Biography

Prof Dr. Muazzam A. Khan: Prof Dr. Muazzam A. Khan (SM IEEE) is the Director of Science and Technology and Director of ICESCO Chair in Big Data Analytics and Edge Computing at Quaid I Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in a sandwich program from IIUI, Pakistan, and UMKC, USA, in 2011. Later, he also received his Post Doc from the University of Missouri, KC, USA, in 2016. He joined NUST University, Pakistan, as an Assistant Professor in 2013 and was promoted to Tenured Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Computing at NUST-SEECS, Pakistan, in 2017. He also worked as a Research Fellow at the Networking and Multimedia Laboratory at UMKC, USA, and University of Ulm Germany. His research interests include wireless sensor networks, body area networks, image compression, image encryption, and data network security. He has published more than 200 publications with 10 book chapters, having a total of 3560+ citations. He has served as the co-chair, publicity chair, TPC member, and reviewer of the famous international conference on Smart Cities and Information and Communication Technologies HONET-ICT 2017 till 2023.