Dr.

Madiha Khalid

E-mail: madiha.khalid@pucit.edu.pk
Phone: +92-111-923 923 (ext: 554)
Mobile: +92-3134293454
ORICID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5794-4884
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=I8TYpTQAAAAJ&hl=en
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Madiha_Khalid9

Educational Background

Ph. D. Department of Computer Science, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan, (2022).
(Computer Science) Thesis Title: Bulk Data Processing of Parallel String Similarity Measures.
Punjab University College of Information Technology, Lahore, Pakistan. (2013).
M. Phil. (CS) Thesis Title: Parallel Image De-fencing: Technique, Analysis and Performance Evaluation.
Punjab University College of Information Technology, Lahore, Pakistan (2010).
BS (CS) Final Year Project: CuteFlow: A Document Circulation System.
Intermediate in Computer Science from Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary
Intermediate
Education, Pakistan, (2006)
Matriculation in Science from Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Lahore,
Matriculation
Pakistan, (2004).

Employment History

Assistant Professor Assistant Professor at Department of Software Engineering, University of the Punjab, Lahore,
Pakistan. From 2023 – to date.
Lecturer Served as a full time lecturer at Department of Software Engineering, University of the Punjab,
Lahore, Pakistan. From 2019 – 2022.
Lecturer Lecturer on contract at Punjab University College of Information Technology, University of
(on contract) the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. From 2013-2018.
Software Engineer Served as a Software Engineer at Sensys Inc. (Pvt.) Ltd, Lahore, Pakistan. From 2012 – 2014.
Visiting Lecturer Visiting Lecturer at Punjab University College of Information Technology, University of the
Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. From 2010 – 2012.
Software Developer Software Developer at Agile Technologies, PUCIT, University of the Punjab, Lahore,
Pakistan, from 2009 – 2010.

Research Publications

 Zunaira Munawar, Fahad Ahmad, Saad Awadh Alanazi, Kottakkaran Sooppy Nisar, Madiha Khalid,
Muhammad Anwar, Kashif Murtaza, “Predicting the prevalence of lung cancer using feature transformation
techniques”, Egyptian Informatics Journal, 23(4), pp. 109-120, 2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.eij.2022.08.002.
(Impact Factor: 4.195)
 Madiha Khalid, Muhammad Murtaza Yousaf, Muhammad Umair Sadiq, “Toward Efficient Similarity
Search under Edit Distance on Hybrid Architectures”, Information, 13(10), 2022. DOI:
10.3390/info13100452.
 Madiha Khalid, Muhammad Murtaza Yousaf, “A Comparative Analysis of Big Data Frameworks: An
Adoption Perspective”, Applied Sciences, 11(22), 2021. DOI: 10.3390/app112211033. (Impact Factor:
2.838)
  Syed Irtaza Muzaffar Shah, Khurram Shahzad, Faisal Aslam, Madiha Khalid, Kamran Malik, "Process
Matching: Performance Trade-Off Between Summary and Full-Length Descriptions", Computing and
Informatics, 38(4), pp. 851-882, 2019. DOI: 10.31577/cai_2019_4_851.
 Madiha Khalid, Muhammad Murtaza Yousaf, Kashif Murtaza, Syed Mansoor Sarwar, "Image De-fencing
Using Histograms of Oriented Gradients", Signal, Image and Video Processing, 12(6), pp. 1173-1180,
2018. DOI: 10.1007/s11760-018-1266-0. (Impact Factor: 1.583)
 A Ahmed, Muhammad Murtaza Yousaf, Shahzad Sarwar, Laeeq Aslam, Madiha Khalid, “Optimized
Scheduling for Parallel Computing Environment”, Sindh Univ. Res. Jour. (Sci. Ser.). Vol. 50 (002), pp
295-302, 2018. DOI: 10.26692/sujo/2018.06.0050.
 Madiha Khalid, “A Survey of Computing Frameworks for the Heterogeneous Parallel Architectures”,
(Abstract) 5th International Multidisciplinary Conference, 29 – 31 October, 2015. Lahore, Pakistan.
 Madiha Khalid, Muhammad Murtaza Yousaf, "Parallel Image De-fencing: Technique, Analysis and
Performance Evaluation", Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Vol. 362, pp. 979-988, 2015. DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-24584-3_83.
 Madiha Khalid, Muhammad Murtaza Yousaf, Yousra Iftikhar, Noreen Fatima, "Establishing the State of
the Art Knowledge Domain of Cloud Computing", A Springer Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
Series, Vol 362, pp 1001-1014, 2015. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-24584-3_85.

Poster Presentations

Madiha Khalid, Fatima Shahid, Aqsa Sattar, and Maryam Alam. “Cute Flow: A Document Circulation
System”, in 3rd Global Telecommunication Congress 2010 (TeleCON 2010), 2010.

Research Grants & Funded Projects

Principal Investigator, project titled, Towards a Framework for Large Scale Data Processing of
Parallel String Matching Algorithms, funded by University of the Punjab Research Support Fund,
2021-2022 value PKRs. 200,000.
Principal Investigator, undergraduate final year project titled, Component Based Security System,
funded by National Information and Communication Technology Research and Development
2015 – 2016 (ICT RnD) Fund, value PKRs. 68,800.
Principal Investigator, project titled, Research Community Evolution and Research Productivity
2014 - 2015 Analysis Using Co-authorship Graph, funded by University of the Punjab Research Support
Fund, value PKRs. 125,000.
Development team member, undergraduate final year project titled, Integration of Open Source
2009 - 2010 Software Projects in IT Education, funded by National Information and Communication
Technology Research and Development (ICT RnD) Fund, value PKRs. 37.63 million.

Teaching Interests

 Programming Fundamentals
 Data Structures and Algorithms
 Object Oriented Programming
 Computer Organization and Assembly Language

Research Interests

 Parallel and distributed systems

 Frameworks for heterogeneous systems
 Pattern Matching
Other University Services

 Supervision as “primary advisor” for several undergraduate final year projects.

 Co-Supervisor for three M. Phil. theses.
 Focal person for hostel allotment at FCIT.
 Member of FCIT Disciplinary Committee.
 Member of FCIT Undergraduate Financial Committee.
 Daycare coordinator at FCIT from 2020-2021.
 Head examiner of PU for Database Systems and Computer Networks.
 Paper setter and head examiner of PU for Introduction to Computing course.
 External Examiner of PU for the practical (OOP, DSA and COAL) at Queen Marry College Lahore.
 External Examiner of PU for the practicals (Database, Visual programming) at School of Advance Business
and Technology, Lahore.