Dr. Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan
(Research Manager)
Basic Information
Dr. Muhammad Usman Ghani is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore. His Ph.D. (from Sheffield University, Uk) study was concerned with statistical modeling for machine vision signals, specifically, language descriptions of video steam. Over 15 years of research experience specifically in the areas of image processing, computer vision, bioinformatics, medical imaging, computational linguistics, and machine learning. Director of Intelligent Criminology lab under the Center of Artificial Intelligence. Director and founder of five research labs including, Computer vision & Machine learning Lab, Bioinformatics Lab, Virtual Reality & Gaming Lab, Data Science Lab, and Software Systems Research Lab. A well-groomed teacher and mentor for subjects related to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning. Recorded freely available video lectures on youtube for courses of Bioinformatics, Image Processing, Data Mining & Data Science and Computer Programming.
BACKGROUND
Over 15 years of research experience specifically in the areas of image processing, computer vision, bioinformatics, medical imaging, computational linguistics and machine learning. Director of Intelligent Criminology lab under the Center of Artificial Intelligence. Director and founder of five research labs including, Computer vision & Machine learning Lab, Bioinformatics Lab, Virtual Reality & Gaming Lab, Data Science Lab, and Software Systems Research Lab. A well groomed teacher and mentor for subjects related to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning. Recorded freely available video lectures on youtube for courses of Bioinformatics, Image Processing, Data Mining & Data Science and Computer Programming.
EDUCATION -
Ph.D. in Computer Science The University of Sheffield, UK, 2012 Thesis title: Natural Language Descriptions of Video Streams. let the game begin
- M.Sc. in Computer Science UET, Lahore, Pakistan, 2007 Major in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing.
- B.Sc.(Hons) in Computer Science UET, Lahore, Pakistan, 2004
- Intermediate Pre-Engineering Cadet College Hasan Abdal, Pakistan, 1997-1999
- Matriculation Cadet College Hasan Abdal, Pakistan, 1997
| Title | Author | JOURNAL / CONFERENCE | Volume | Year |
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| A survey of ontology learning techniques and applications | Muhammad Nabeel Asim, Muhammad Wasim, Usman Ghani, and Waqar Mahmood. | Database The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation ( 1-24 ) | DOI: 10.1093/database /bay101 | 2018 |
| Human activity recognition using mixture of heterogeneous features and sequential minimal optimization |
International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics |
pp 1–12 | 2018 | |
| Egocentric visual scene description based on human-object interaction and deep spatial relations among objects |
Multimedia Tools and Applications |
DOI: 10.1007/s11042-018-6286-9 | 2018 | |
| Muhammad Nabeel Asim, Muhammad Wasim, Usman Ghani and Waqar Mahmood. | Database The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation 2018 | DOI: 10.1093/database/ bay056 | 2018 | |
| Journal of Sensors | 2018(3):1-10 | 2018 | ||
| Lexical paraphrasing and pseudo relevance feedback for biomedical document retrieval | Muhammad Wasim Muhammad Nabeel Asim, Usman Ghani, Zahoor Rehman, Seungmin Rho, and Irfan Mehmood | Multimedia Tools and Applications | DOI: 10.1007/s11042-018-6060-z | 2018 |
| Enhanced Biomedical Retrieval Using Discriminative Term Selection for Pseudo Relevance Feedback | Muhammad Wasim,
Dr. Usman Ghani Khan and Dr. Waqar Mahmood |
Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics | Volume 8, Number 5 | 2018 |
| A survey on Urdu and Urdu like language stemmers and stemming techniques | Abdul Jabbar, Sajid Iqbal, Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan, Shafiq Hussain | Artificial Intelligence Review | vol 49(3): pp 339-373 | 2018 |
| Natural Language Description of Video Streams Using Task-Specific Feature Encoding | IEEE Access ( Volume: 6 ) | PP(99):1-1 | 2018 | |
| Microscopic abnormality classification of cardiac murmurs using ANFIS and HMM | MICROSCOPY RESEARCH & TECHNIQUE | 81(5):449-457 | 2018 | |
| Muhammad Wasim, Muhammad Sajjad, Farheen Ramzan,
Dr. Usman Ghani Khan and Dr. Waqar Mahmood |
