Biography:

Currently, Dr. Sohail is working as Professor & Chairman of Computer Science at COMSATS University Islamabad. In 2011 he joined as a Director of the University Institute of Information Technology, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi. Previously, In 1994, he graduated with honors in Computer Science from the University of Wales, United Kingdom. He then recieved his PhD from Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University, Melbourne Australia in 2006. Professor Sohail has taught and researched in Data Mining (including structural Learning, Classification, and Privacy Presevation in Data Ming, Text and Web Mining), Big Data Analytics, Data Science and Information Technology areas, and he has published extensively (More than 150 publications) in international journals as well as conference proceedings. He has also consulted widely on information Technology matters, especially in the framework of Data Mining and Data Science. In 2004 he acquired the Australian Postgraduate Award for Industry. Professor Sohail is a member of, the Australian Computer Society (ACS), and IEEE and also Higher Education Commission Approved Supervisor. Professor Sohail is in the Editorial Team of well reputed Scientific Journals.He has also served as Program Committee member of numerous International Conferences and regularly speaks at international conferences, seminars and workshops.