• Assistant Professor

Ms. Neelam Mukhtar

Ph.D , University of Peshawar (2012) in Computer Science
Research Interest:  Natural Language Processing
Telephone: 9216882
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Neelam Mukhtar

Assistant Professor,

College of Home Economics, University of Peshawar,

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, PAKISTAN,

E-mail: sameen_gul@yahoo.com, neelam-mukhtar@uop.edu.pk

Profile

Dr. Neelam Mukhtar has completed her Ph.D Computer Science (Natural Language Processing) in 2018, from Department of Computer Science, University of Peshawar. She is Assistant Professor at University of Peshawar, Pakistan. She has done MS (Computer Science) in Natural Language Processing from University of Peshawar. She has several research publications in well-reputed national and international journals and conference proceedings. Her research interest includes Natural Language Processing, Sentiment analysis, Text Mining and Machine Learning.

Objectives

To work within a competitive environment, where I can utilize my professional abilities in the best interest of the organization and to become a good researcher so that to better survive the society.

Personal Information

Father name: ChiraghuMinallah

Marital Status: Married

Religion: Islam

Domicile: Peshawar

Nationality: Pakistani

Academic Background

Ph.D Computer Science
Department of Computer Science, University of Peshawar, Session 2011-2012

MS Computer Science
Department of Computer Science, University of Peshawar, Session 2008-2010.

 

M.Sc Computer Science
University of Peshawar, Session 1994-95

B.Sc (Bachelor of Science)
University of Peshawar, Session 1990 -92

HSSC

BISEP, Session 1988-90
SSC
BISEP, Session 1988

PhD research topic
“Enhancing Accuracy of Urdu Sentiment Analysis, using Lexicon-based approach”
MS research topic
“Corpus Based Syntactic Parsing of Urdu Using Statistical Techniques”

Experience

1.         Assistant Professor, College of Home Economics, University of Peshawar,

            from April, 2013 till date.

2.         Lecturer (Permanent), College of Home Economics, University of Peshawar, from September, 2003 to March 2013.

3.         Lecturer (Contract), College of Home Economics, University of Peshawar, from November, 1999 to August 2003.

4.         Computer Teacher, Beacon House School System, Jamrud Campus from February 1998 to September 1999.

Research Publications

Category “W” Papers (having Impact Factor of ISI JCR)

 

  1. Neelam Mukhtar, Mohammad Abid Khan “Effective lexicon-based approach for Urdu sentiment analysis”, Artificial Intelligence Review, (2019), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-019-09740-5. (IF 5.095, based on JCR 2018).
  2. Shah Nazir, Sara Shahzad, Rahmita Wirza, Rohul Amin, Muhammad Ahsan, Neelam Mukhtar, Ivan Garcia-Magarino, Jaime Lloret. “Birthmark based identification of software piracy using Haar wavelet”, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (2019), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matcom.2019.04.010, 166 (2019), pp 144-154. (IF 1.476, based on JCR 2017).

 

  1. Shah Nazir, Sara Shahzad and Neelam Mukhtar. “Software Birthmark Design and Estimation: A Systematic Literature Review”, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-019-03718-9, 44 (4), 2019, pp 3905-3927. (IF 1.092, based on JCR 2017).
  2. Neelam Mukhtar, Mohammad Abid Khan, Nadia Chiragh and Shah Nazir.  “Identification and handling of intensifiers for enhancing accuracy of Urdu sentiment analysis”, Expert Systems. https://doi.org/10.1111/exsy.12317, 35(6), 2018, pp 1-12. (IF 1.43, based on JCR 2017).
  3. Neelam Mukhtar, Mohammad Abid Khan, Nadia Chiragh. “Lexicon-based approach outperforms supervised machine learning approach for Urdu Sentiment Analysis in multiple domains”, Telematics and Informatics.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2018.08.003, 35(8), 2018, pp. 2173-2183. (IF 3.789, based on JCR 2017).

  1. Neelam Mukhtar and Mohammad Abid Khan. “Urdu Sentiment Analysis using supervised machine learning approach”, Int. J. Patt. Recogn. Artif.Intell.  https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218001418510011, 32(2), 2018. pp.1851001-1-1851001-15. (IF 0.9, based on JCR 2016). 
  2. Neelam Mukhtar, Mohammad Abid Khan and Nadia Chiragh. “Effective Use of Evaluation Measures for the Validation of Best Classifier in Urdu Sentiment Analysis”, Cogn Comput. doi:10.1007/s12559-017-9481-5, 9(4), 2017, pp. 446-456. (IF 3.441, based on JCR 2016).
  3. Shah Nazir, Sara Shahzad, Neelam Mukhtar, Humaira Khan, Islam Zada, Muhammad Nazir, and Rohul Amin, "Test case prioritization for components using FANP," Life Science Journal, 11, pp. 504-511, 2014 (IF 0.16, based on JCR 2012).

HEC recognized Journal Papers

9.         Mussarat Anwar, Ayesha Anwar and Neelam Mukhtar “Effects of Birth order on Child’s Personality”, Journal of Independent studies and research (JISR), 7(1), January, 2009.

Other Journal Papers

10.       Neelam Mukhtar, Mohammad Abid Khan, Fatima Tuz Zuhra and Nadia Chiragh “Implementation of Urdu Probabilistic Parser”, International Journal of Computational Linguistics (IJCL), 3(1), 2012. pp 12-20.

