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Year Degree Board / University
2016 PhD Computer Science -- (Doctorate Degree) International Islamic University, Islamabad
2009 MS(Computer Science) -- (Master/ MS (18 Years) Degree) International Islamic University, Islamabad
2005 MCS (Computer Science) -- (Master (16 Years) Degree) International Islamic University, Islamabad
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Experience

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2006 2010 Lecturer COMSATS University
2010 2022 Assistant Professor COMSATS University
2022 2023 Associate Professor COMSATS University
2023 2023 Professor Namal University
2023 Continue Professor University of Sargodha
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Research Interests

Data Science
Machine Learning
Information Retrieval

Publications

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  • 02. Mian Muhammad Talha, Hikmat Ullah Khan, Saqib Iqbal , 2023 , Deep Learning in News Recommender Systems: A Comprehensive Survey, Challenges and Future Trends , Neurocomputing , 28, IF: 6
  • Hikmat Ullah Khan*, , 2017 , Mixed-Opinion Classification of Web Forum Posts Using Lexical and Non-Lexical Features. , Journal of Web Engineering , 6,
  • 01. Muzamil Ahmed, Hikmat Ullah Khan*, Ehsan Ullah Munir , 2023 , Conversational AI: An Explication of Few-Shot Learning Problem in Transformers Based Chatbot Systems , IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, , 10, IF: 4.747
  • Farooq, Muhammad, Hikmat Ullah Khan*, Tassawar Iqbal, and Saqib Iqbal. , 2019 , An Index-Based Ranking of Conferences in a Distinctive Manner. , The Electronic Library , 1,
  • Mahmood, Ahsan, and Hikmat Ullah Khan*. , 2019 , Identification of Critical Factors for Assessing the Quality of Restaurants Using Data Mining Approaches. , The Electronic Library , 01,
  • Masood, Anum, Saima Gulzar Ahmad, Hikmat Ullah Khan, and Ehsan Ullah Munir. , 2019 , Network Reconfiguration Algorithm (NRA) for Scheduling Communication-Intensive Graphs in Heterogeneous Computing Environment. , Cluster Computing , 20,
  • Malik, Noman, Hikmat Ullah Khan*, Muhammad Ramzan, Muhammad Shahzad Faisal, and Ahsan Mahmood. , 2019 , Finding Attractive Research Areas for Young Scientists. , IJACSA , 10,
  • Bibi, Fizza, Hikmat Ullah Khan, Tassawar Iqbal, Muhammad Farooq, Irfan Mehmood, and Yunyoung Nam. , 2018 , Ranking Authors in an Academic Network Using Social Network Measures. , Applied Sciences , 8,
  • Akram, Abubakker, Hikmat Ullah Khan*, Saqib Iqbal, Tassawar Iqbal, Ehsan Munir, and Muhammad Shafi. , 2018 , Finding Rotten Eggs: A Review Spam Detection Model Using Diverse Feature Sets. , KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems , 12,
  • Iqbal, Tassawar, Saqib Iqbal, Syed Sajid Hussain, Iftikhar Ahmed Khan, Hikmat Ullah Khan, and Attiqa Rehman. , 2018 , Fighting Adult Illiteracy with the Help of the Environmental Print Material. , PloS One , 13,
  • Saqlain, Syed, Hasnain Naqvi, Muhammad Javed, Muhammad Ramzan, and Hikmat Ullah Khan*. , 2018 , Shape Based Pakistan Sign Language Categorization Using Statistical Features and Support Vector Machines. , IEEE Access , 6,
  • Mahmood, Ahsan, Hikmat Ullah Khan*, Fawaz K Alarfaj, Muhammad Ramzan, and Mahwish Ilyas. , 2018 , A Multilingual Datasets Repository of the Hadith Content. , International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications , 9,
  • Ramzan, Muhammad, Muhammad Shaoib Farooq, Ammara Zamir, Waseem Akhtar, Mahwish Ilyas, and Hikmat Ullah Khan*. , 2018 , An Analysis of Issues for Adoption of Cloud Computing in Telecom Industries. , Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research , 8,
