RESEARCH INTERESTS

Social Network Mining, Probabilistic Topic Models
Text Mining, Information Extraction, Information Retrieval
Natural Language Processing, Islamic Question Answering
Urdu Language Processing, Researcher Productivity Indexing

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EDUCATION

Thesis

• 2010 PhD “Group Level Temporal Academic Social Network Mining Using Topic Models”
• 2005 MS “Decision Making through Data Quality Management Using Data Warehouse”

WORK EXPERIENCE

• 08/2010-Onward, Assistant Professor-19, Department of CS & SE, Inter. Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan
• 09/2007-07/2010, Research Associate, Department of CS and IT, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
• 01/2007-06/2007, Junior Software Engineer, Pakistan Revenue Automation Limited (PRAL), Islamabad, Pakistan
• 07/2005-09/2006, General Manager (GM), Fine Packages, Faisalabad, Pakistan
• 07/2004-02/2005, Software Developer, Fine Packages, Faisalabad, Pakistan 
• 08/2004-12/2006, Visiting Teacher A.I.O.U, MBA Program at Degree College and BS(CS), PGD(IT) Classes and supervisor of PGD (IT) projects at Compete College, Faisalabad, Pakistan

COURSE TEACHING
Spring (Sp) Summer (Su) Fall (F)
Undergraduate Level

• Introduction to Information Technology [3 Credits] F06
• Database Management System (DBMS) [3 Credits] F04, Sp05, F05, Sp06
• Distributed Databases [3 Credits] F06
• Database Technologies [3 Credits] F10, Su11
• Probability and Statistics [3 Credits] Sp11, F11

Graduate Level

• Research Methods [3 Credits] F10
• Advanced Databases [3 Credits] F11
• Data Mining: Principles and Algorithms [3 Credits] Sp11

PUBLICATIONS Publications in DBLP, Publications in ArnetMiner, Publications in Microsoft Academic Search
2011

• Ali Daud. Using Time Topic Modeling for Semantics-Based Dynamic Research Interest Finding. Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS). (DOI:10.1016/j.knosys.2011.07.015 ). SCI (Impact Factor 1.57) [PDF]
• Ali Daud and Faqir Muhammad. Group Topic Modeling for Academic Knowledge Discovery. Journal of Applied Intelligence. (DOI: 10.1007/s10489-011-0302-3). SCI (Impact Factor 0.88) [PDF]
• Ali Daud. Exploiting Explicit Semantics-Based Grouping for Author Interest Finding. In International Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb), China, April 18-20, pp. 41-52, 2011. (Acceptance Rate: 25.00 %) EI [PDF]
• Tehmina Amjad, Ali Daud and Sher Muhammad. A Survey of Dynamic Replication Strategies for Improving Data Availability in Data Grids. Future Generations Systems. (doi:10.1016/j.future.2011.06.009). SCI (Impact Factor 2.37) [PDF]

2010

• Ali Daud, Juanzi Li, Lizhu Zhou, and Faqir Muhammad. Temporal Expert Finding through Generalized Time Topic Modeling. Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS), Volume 23(6), pp. 615-625, July 2010. SCI (Impact Factor 1.57) [PDF]
• Ali Daud, Juanzi Li, Lizhu Zhou, and Faqir Muhammad. Knowledge Discovery through Directed Probabilistic Topic Models. a Survey. Journal of Frontiers of Computer Science in China (FCS), Volume 4(2), pp. 280-301, June, 2010. SCIE [PDF]
• Ali Daud, Juanzi Li, Lizhu Zhou, Lei Zhang, Ying Ding and Faqir Muhammad. Modeling Ontology of Folksonomy with Latent Semantics of Tags. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI), Canada, September 1-3, pp. 516-523, 2010. (Acceptance Rate: 16.6 %) EI [PDF]
• Ali Daud, Muhammad Akram Shaikh, and Yan’an Jin. Investigation of Input Optimization problem for Topic Modeling. Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering & Technology, Volume 29(2), pp. 377-388, April, 2010. EI
• Ali Daud. A Topic Modeling Approach for Research Community Mining. In Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Computer Science and Convergence Information Technologies (ICCIT), Korea, Nov. 30-Dec 02, pp. 1078-1083, 2010. EI [PDF]
• Yan’an Jin, Ruixuan Li, Yi Cai, Qing Li, Ali Daud, and Yuhua Li. Semantic Grounding of Hybridization for Tag Recommendation. In Proceedings of 11th International Web-Age Information Management (WAIM), L. Chen et al. (Eds.): LNCS 6184, pp. 139–150, China, 2010. (Acceptance Rate: 28.00 %) EI [PDF]

2009

• Ali Daud, Juanzi Li, Lizhu Zhou, and Faqir Muhammad. Conference Mining via Generalized Topic Modeling. In Proceedings of 19th International European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practices of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), W. Buntine et al. (Eds.): Part I, LNAI 5781, pp. 244–259, Slovenia, 2009. (Acceptance Rate: 24.88 %) EI [PDF]
• Ali Daud, Juanzi Li, Lizhu Zhou, and Faqir Muhammad. A Generalized Topic Modeling Approach for Maven Search. In Proceedings of International Asia-Pacific Web Conference and Web-Age Information Management (APWEB-WAIM), Q. Li et al. (Eds.): LNCS 5446, pp. 138–149, China, 2009. (Acceptance Rate: 22.70 %) EI [PDF]
• Ali Daud, Juanzi Li, Lizhu Zhou, and Faqir Muhammad. Exploiting Temporal Authors Interests via Temporal-Author-Topic Modeling. In Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Advance Data Mining and Applications (ADMA), R. Huang et al. (Eds.): LNAI 5678, pp. 435–443, China, 2009.  (Short Paper, Acceptance Rate: 28.57 %) EI [PDF]
• Ali Daud, Muhammad Akram Shaikh, and Altaf Hussain Rajpar. Scientific Reference Mining using Semantic Information through Topic Modeling. Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering & Technology, Volume 28(2), pp. 253-262, April, 2009. EI
• Faqir Muhammad, Gulshan Ara Majid, and Ali Daud. Frequency Analysis of Seismic Data for Imminent Hazard. In Proceedings of First International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Optimization (CMSO), pp. 107-110, 26-27 December, China, 2009. (Acceptance Rate: 19.33 %) ISTP

