Phone : +92-937-9230452
Email : sohail.khan@uetmardan.edu.pk
Address : Department of Computer Software Engineering, UET Mardan.

2008-2009: Software Engineer, CARE (pvt ltd), Pakistan

Worked as software design engineer at the Centre for Advance Research in Engineering (CARE), Islamabad, Pakistan. I worked as a part of a competitive team on a multi million project for a security organization. The project involved the analysis of all internet traffic in Pakistan for security purposes. During this period, I worked on several major modules of the project. My responsibilities were:

• Analyse and reverse engineering various key communication protocols for instance IMAP, POP3, proprietary standards used by Yahoo (and YMSG), Gmail, Microsoft’s Hotmail & MSN etc.
• Design modules to interpret and reassemble the information communicated via these
• Development of techniques for identification of dangerous/malicious content using predefined network filters over high bandwidth data
• Through successful coordination and team work the project deliverables were completed within the specified time span of the

2009 to date: Assistant Professor., Software Engineering Department, University of Engineering and Technology Mardan, Pakistan.

Working as lecturer (2009- 2016) and as Assistant Professor since September, 2016 at the Department of Computer Software Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar, Mardan Campus, Pakistan. The campus was upgraded to an independent university in 2018 so from 2018 onwards I am an employee of the University of Engineering & Technology Mardan, Pakistan.

Over the years, I taught courses such as Introduction to Programming, Object-Oriented Programming, Data Structures & Algorithms, Introduction to Software Engineering, Introduction to Databases & Software Quality Engineering at the undergraduate level. At the Postgraduate level, I have been teaching Software Testing & Quality Assurance, Software Project Management, Service-Oriented Software Architecture, Internet of Things and the latest course I have taught is Blockchain Technologies.

Apart from the basic responsibility to teach at the undergraduate and postgraduate level teaching, I have been performing the following additional duties at the Department and University level.

MS and PhD Supervision:

Since 2016, I have been supervising students at MS and PhD level. Currently, I have graduated 6 MS student while 2 are in the process of finalizing their MS thesis.

Two of my PhD students have successfully completed their degree. The first one defended his thesis titled “Resource Management for Scalable Edge Computing”, on 17^th June 2022. The PhD student has published 4 impact factor journals from his work on scalability and optimization framework for cloud computing in resource scarce edge nodes of IoT implementation.

My second PhD student defended his thesis titled “A Framework for Ensuring Information Credibility in the Digital Preservation Process”, on 14^th December 2023. This work also resulted in 3 impact factor publications with 2 more in the pipeline.

1 PhD and 2 MS students are currently working under my supervision at the Department of Computer Software Engineering, UET Mardan. The PhD student is working on the application of federated learning architecture for the optimization of energy utilization in residential buildings while preserving privacy of the inhabitants.

2016 Onwards: OBE Program Team Member at Software Engineering Department.

Since 2017, I have been performing the duties of Program Team Member (PTM) for the implementation of Outcome Based Education (OBE) system in the Department. based on Washington Accord. For this purpose, I have acquired OBE training offered by the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC), the regulatory authority for all engineering programs in the country. In 2021, our department secured OBE level-II accreditation from PEC.

2018 - 2020: Director Admissions, UET Mardan.

With the upgradation of UET Mardan campus, a satellite campus of UET Peshawar, to an independent public sector engineering university, UET Mardan, I was assigned the additional role of Director Admissions to manage all the admissions related activities at undergraduate and graduate levels. I am honoured to have successfully conducted the admissions of the first two batches of UET Mardan.

2020-Onwards: Semester Coordinator, Deptt: of Software Engg, UET Mardan.

Since Fall 2020, I have been fulfilling the responsibilities of Semester Coordinator for the undergraduate program at the department.