International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA) | Volume 9 Issue 2 | 2018 | |
| Brain Tumor Segmentation in MRI using Convolutional Neural Networks
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Sajid Iqbal, Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan, Tanzila Saba and Amjad Rehman | Microscopy research and technique | vol 81, no. 4: pp 419-427 | 2018 |
| More than Half of Patients with Schizophrenia Are Receiving Polypharmacy and Co-Prescription of Anxiolytics in Pakistan —Findings from Research on Asian Prescription Pattern in 2016 | Open Journal of Psychiatry | 08(03):199-211 | 2018 | |
| The significance of interfamilial relationships on birth preparedness and complication readiness in Pakistan | ScienceDirect | DOI: 10.1016/j.wombi. 2018.03.005 | 2018 | |
| Generating natural language tags for video information management. | Machine Vision and Applications | vol 28.3-4 pp 243-265 | 2017 | |
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Anum Ali, Ghalib A. shah, Muhammad Omer Farooq and Muhammd Usman Ghani Khan |
Journal of Network and Computer Applications 83 | Volume 83 Issue C, Pages 124-139 | 2017 | |
| Sajid Iqbal, Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan, Tanzila Saba and Amjad Rehman | Biomedical Engineering Letters | Volume 8(4), Issue 1, pp 5–28 | 2017 | |
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Ghulam Mustafa, Waqar Mahmood and Muhammad Usman Ghnai Khan |
Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering and Technology | v. 36, n. 1, p. 67-86 | 2017 | |
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Muhammad Wasim, Dr. Waqar Mahmood and
Dr. Usman Ghani Khan
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International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA) | Volume 8 Issue 7 | 2017 | |
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Muhammad Wasim, Javeria Khan, Dawer Saeed,
Dr. Usman Ghani Khan
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International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA) | Volume 8 Issue 7 | 2017 | |
| Real Time Hand Gesture Recognition Using PC Camera |
Kanwal, Asma, Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan, Kashif Ali Khan, Muhammad Shehzad Asif, Syed Muhammad Ahsan, and Syed Ali Raza |
International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security | vol 14, no. 11: 622 | 2016 |
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Muhammad Usman Ghnai Khan, A. Nasir, Omer Riaz, Y. Gotoh and M. Amiruddin |
Pakistan Journal of Statistics | Vol 32(2):109-123 | 2016 | |
| A FRAMEWORK FOR AUTOMATIC COLORIZATION OF IMAGING | Nudrat Nida, Muhammad Sharif, Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan, Mussarat Yasmin, and Steven Lawrence Fernandes | IIOAB Jouranl | Vol(7) | 2016 |
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Sajid Iqbal, Wasif Altaf, Muhammad Aslam, Waqar Mahmood and Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan |
Artificial Intelligence Review | Volume 46, Issue 1, pp 83–112 | 2016 | |
| A Framework for Creating Natural Language Descriptions of Video Streams |
Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan and Y. Gotoh |
International Journal of Information Sciences | Volume 303, Pages 61 - 82 | 2015 |
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A. Nasir and Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan |
Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences |
vol 25(4): pp 1176-1182
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2015 | |
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A review: Conceptual data models for biological domain
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M. Idrees and Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan |
Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences |
vol 25(2): pp 337-345
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2015 |
| Spoken Document Retrieval Based on Confusion Network with Syllable Fragments | L. Zhang, Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan, and Y. Gotoh. | International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems | ISSN 1729-8806 | 2012 |
| Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Videos for Efficient Video Retrieval | Sana Amanat and Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan | MAGNT Research Report | (ISSN. 1444-8939) Vol.3 (3). PP: 751-756 | 2012 |
