1. Profile Picture

2. Short Information

 Ambreen Nazir is a senior lecturer in the Department of Computing at the Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University (STMU), Islamabad. Currently, she is also enrolled as a doctoral candidate at the University of Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. Her areas of specialization during her Ph.D. is Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning. She has received an MS degree in Software Engineering with majors in Data Mining and rule-based learning from UET Taxila, Pakistan. She has more than five years of academic experience in a well-reputed university. So far, she has published many research articles in different renowned conferences and journals such as IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Elsevier Information Sciences, Chinese Journal of Electronics, ACM SIGIR, ACL, IJCAI, and EMNLP. She is also an active reviewer of many artificial intelligence platforms.

3. Education Detail

2018 – Present—        Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D. in Software Engineering)         

Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China         

2012 – 14        —        Master of Philosophy (MPhil in Software Engineering)            

University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, Pakistan                                                                               

2008 – 12        —        Bachelor of Science (BS in Software Engineering)                      

University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, Pakistan                                                                               

4. Experience

2016–17          —        Lecturer (Full Time), Computer Science Department,

COMSATS University Islamabad, Wah Campus

2015–16          —        Lecturer (Visiting), Software Engineering Department,

International Islamic University, Islamabad              

2014–16          —        Lecturer (Full Time), Software Engineering Department,

iUSE School of Engineering and Management, Rawalpindi

2012–14          —        Research Assistant (Full Time), Software Engineering Department,

University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila

5. Area

Deep Learning; Natural Language Processing; Sentiment Analysis; Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis; Information Extraction; Knowledge Discovery; Data Processing

6. Publication

Journal

2022—A. Nazir, Y. Rao, L. Wu, and L. Sun. “IAF-LG: An Interactive Attention Fusion Network with Local and Global Perspective for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis.” IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, PP. 1-1. (IF: 13.99)

2022—A. Nazir, Y. Rao, L. Wu, and L. Sun. “Issues and Challenges of Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis: A Comprehensive Survey.” IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, V.13, No.2, PP. 845-863. (IF: 13.99)

2022—L. Sun, Y. Rao, L. Wu, X. Zhang, Y. Lan, and A. Nazir. “Fighting False Information from Propagation Process: A Survey.” ACM Computing Survey. Just Accepted. (IF: 14.324)

2021—L. Wu, Y. Rao, C. Zhang, Y. Zhao, and A. Nazir. “Category-controlled Encoder-Decoder for Fake News Detection.”, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, PP.1-1. (IF: 9.235)

2020—L. Wu, Y. Rao, A. Nazir, and H. Jin. “Discovering Differential Features: Adversarial Learning for Information Credibility Evaluation.” Information Sciences, V/I.516, PP.453-473. (IF: 8.233)

2020—Cong Feng, Y. Rao, A. Nazir, L. Wu, and H. Long. “Pre-trained Language Embedding-based Contextual Summary and Multi-Scale Transmission Network for Aspect Extraction.” Procedia Computer Science, V/I.174, PP.40-49.

2019—L. Wu, Y. Rao, H. Yu, Y. Wang, and A. Nazir. “A Multi-Semantics Classification Method Based on Deep Learning for Incredible Messages on Social Media.” Chinese Journal of Electronics, V.28, I.4, PP.754-763. (IF: 1.019)

2014—S. Zahra, A. Nazir, A. Khalid, A. Raana, and M. N. Majeed. “Performing Inquisitive Study of PM Traits Desirable for Project Progress.” International Journal of Modern Education and Computer Science (IJMECS), V.6, I.2, PP.41-47.

2014—A. Nazir, A. Raana, and M. N. Majeed. “Highlighting the role of Requirement Engineering and User Experience Design in Product Development Life Cycle.” IJMECS, V.6, I.1, PP.34-40.

2013—A. Nazir, A. Raana, and M. F. Khan. “Cloud Computing Ensembles Agile Development Methodologies for Successful Project Development.” IJMECS, V.5, I.11, PP.28-35.

2013—A. Nazir, A. Raana, and A. Javed. “Activity-Based Quality Model for Evaluating Web2.0 Applications.” IJMECS, V.5, I.3, PP.8-17.

Conference

2022—A. Nazir and Y. Rao. “IAOTP: An Interactive End-to-End Solution for Aspect-Opinion Term Pairs Extraction.” ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR’22), PP.1588-1598.

2021—L. Wu, Y. Rao, X. Yang, W. Wang, A. Nazir. “Evidence-aware Hierarchical Interactive Attention Networks for Explainable Claim Verification.”, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-PRICAI), PP.1388-1394.

2020—L. Wu, Y. Rao, H. Liang, A. Nazir. “DTCA: Decision Tree-based Co-Attention Networks for Explainable Claim Verification.” Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), PP.1024-1035.

2019—L. Wu, Y. Rao, H. Jin, A. Nazir, and L. Sun. “Different Absorption from the Same Sharing: Sifted Multi-Task Learning for Fake News Detection.” Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), PP.4636-4645.

2018—L. Wu, Y. Rao, H. Yu, Y. Wang, A. Nazir. “False Information Detection on Social Media via a Hybrid Deep Model.” 10th International Conference SocInfo 2018, PP.323-333.

2017—M. Saqib, M. Humayun, S. Amin, A. Nazir*. “Wireless Monitoring and Controlling System by using Android Applications.” International Conference on Computing and Mathematical Sciences (ICCMS), PP.25.

2017—M. Siddique, S. Ali, M. U. Arshad, A. Nazir*. “Impact of Unified Process on Software Development: A Study of Pakistan.” ICCMS, PP.12.

2017—S. Ahmed, R. Raza, K. Shahzad, A. Nazir*. “The World of Mobile Cloud Computing (A Survey to The Concept, Challenges, and Solutions).” International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Management Applications (IEMA), PP.452-460.

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