University Gold Medalist (BSc Computer Software Engineering)

1. Director Admissions UET Mardan
2. Program Team Member, QEC, Software Engineering Department, UET Mardan
3. Convener Software Engineering Knowledge Group, Software Engineering Department, UET Mardan
4. Convener RUBRICS Committee, Software Engineering Department, UET Mardan

List Supervision of postdocs, PhD, graduate students, and undergraduate honors thesis showing:

Years               Degree             Name

  2                      PhD                 Mr. Faisal Abrar

  3                      PhD                 Mr. Babar

 (2017)              MSc                Mr. Israr

                         MSc                 Mr. Saleem Ullah

                          MSc                Mr. Sajid Khan

                          MSc                Mr. Asif Nazar

2019-20             FYP                IoT enabled smart monitoring of speed violation

2019-20             FYP                Intelligent gas/fire detection using IoT and Machine learning

2018-19             FYP                Study of Spam message detection for local languages using machine learning

Internet of Things, Its adaptation in the context of masses, investigation of the cultural and geographical factors.

Human-Computer Interaction.

Empirical studies in Software Engineering, Society and technological impacts

My research interests include,

1. Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning localization for the solutions of community based
2. Internet of Things, Its adaptation in the context of masses, investigation of the cultural and geographical
3. Cloud Computing/Edge Computing,
4. Human-Computer Interaction
5. Empirical studies in Software Engineering, Society and technological impacts.

