Profile summary

Dr. Qamar Mahmood is an accomplished academic and cybersecurity professional with extensive experience in teaching, research, and institutional leadership. With a PhD in Computer Science and over two decades of university-level teaching, he has served as Assistant Professor at several reputable institutions including Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, CUST, MAJU, and PMAS Arid Agriculture University. His expertise spans ontology engineering, semantic computing, cybersecurity, text mining, and ScientoMetric. Dr. Qamar has also contributed to the software industry as a Lead Software Engineer specializing in HL7 healthcare interfacing. He has held key management roles, including Head, Department of Computing and Program Head (Cyber Security), demonstrating strong academic and administrative leadership. His research portfolio includes supervision of multiple MS and PhD theses, publications in high-impact venues such as IEEE Access, and participation in international funded projects. Overall, Dr. Qamar brings a rich blend of academic excellence, research contributions, and professional experience in computing and cybersecurity.

Qualification

Degree	Field	Institution	Year
Ph.D.	Computer Science	Capital University of Science and Technology, Pakistan	2019
M.Sc.	Computer Engineering	University of Engineering & Technology, Taxila	2006
M.Sc.	Computer Science	Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad	2000
B.Sc.	Mathematics, Physics	University of the Punjab, Lahore	1997

Teaching experience

Position	Institution	Duration
Assistant Professor	Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Islamabad	20-02-2024 to Now
Assistant Professor	BIIT, PMAS Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi	15-09-2023 to 15-02-2024
Assistant Professor	Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad	01-09-2015 to 23-08-2023
Assistant Professor	Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad Campus	01-09-2012 to 01-09-2015
Assistant Professor	BIIT, PMAS Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi	01-02-2006 to 31-08-2012
Lecturer	BIIT, PMAS Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi	01-02-2001 to 01-02-2006

Professional experience

Position	Organization	Duration
Lead Software Engineer (HL7 Interfacing)	Medical Transcription Billing Company (MTBC) Pvt.	01-03-2007 to 01-07-2010
Software Engineer (EMR Team)	Medical Transcription Billing Company (MTBC) Pvt.	15-08-2006 to 28-02-2007

Management experience

Position	Organization	Duration
Head of Department	Department of Computing/Computer Science, Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Islamabad	01-10-2024 to 01-10-2025
Program Head (Cyber Security)	Department of Computing, Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Islamabad	01-04-2024 to 01-10-2025

Honors & awards

No.	Award
1.	Member of a Funded Research Project. Safe Rural Health (Safe RH) project, a European Union Funded Project under the Erasmus Mundus.

Research areas / interests

No.	Research Area / Interest
1.	Ontology Engineering
2.	Semantic Computing
3.	Cyber Security
4.	Text Mining, Digital Libraries, ScientoMetric

Research supervision

No.	Level	Title
1.	PhD (Co-Sup)	An Intelligent Multimodal Framework for Real-Time Video Object Detection and Semantic Scene Understanding using Recursive Geometric Cue-based Representation (ISEE Framework)
2.	PhD (Co-Sup)	Content Based Recommender For Related Research Articles By Exploiting Structural Information
3.	MS (DS)	Enhancing Urdu Handwriting Recognition Using Advanced Deep Learning Architectures
4.	MS (DS)	An Ensemble Learning Approach for the Detection of Fake News
5.	MS (CS)	A Technique to Combine Different Cryptographic Algorithms on Basis of their Metrics and Content to be Encrypted
6.	MS (CS)	A Multilayer Encryption Model to Protect Healthcare Data in Cloud Environment
7.	MS (CS)	A Comprehensive Analysis Based Survey of Authentication and Encryption Schemes Used in VANETs
8.	MS (CS)	A Machine Learning Based Classification Technique to Detect DDoS Attack in Cloud Computing Environment
9.	MS (CS)	A Technique for Compliance Identification for Information Security Policy Documents
10.	MS (CS)	A Comprehensive Ontology for Information Disruption Attacks for IoT based Healthcare Systems
11.	MS (CS)	A Machine Learning Based Classification Approach to predict Hybrid Cryptography Algorithms
12.	MS (CS)	A Technique for Identification of Information Severity Levels for Facebook User Profiles
13.	MS (CS)	An android-based malware detection technique using Machine Learning Approaches

Journal publications

No.	Publication Details
1.	Mahmood, Q., Qadir, M. A., & Afzal, M. T. (2017). Application of COReS to compute research papers similarity. IEEE Access, 5, 26124–26134. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2771207

Conference publications

No.	Publication Details
1.	Ahmed, Salman, and Qamar Mahmood. “An authentication-based scheme for applications using JSON web token.” 2019 22nd International Multitopic Conference (INMIC). IEEE, 2019.
2.	Mahmood, Q., Qadir, M. A., & Afzal, M. T., “Finding Relatedness between Research Papers Using Similarity and Dissimilarity Scores,” Web-Age Information Management (WAIM) Springer International Publishing., Pages: 707-710, ISSBN/ISSN: 978-3-319-08010-9, 2014
3.	Mahmood, Q. ; Qadir, M.A. ; Afzal, M.T., “Document similarity detection using semantic social network analysis on RDF citation graph “, 2013 IEEE 9th International Conference on Emerging Technologies, Pages: Page(s): 1 – 6, ISSBN/ISSN: 10.1109/ICET.2013.6743548 , 2013.
4.	Abdul Moqeet, Qamar Mahmood, Ubaid Ur Rehman, ” A Machine Learning Based Classification Technique to Detect DDoS Attack in Cloud Computing Environment”, in International Conference on Computing Research (ICCoR) 2022.
5.	Usama Bin Amir, Qamar Mahmood, “A Permission-based Android Ransomware Detection System Using Machine Learning Techniques.”, in International Conference on Computing Research (ICCoR) 2022.
6.	Maham Tariq, Qamar Mahmood, “A Technique for Compliance Identification for Information Security Policy Documents.”, in International Conference on Computing Research (ICCoR) 2022.