
Dr. Nadeem Ahmad Ch
Associate Professor
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Dr. Nadeem Ahmad Ch have completed Dual PhD in Human Computer Interaction from Politecnico di Torino, Italy & University of Potsdam, Germany in 2014. He is currently working as Associate Professor in Faculty of Information Technology. He has 18 years of teaching, research, administrative and management experience. He worked in many national and international organizations. Before joining UCP, he worked as Pro Vice Chancellor in the University of Sialkot, Pakistan where he was involved in corporate planning across the university and his responsibilities includes setting academic and corporate goals for various departments. He has promoted university repute by networking with academic and business organizations across the world. He was involved in project management, policy-making, uplifting research, incubation and commercialization to improve University ranking. Before that, he served two years as head of Computer Science department at Superior University, Pakistan. In Computer Science department six degree programs were offered at undergraduate and postgraduate level in which more than three thousand students were enrolled while he was leading the team of more than one hundred faculty members.
He aslo worked as Head of Computer Science and IT Department in The University of Lahore for three years where he established many new Labs especially a state of the art research Lab for PhD scholars. He is running People Centred Technology research group where almost six MS and PhD students have completed their theses under his supervision. He has published 24 papers in reputed journals and international conferences. In past he worked as deputy manager MIS in Technical Education and Vocational Training authority, Government of the Punjab, where he was providing consultancy to more than 400 vocational training institutions for development of different software according to their requirements. He also taught undergraduate courses in Punjab University College of IT for almost five years. He worked one year in Oslo, Norway and spent almost five years in Italy and Germany.
PhD (Dual) | Computer Science | Politecnico di Torino, Italy & University of Potsdam, Germany | 2014 |
MSc | Computer Science | Punjab University College of IT, Lahore | 2003 |
B.Sc | Math, Stat | Punjab University, Lahore | 2001 |
Pro Vice Chancellor/ Professor of Computing | University of Sialkot | 2019-2021 |
Chairman Computer Science Department | Superior University, Lahore | 2017-2019 |
Head of CS & IT Department | University of Lahore | 2015-2017 |
Assistant Professor | University of Lahore | 2014-2015 |
Deputy Manager MIS | Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority, TEVTA Lahore | 2008-2009 |
System Analyst | Fine Distributions, Oslo Norway | 2006-2007 |
Lecturer | Punjab University College of IT | 2004-2006 |
1 | W. Iqbal, N. Ahmad, K. Shahzad, R. Naqvi, B. Ayub and Z. Ali(2021), User context ontology for adaptive mobile-phone interfaces, in IEEE access, ISSN: 2169-3536 , Vol. 9, pp: 96751-96762, I.F= 3.367, Online |
2 | I. Durrani, N. Qureshi, N. Ahmad, T. Naz and A. Amelio(2019), A health informatics reporting system for technology illiterate workforce using mobile phone, Applied clinical informatics, ISSN: 1869-0327, Vol. 10, Issue 2, pp:348-357 IF= 2.342.Online |
3 | I. Feroz, N. Ahmad, W. Iqbal, N. Ali and K. Shahzad(2019), People perception of autonomous vehicles: legal and ethical issues, International journal of advanced and applied sciences (IJAAS), ISSN: 2313-626X, Vol. 6, Issue 5, pp: 92-101.Online |
4 | W. Iqbal, N. Ahmad, K. Shahzad, I. Feroz and N. Ali (2018), Towards adaptive user interfaces for mobile-phone in smart world, International journal of advanced computer Science and applications (IJACSA), ISSN: 2158-107X, Vol. 9, Issue 11, pp: 556-565, I.F=1.092. Online |
5 | M. Adrees, N. Ahmad, A. Amelio and A. Qadeer(2018), Enhancing web usability: exploiting interactional properties of web interfaces with vocabulary and comprehension learning in non-native English speakers, International Journal of computer science and Network Security (IJCSNS), ISSN: 1738-7906, Vol. 18, Issue 11, pp: 164-172. Online |
6 | W. Iqbal, N. Ahmad, K. Shahzad, R. Naqvi and I. Feroz (2018), Usability aspects of adaptive mobile interfaces for color-blind and vision deficient users, International journal of Computer Science and network security (IJCSNS), ISSN: 1738-7906, Vol. 18, Issue 11, pp: 179-189. Online |