  • Ramzan, Muhammad, Hikmat Ullah Khan*, Waseem Akhtar, Ammara Zamir, Shahid Mehmood Awan, Mahwish Ilyas, and Ahsan Mahmood. , 2018 , A Survey on Using Neural Network Based Algorithms for Hand Written Digit Recognition. , International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications , 9,
  • Hikmat Ullah Khan* and Ali Daud. , 2017 , Using Machine Learning Techniques for Subjectivity Analysis based on Lexical and Nonlexical Features. , International Arab Journal of Information Technology , 14,
  • Ayesha, Maheen Akhtar, Sahar Noor, Muhammad Ramzan, Hikmat Ullah Khan*, and Muhammad Shoaib. , 2017 , Evaluating Urdu to Arabic Machine Translation Tools. , International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications , 8,
  • Hikmat Ullah Khan, Ali Daud, Umer Ishfaq, Tehmina Amjad, Naif Aljohani, Rabeeh Ayyaz Abbasi, and Jalal S Alwoibdi. , 2017 , Modelling to Identify Influential Bloggers in the Blogosphere: A Survey. , Computers in Human Behavior , 68,
  • Mahmood, Ahsan, Hikmat Ullah Khan*, Zahoor Ur Rehman, Khalid Iqbal, and Ch Muhmmad Shahzad Faisal. , 2019 , KEFST: A Knowledge Extraction Framework Using Finite-State Transducers. , The Electronic Library , 1,
  • Iqbal, Khalid, Hazrat Ali, Qazi Mudassar Ilyas, Irfan Mehmood, Hikmat Ullah Khan*, and Zahoor-Ur Rehman. , 2017 , ZText: Zone Based Text Localization in Natural Scene Images. , International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security , 17,
  • Farooq, Muhammad, Hikmat Ullah Khan*, Ajmal Shahzad, Saqib Iqbal, and Abubakker Usman Akram. , 2017 , Finding the Top Conferences Using Novel Ranking Algorithm. , International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences , 4,
  • Ishfaq, Umar, Hikmat Ullah Khan*, and Khalid Iqbal. , 2017 , Identifying the Influential Bloggers: A Modular Approach Based on Sentiment Analysis. , Journal of Web Engineering , 5,
  • Farooq, Muhammad, Hikmat Ullah Khan*, Saqib Iqbal, Ehsan Munir, and ajmal shahzad. , 2017 , DS-Index: Ranking Authors Distinctively in an Academic Network. , IEEE Access , 5,
  • Farooq, Muhammad, Hikmat Ullah Khan*, Tahir Afzal Malik, and Syed Muhammad Saqlain. , 2016 , A Novel Approach for Ranking Authors in an Academic Network. , International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security , 14,
  • Khan, Rehan, Hikmat Ullah Khan*, Muhammad Shehzad Faisal, Khalid Iqbal, and Muhammad Shahid Iqbal Malik. , 2016 , An Analysis of Twitter Users of Pakistan. , International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security , 14,
  • Hikmat Ullah Khan* and Ali Daud. , 2016 , Finding the Top Influential Bloggers Based on Productivity and Popularity Features. , New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia , 22,
  • Alghobiri, Mohamed Ahmed, Hikmat Ullah Khan*, Tahir Afzal Malik, and Saqib Iqbal. , 2016 , A Comprehensive Framework for the Semantic Cache Systems. , International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences , 3,
  • Khan, Hikmat*, Ali Daud, and Tahir Afzal Malik. , 2015 , MIIB: A Metric to identify top influential bloggers in a community. , PLoS one , 10,
  • Qureshi, Maliha Majid, Bibi Asma, and Hikmat Ullah Khan*. , 2013 , Comparative Analysis of Semantic Search Engines Based on Requirement Space Pyramid. , International Journal of Future Computer and Communication , 6,
  • Khan, Hikmat*, Syed Muhammad Saqlain, Muhammad Shoaib, and Muhammad Sher. , 2013 , Ontology Based Semantic Search in Holy Quran. , International Journal of Future Computer and Communication , 6,
