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Zaffar Ahmed Shaikh
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ZAFFAR AHMED SHAIKH (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan, in 2017, under the supervision of Prof. Shakil Ahmed Khoja. The title of his dissertation was Guided Personal Learning Environment Model: Concept, Theory, and Practice. He is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Information Technology at Benazir Bhutto Shaheed University, Lyari, Karachi. His teaching portfolio includes a range of subjects, such as assembly language, business intelligence and analytics, compiler construction, computer architecture, digital logic design, human-computer interaction, semantic analysis, semantic web, statistical inference, and automata theory. He spent six months in 2014 as a Visiting Doctoral Fellow with the REACT Research Group, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, due to his contributions to personalized recommender systems and technology-enhanced learning. His academic career spans more than 23 years, during which he received many prestigious scholarships and travel grants from national and international organizations, including the M.S. leading to Ph.D. scholarship for five years and the International Research Support Initiative Program (IRSIP) scholarship for six months from HEC Pakistan, and several international travel grants for presenting research: four grants from HEC Pakistan, two grants from IBA-Karachi, and two grants from the Ministry of Education, Saudi Arabia, for the 3rd and 4th eLi conferences. He has published more than 70 peer-reviewed articles in high-ranked journals, many of which are indexed in SSCI, SCIE, and Scopus. His current research interests include artificial intelligence, blockchain, business intelligence, cybersecurity, educational technologies, energy economics, expert systems, fault detection and diagnosis, green computing, healthcare systems, the Internet of Things, large language models, learning environments, machine learning methods, medical image processing, the metaverse, pharmacy informatics, recommender systems, and fintech. He has presented his work at leading international conferences, such as iCALT, IANA, and the PLE Conference. He is a senior editorial board member and a reviewer of many prestigious journals, such as Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, British Journal of Educational Technology, Behavior & Information Technology, BMJ Open, Complexity, Computers in Human Behavior, Computers & Education, Cogent Education, Cybernetics and Systems, Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences, IEEE ACCESS, IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL, Interactive Learning Environments, Multimedia Tools and Applications, PLoS ONE, System, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, and many MDPI journals.
Artificial Intelligence Data Mining & Machine Learning Emerging Technologies Human-Computer Interaction Internet of Things Multimedia Robotics Social Computing