Awais Mahmood (Ph.D.)

Mobile Phone No +966-545-798315
mawais@ksu.edu.sa
awais.mahmood@gmail.com
Address
College of Applied computer science (CACS), King Saud University, (Almuzahmiya Branch), Riyadh,
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

SUMMARY

I have more than 16 years of teaching/research experience mainly at the graduate and postgraduate levels. Currently, I am working as an Assistant professor in the college of Applied computer sciences, King Saud University (Almuzahmiya Branch). I worked as a Researcher/Ph.D. student in Computer Engineering Department at King Saud University. I have been working as an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at GIFT (Gujranwala Institute of Future Technology) University. I have been working as a student advisor and research assistant in Eastern Mediterranean University TRNC, Turkey, and was awarded a 100% scholarship for excellent performance.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
August 2014 – Present
King Saud University, (Almuzahmiya Branch) (www.ksu.edu.sa), Riyadh, KSA.
Position: Assistant Professor.

• Main responsibility is to teach undergraduate students in the college of computer and information sciences.
• I have Taught the following courses
- Computer foundation and ethics
- Introduction to programming
- Computer Organization and Architecture
- Big Data Analytics
- Data Science
- Project Management
- Machine Learning
- Computer Networks
- Undergrad projects.
January 2008 – August 2014
King Saud University (www.ksu.edu.sa), Riyadh, KSA.
Position: Researcher /PhD Scholar

• Main responsibility was to research in the field of Speaker Recognition systems and to assist the faculty members, computer engineering courses. At the same time, I was also a student of Ph.D. I have defended my Ph.D. dissertation on 8th January 2014. I have completed a national-level project “Arabic Speaker Recognition” from KACST. In research, I have published many papers the list is attached.
September 2003 – October 2007
GIFT University (www.gift.edu.pk), Gujranwala, Pakistan.
Position: Assistant Professor

• Main responsibility was to teach undergraduate courses. I have taught different courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels:
• I have Taught the following courses
-Introduction to computer
- Introduction to programming
-Object-oriented programming
-Data structure
-Digital Logic Design
-Computer Architecture
-Operating System
- Assembly Language
- Artificial intelligence
-Differential Equations

At the same times, I was also working as
• Student advisor
• Activity coordinator
• Social and Technical training coordinator
February 2001 – July 2003
Eastern Mediterranean University (www.emu.edu.tr), Department of Computer Engineering (www.cmpe.emu.edu.tr) Gazi Magusa, T.R.N.Cyprus
Position: Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant
 I have worked as a research assistant, student advisor, and teaching assistant at Eastern Mediterranean University (www.cmpe.emu.edu.tr/awais). I did research on speaker classifier combination techniques and speaker recognition systems (Abstract of the thesis is given at the end of resume). I was also assigned to give tutorials, lectures, and labs to undergraduate students. I conducted the labs and tutorials for the following courses
- Introduction to computers
- Programming 1
- Programming 2
- Data structure
- Digital logic design
- Database 1
- Database 2
- Computer Architecture
- System Analysis
July 2000 – September 2000
Soft shake, Gujranwala, Pakistan.
Position: Web Developer and Program analyst
• Worked on website development using ASP and VB script for GIFT University (www.gift.edu.pk). Performed application analysis for implementation using oracle product toolset and SQL server.

October 2000 – February 2001
Computer Engineering Department, EMU, T. R. N. Cyprus, Turkey
Position: System/Network Administrator
• Worked as a System & Network Administrator maintaining the Local Area Network of the Computer Engineering Department. The network included eight laboratories with over three hundred workstations and five servers. A major network upgrade was performed during my time in which we moved from hubs to switches and from 10Mbps to 100Mbps giving us plenty of opportunities to learn and troubleshoot.

October 2000 – February 2001
Computer Engineering Department, EMU, T. R. N. Cyprus, Turkey
Position: Student Assistant
• Because of my strong skills in C/C++ I was asked by my university to take a part-time job as a student assistant to help students with their assignments and labs.

July 2000 – September 2000
The Bank of Punjab (Head office). Lahore, Pakistan.
Position: Hardware/Network Engineer
• Worked as a Summer Internee in The Bank of Punjab as Network / Hardware Engineer. The task was mainly to maintain Windows workstations and Linux thin clients. Included installing and configuring Linux servers.
Achievements & Extra-Curricular Activities

• Got 100% Scholarship for Ph.D. from King Saud University
• Got 100% Scholarship during MS (Computer Engineering)
• Got aggregate 70% Scholarship during BS (Computer Engineering)
• High honors certificate for 6 semesters.
• Honor certificate for 2 semesters.
• 2nd Position in Department of Computer Engineering.
• Work as a student advisor for 2 years.
• Member of controlling board for Pakistan student community in turkey
EDUCATION
January 2014 King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
www.ksu.edu.sa
Ph.D. Degree in Computer Engineering
Dissertation Title “ A Multidimensional Feature Extraction Technique for Speaker Recognition”

July 2003 Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Turkey. www.emu.edu.tr
MS. Degree in Computer Engineering

February 2001 Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Turkey. www.emu.edu.tr

BS. Degree in Computer Engineering
 Achievement: 2nd position in the department of computer engineering.