Journals

1. Abrar, M. F., Khan, M. S., Khan, I., ElAffendi, M., & Ahmad, S. (2023). Towards fake news detection: A multivocal literature review of credibility factors in online news stories and analysis using analytical hierarchical process. Electronics, 12(15),
2. Ali, , Khan, M. S., & Khan, M. A. (2023). Author Profiling from Short Romanized Urdu Messages: A Preliminary Investigation using Transfer Learning Models. VFAST Transactions on Software Engineering, 11(3), 62-72.
3. Khan, M. A., Khan, M. S., Khan, I., Ahmad, S., & Huda, S. (2023). Non Functional Requirements Identification and Classification Using Transfer Learning IEEE Access.
4. Abrar, M.F., Khan, M.S., Khan, I., Ali, G. and Shah, S. (2023) Digital Information Credibility: Towards a Set of Guidelines for Quality Assessment of Grey Literature in Multivocal Literature Applied Sciences, 13(7), p.4483. IF: 2.838)
5. Ullah, N., Khan, J.A., El-Sappagh, S., El-Rashidy, N. and Khan, M.S., (2023) A Holistic Approach to Identify and Classify COVID-19 from Chest Radiographs, ECG, and CT-Scan Images Using ShuffleNet Convolutional Neural Diagnostics, 13(1), p.162, (IF: 3.992)
6. Noaman, , Khan, M.S., Abrar, M.F., Ali, S., Alvi, A. and Saleem, M.A. Challenges in Integration of Heterogeneous Internet of Things. Scientific Programming, 2022 (IF: 1.672)
7. Ullah, S.; Khan, M.S.; Lee, C.; Hanif, M. Understanding Users’ Behavior towards Applications Privacy Policies. Electronics 2022, 11, 246. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11020246, 2022 (IF: 4)
8. Khan, M. S., Kim, D. H., Tila, F., Enhanced IoT Composition Architecture based on DIY Business Process Modeling: CoAP based Prototype, VFAST Transactions on Software Engineering, 10(2), 2022, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21015/vtse.v10i2.648 (2022)
9. Ullah, N.; Khan, J.A.; Khan, M.S.; Khan, W.; Hassan, I.; Obayya, M.; Negm, N.; Salama, A.S. An Effective Approach to Detect and Identify Brain Tumors Using Transfer Learning. Appl. Sci. 2022, 12, https://doi.org/10.3390/app12115645, 2022 (IF: 2.67)
10. Khan, M. S., Kim, D. H., Tila, F., An intuitive Architecture for DIY IoT Application Composition as Business Process KIET Journal of Computing and Information Sciences, 5(2) (2022)
11. Ullah, N., Khan, J.A., Almakdi, S., Khan, M.S., Alshehri, M., Alboaneen, D. and Raza, A., 2022. A Novel CovidDetNet Deep Learning Model for Effective COVID-19 Infection Detection Using Chest Radiograph Applied Sciences, 12(12), p.6269. 2022 (IF: 2.67)
12. Babar M, Khan M. , ScalEdge: A framework for scalable edge computing in Internet of things–based smart systems. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks. 2021 Jul;17(7):15501477211035332. 2021. (IF: 1.6)
13. Babar, M., Khan, M. S., Habib, U., Shah, B., Ali, F., & Song, D. (2021). Scalable Edge Computing for IoT and Multimedia Applications Using Machine Learning. Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences, 2021. (IF: 5.9)
14. Saleem, K., & Khan, M. S.. A Study of Awareness and Practices in Pakistan’s Software Industry towards DevOps Readiness. International Journal of Innovations in Science & Technology, 3(3), 102-115. (2021)
15. Abrar, M.F., Ali, S., Majeed, M.F., Khan, M.S., Khan, M., Ullah, H., Khan, M.A., Baseer, S. and Asshad, M., 2021. A framework for modeling structural association among De‐Motivators of scaling Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, p.e2366, 2021 (IF: 1.305)
16. Babar, , Khan, M.S., Din, A., Ali, F., Habib, U. and Kwak, K.S. Intelligent Computation Offloading for IoT Applications in Scalable Edge Computing Using Artificial Bee Colony Optimization. Complexity, (2021) (IF: 2.462).
17. Babar, M., Khan, M. S., Ali, F., Imran, M., & Shoaib, M. Cloudlet Computing: Recent Advances, Taxonomy, and IEEE Access, 9, 29609-29622. (2021) (IF: 3.745).
18. S. Khan, M. F. Abrar, D. H. Kim, F. Tila, I. A. Khan, J. Shuja, & A. N. Khan. Resource-based direct manipulation: a user-centric visual interface for operational customization of future smart appliances. Telecommunication Systems, 1-16. (2020) (IF: 1.707)
19. F. Abrar, M. S. Khan, S. Ali, M. F. Majeed, I. A. Shah, N. Rasheed and N. Ullah. "De‐motivators for the adoption of agile methodologies for large‐scale software development teams: An SLR from management perspective." Journal of Software: Evolution and Process: e2268. (2020) (IF: 1.305)
20. Muhammad, J. Iqbal, T. Ahmed, I. U. Islam, M. Khan, M. S. Khan. Towards 5G Network Slicing for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks: An End-to-End Approach, Computer Communications Volume 149C, 2020, Pages 252-258 (2020) (IF: 2.27)
21. A. Khan, A.B. Altamimi, Z.H. Khan, K.S. Khattak, M. Ali, A. Ullah, S. Khan, M.S. Khan, and M.F. Abrar. Total Variation Filter via Multiquadric Radial Basis Function Approximation Scheme for Additive Noise Removal. IEEE Access, 8, pp.88241-88258 (2020) (IF: 4.098).