2008

• Ali Daud, Muhammad Akram Shaikh, and Faqir Muhammad. Pattern Mining in Telecom Data. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (IC-ICT), Pakistan, 2008.

PROJECTS
Principal Investigator

• HEC National Research Program for Universities (NRPU)[Submitted]

Title: Knowledge Discovery in Academic Social Networks

• HEC Interim Placement of Fresh PhDs (IPFP) Project (02-2011 to 07-2011) [Successfully Completed] 

Title: Investigative study of Journals, Conferences, and Researchers Citation Impact Methods

Member/Research Associate

• IBM THU Joint Research Project funded by IBM China Research Lab (2008-2010)

Title: Text Mining in Web 2.0

• National Natural Science Foundation of China Project Grant No. 90604025 (2006-2008)

Title: Research of Key Technologies and their Application in Domain-specific Semantic Web Content Management

• National Natural Science Foundation of China Project Grant No. 60703059 (2008-2010)

Title: Research of Unified Models for Semantic Content Annotation

• National Natural Science Foundation of China Project Grant No. 60973102 (2010-2012)

Title: Risk Minimization based Ontology Mapping

• Chinese National Key Foundation Research and Development Plan Project Grant No. 2007CB310803

Title: Software Engineering for Complex System, Requirement Validation and Management

Member/Developer

• CBR Collection Automation Monitoring Project (2006-2007)

Title: Revenue Collection Monitoring Dash Board for Central Board of Revenue, Islamabad, Pakistan
Used Oracle 10G Database and Oracle Application Express Tool

• Fine Packages Faisalabad Computerization Systems (2004-2006)

Titles: Payroll System, Sales Tax System, Order System, Inventory System, and Accounting System for Fine Packages, Faisalabad, Pakistan
Used MS Access, SQL Server 2000 Databases and Visual Basic 6.0 Language
ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
Departmental
In-charge Course Monitoring Committee
In-charge PhD Comprehensive Committee
Member Graduate Research Committee
Member Admission Committee

Presented

• Research Paper in APWeb, China, April 18-20, 2011
• Research Paper in ICCIT, Korea, Nov. 30-Dec 02, 2010
• Research Paper in ApWeb-WAIM, China, 2009
• Research Paper in ADMA, China, 2009

Program Committee Member

• 2011: ADMA, IJCNLP

Paper Reviewer

• Journals
• World Wide Web (WWW) Journal, Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB), Knowledge Based Systems (KBS) Journal, Knowledge and Information Systems Journal (KAIS), International Journal of Social Network Mining, Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering & Technology
• Conferences
• 2010: WI, ASONAM, IEEE ICCASM
• 2009: WI, ASWC, WWW Posters and Workshop

Memberships
                IEEE Student Member (2010)

THESIS SUPERVISION
SUPERVISED
Bachelor of Computer Science (BSCS)
2011

• Muhammad Aamir and Sabir Hussain “Expert Finding Using Influence Language Models”
• Muhammad Ahmed Zaka  and Mushtaq Ahmed “Name Ambiguity in Academic Social Networks”
• Rana Azhar Ul Haq and Faakhir Iqbal “Ranking Papers Using Authority Language Model”
• Aisha Sikandar and Sameen Mansha “Survey Article Finding through Link and Content Analysis”

SUPERVISING
Bachelor of Computer Science (BSCS)

• Hani and Maria “Relational Ranking in Academic Networks”
• Kausar  and Shaista “Topic Sensitive Page Rank for Researchers”

Master of Computer Science (MSCS)

• Ammad Shakeel Usmani “Conditional PageRank: From Solo importance to Mutual Importance” Start: 2011-End:
• Hassan Ali “Language Models for Urdu Information Retrieval” Start: 2011-End: 2012
• Muhammad Rashid “StarRank: Finding Rising Stars in Academic Networks” Start: 2011-End: 2012
• Shabnam Bibi “Author Productivity Indexing via Topic Sensitive Weighted Citations ”Start: 2011-End: 2012
• Saleem Yasir “V-Index: An Index based on Consistent Researcher Productivity” Start: 2011-End: 2012
• Farhad M Riaz “Modeling the Ontology of Folksonomy over Time” Start: 2011-End:
• Farhan Alam “Topic Sensitive H-Index” Start: 2011-End: 2011
• Ayesha Manzoor “Semantically Mining Heterogeneous Data Sources of Deep Web” Start: 2011-End: 2011

Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science (PhDCS)

• Muhammad Shoaib “Name Disambiguation in Social Networks” Start: 2011
• Tehmina Amjad “Relational Ranking in Semantic Web” Start: 2011
• Said Ahmed “Search and Ranking in Urdu Language” Start: 2011

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