Biography:

Khalid Iqbal received his PhD degree in Applied Computer Technology from University of Science and Technology Beijing in 2014, and the B.Sc. and MS(CS) degrees from University of the Punjab, Lahore and SZABIST Karachi respectively. He was awarded a fully funded scholarship by Chinese Scholarship Council for the entire duration of his PhD studies. He also won the excellent researcher (or excellent international research student award) from University of Science and Technology Beijing for the year 2012-13. He is currently Tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, COMSATS University Islamabad, Attock Campus. Departmental Operational management with quality enhancement, OBE, grievances, research supervision at graduate/undergraduate level are the additional responsibilities of Dr. Khalid Iqbal in COMSATS University Islamabad, Attock Campus. He has worked on information retrieval from social networks/images and data mining. His research work has been published in several international conference proceedings and journals. His research interests include pattern recognition, Machine Leaning, Social Networks, Information Retrieval and Data Mining. He is the recipient of the CSC scholarship (2011-2014) and QCRI/Boeing Travel grant (2014, 2015, 2016). He is also the member of IEEE computer society and IACSIT.