N. M., Zamli, K. Z. (2020). Optimized Weight Selection in Levenberg-Marquardt Back-Propagation Using Wolf Search. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 678. Springer, Singapore.
- Rehman, M. Z., Nawi, N. M., Tanveer, A., Zafar, H., Munir, H., Hassan, S. (2020). Lungs Cancer Nodules Detection from CT Scan Images with Convolutional Neural Networks. Recent Advances on Soft Computing and Data Mining (SCDM 2020). Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 978. Springer.
- Nawi, N. M., Rehman, M. Z., Hamid, N. A., Khan, A., Naseem, R., Uddin, J. (2017). Optimizing Weights in Elman Recurrent Neural Networks with Wolf Search Algorithm. Recent Advances on Soft Computing and Data Mining (SCDM 2016). Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 549. Springer.
- Nawi, N. M., Rehman, M. Z., Khan, A., Kiyani, A., Chiroma, H., & Herawan, T. (2016). Hybrid Bat and Levenberg-Marquardt Algorithms for Artificial Neural Networks Learning. Journal of Information Science and Engineering. 32(5)., 1301-1324.
- Swarm Intelligence
- Optimization
- Social Collaborative Networks
