NUST Balochistan Campus
Faculty Muhammad Tahir 11

Muhammad Tahir

Associate Professor
Summary

Dr. Muhammad Tahir received his Ph.D. degree from Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Science in 2014. Currently, he is working as Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, National University of Sciences and Technology Baluchistan Campus (NBC). Prior to this position, he served as an Associate Professor at the College of Computing and Informatics, Saudi Electronic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from December 27, 2021- June 22, 2023. Previously, he served as Assistant Professor at the same department from August 4, 2015 – December 26, 2021. Moreover, he served as an Assistant Professor and Head Department of Computer Science, City University of Science and Information Technology, Pakistan from September 11, 2014 – July 31, 2015. He previously served as Lecturer at the same department from July 1, 2014 – September 10, 2014. He also served the Department of Computer Science, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences as Lecturer from August 19, 2013 – June 30, 2014. His research interests lie on Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition, with a particular emphasis on, computer aided diagnostics, bioinformatics, computer vision, and image processing. Dr. Tahir has published more than 28 refereed research papers on these subjects.

Academic Background
PhD (Computer Science) Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS) February 01, 2010 - September 11, 2014
Honours and Awards
Publications
Image colorization: A survey and dataset February 01, 2025 Saeed Anwar, Muhammad Tahir, Chongyi Li, Ajmal Mian, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Abdul Wahab Muzaffar, Information Fusion - Volume 188, Article Number 115537
Blockchain-Enabled Decentralized Trustworthy Framework Envisioned for Patient-Centric Community Healthcare June 30, 2024 Mohammad Khalid Imam Rahmani, Javed Ali, Surbhi Bhatia Khan, Muhammad Tahir, International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications - Volume 15, No. 6, Pages 1264-1274
Classification of Gastric Lesions Using Gabor Block Local Binary Patterns April 03, 2023 Muhammad Tahir, Farhan Riaz, Imran Usman, Muhammad Ibrahim Habib, Computer Systems Science and Engineering - Volume 46(3), Pages 4007-4022
Efficient link prediction model for real-world complex networks using matrix-forest metric with local similarity features October 01, 2022 Haji Gul, Feras Al-Obeidat, Adnan Amin, Muhammad Tahir, Kaizhu Huang, Journal of Complex Networks - Volume 10, Issue 5, Article Number cnac039
Image Aesthetic Assessment: A Comparative Study of Hand-Crafted & Deep Learning Models September 30, 2022 Abbas Anwar, Saira Kanwal, Muhammad Tahir, Muhammad Saqib, Muhammad Uzair, Mohammad Khalid Imam Rahmani, Habib Ullah, IEEE Access - Volume 10, Pages 101770-101789
Deep localization of subcellular protein structures from fluorescence microscopy images April 01, 2022 Muhammad Tahir, Saeed Anwar, Ajmal Mian, Abdul Wahab Muzaffar, Neural Computing and Applications - Volume 34, Issue 7, Pages 5701-5714
Statistical Analysis of Hydrodynamic Forces in Power-Law Fluid Flow in a Channel: Circular Versus Semi-Circular Cylinder March 21, 2022 Rashid Mahmood, Afraz Hussain Majeed, Muhammad Tahir, Imran Saddique, Nawaf N. Hamadneh, Ilyas Khan, Asif Mehmood, Frontiers in Physics - Volume 10, Article Number 830408
Quantum Particle Swarm Optimization Based Convolutional Neural Network for Handwritten Script Recognition January 14, 2022 Reya Sharma, Baijnath Kaushik, Naveen Kumar Gondhi, Muhammad Tahir, Mohammad Khalid Imam Rahmani, Computers, Materials and Continua - Volume 71, Issue 2, Pages 5855-5873
Fusion of infrared and visible images using fuzzy based siamese convolutional network January 01, 2022 Kanika Bhalla, Deepika Koundal, Surbhi Bhatia, Mohammad Khalid Imam Rahmani, Muhammad Tahir, Computers, Materials and Continua - Volume 70, Issue 3, Pages 5503-5518
Transformers in pedestrian image retrieval and person re-identification in a multi-camera surveillance system October 02, 2021 Muhammad Tahir, Saeed Anwar, Applied Sciences - Volume 11, Issue 19, Article Number 9197
Knowledge Extraction and Data Visualization: A Proposed Framework for Secure Decision Making using Data Mining August 31, 2021 Hazzaa N. Alshareef, Ahmed Majrashi, Maha Helal, Muhammad Tahir, International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications - Volume 12, Issue 8, Pages 483-489
Forecasting Stock Market Volatility Using Hybrid of Adaptive Network of Fuzzy Inference System and Wavelet Functions August 27, 2021 Abdullah H. Alenezy, Mohd Tahir Ismail, S. Al Wadi, Muhammad Tahir, Nawaf N. Hamadneh, Jamil J. Jaber, Waqar A. Khan, Journal of Mathematics - Volume 2021, Article ID 9954341, 10 pages
Application of Radial Basis Function Neural Network Coupling Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm to Classification of Saudi Arabia Stock Returns April 09, 2021 Khudhayr A. Rashedi, Mohd Tahir Ismail, Nawaf N. Hamadneh, S. AL Wadi, Jamil J. Jaber, Muhammad Tahir, Journal of Mathematics - Volume 2021, Article ID 5593705, 8 pages
