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Dr. Waseem Ahmed

Dr. Waseem Ahmed

Assistant Professor / Head of industrial liaison
Department of Software Engineering

Profile summary

Dr. Waseem Ahmed serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Software Engineering at Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University. He is a distinguished technology expert, holding a PhD in Distributed & Parallel Computing Systems from Tsinghua University in Beijing. Tsinghua University is globally recognized, consistently ranked among the world’s top 30 institutions. He brings over 22 years of diverse and extensive experience within the technology industry. His career encompasses critical roles such as Software Engineer, Project Manager, System Analyst, and Director of Analysis & Design. Dr. Waseem’s expertise covers end-to-end system lifecycles, including analysis, design, development, and strategic leadership. He has a proven track record of delivering large-scale, mission-critical enterprise solutions.

A significant career highlight includes his collaboration with the FBR’s Business Process Re-Engineering team and IMF technical advisors. In this capacity, he contributed to the nationwide deployment of an Integrated Tax Management System. His most recent position was Chief Manager (System Analysis & Design) at PRAL, a subsidiary of the FBR. In this role, he was instrumental in automating national-level revenue systems. His work at FBR demonstrated a consistent blend of technical proficiency and managerial excellence. Beyond the public sector, he has also contributed his skills to private and international technology firms. This cross-sector experience enabled him to deliver a wide range of innovative software solutions. His technical proficiency includes developing large-scale, multi-domain projects in .NET (C#, Vb.Net) with Oracle databases. Dr. Waseem possesses over a decade of hands-on experience managing development teams for end-to-end applications. He is highly skilled in Business Process Re-engineering and designing systems using Object-Oriented techniques. His competencies extend to comprehensive project management, including planning, execution, and time management. He specializes in the analysis, design, and development of mission-critical systems using cutting-edge technologies and methodologies.

Qualification

Degree Field Institution Year
Ph.D. Parallel & Distributed Computing System Tsinghua University of Science & Technology, Beijing, China 2014
Masters Computer Science Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad 2002

Teaching experience

Position Institution Duration
Assistant Professor Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Islamabad Since Feb 2025

Professional experience

Position Organization Duration
Chief Executive Officer Kaizen Hive (SMC-PRIVATE) Ltd. Since 2024
Chief Manager (Business Development) Pakistan Revenue Automation Pvt. Ltd (PRAL) 2022 – 2023
Chief Manager (Commercial Projects) Pakistan Revenue Automation Pvt. Ltd (PRAL) 2021 – 2022
Chief Manager (Analysis & Design) Pakistan Revenue Automation Pvt. Ltd (PRAL) 2021 – 2024
Sr. Manager (Admin/HR/Finance), Company Secretary Pakistan Revenue Automation Pvt. Ltd (PRAL) 2015 – 2016
Sr. Project Manager Pakistan Revenue Automation Pvt. Ltd (PRAL) 2014 – 2021
Project Manager Pakistan Revenue Automation Pvt. Ltd (PRAL) 2008 – 2010
System Analyst Pakistan Revenue Automation Pvt. Ltd (PRAL) 2006 – 2008
Software Engineer Pakistan Revenue Automation Pvt. Ltd (PRAL) 2004 – 2006
Team Lead / Project Manager Netsolace Inc. 2003 – 2004
Software Engineer Askari Information Systems Pvt Ltd 2002 – 2003

Management experience

Position Organization Duration
Head of Industrial Liaison Office Department of Software Engineering, Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Islamabad Since Feb 2025
Chief Executive Officer Kaizen Hive (SMC-PRIVATE) Ltd. Since 2024
Sr. Manager (Admin/HR/Finance) Pakistan Revenue Automation Pvt. Ltd (PRAL) 2015 – 2016
Chief Manager Pakistan Revenue Automation Pvt. Ltd (PRAL) 2021 – 2024

Honors & awards

No. Award
1. Letter of appreciation from Member Information Technology, Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) on successful completion of Wizard Based Income Tax Return Project in 2018.
2. Letter of appreciation from Major General Muhammad Awais Dastgir, Director General Military Operations (DG-MO) on successful completion of DNFBP system (Designated non-financial banking professions) which brought Pakistan out from FATF gray list in 2019.
3. Shield from Chairman FBR on successful launching of Point of Sale (POS) project across Pakistan in 2022.

Research areas / interests

No. Research Area / Interest
1. Parallel & Distributed Computing System
2. Reliability Evaluation in SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)

Journal publications

No. Publication Details
1. W. Ahmed, Y. Wu and W. Zheng, “Response Time Based Optimal Web Service Selection,” in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 551-561, Feb. 2015. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPDS.2013.310
2. Waseem Ahmed, Yong Wei Wu, A survey on reliability in distributed systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Volume 79, Issue 8, Pages 1243-1255, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcss.2013.02.006