Muhamamd Zeshan Afzal

Also published under:Muhammad Tanvir Afzal, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal, M. Zeshan Afzal, Muhammad Tanveer Afzal, Muhammamd Zeshan Afzal

Affiliation

DFKI, Kaiserslautern, Germany

Topic

Convolutional Neural Network,Word Embedding,Citation Counts,Deep Learning,Object Detection,Semantic Segmentation,Award Winners,Bounding Box,Comprehensive Dataset,Deep Neural Network,Domain Of Mathematics,Fields Of Mathematics,Google Scholar,Large Datasets,Publish Or Perish,Ranked List,Ranking Of Parameters,Research Articles,Research Papers,Scientific Community,Article Content,Attention Mechanism,Backbone Network,Benchmark,Benchmark Datasets,Combination Of Features,Convolutional Layers,Convolutional Network,Deformable Convolution,Faster R-CNN,Gated Recurrent Unit,General Terms,Global Features,Graph Convolutional Network,Graph Neural Networks,Intersection Over Union,Long Short-term Memory,Mask R-CNN,Neural Network,Number Of Citations,Object Detection Problem,Recognition Problem,Region Proposal Network,Removing Stop Words,Research Significance,Structure Table,Text Classification,Unseen Classes,Zero-shot,Annotation Efforts,

Biography

Muhammad Tanvir Afzal received the M.Sc. degree (Hons.) in computer science from Quiad-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, and the Ph.D. degree (Hons.) in computer science from the Graz University of Technology, Austria. He was associated with academia and industry at various levels for the last 20 years. He was with the Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad, as a Professor, an Associate Professor, and an Assistant Professor of CS. He is currently the Director and a Professor with the Shifa School of Computing and Director Campus at one of the largest campus of Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Islamabad. Previously, he was the Director and a Professor with the Namal Institute Mianwali. Furthermore, he was with NESCOM, COMSATS University Islamabad, and Jin Technologies, Islamabad. He has authored more than 125 research articles, including more than 50 published articles in impact factor leading journals in the field of data science, information retrieval and visualization, semantics, digital libraries, artificial intelligence, and scientometrics. He has authored two books and has edited two books in computer science. His cumulative impact factor is more than 123, with citations of more than 1300. He played pivotal role in making collaborations between MAJU-JUCS, MAJU-IICM, and TUG-UNIMAS. He conducted more than 100 curricular, co-curricular, and extra-curricular activities in the last five years, including seminars, workshops, and national competitions (ExcITeCup), and invited international and national speakers from Google, Oracle, IICM, IFIS, and SEGA Europe. Under his supervision, more than 70 postgraduate students (M.S. and Ph.D.) have defended their research theses successfully and a number of Ph.D. and M.S. students are pursuing their research with him. He served as a Master Trainer and the Program Director at a national level training for a public sector organization in Pakistan on human factors engineering and conducted the training of more than 150 hours for experts from the industry. He remained a Master Trainer for data science trainings in leading industrial organizations. He was a recipient of multiple international research fundings. He served as the Ph.D. Symposium Chair, the Session Chair, the Finance Chair, a Committee Member, and an Editor for several IEEE, ACM, Springer, and Elsevier international conferences and journals, respectively. He is an Editor-in-Chief for reputed impact factor journal, such as Journal of Universal Computer Science.