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Dr. Muhammad Ilyas did his PhD (in 2010) in Computer Science from Institute for Application Oriented Knowledge Processing, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria. Before that, he completed MS in Software Project management (in 2004) from National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan, M.Sc. in Computer Science (in 1998) from University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan and M.Sc. in Physics (in 1996) from Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan.
He has more than 22 years of experience of teaching, research, and administration. Currently, his featured administrative roles include Director IT at University of Sargodha since April 2021. He has also served as head of Computer Science & IT department at SU (2016-18); Coordinator, Post Graduate Degree programs at Computer Science & IT department at SU (2018 till to date); Member, National Computing Education Accreditation Council (NCEAC), HEC, Islamabad (2016 till to date); Member, National Curriculum Revision Committee (NCRC), HEC, Islamabad (2017 till to date); Project Director, HEC funded project (2005-07). He is currently supervising graduate and postgraduate students at SU, Pakistan.

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Education

Year Degree Board / University
2010 PhD in Computer Science -- (Doctorate Degree) Institute for Application Oriented Knowledge Processing, The Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria (https://www.jku.at)
2004 MS in Software Project Management -- (Master/ MS (18 Years) Degree) FAST National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Lahore Campus, Lahore (www.nu.edu.pk)
1999 Master in Computer Science -- (Master (16 Years) Degree) University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (http://web.uaf.edu.pk/)
1996 Master in Physics -- (Master (16 Years) Degree) BZU Multan (www.bzu.edu.pk)
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Research Interests

Information Retrieval
Knowledge Management

Fellowships

- 2017 Ernst Mach Follow-up Grant, Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economics (BMWFW), The Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education & Research (OeAD-GmbH), Austria
- 2007 Higher Education Commission (HEC) scholarship for PhD

Publications

    Research Journal


  • Shahzad, S., Ilyas, M., Lali, M., Rauf, H. T., Kadry, S. , 2023 , A Review of different deep learning techniques for sperm fertility prediction , AIMS Mathematics , 8, 7, IF: 2.76 , Web Link : 10.3934/math.2023838
  • Maqbool, F., Fahad, M., Ilyas, M., & Jabeen, H. , 2023 , Graph colouring using evolutionary computation: A case study of blind naked mole‐rat algorithm , Expert Systems , 13262, e13262, IF: 2.8 , Web Link : https://doi.org/10.1111/exsy.13262
  • Rasham, S., Khan, H. U., Maqbool, F., Razzaq, S., Anwar, S., & Ilyas, M. , 2023 , Structured Knowledge Creation for Urdu Language: A DBPedia Approach. , Expert Systems , e13223, IF: 2.8 , Web Link : https://doi.org/10.1111/exsy.13223
  • Shahzad, S., Ilyas, M., Lali, M., Rauf, H. T., Kadry, S., & Nasr, E. A , 2023 , Sperm Abnormality Detection Using Sequential Deep Neural Network , Mathematics , 11, 3, IF: 2.8 , Web Link : https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/11/3/515
  • Razzaq, S., Shah, B., Iqbal, F., Ilyas, M., Maqbool, F., & Rocha, A. , 2022 , DeepClassRooms: a deep learning based digital twin framework for on-campus class rooms , Neural Computing and Applications , 35, IF: 5.6 , Web Link : https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00521-021-06754-5
  • Ali, G., Al-Obeidat, F., Tubaishat, A., Zia, T., Ilyas, M., & Rocha, A. , 2021 , Counterfactual explanation of Bayesian model uncertainty , Neural Computing and Applications , https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-021-06528-z, IF: 5.5 , Web Link : https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00521-021-06528-z
  • A. Ali, M. Ahmed, A. Khan, A. Anjum, M. Ilyas, M. Helfert , 2021 , VisTAS: blockchain-based visible and trusted remote authentication system , PeerJ Computer Science , 7:e516 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.516, IF: 1.39 , Web Link : https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00521-021-06528-z.pdf
  • Conference Proceeding


  • Rasham, S., Naz, A., Afzal, Z., Ahmed, W., Abbas, Q., Anwar, M. H., ... & Ilyas, M. (2021). The Challenges and Case for Urdu DBpedia. In 15th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications (ICITA) (pp. 439- 448) . Springer Nature Singapore..
  • Ilyas, M., Maqbool, F., Abbas, Q., Ahmed, W., Razzaq, S., & Adnan, S. M. (2020). Wheel Authentication based Multi-level Scalable Color-Textual Graphical Password System. In 2nd International Conference on Computational Sciences and Technologies, (INCCST’20) (pp. 101- 108) . MUET Jamshoro, Pakistan.
  • Chapters Contributed


  • Ilyas, M., Küng, J., & Huynh, V. Q. P. (2017). Effectiveness of Object Oriented Inheritance Metrics in Software Reusability. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNISA,volume 10646) ( pp. 231- 239 ).
  • Ilyas, M., Ali, A., & Kueng, J (2012). WebSeA: A Secure Framework for Multi-site Knowledge Representation in Software Engineering. In Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering series ( pp. 682- 686 ).
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