Faculty information for second term contract appintment

Faculty Name Dr. Nasru Minallah
Designation Assistant Professor
Duration of Evaluation 3-Years [from 17 April 2012 till 17 April 2015]
Department Department of Computer Systems Engineering (DCSE), UET Peshawar.

Teaching and Peer Evaluation

Teaching Evaluation

Attached are the formal letter from Chairman DCSE regarding the teaching evaluation, for the following Semesters.

Teaching Load Undergraduate per year

Year 2012

Courses
The applicant has taught three courses each in Fall12, Summer12, and Spring12 undergraduate semesters.

Sections
The applicant has taught three courses to five sections, two in Fall12, one in Summer12, and two in Spring12 undergraduate semesters.

Year 2013

Courses
The applicant has taught three courses each in Fall13, Summer13, and Spring13 undergraduate semesters.

Sections
The applicant has taught three courses to five sections, two in Fall13, one in Summer13, and two in Spring13 undergraduate semesters.

Year 2014

Courses
The applicant has taught three courses each in Fall14, Summer14, and Spring14 undergraduate semesters.

Sections
The applicant has taught three courses to seven sections, three in Fall14, two in Summer14, and two in Spring14 undergraduate semesters.

Year 2015

Courses
The applicant has taught three courses each in Fall15, Summer15, and Spring15 undergraduate semesters

Sections
The applicant has taught three courses to seven sections, three in Fall15, two in Summer15, and two in Spring15 undergraduate semesters.

Teaching Load Postgraduate per year

Year 2012

Courses
The applicant has taught four courses, 2 courses in each Fall12 and once course in Spring12 postgraduate semesters.

Sections
The applicant has taught four courses in three sections, 2 sections in each Fall12 and one section in Spring12 postgraduate semesters.

Year 2013

Courses
The applicant has taught four courses, 2 courses in each Fall13 and Spring13 postgraduate semesters.

Sections
The applicant has taught four courses in four sections, 2 sections in each Fall13 and Spring13 postgraduate semesters.

Year 2014

Courses
The applicant has taught total 4 courses in 2014, two courses in Spring14 and two in Fall14 postgraduate semesters.

Sections
The applicant has taught four courses to four sections in Spring14 and Fall14 postgraduate semesters.

Year 2015

Courses
The applicant has taught total 4 courses in 2015, two courses in Spring15 and two in Fall15 postgraduate semesters.

Sections
The applicant has taught four courses to four sections in Spring15 and Fall15 postgraduate semesters.

Research


RESEARCH PROJECT COMPLETED- INDIGENOUS M.SC SPONSORED BY UETP

Year 2013

One MSc students completed his MSc research during 2013 session. The name of this students is Engr. Amaad Khalil.

Year 2014

Two MSc students completed their MSc research during 2014 session. The name of these students is Engr. MadihaSher and Engr. Muhammad Shoab.

Year 2015

One MSc students completed his MSc research during 2015 session. The name of the student was Engr. Hidayat Ur Rehman RESEARCH PROJECT IN PROGRESS- INDIGENOUS M.SC SPONSORED BY UETP
An MSc research project of Engr. SairaGul, Engr. Faisal Imtiaz and Engr. Sara Ikram was in progress in 2015. RESEARCH PROJECT IN PROGRESS- INDIGENOUS PHD SPONSORED BY UETP

Year 2013

The applicant had one indigenous PhD research projects in progress in 2013. The PhD research students are Engr. Amaad Khalil.

Year 2014

The applicant had two indigenous PhD research projects in progress in 2014. The PhD research students MadihaSher, Engr. Summayyea Malik.

Year 2015

The applicant had two indigenous PhD research projects in progress in 2015. The PhD research students are Engr. MunibaAshfaq and Engr. Mujtaba Hassan.