  • Hikmat Ullah Khan*, Syed Muhammad Saqlain, Muhammad Shoaib, and Muhammad Sher. , 2013 , Ontology based semantic search in Holy Quran. , International Journal of Future Computer and Communication , 6,
  • Khan, Hikmat*, and Tahir Afzal Malik. , 2012 , Finding Resources from Middle of RDF Graph and at Sub-Query Level in Suffix Array Based RDF Indexing Using RDQL Queries. , International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering , 3,
  • Malik, Tahir Afzal, Hikmat Ullah Khan*, Afzal Shah, and Shafiq Gul. , 2010 , Performance Measurement Using Distributed Performance Knowledge Management System: Empirical Case Study of Coca Cola Enterprises. , International Review of Business Research Papers , 01,
  • Ramzan, Muhammad, Adnan Abid, Hikmat Ullah Khan*, Shahid Mahmood Awan, Amina Ismail, Muzamil Ahmed, Mahwish Ilyas, and Ahsan Mahmood. , 2019 , A Review on State-of-the-Art Violence Detection Techniques. , IEEE Access , 7,
  • Malik, Nouman, Hikmat Ullah Khan*, Muhammad Shahzad Faisal, Ahsan Mahmood, Sanghyun Seo, and Muhammad Raheel Bhutta. , 2019 , A Novel Approach for Finding Research Areas for New Researchers. , New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia , 25,
  • Mirza, Naveed Aslam, Hikmat Ullah Khan*, Tassawar Iqbal, Khalid Iqbal, Saqib Iqbal, and Muhammad Imran. , 2019 , Your Comments Matter: Incorporating Viewers’ Comments for Ranking Online Video Content Using Bibliometrics. , New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia , 1,
  • Umar Ishfaq, Hikmat Ullah Khan, Saqib Iqbal, , 2022 , Identifying the influential nodes in complex social networks using centrality-based approach , Journal of King Saud University-Computer and Information Sciences , 1,
  • 03. Muzamil Ahmed, Hikmat Ullah Khan, Muhammad Attique Khan , 2023 , Context-aware Answer Selection in Community Question Answering Exploiting Spatial Temporal Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory , ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing , 5, IF: 1.471
  • 08. Fawaz Khaled Alarfaj, Hassaan Ahmad, Hikmat Ullah Khan, Abdullah Mohammed Alomair, Naif Almusallam, Muzamil Ahmed , 2023 , Twitter Bot Detection Using Diverse Content Features and Applying Machine Learning Algorithms , Sustainability , 15, IF: 3.889
  • 04. Amber Urooj, Hikmat Ullah Khan, Saqib Iqbal, , 2023 , Exploring Author, Article, and Venue Feature Sets for Rising Star Prediction in Academic Network , Journal of Scholarly Publishing , 54, IF: 1.3
  • 07. Waqas Ahmad, Hikmat Ullah Khan, Tassawar Iqbal, Muhammad Attique , 2023 , Hybrid Multichannel-Based Deep Models Using Deep Features for Feature-Oriented Sentiment Analysis , Sustainability , 15, IF: 3.889
  • 06. Tassawar Ali, Hikmat Ullah Khan, Tassawar Iqbal, Fawaz Khaled , 2023 , Differential Evolution and Agglomerative-Clustering-Based Mutation Strategy for Complex Numerical Optimization Problems , Symmetry , 15, IF: 2.41
  • 05. Muzamil Ahmed, Hikmat Ullah Khan, Tassawar Iqbal , 2023 , On solving textual ambiguities and semantic vagueness in MRC based question answering using GPT transformers , PeerJ Computer Science , 44, IF: 1.3
  • Umar Ishfaq, Danial Shabbir, Jumshaid Khan, Hikmat Ullah Khan, Salman Naseer, Azeem Irshad, Muhammad Shafiq, Habib Hamam, , 2022 , Empirical Analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms for Multiclass Prediction , Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing , 01,
  • Zamir, Ammara, Hikmat Ullah Khan*, Tassawar Iqbal, Nazish Yousaf, Farah Aslam, Almas Anjum, and Maryam Hamdani. , 2022 , Phishing Web Site Detection Using Diverse Machine Learning Algorithms. , The Electronic Library , 19,
