Dr. Hafeez Ur Rehman
Associate Professor (On-Leave)
(HEC Approved)
Computer Science
Dr. Hafeez ur Rehman is serving as Head of Department in the Department of Computer Science at National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences, Peshawar for the last five years. He obtained his BS (Computer Science) degree from COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Abbottabad in the year 2006. He later moved to Italy, to pursue his higher education under the UESTP faculty development program of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan. He completed his MS in Computer Communication and Networks Engineering in the year 2010 from Politecnico di Torino University, Italy. After completing his MS, he secured his Ph.D. admission at the same university where he was mentored by Professor Alfredo Benso. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer and Control Engineering in the year 2014. Dr. Hafeez has significant research contributions. He actively works in the fields of Bioinformatics and Medical Image Analysis. He has published a number of articles at many prestigious international research platforms. He is the author of more than 20 papers; all published in well-reputed journals and conferences. He has over 250 citations with a cumulative Impact Factor of 34. Dr. Hafeez has already supervised a number of MS students. He is currently supervising 5 Ph.D. students. He has also served as the GSC (Graduate Studies Committee) coordinator of the Ph.D. program for a period of 2.5 years.
- Ph.D. in Computer and Control Engineering, Politecnico Di Torino, Italy (2014).
- MS (Computer Communication and Networks Engineering), Politecnico di Torino, Italy (2010).
- BS (Computer Science), COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Abbottabad, Pakistan (2006).
- Artificial Intelligence (CS 401)
- Introduction to Bioinformatics (CS 460)
- Digital Image Processing (EE 238)
- Bioinformatics (CS 508)
- Medical Image Processing (CS 627)
- Medical Image Analysis
- Bioinformatics
- Machine Learning
- Nauman M., Ur Rehman H.*, Politano G., Benso A., "Beyond Homology Transfer: Deep Learning for Automated Annotation of Proteins", Grid Computing, pp. 1-13, 2018.
- Khan I., Islam N., Ur Rehman H., Murad Khan, " A Comparative Study of Graphic Symbol Recognition Methods", Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2017.
- Ur Rehman H.*, Bari I., Ali A., Mahmood H., "A Bayesian Approach for Estimating Protein–protein Interactions by Integrating Structural and Non-structural Biological Data.", Molecular BioSystems, 2017.
- Ur Rehman H.*, Azam N., Yao J., Benso A., "A Three-way Approach for Protein Function Classification.", PLOS-ONE, 2017.
- Ali A., Ullah K., Ur Rehman H., Bari I., M Reyneri L., "Thermal Characterisation Analysis and Modelling Techniques for CubeSat-sized Spacecrafts.", The Aeronautical Journal, 2017.
- Ur Rehman F., Nadeem S., Ur rehman H., Ul Haq R., "Thermophysical Analysis for Three-dimensional MHD Stagnation-point Flow of Nano-material Influenced by an Exponential Stretching Surface.", Results in Physics, 2017.
- Jiang Y., Ur Rehman H., et al. "An Expanded Evaluation of Protein Function Prediction Methods shows an Improvement in Accuracy.", Genome Biology, 2016.
- Benso A., Di Carlo S., Ur Rehman H.*, Politano G., Savino A., Suravajhala P., "A Combined Approach for Genome Wide Protein Function Annotation/Prediction." Proteome Science, 2013, Vol. 11 (Suppl 1):S1.
- Politano G., Savino A., Benso A., Di Carlo S., Ur Rehman H., Vasciaveo A., "Using Boolean Networks to Model Post-transcriptional Regulation in Gene Regulatory Networks.", Journal of Computational Science, 2014, ISSN 1877-7503.
- Benso A., Di Carlo S.*, Politano G., Savino A. and Ur Rehman H.,"Building gene expression profile classifiers with a simple and efficient rejection option in R". BMC Bioinformatics, 2011, 12(Suppl 13):S3.
- Ur Rehman H.*, Zafar U., Benso A., Islam N., "A Structure based Approach for Accurate Prediction of Protein Interactions Networks", 7th International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms, Bioinformatics 2016, Rome, Italy.
- Benso A., Di Carlo S., Ur Rehman H., Politano G., Savino A., Vasciaveo A., "Accounting for Post-Transcriptional Regulation in Boolean Networks Based Regulatory Models.", International Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, IWBBIO 2013, Granada, Spain, 18-20 March , 2013. pp. 397-404.
- Ur Rehman H.*, Benso A., Di Carlo S., Politano G., Savino A., "Combining Homolog and Motif Similarity Data with Gene Ontology Relationships for Protein Function Prediction", The IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2012, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
- Benso A., Di Carlo S., Ur Rehman H.*, Politano G., Savino A., "Using Genome Wide Data for Protein Function Prediction by Exploiting Gene Ontology Relationships", IEEE International Conference on Automation Quality and Testing Robotics (AQTR), Romania, 2012. GIVEN BEST PAPER AWARD!
- Benso A., Di Carlo S., Politano G., Savino A., Ur Rehman H., "Using Boolean Networks to Model Post-transcriptional Regulation in Gene Regulatory Networks.", International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, BIOCOMP BG, Varna, Bulgaria, Sept. 2012.
- Benso A., Di Carlo S., Politano G., Savino A., Ur Rehman H., "An Agent-based Simulation Framework for Complex Systems.", International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, BIOCOMP BG, Varna, Bulgaria, Sept. 2012.