7 | Z. Aslam, R. Shahzad, N. Ahmad and W. Iqbal (2017), Web usability and user trust on E-commerce websites in Pakistan, International Journal of advanced computer science and applications (IJACSA), ISSN: 2158-107X, Vol. 8, Issue 12, pp: 509-517. I.F= 1.092. Online |
8 | N. Ahmad, M. Shoaib, A. Ishaq and A. Wahab (2017), Role of expert systems in identification and overcoming of dengue fever, International journal of advanced computer science and applications (IJACSA), ISSN: 2158-107X, Vol. 8, Issue 10, pp: 82-89. I.F= 1.092Online |
9 | N. Ahmad, U. Shoaib and P. Prinetto (2015), Usability of online assistance from semi-literate Users' perspective, International journal of human-computer interaction. ISSN: 1532-7590, Vol. 31, Issue 1, pp: 55-64, I.F= 3.353.Online |
10 | U. Shoaib, N. Ahmad, P. Prinetto and G. Tiotto (2014), Integrating multiWordNet with Italian sign language lexical resources, Expert systems with applications, ISSN 0957-4174, Vol. 41, Issue 5, pp: 2300-2308, I.F= 6.954. Online |
11 | N. Ahmad, I. Feroz and A. Anjum (2020), Usability analysis of educational information systems from student’s perspective. ICBDM 2020: Proceedings of the 2020 international conference on big data in management. The university of Manchester UK, Nov 20-22, 2020, ISBN: 978-1-4503-7506-1, pp: 130-135Online |
12 | R. Shehzad, N. Ahmad, M. W. Iqbal and I. Feroz (2019), Gestural user interfaces for hearing and speech impaired people using KINECT, International conference on engineering and emerging technologies (ICEET), Lahore, Pakistan, Feb 21-22, 2019, ISBN:978-1-7281-0279-5, pp: 1-8.Online |
13 | I. Feroz, N. Ahmad and M. W. Iqbal (2019), Usability based rating scale for mobile health applications, International conference on engineering and emerging technologies (ICEET), Lahore, Pakistan, Feb 21-22, 2019, ISBN:978-1-7281-0279-5, pp. 1-7.Online |
14 | S. urooj, I. Feroz and N. Ahmad (2018), Systematic literature review on user interfaces of autonomous cars: liabilities and responsibilities, 1st International conference on advancements in computational sciences, Lahore Pakistan, Feb 19-21, 2018, pp: 1-10. Online |
15 | W. Iqbal, K. Shahzad, N. Ahmad, A. Amelio and D. Brodic (2018), Adaptive interface for Color-blind people in mobile-phones, 1st International conference on advancements in computational sciences, Lahore Pakistan, Feb 19-21, 2018. pp: 1-8.Online |
16 | N. Ahmad and J. Siddique. (2017), Personality assessment using Twitter rweets. 21st International conference on knowledge-based and intelligent information & engineering Systems, Marseille, France, Sep 6-8, 2017. Procedia computer science, Vol. 112, ISSN 1877-0509, pp 1964-1973.Online |
17 | M. Iqbal, N. Ahmad and S. Shahzad. (2017), Usability evaluation of adaptive features in smartphones. 21st International conference on knowledge-based and intelligent information & engineering systems, Marseille, France, Sep 6-8, 2017. Procedia computer science, Vol. 112, ISSN 1877-0509, pp: 2185-2194. Online |
18 | S.K. Shahzad, M. Iqbal and N. Ahmad (2017), Privacy agents for IoT cloud Communication. In proceedings of the 2nd International conference on internet of things, Big data and security: IoTBDS, Porto Portugal, Apr 24-26, 2017. ISBN 978-989-758-245-5, pp: 239-245.Online |
19 | D. Brodić, A. Amelio, N. Ahmad , S.K. Shahzad (2017) Usability analysis of the image and interactive CAPTCHA via prediction of the response time. In multi-disciplinary trends in artificial intelligence, MIWAI 2017, Lecture Notes in computer science, Springer, Vol 10607. ISBN: 978-3-319-69456-6, pp: 252-265, Online |
20 | Ahmad, N. (2013) Virtual character based interactive interfaces for deaf and functionally illiterate users. In software business: from physical products to software services and solutions, Springer, Berlin, Germany, ISSN: 1865-1348, Scopus Indexed, Vol. 150, pp: 223-224. Online |
21 | N. Ahmad, D. Barberis, N. Garazzino, P. Prinetto, U. Shoaib and G. Tiotto (2012), A virtual character based Italian sign language dictionary. 13th International conference on computers helping people with special needs, Linz, Austria, 11-13 July. 2012, pp: 31-36. Online |
22 | U. Shoaib, N. Ahmad, G. Tiotto and P. Prinetto. (2012), A platform-independent user-friendly dictionary from italian to LIS. The 8th International conference on language resources and evaluation (LREC), Istanbul, Turkey, May 21-27, 2012, ISBN 978-2-9517408-7-7, pp: 2435-2438. Online |
23 | D. Barberis, N. Garazzino, P. Prinetto, G. Tiotto, A. Savino, U. Shoaib and N. Ahmad. (2011) Language resources for computer assisted translation from Italian to Italian sign language of deaf people. Accessibility reaching everywhere-AEGIS workshop and International conference, Brussels, Belgium, Nov 28-30, 2011, pp: 363-370.Online |