Refereed Journals

Year 2012

International Journals

One international Journal was published by the applicant during 2012 session [1]. [1] Nasruminallah; Hanzo, L., "Near-Capacity H.264 Multimedia Communications Using Iterative Joint Source-Channel Decoding," Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE , vol.14, no.2, pp.538,564, Second Quarter 2012

National Journals

One national Journal was published by the applicant during 2012 session [2]. [2] NasruMinallah, A. U. Khatta, LaiqHasan, “Performance analysis of forward error correction aided P2P live-video streaming”, Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences ISSN : 1023862X vol. 31, no. 1 January to June 2012

2013

International Journals

Four international Journals were published by the applicant during 2013 session [1,2,3,4].
[1] Muhammad Sohaib, Nasir Ahmed and NasruMinallah, (2013) “Image Enhancement for the 3-D Reconstruction in the Uncontrolled Environment using Shape from Silhouette”, International Journal of Computer Applications, vol. 70, issue. 11, pp. 49-53, June 2013.
[2] RafaqatAlam Khan, Nasir Ahmad and NasruMinallah (2013), “Classification and Regression Analysis of the Prognostic Breast Cancer using Generation Optimizing Algorithms”, International Journal of Computer Science Issues (IJCSI), vol. 68, issue. 25, April 2013, pp. 42-47.
[3] Jebran Khan, Nasru-minnallah and Hurmat Ali Shah,“Experimental Comparison of Face detection Techniques on the basis of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Parameters”, International Journal of Computer Applications 73(22):39-44, July 2013. Published by Foundation of Computer Science, New York, USA.
[4] Amaad Khalil, Nasruminallah, Bilal Shams, “Robust Video Transmission with high Error Correction Capable using Binary LDPC Codes” Sarhad University International Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, March 2013

Year 2014

International Journals
The applicant published one international Journal during 2014 session [1].

[1] MadihaSher, NasruMinallah, Fahad Khan, Muhammad AsifManzoor, MunazaSher, “Open Multiprocessing Aided Overlapped Motion Compensated Temporal Interpolation”, InternationalJournal of Engineering and Innovative Technology (IJEIT)Volume 3, Issue 8, February 2014 http://ijeit.com/Vol%203/Issue%208/IJEIT1412201402_02.pdf

Year 2015

International Journals The applicant published ONE International Journals in 2015 [9].
[9] Hidayat Ur Rahman, NasruMinallah, Ali Alkhalifah and Rehanullah Khan, “Band Aalysis for Land Use in Multi Spectral Images”, International Journal of Computer Applications 115(2): 38-41, April 2015

National Journals
The applicant published Five Hec Recognized Journals in 2015 [1,2,3,4,5].
[1] N. Minallah, A. Khalil, U. Farooq, A. Sardar, M. M. Bokhari, M. Shafi, "performance analysis of video coding schemes withreference to intra-coded high efficiency video coding (hevc)", Sindh
University Research Journal (Science Series) Vol 47, No 3 (2015):
[2] N. Minallah, A. Khalil, M. Younas, M. Furqan, M. M. Bokhari, “Performance Analysis of Image Compression Standards with Reference to JPEG2000”, Sindh University Research Journal Vol 47, No 3
(2015):
[3] M. Shafi,N. Ullah,M. I. Khattak,I. A. Khan,M. Saleem,N. Minallah, "Mining Social Media photos to Measure Point-of-InterestConnectivity", Sindh University Research Journal Vol 47, No 2 (2015)
[4] I. A. Khan, M. Usman,M. Shafi,K. Ghani,N. Minallah, "Towards an Efficient Urdu Keyboard Layout" Sindh University Research Journal Vol 47, No 2 (2015):
[5] Khan, A.A., Minallah, N., Khan, S (2015). "On the Performance of Supervised Classifiers for Crop Identification and Estimation using Multi-Spectral Imagery", Journal of Engineering and Applied
Sciences, 34(1), 109-114

Proceedings/ Conference Paper

Year 2012

International Conference
The applicant has published in two international conferences during 2012 session [3,4].
[3] Khan, AA; Shah, S.F.A; Ullah, F.; Minallah, N., "Visual category recognition for the improved storage and retrieval performance of the CCTV camera system," International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS), 2012 12th, vol., no., pp.241,246, 4-7 Dec. 2012
[4] MadihaSher, Muhammad AsifManzoor, MunazaSher, NasruMinallah“Performance Analysis of Overlapped Motion Compensated Temporal Interpolation using Open Multiprocessing”, 1st International Conference on Future Trends in Computing and Communication Technologies, 2012 http://www.ftcom.org/ftcom2012/ftcom20121.pdf