Optimizing service composition (Sc) using smart multistage forward search (smfs) April 01, 2021 Issam Alhadid, Hassan Tarawneh, Khalid Kaabneh, Ra’ed Masa’deh, Nawaf N. Hamadneh, Muhammad Tahir, Sufian Khwaldeh, Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing - Volume 28, Issue 2, Pages 321-336
A systematic review of online exams solutions in e-learning: Techniques, tools, and global adoption March 02, 2021 Abdul Wahab Muzaffar, Muhammad Tahir, Muhammad Waseem Anwar, Qaiser Mehmood Ch, Shamaila Rasheed Mir, Yawar Rasheed, IEEE Access - Volume 9, Pages 32689-32712
Machine Learning-Enabled Power Scheduling in IoT-Based Smart Cities February 05, 2021 Nabeela Awan, Salman Khan, Mohammad Khalid Imam Rahmani, Muhammad Tahir, Nur Alam MD, Ryan Alturki, Ihsan Ullah, Computers, Materials and Continua - Volume 67, Issue 2, Pages 2449-2462
Using artificial neural network with prey predator algorithm for prediction of the COVID-19: The case of Brazil and Mexico January 18, 2021 Nawaf N. Hamadneh, Muhammad Tahir, Waqar A. Khan, Mathematics - Volume 9, Issue 2, Pages 1-14
Students’ perception towards e-learning during covid-19 pandemic in India: An empirical study December 23, 2020 Mohammed Arshad Khan, Vivek, Mohammed Kamalun Nabi, Maysoon Khojah, Muhammad Tahir, Sustainability - Volume 13, Issue 1, Article Number 57
Discrimination of golgi proteins through efficient exploitation of hybrid feature spaces coupled with smote and ensemble of support vector machine November 24, 2020 Muhammad Tahir, Fazlullah Khan, Mohammad Khalid Imam Rahmani, Vinh Truong Hoang, IEEE Access - Volume 8, Pages 206028-206038
A Reliable Communication and Load Balancing Scheme for Resource-Limited Networks October 13, 2020 Xiuping Zheng, Asma Idrees, Fazlullah Khan, Saima Anwar Lashari, Rahim Khan, Meiling Li, Muhammad Tahir, Mian Ahmad Jan, IEEE Access - Volume 8, Pages 179921-179930
MD-LBP: An efficient computational model for protein subcellular localization from hela cell lines using SVM March 01, 2020 Muhammad Tahir, Adnan Idris, Current Bioinformatics - Volume 15, Issue 3, Pages 204-211
Efficient computational model for classification of protein localization images using Extended Threshold Adjacency Statistics and Support Vector Machines April 01, 2018 Muhammad Tahir, Bismillah Jan, Maqsood Hayat, Shakir Ullah Shah, Muhammad Amin, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine - Volume 157, Pages 205-215
Pattern analysis of protein images from fluorescence microscopy using Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix January 01, 2018 Muhammad Tahir, Journal of King Saud University Science - Volume 30, Issue 1, Pages 29-40
Protein subcellular localization of fluorescence microscopy images: Employing new statistical and Texton based image features and SVM based ensemble classification June 01, 2016 Muhammad Tahir, Asifullah Khan, Information Sciences - Volume 345, Pages 65-80
Prediction of protein structure classes using hybrid space of multi-profile Bayes and bi-gram probability feature spaces April 07, 2014 Maqsood Hayat, Muhammad Tahir, Sher Afzal Khan, Journal of Theoretical Biology - Volume 346, Pages 8-15
Protein subcellular localization in human and hamster cell lines: Employing local ternary patterns of fluorescence microscopy images January 07, 2014 Muhammad Tahir, Asifullah Khan, Hüseyin Kaya, Journal of Theoretical Biology - Volume 340, Pages 85-95
Subcellular localization using fluorescence imagery: Utilizing ensemble classification with diverse feature extraction strategies and data balancing November 01, 2013 Muhammad Tahir, Asifullah Khan, Abdul Majid, Alessandra Lumini, Applied Soft Computing - Volume 13, Issue 11, Pages 4231-4243
MitProt-Pred: Predicting mitochondrial proteins of Plasmodium falciparum parasite using diverse physiochemical properties and ensemble classification October 01, 2013 Muhammad Tayyeb Mirza , Asifullah Khan, Muhammad Tahir, Yeon Soo Lee, Computers in Biology and Medicine - Volume 43, Issue 10, Pages 1502-1511
Protein subcellular localization of fluorescence imagery using spatial and transform domain features January 01, 2012 Muhammad Tahir, Asifullah Khan, Abdul Majid, Bioinformatics - Volume 28, Issue 1, Pages 91-97
Conferences
Brain MRI Classification Using Gradient Boosting October 04, 2020 - October 08, 2020 Muhammad Tahir, Machine Learning in Clinical Neuroimaging and Radiogenomics in Neuro-oncology
Associate Professor Saudi Electronic University December 27, 2021 - June 22, 2023
Assistant Professor Saudi Electronic University August 04, 2015 - December 26, 2021
Assistant Professor City University of Science and Information Technology September 11, 2014 - July 31, 2015
Lecturer City University of Science and Information Technology July 01, 2014 - September 10, 2014
Lecturer National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences August 19, 2013 - June 30, 2014