  • Fouzia Nawaz, Muhammad Ramzan, Khalid Mehmood, Hikmat Ullah Khan, SH Khan, MR Bhutta, , 2022 , Early Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy Using Machine Intelligence through Deep Transfer and Representational Learning , CMC-Computers Materials & Continua , 66,
  • Umer Ishfaq, Hikmat Ullah Khan*, Saqib Iqbal, Mohammed Alghobiri, , 2022 , Finding influential users in microblogs: state-of-the-art methods and open research challenges , Behaviour & Information technology , 44,
  • Khalid Mahmood Aamir , Muhammad Ramzan, Saima Skinadar , Hikmat Ullah Khan, Usman Tariq, Hyunsoo Lee , Yunyoung Nam and Muhammad Attique Khan, , 2022 , Automatic Heart Disease Detection by Classification of Ventricular Arrhythmias on ECG Using Machine Learning , CMC-Computers Materials & Continua , 71,
  • Fouzia Nawaz, Zain Ali, Shumaila Akram, Ali Alqathani, Muhammad Ramzan, Essa Alhashlan, Samar M. Alqhtani, Hikmat Ullah Khan, Areeba Waris, , 2022 , A Transfer Learning based Approach for COVID-19 Detection Using Chest X-ray Images by Applying the Inception-V4 Model , CMC-Computers Materials & Continua , 01,
  • Ramzan, Muhammad, Hikmat Ullah Khan*, Shahid Mahmood Awan, Amina Ismail, Mahwish Ilyas, and Ahsan Mahmood. , 2019 , A Survey on State-of-the-Art Drowsiness Detection Techniques. , IEEE Access , 7,
  • Fawaz Khaled Alarfaj, Iqra Malik, Hikmat Ullah Khan, Naif Almusallam, Muhammad Ramzan, Muzamil Ahmed , 2022 , Credit Card Fraud Detection Using State-of-the-art Machine Learning and Deep Learning Algorithms , IEEE Access , 01,
  • Hikmat Ullah Khan*, Shumaila Nasir, Kishwar Nasim, Danial Shabbir, Ahsan Mahmood, , 2022 , Twitter Ranks: A ranking algorithm analysis on real time data , Expert Systems with Applications , 01,
  • Sofia Nudrat, Hikmat Ullah Khan, Saqib Iqbal, Mian Muhammad Talha, Fawaz Khaled Alarfaj, Naif Almusallam , 2022 , Users’ Rating Predictions Using Collaborating Filtering Based on Users and Items Similarity Measures , Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience , 01,
  • Shahzad, Babar, Hikmat Ullah Khan, Ahsan Mehmood, and Yunyoung Mehmood Irfan, Nam. , 2020 , Finding Temporal Influential Users in Social Media Using Association Rule Learning. , Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing , 26,
  • Mahmood, Ahsan, Hikmat Ullah Khan*, and Muhammad Ramzan. , 2020 , On Modelling for Bias-Aware Sentiment Analysis and Its Impact in Twitter. , Journal of Web Engineering , 19,
  • Zamir, Ammara, Hikmat Ullah Khan*, Waqar Mehmood, Tassawar Iqbal, and Abubakker Usman Akram. , 2020 , A Feature-Centric Spam Email Detection Model Using Diverse Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms. , The Electronic Library , 1,
  • Iqbal, Saqib, Issam Al-Azzoni, Gary Allen, and Hikmat Ullah Khan. , 2020 , Extending UML Use Case Diagrams to Represent Non-Interactive Functional Requirements. , E-Informatica Software Engineering Journal, , 14,
  • Ahmad, Saima Gulzar, Hikmat Ullah Khan*, Samia Ijaz, and Ehsan Ullah Munir. , 2020 , Use Case-Based Evaluation of Workflow Optimization Strategy in Real-Time Computation System , The Journal of Supercomputing , 76,
  • 09. Saqib Iqbal, Farhad Khan, Hikmat Ullah Khan, Tassawar Iqbal, Jamal Hussain Shah, Saqib Iqbal , 2022 , Sentiment Analysis of Social Media Content in Pashto Language using Deep Learning Algorithms , Journal of Internet Technology , 23,
  • Kamran, Muhammad, Hikmat Ullah Khan*, Wasif Nisar, Muhammad Farooq, and Saeed-Ur Rehman. , 2020 , Blockchain and Internet of Things: A Bibliometric Study. , Computers & Electrical Engineering, , 81,