22. F. Abrar, M. S. Khan, S. Ali, U. Ali, M. F. Majeed, A. Ali, and N. Rasheed. "Motivators for Large Scale Agile Adoption from Management Perspective: A Systematic Literature Review." IEEE Access (2019) (IF: 4.098)
23. S. Khan, D. Kim, Identifier (ID) based Enhanced Service for Device Communication and Control in Future Networks. International Arab Journal of Information Technology, 16 (3), 2019 (IF: 0.728)
24. S. Khan, I. Ayub, M. A. Khan, M. Afaq, F. Tila (2019). Machine Learning for Content-Based Detection of Spam SMS in Local Languages: A Preliminary Classification of Romanized Urdu Messages, Pakistan Journal of Science, Vol. 71, No. 1, 2019.
25. Tila, D. H. Kim, M. S. Khan, I. A. Khan, M. Humayun (2019). Semantic Implementation and Performance Evaluation of Context Aware Services in an Indoor Environment Control System, Pakistan Journal of Science, Vol. 71, No. 4, 2019.
26. Ullah, S. Khan, D. Kim, IoT Services and Virtual Objects Management in Hyper Connected Things Network. Mobile Information Systems, https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/2516972, 2018 (IF: 1.635)
27. S. Khan, D. Kim, Process Modelling and performance analysis for composite context provisioning service. International Arab Journal of Information Technology. Vol. 15 Issue 1, p79-85, jan 2018 (IF: 0.728)
28. Lei, M. S. Khan, D. Kim, Design and Implementation of IoT Virtualization for Physical Devices in Smart Home, International Journal of Control and Automation Vol. 11, No. 7 (2018), pp.1- 10, http//dx.doi.org/10.14257/ijca.2018.11.7.01
29. S. Khan, D. Kim, Service-Oriented Process modelling for device control in future networks. International Arab Journal of Information Technology. Vol. 14, No. 5, 2017 (IF: 0.728)
30. S. Khan, HY. Kang, JH. Lee, DH. Park, DH. Kim, Semantic Data Representation Based on Risk Index for Monitoring Underground Facility, International Information Institute (Tokyo). INFORMATION Journal; Vol. 20, No. 2B, (Feb 2017): 1269-1276.
31. S. Khan, D. H. Park, D. Kim, System Modelling Approach Based on Data Acquisition and Analysis for Underground Facility Surveillance, International Journal of Smart Home, Vol. 10, No. 3, (2016), pp.93-102 http://dx.doi.org/10.14257/ijsh.2016.10.3.10. 2016
32. S. Khan, D. Kim, DIY interface for enhanced service customization of remote IoT devices: a CoAP based prototype. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks. Vol. 11(10), http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/542319, 2015, Oct 25. (IF: 1.6)
33. S. Khan, D. Kim, A distributed disaster monitoring and information dissemination service model for on-road safety, Asian journal of information technology, vol: 14, No:1 2015 DOI: 10.3923/ajit.2015.28.36. 2015.
34. S. Khan, D. Kim, An Environmental Hazard Surveillance Model Based on Centralized Information Dissemination for on-Road Safety: A Design Perspective, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research ISSN 0973-4562 Volume 9, Number 24 (2014) pp. 25407-25413
35. S. Khan, D. Kim, Enhanced service-oriented open sensor web architecture with application server based mashup. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks. Vol. 10(6), http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/313981 , 2014 (IF: 1.6)
36. Q. Jin, Y. G. Hong, M. S. Khan, D. Kim, Endpoint Unit Identification Scheme Based on CoAP for Multiple Sensor and Actuator, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol. 9(24), 2014.

Conferences

37. Shafi, M., Israr, M., Khan, M. S., Khattak, M. I., & Syed, T. A. (2017, September). Assessment of source data vulnerability to reproduction in Android In Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (CICN), 2017 9th International Conference on (pp. 122-126). IEEE.
38. S. Khan, D. Kim, A System Architecture Based on Gateway for Monitoring Underground Facility, Advanced Science and Technology Letters Vol.120 (Proceedings of GST 2015), pp.670- 673 http://dx.doi.org/10.14257/astl.2015.120.133
39. S. Khan, M. Kim, H. C. Bang, D. Kim, A Study of Environment Monitoring using CCTV for on- Road Safety, Advance Science and Technology Letters, Proceedings of International Workshop Security 2014, SERC, Jeju, South Korea, 2014.

40. S. Khan, I. A. Khan, M. Shafi, Keyboard and mouse interaction based mood measurement using artificial neural networks. In Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (ICRAI), 2012 International Conference on (pp. 130-134). IEEE, 2012.
41. S. Khan, I. A. Khan, K. Ghani. Software professionals job satisfaction: A Pakistani cultural context. In Systems and Informatics (ICSAI), 2012 International Conference on, pp. 2547-2551. IEEE, 2012.