11.       Neelam Mukhtar, Mohammad Abid Khan and Fatima Tuz Zuhra “Algorithm for developing Urdu Probabilistic Parser”, International Journal of Electrical and Computer Sciences (IJJECS-IJENS), 12(3),  2012. pp 57-66.

12.       Neelam Mukhtar, Mohammad Abid Khan and Fatima Tuz Zuhra “Probabilistic

            Context Free Grammar for Urdu”, Linguistics and     Literature Review (LLR),

            2(2), 2016. pp. 106-113.

Conference Papers

13.       Neelam Mukhtar, Sara Shahzad, Mohammad Abid Khan and Shah Nazir “Ontology for Feature Based Selection of Web  Development Tools” in proceedings of the 8th International Conference of   Digital Information Management IEEE ICDIM 2013, 10th -12th September, 2013,  Islamabad.

14.       Shah Nazir, Sara Shahzad, Neelam Mukhtar, and Muhammad Nazir, "Ontology for efficient text/criteria based search functionality in website," in 2nd Abasyn International Conference on the Technology and Business Management (AiCTM), Pakistan, 2014.

Research Interest

 Natural Language Processing, Parsing, Sentiment analysis, Text Mining and Machine Learning.

Courses studied

Computational Morphology, Syntax, Corpus Linguistics, Real time system, Theory of computation, Advance Computer architecture, Advance analysis of algorithm, Automatic translation, Middleware, Pattern recognition, research methodology and Statistics.

Courses taught to Undergraduate

1. Fundamentals of Information technology

2. Computer Graphics and Visual Programming

3. Computer Graphics and web Designing

4. Statistics

 

 

 

Courses taught at Higher Studies

  1. Statistical Computing

Supervision/Co supervision of research at higher studies

S.No

Name

Program

Thesis Title

1

Shams ul Bashar

MS

Urdu Sentiment Analysis using Deep learning

 

Seminars/Work Shops attended

  1. Attended four days workshop on “Project management and Proposal writing” from 28th October to 31st  October, 2013 , organized by Center for Human Resource and Career development, University of Peshawar and Higher Education Commission.
  2. Participated in one day seminar on “Wireless communication” at Edwards College Peshawar on 20th Jan, 2007.
  3. Attended four days workshop on “Statistical Data Handling”, from 4th July to 8th July, 2005, organized by Department of Statistics, University of Peshawar.
  4. Attended two days workshop on “Computer Training for College Lecturers”, from 8th March to 9th March, 2003, organized by Frontier Education Foundation.

Lectures/Workshops/Seminars organized

  1. Invited national speaker in 1st International Conference on Software Engineering and Computing Disciplines (ICSECD-2019), University of Swabi, on 12th November, 2019. The title of the Talk was “Urdu Sentiment Analysis using Lexicon-based approach”.
  2. Arranged Workshop in collaboration with Career Development Center, University of Peshawar on “New Digital Media Production and its Scope for the students” on 31st October, 2019.
  3. Supervised students as incharge for participation in “Science Journalism Society of Pakistan (SJSP) Science Expo 2019”on 14th March, 2019.
  4. Co-organized Mega Home Science Event, 2019, College of Home Economics, University of Peshawar on 24th January, 2019.
  5. Organized Workshop on “Computer based software applications in research”, the Second Workshop of “Modern Computer Technologies: Their Applications” at College of Home Economics, University of Peshawar, on 21st December, 2017.
  6. Organized Workshop on “Modern Computer Technology: Its Hardware and Software”, the first Workshop of “Modern Computer Technologies: Their Applications” at College of Home Economics, University of Peshawar, on 29th November, 2017.
  7. Arranged Lecture on “Latex” at College of Home Economics, University of Peshawar, on 12th October 2015.
  8. Organized workshop on “Referencing with End Note” and “Plagiarism” at College of Home Economics, University of Peshawar, on 26th November, 2013.

Trainings

  1. Resource person at “School teachers training course”, held at College of Home Economics, University of Peshawar, on 15th June, 2007.
  2. Completed two months training course on “E Commerce”, at Brains Post Graduate College of Information Technology Peshawar, from 22nd July to 22nd August, 2001.
  3. Completed one week training course in Computer Science at Department of Computer Science, University of Peshawar, organized by University Grants Commission from 26th Feb to 3rd March 2001.

Working as technical committee member (reviewer)

  1. Artificial Intelligence Review
  2. Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing.
  3. Language Resources and Evaluation.
  4. Expert System.

Administrative experience

  1. Head, Department of Computer studies, College of Home Economics.
  2. Member of the HEC funded project under the title “Establishment of Computer Based Learning Laboratories at College of Home Economics”, University of Peshawar, 2002-2003.
  3. Member, University purchase committee for Up gradation of computers & purchase of equipments for College of Home Economics, University of Peshawar, 2017-2018.
  4. Member Research committee, College of Home Economics, University of Peshawar, 2017-2018.
  5. In charge, admissions, F.Sc from 2013-2017
  6. In charge, admissions, M.Sc from 2011-2012
  7. Overall in charge F.A/F.Sc admission, 2018-2019
  8. In charge Prospectus, 2013-2019
  9. In charge Physical verification, 2012-2017.

 

References

Prof. Dr. Mohammad Abid Khan

Dean, Faculty of Numerical and Physical Sciences

University of Peshawar

 

Dr. Sara Shahzad

Associate Professor

Department of Computer Science

University of Peshawar