| Intelligent Cloud Computing Security Framework for Private and Public Clouds | Muhammad Javaid Iqbal and Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan | MAGNT Research Report | Vol.3 (3). PP: 885-891 | 2012 |
| HEC journal paper start | ||||
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Nudrat Nida, Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan |
Pakistan Academy of Sciences | Life and Environmental Sciences 53 (4): 253–261 | 2016 | |
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Nudrat Nida and Muhammad Usman Ghan Khan |
Pakistan journal of science |
Vol. 67
No.3
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2015 | |
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M. Nadeem, Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan, A.A . Shah and A. Nasir |
Pakistan Journal of Zoology |
vol. 47(6), pp. 1783-1795
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2015 | |
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Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan, S. Amanat, A. Nasir, Razi Iqbal and M. Idrees |
Pakistan Academy of Sciences |
vol 52(2): pp 91-102
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2015 | |
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Intelligent Bus Stops in the Flexible Bus Systems
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Razi Iqbal and Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan |
Journal of Engineering Science and Technology Review |
vol 7(4): pp 59-65
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2014 |
| Custom made NFC tags for newly born babies at hospital | Iqbal, R., Ahmad, A., & Ghani, M. U. | Science International Journal | 27(1),1463-1468 | 2015 |
| A Unified Integration Model and Database Management System for Genomic Data JFET | Pervaiz Iqbal Khan, Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan and Abdul Nasi | Vol 22, No 1 | 2015 | |
| Semantic webs and ontology-driven biological data integration methods for Bacteria | M.U.G. Khan, M. Idrees and A. Akran | The Nucleus Journa | Volume 51(4) | 2014 |
| Humza Naveed, Gulraiz Khan, Saira Jabeen, Zeeshan Khan, Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan | Conference: 2017 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT) | DOI: 10.1109/FIT. 2017.00025 | 2017 | |
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Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan, Yoshihiko Gotoh and Nudrat Nida |
Annual Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis, MIUA 2017 | (CCIS, volume 723) pp 571-580 | 2017 | |
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M Taher, Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan and Ahmed Khan |
ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition | DOI:10.18260/1-2--27452 | 2017 | |
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Nisar Ahmed, Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan and Shahzad Asif |
Presented at the 5th International. Multidisciplinary Conference, 29-31
Oct., at, ICBS, Lahore |
Vol 28(1),
pp 427-430 |
2016 | |
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Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan, Mohammad Zunnun Khan and Mohammad Shoaib |
Proceedings of National Conference on Recent Trends in Parallel Computing |
N/A
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2014 | |
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Muhammad Waqar Mirza, Muhammad Aslam, Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan and A.M. Martinez-Enrqiuez |
10th International Conference on Electrical Engineering, Computing Science and Automatic Control (CCE) Mexico City, Mexico |
DOI: 10.1109/ICEEE. 2013.6676035
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2013 | |
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Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan, Lei Zhang and Y. Gotoh |
Image Processing (ICIP), 2012 19th IEEE International Conference |
DOI:10.1109/ICIP. 2012.6467504
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2012 | |
| Quality Preserving Video Security Enrichment using Watermarking | M. U. G. Khan, M. Amir, A. Nasir, R. Iqbal and Y. Gotoh | Journal of Quality and Technology Managemen | Volume X, Issue I | 2014 |
| Reuirements Analysis Algebra: designing quality software | Nasir, A., A. Shah, and M. U. G. Khan | Journal of Quality and Technology Managemen | Volume IX, Issue II | 2013 |