Year 2013

International Conference

The applicant has published in five international conferences during 2013 session [7,8,9,10,11].
[7] Iqbal, A; Arif, F.; Minallah, N., "Analyzing impact of video codec, encapsulation methods and streaming protocols on the quality of video streaming," Digital Information Management (ICDIM), 2013 Eighth International Conference on , vol., no., pp.182,186, 10-12 Sept. 2013
[8] Shoaib, M.; Minallah, N.; Rizwan, S.; Shah, S.; Hussain, H., "Investigating the impact of group mobility models over the on-demand routing protocol in MANETs," Digital Information Management (ICDIM), 2013 Eighth International Conference on , vol., no., pp.29,34, 10-12 Sept. 2013
[9] Ashfaq, M.; Minallah, N.; Bokhari, S.M.M.; Din, IU.; Hanif, M.; Yahya, K.M., "Parallel phase unwrapping in 3D shape measurement using digital fringe projection technique," Image Processing (ICIP), 2013 20th IEEE International Conference on , vol., no., pp.3191,3195, 15-18 Sept. 2013
[10] Ashfaq, M.; Minallah, N.; Yahya, K.M.; Din, I; Ali, A, "Efficient implementation of Itoh's algorithm in 3D shape measurement using digital fringe projection technique," Innovations in Information Technology (IIT), 2013 9th International Conference on , vol., no., pp.180,185, 17-19 March 2013
[11] Iqbal, A; Arif, F.; Minallah, N., "Performance evaluation of stack-protocols, encapsulation methods and video codecs for live video streaming," International Conference of Information and Communication Technology (ICoICT), 2013, vol., no., pp.223,228, 20-22 March 2013

Year 2014

International Conference
The applicant has published in one international conferences during 2014 session [6].
[6] MadihaSher, NasruMinallah, Muhammad AsifManzoor, MunazaSher, “Open Multiprocessing Aided Overlapped Motion Compensated Temporal Interpolation”, Fourth International conference on computer science and information technology (CCIST 2014) Feb 2014 http://airccj.org/2013/ccsit14/accepted.html

Year 2015

International Conference
The applicant has published in Nine (9) international conferences during 2015 session [7,8,10,11,12,13,14,15,16].
[7.] NasruMinallah, Ali Alkhalifah, Rehanullah Khan, Hidayat Ur Rahman, Shahbaz Khan, “On the Performance Analysis of Classifier Fusion for Land Cover Classification”, 7th International Conference On Recent Advances In Space Technologies -(RAST2015), June 2015
[8.] NasruMinallah, Hidayat Ur Rahman, Rehanullah Khan, Ali Alkhalifah, Shahbaz Khan, “Land Usage Analysis: A Random Forest Approach”, 7th International Conference On Recent Advances In Space Technologies- (RAST2015), June 2015
[10] NasruMinallah, Hidayat Ur Rahman, Rehanullah Khan, "On The Performance Analysis Of Machine Learning Approach For Land-Cover Classification", Accepted for publication in SPIE Remote Sensing to be held on 21-24 September 2015.
[11] Shahbaz Khan, Aziz Ahmed, Muhammad Muaz, NasruMinallah, Manzoor Ali, Muhammad Yasir, "Comparing maximum likelihood, support vector machine, and neural networks classification algorithms for classifying tobacco Crops in Northwestern Pakistan", Accepted for publication in SPIE Remote Sensing to be held on 21-24 September 2015.
[12.] N. Minallah, S. Gul, M.M. Bokhari, "Performance Analysis of H.265/HEVC (High-Efficiency Video Coding) with reference to Other Codecs", 14th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT'16) will be held from December 19-21, 2016 at Islamabad Pakistan.
[13.] Umair Khan, NasruMinallah, Ahmad Junaid, KashafGul, Nasir Ahmad, "Parallelepiped and Mahalanobis Distance Based Classification for Forestry Identification in Pakistan", The International Conference on Emerging Technologies ICET December 19, 2015.
[14.] N. Minallah, A. Khalil and N. Ahmad, "Iterative H.264 video decoding using mutual information exchangeable DSTS and SP modulation," 2015 IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC), Shenzhen, 2015, pp. 1-5.
[15.] S. Khan, N. Ahmad, M. Ismail, N. Minallah and T. Khan, "A secure true edge based 4 least significant bits steganography," 2015 International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET), Peshawar, 2015, pp. 1-4
[16.] A. Ahmed, NasruMinallah., "Comparing pixel-based classifiers for detecting tobacco crops in north-west Pakistan," 2015 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST), Istanbul, 2015, pp. 211-216.

