Dr. Muhammad Zubair
Assistant Professor
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Dr. Muhammad Zubair is an experienced professional with over 11 years of cutting-edge laboratory research and teaching experience in prestigious institutions globally. He obtained his PhD in biomedical sciences with a major in bioinformatics from Katholieke University Leuven (KUL), Belgium, which ranked 70th in the world according to QS-2022. His 4-year doctorate was fully funded by the Flanders research foundation (FWO) Belgium. In his doctorate, he had mainly explored the anatomical connections of the ventral midbrain dopamine system. Moreover, he used his advanced programming skills to analyze functional magnetic resonance imaging data to investigate the effect of non-visual effector on early visual cortical areas. Previously, he was awarded MS and BSc degrees in computer engineering from the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) and the Islamia University of Bahawalpur, respectively.
Zubair’s interdisciplinary research allows him to work collaboratively with numerous research experts from different countries, including the UK, Belgium, USA, Denmark, New Zealand, Pakistan and Japan. His academic and translational research experience helped him secure research grants from international research foundations and prestigious institutes, including FWO, Aalborg University and New Zealand College of Chiropractic, NUST, Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan, and Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS).
| PhD | Bioinformatics | Katholieke University Leuven (KUL), Belgium | 2021 |
| MS | Computer Engineering | National University of Science & Technology (NUST), Pakistan | 2013 |
| BSc | Computer System Engineering | The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan | 2010 |
| Assistant Professor | University of Central Punjab | 2022-to present |
| Research Assistant | Katholieke University Leuven (KUL), Belgium | Apr 2021-Oct 2021 |
| Guest Researcher | Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan | 2018-2020 (18 months) |
| Assistant Professor | HITEC University Taxila Cantt, Pakistan | Oct 2016 – Jan 2017 |
| Lecturer | HITEC University Taxila Cantt, Pakistan | Sept 2013 – Oct 2016 |
| Guest Researcher | Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark | Mar 2015 – Aug 2015 |
| Visiting Faculty | University of Lahore, Islamabad Campus, Pakistan | 2013 (6 months) |
| Teacher Assistant | National University of Science & Technology (NUST), Pakistan | Oct 2011 – Jun 2013 |
| 1 | Zubair, M., Murris, S. R., Isa, K., Onoe, H., Koshimizu, Y., Kobayashi, K., Vanduffel, W., Isa., T. Divergent whole brain projections from the ventral midbrain in macaques. (2021) Cerebral Cortex, 31(6), 2913-2931. (IF: 5.043) |
| 2 | Zubair, M., Ali, H., & Javed, M. Y. Automated Segmentation of Hard Exudates Using Dynamic Thresholding to Detect Diabetic Retinopathy in Retinal Photographs. (2016) Journal of Multimedia Processing and Technologies., 7(3), 109-116. |
| 3 | Zubair, M., Khan, S. A., & Yasin, U. U. Classification of Diabetic Macular Edema and Its Stages Using Color Fundus Image. (2014) Journal of Electronic Science and Technology, 12(2), 187-190. |
| 4 | Zubair, M., Yamin, A., & Khan, S. A. Automated detection of optic disc for the analysis of retina using color fundus image. (2013) IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST) (pp. 239-242). |
| 5 | Zubair, M., Jawad, A., & Qammer H. A. Automated Grading of Diabetic Macular Edema Using Color Retinal Photographs (Smarttech 2022) |
| 6 | Zubair, M., Arsenault, J. T., Vanduffel, W. Stimulus-effector associations modulate activity in early visual cortex of monkeys. (accepted in current biology). (IF: 10.83) |
| 7 | Zia, U., Ismail, M., Rehman, S., Zubair, M., Driss, M., Boulila, W., Sheikh, R., Alwawi, I., Emotion Recognition from Occluded Facial Images using Deep Ensemble Model. (Computers, Materials & Continua). (IF: 3.772) |