| SMGCD Metrics for Biological Sequence Dat | M. Idrees and M. U. G. Khan | The Nucleus Journa | Volume 51, Issue | 2014 |
| Visual Speaker Identification Using Lip and Body Movement | Ghani Khan, M. U., Shahzad Asif, H. M., Asif, K. H., Tauqir, M., & Afzal, M | Journal of faculty of engineering & technolog | Volume 21(1) | 2014 |
| Unified Data Model for Biological Data | M. Idrees and M. U. G. Khan, | Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering & Technolog | 2014 | |
| Towards computational model of Human Brain Memory | S.Bashir, M. U. G. Khan, A. Shah and Nasir, | Punjab University Journal of Mathematic | ||
| Determination of pollutants in water of BRB cana | M.U. G. Khan et al | Journal of the Pakistan Institute of Chemical Engineer | 2014 | |
| Development of an ultrasound assisted rapid digestion metho | M.U. G. Khan et al. | Journal of the Pakistan Institute of Chemical Engineer | 2014 | |
| An Agent-based CBIR System for Medical Image | M.U.G Khan, P. Iqbal, K. Asif, A. Nasir, J. Arshad and S.Amana | Journal of Faculty of Engineering & Technology, Punjab Universit | Vol 21(2) | 2014 |
| Design Extraction Technique of Web Applications ? A Reverse Engineering Proces | M.U.G. Khan, M. Zafar, K. Asif, A. Nasir, A. Shah | Journal of Faculty of Engineering & Technology, Punjab University | Vol 21(2) | 2014 |
| Security Techniques & Solutions for preventing the cross site scripting web vulnerabilities: A general approach | M. J. Arshad, N. Nigar, H. Ahmad, A. Farooq, M.U.G. Khan and M. Idrees | Journal of Faculty of Engineering & Technology, Punjab University | Vol 21(2) | 2014 |
| Modeling of ontological schema for biological data managemen | M. Idrees, M. U. G. Khan, and S. Iqbal | Pakistan Journal of Science | 2014 | |
| A Computational Framework for Unified Biological Databank to Overcome the Heterogeneity of Biological Data Format | M.U.G. Khan, S. Amanat, A. Nasir and M. Idrees | Proceedings of the Pakistan Academy of Science | ||
| Efficient Colorization of Medical Imaging Based on Colour Transfer Metho | N. Nida and M.U.G. Kha | Proceedings of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences | Vol (54) | 2017 |
| A study of Internet Threats avoidance and Bio-metric | M. J. Arshad, M.U.G. Khan and M. Idrees | Journal of Faculty of Engineering & Technology, Punjab University, | Vol 21(2) | 2014 |
| A cloud based approach for classification of communities across social network | M.U.G. Khan, H. Aslam, A. Nasi | Pakistan Journal of Science | 2014 | |
| SR.NO | TITLE | LEVEL | YEAR |
| 1 | Recogntion and Classification of plants using leaves Data | BS,CS | 2013 |
| 2 | Prosthetic hand using Brain Computer Interface | BS,CE | 2013 |
| 3 | A remote physical health therapist | BS,CS | 2013 |
| RTMSS: Real Time Mobile Surveillance System | BS,CS | 2012 | |
| 4 | Visual Scene Interpretation | BS,CS | 2012 |
| 5 | Decision support system for brain tumor treatment | BS,CS | 2011 |
| 6 | Certification of Video Sequences | BS,CE | 2011 |
| 7 | Augmented Reality based Visual Scene Generation | BS,CS | 2011 |
| 8 | Video Surveillance System Using Microsoft Kinect | BS,CE | 2011 |
| 9 | Video Scene Modeling and Understanding | BS,CE | 2011 |
| 10 | Autonomous Vehicle Navigation based on Visual Scene Interpretation | BS,CE | 2010 |
| 11 | Multi-model Summarization of Multimedia documents | BS,CE | 2010 |
| 12 | Suspicious Activity Detection & Video Annotation Utility in Real Time Environment | BS,CE | 2010 |
| 13 | Virtual Brain: Graphical Simulation and Modeling of Human Brain. | BS,CE | 2010 |
| 14 | Urdu Talking Head and Lip Reading | BS,CE | 2010 |
| 15 | Semantic Video Retrieval and Repetitive Video Finding | BS,CE | 2010 |
| 16 | Semantic Search Engine for Biological Data | BS,CE | 2010 |
| 17 | Gait analysis for Human Identification | BS,CE | 2010 |
| 18 | Human Action Recognition | BS,CE | 2003 |
| 19 | English to Urdu Translator | BS,CE | 2004 |
| 20 | Veelox Human Character Generator | BS,CE | 2004 |
| 21 | Enterprise Recourse Planner for Enterprises | BS,CE | 2004 |
| 21 | Mobi Messenger | BS,CE | 2004 |
Educational Experience
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, UET, Lahore, Pakistan
October 2014 - currently employed
Director, National Center for Artificial Intelligence, UET Lahore February 2018 - currently employed
Senior Research Manager, Al-Khwarizmi Institute of Computer Science1, UET Lahore October 2012 - currently employed, Founded and managing five labs. Software Systems Research Lab.