Research Grants Received/Grants for Planning and Development of Advance Centers of Learning and Research


Worth Rs.25,502,848/-

The applicant is actively working as Co-Principle Investigator in National ICT R&D approved project titled “Crop Estimation and Geographic Mapping System (CEGMaS)”, with approved budget of Rs.25,502,848/- over a period of 32 months. The acceptance notification of the said project was sent to the Vice Chancellor, University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar on December 26, 2012.

Engagement as External Examiner or R.E.C. Member


In evaluation of PhD research work


With reference to the notification number No.82/F.6/O-III.Acad dated 02/12/2011, the applicant is engaged as R.E.C member in evaluating the PhD research work of Engr. Maryam Mashal Khan.
With reference to the notification number No.103/F.6/O-III.Acad dated 12/10/2015, the applicant is engaged as R.E.C member in evaluating the PhD research work of Mr. Hassan Shah and Mr. Ali Ahmad.

In evaluation of M.Sc./M.Phill research work


The applicant was engaged as External Examinar in evaluation of MS thesis of Mr. AfaqIqbal, Reg No: 2010-NUST-MS PhD-CSE-21 at MCS NUST, on 15th July 2013.

Participation in Technical Seminars/Workshops/ Conferences

Year 2012


The applicant participated in International Multidisciplinary Conference – Towards Better Pakistan, organized by and held at Sarhad University of Science & Technology, Peshawar, on 24th- 25th September, 2012. Also participated in a workshop “Applications of Neural Networks and Pattern Recognition: Rejection of Intentionally Invalidated Speed Limit Signals”, organized on 14th May 2012 at UET Peshawar.

Year 2013


The applicant has conducted a one-day workshop on “Computer Vision Applications in Matlab” at Advanced Control Lab in Department of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (R & AI), on 14th October 2013.

Year 2014


Also participated in a Seminar “Environmental Remote Sensing”, organized on Oct 2014 at UET Peshawar.

Year 2015


Participation in International Conferences:

Participated in two international conferences i.e. ICCC 2015 and RAST 2015

Personal


PhD
The applicant has successfully completed his PhD degree from University of Southampton, UK in 2010 session.
M.Phil /M.Sc. Engineering
The applicant has successfully completed his MSc degree from Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), during 2006 session.
B.Sc
The applicant has successfully completed his B.Sc degree in Computer Systems Engineering from University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar in 2004 session.
Teaching/ Research Experience within Pakistan (years)
The applicant has worked as Assistant Professor in UET.
Teaching/ Experience outside Pakistan (years).
•The applicant worked as researcher for three years from April 2007 till June 2010 towards the completion of his PhD research work at University of Southampton, UK for around 3-Years.
•The applicant worked as Postdoctoral Fellow from October 2010 till September 2011 at France Telecom R&D – Orange Labs for one Year.
Experience as Semester coordinator (years)
With reference to the notification number No.251/Estt-I dated 26/04/2012, the applicant was appointed as semester coordinator at the department of Computer Systems Engineering, UET Peshawar.
Convener/ member committee for specified assignments
The applicant is member of departmental Postgraduate Research Evaluation Committee (PREC) and departmental Disciplinary Committee (DC) and member Board of Studies.