  • Muzamil Ahmed, Muhammad Ramzan, Hikmat Ullah Khan, Saqib Iqbal, Muhammad Attique Khan, , 2021 , Real-Time Violent Action Recognition using Key-Frame Extraction and Deep Features , Computers, Materials & Continua , 69,
  • Shahid Iqbal, Hikmat Ullah Khan*, Umer Ishfaq, M Alghobiri, Saqib Iqbal, , 2021 , Finding influential users in social networks based on novel features & link-based analysis , Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Intelligent Sysmtes , 40,
  • Mohammed Alghobiri, Hikmat Ullah Khan*, Ahsan Mehmood, , 2021 , An Empirical Comparative Analysis Using Machine Learning Techniques for Liver Disease Prediction , International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics , 6,
  • Muhammad Dildar, Syed Akram, Muhammad Irfan, Hikmat Ullah Khan, Rashid Mehmood, , 2021 , Skin Cancer Detection: A Review Using Deep Learning Techniques , International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health , 18,
  • Saqib Iqbal, Rehan Khan, Hikmat Ullah Khan, Muzamil Ahmed, , 2022 , Association Rule Analysis-Based Identification of Influential Users in the Social Media , Computers, Materials & Continua , 73,
  • Uzair Khan, Hikmat Ullah Khan, Saqib Iqbal, Hamza Munir, , 2022 , Four decades of image processing: a bibliometric analysis , Library Hi Tech , 1,
  • Umar Ishfaq, Hikmat Ullah Khan, Shahid Iqbal, Mohammed Alghobiri, , 2022 , Finding influential users in microblogs: state-of-the-art methods and open research challenges , Behaviour & Information Technology , 41,

    • Conference Proceeding


  • Amber Urooj, Hikmat Ullah Khan, Saqib Iqbal, Q Althebyan, (2021). On Prediction of Research Excellence using Data Mining and Deep Learning Techniques. In International Conference on Social Network Analysis Management and Security (pp. 1- 10) . IEEE.
  • Mahmood, Ahsan, Hikmat Ullah Khan*, Zahoor-ur-Rehman, and Wahab Khan. (2018). Query Based Information Retrieval and Knowledge Extraction Using Hadith Datasets.. In In IEEE (pp. 1- 10) . IEEE.
  • Malik, Tahir Afzal, Hikmat Ullah Khan*, and S Sadiq. (2012). Dynamic Time Table Generation Conforming Constraints a Novel Approach.. In In International Conference on Computing and Information Technology (pp. 1- 10) . IEEE.
  • Mohammad Alghobiri, Tahir Afzal Malik, Umer Ishfaq, Hikmat Ullah Khan*. (2015). Exploring the Role of Sentiments in Identification of Active and Influential Bloggers.. In International Conference on Computer Science and Communication EngineerinG (pp. 01- 10) . IEEE.
  • Ishfaq, Umar, Hikmat Ullah Khan*, and Khalid Iqbal. (2016). Modeling to find the top bloggers using sentiment features.. In International Conference on Computing, Electronic and Electrical Engineering (pp. 1- 10) . IEEE.
  • Shoaib, Muhammad, M Nadeem Yasin, Hikmat Ullah Khan*, M Imran Saeed, and Malik Sikandar H Khiyal. (2009). Relational WordNet Model for Semantic Search in Holy Quran.. In In Emerging Technologies, (pp. 10- 1) . IEEE.
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Projects

Type Sub-type Title From To Role
Research Final Project Real-time Emotion detection using Speech, Text and Visual Image Data 2021 2022 Principal Investigator
Research Final Project A real-time Multilingual Translation system for Visual, Text and Audiio Content”. 2018 2019 Principal Investigator
Development Commodity Producing Holy Quran Content & Recitation System 2013 2014 Project Director
Development Commodity Producing Android based Holy Quran Explorer, Analyzer with Speech Recognition Features 2019 2020 Project Director
Academics Competitive/basic Research Text Localization in Natural Scene Images for Visually Impaired Persons 1970 1970 Group
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