Bioinformatics and Medical Imaging Lab.
Computer Vision and Machine Learning Lab.
Game Design and Development Lab.
Data Science Lab.
Visiting Professor
• Department of Biotechnology, Virtual University, Lahore, Pakistan Video Lectures2 recording for Advanced Bioinformatics Course, February 2015 - August 2015
• Department of Computer Science, Virtual University, Lahore, Pakistan Video Lectures recording for Data Mining Course, August 2017 - on going 3
• Department of Electrical Engineering, GC University, Lahore June 2016- November 2016
• Department of Computer Science, Information Technology University, Lahore, September 2014- January 2015
• Department of Computer Science, BZU Lahore Campus, December 2012- July 2014
• Department of Computer Science, Lahore Leads University, December 2013- July 2015
Assistant Professor (TTS), Department of Computer Science & Engineering, UET, Lahore, Pakistan December 2012 - September 2014
Visiting Lecturer, Sheffield, International College, Sheffield, UK August 2010 - August 2012
Teaching Assistant & Lab Demonstrator, Department of Computer Science, The University of Sheffield, UK October 2008 - September 2012.
Instructor, Department of Computer Science, The University of Sheffield, UK October 2010 - May 2011.
Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, UET, Lahore, Pakistan May 2006 - November 2012
Manager Software Hut project, Spring 2011-12, Department of Computer Science, The University of Sheffield, Uk: Worked as a manager for 4 teams - comprising of of 4 students each - while the students build software for external business clients.
Database and ECommerce related projected were developed using PHP, mySql, ASP.
Net and SQL Server softwares. Duties included meeting with the teams, checking on their progress, recording their progress and liaising with Professor Mike Holcombe 4.
1 http://kics.edu.pk/
2 These lectures are available on https://www.youtube.com and www.vulms.vu.edu.pk
3 Lectures are available at www.vulms.vu.edu.pk
4 http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/ wmlh/
Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan:
Manager Darwin Research projects, 2010-11-12 Department of Computer Science, The University of Sheffiled:
Worked as a supervisor for 2 teams - comprising of of 4 to 7 students each - Master students worked on research projects for a complete year. Duties included supervising students in writing project proposals, implementation, evaluation and writing research papers based on their work.
• Speaking person identification in videos.
• Video fingerprinting and digital video watermarking.
Second supervisor in Masters and Undergrad Projects, Department of Computer Science, The University of Sheffiled:
Working with Dr. Yoshi Gotoh5 in helping his undergrad and masters students to help them complete their projects. I mostly help them in coding and evaluation procedures during software development.
• Rubab Alkasah (2010). Head gestures identification in video.
• Amruta Mane (2010). Indoor/ outdoor scene classification of images.
• Pallathanaparambil Ullas (2010). Emotion recognition using facial expression.
• Alanazi (2009). Who is speaking?.
• Hina Desai (2011) Human action recognition
• Manal Alghamdi (2011) Human activity analysis
Professional Experience
Consultant, Punjab Police,
Lahore CPO Computer Expert for Mobile Jammers, software development committees. Consultant, FSK Pvt Ltd.
Lahore6 Software development and training courses expert.
Consultant, Center for Language Engineering7, UET Lahore
October 2012 - April 2013
Expert, Urdu Optical Character Recognition project
Research Assistant, Al-Khwarizmi Institute of Computer Science, Lahore, Pakistan October 2007 - September 2008
Lab Engineer / Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science, UET, Lahore, Pakistan March 2005 - April 2006
Senior Software Engineer, PowerSoft19 Pvt. Ltd., Lahore, Pakistan
8 September 2006 - September 2007
Software Engineer, Accountancy Outsourcing Services, Lahore, Pakistan
9 December 2003 - August 2006
- Cell # +92 313 6192000
- Email: [email protected]