1992 – 1995 Punjab University. Lahore.Pakistan
www.pu.edu.pk

BS.c Degree in Mathematics and Physics

Publications
Journal Papers

1 Al Maghayreh, E., Dhahiri, H., Albogamy, F., Alrahhal, M., Mahmood, A., Othman, E., & Elkilani, W. (2021). Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Detecting Distributed Predicates. IEEE Access.

2 Singh, Pradeep Kumar, Esam Othman, Rafeeq Ahmed, Awais Mahmood, Habib Dhahri, and Prasenjit Choudhury. "Optimized recommendations by user profiling using apriori algorithm." Applied Soft Computing 106 (2021): 107272.

3 Riaz, Ayesha, Naveed Riaz, Awais Mahmood, Khan Sajid Ali, Imran Mahmood, Omar Almutiry, and Dhahri Habib. "ExpressionHash: Securing Telecare Medical Information Systems Using BioHashing." Computers, Materials, & Continua (2021): 2747-2764.

4 Almutiry, O., Ayaz, M., Sadad, T., Lali, I. U., Mahmood, A. et al. (2021). A Novel Framework for Multi-Classification of Guava Disease. CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, 69(2), 1915–1926.
5 Almutiry, O., Iqbal, K., Hussain, S., Mahmood, A., & Dhahri, H. (2021). Underwater images contrast enhancement and its challenges: a survey. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 1-26.
6 Dhahri, H., Rahmany, I., Mahmood, A., Al Maghayreh, E., & Elkilani, W. (2020). Tabu search and machine-learning classification of benign and malignant proliferative breast lesions. BioMed research international, 2020.

7 Dhahri, H., Al Maghayreh, E., Mahmood, A., Elkilani, W., & Faisal Nagi, M. (2019). Automated breast cancer diagnosis based on machine learning algorithms. Journal of healthcare engineering, 2019.
8 Awais Mahmood, Sajid Ali Khan, Shariq Hussain, Eslam Mohammad Almaghayreh, “An Adaptive Image Contrast Enhancement Technique for Low-Contrast Images “ IEEE Access, Vol. 7, pages 161584 – 161593, November 2019, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2951468

9 Habib Dhahri, Eslam AlMaghayreh, Awais Mahmood, Wail Elkilani, and Mohammed Faisal Nagi1"Automated Breast Cancer Diagnosis Based on Machine Learning Algorithms," Journal of Healthcare Engineering, vol. 2019, Article ID 4253641, 11 pages, 2019
10 Awais Mahmood, Shariq Hussain, Khalid Iqbal, and Wail S. Elkilani, “Recognition of Facial Expressions under Varying Conditions Using Dual-Feature Fusion” Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2019, https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/9185481
11 Awais Mahmood, Ghulam Muhammad, Mansour Alsulaiman, Habib Dhahri, Esam Othman, Mohammed Faisal: “Moving average multi directional local features for speaker recognition”. Cluster Computing Vol. 22( Suppl 1): 2145-2157 (2019)
12 Mohamad Mahmoud Al Rahhal, Mohamed Lamine Mekhalfi, Mawloud Guermoui, Esam Othman, Baiying Lei, Awais Mahmood:
“A Dense Phase Descriptor for Human Ear Recognition”. IEEE Access 6: 11883-11887 (2018)

13 Mansour Alsulaiman, Awais Mahmood, Ghulam Muhammad, “Speaker recognition based on Arabic phonemes,” Speech Communication, vol. 86, pp. 42-51, February 2017. DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2016.11.004 [ISI indexed]

14 Awais Mahmood, Mansour Alsulaiman, Ghulam Muhammad, Sheeraz Akram: Artificially intelligent recognition of Arabic speaker using voice print-based local features. J. Exp. Theor. Artif. Intell. 28(6): 1009-1020 (2016) [ISI indexed]

15 Awais Mahmood, Mansour Alsulaiman, and Ghulam Muhammad, “Automatic Speaker Recognition using Multi-Directional Local Features (MDLF),” Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering, Accepted, 2013. (ISI indexed with impact factor 0.385)
16 Mansour Alsulaiman, Ghulam Muhammad, Mohamed Bencherif, Awais Mahmood and Zulfiqar Ali, "KSU Rich Arabic Speech Database," Information Journal, Vol.16, No.6(B), pp. 4231-4254, June 2013. (ISI index with Impact Factor of 0.250)
17 Ghulam Muhammad, Tamer Mesallam, Khalid Almalki, Mohamed Farahat, Awais Mahmood, and Mansour Alsulaiman, “Multi-Directional Regression (MDR) Based Features for Automatic Voice Disorder Detection,” Journal of Voice, Elsevier, Accepted, 2012. (ISI index with Impact Factor of 1.39)
18 Mansour Alsulaiman, Youssef Alotaibi, Muhammad Ghulam, Mohamed A. Bencherif and Awais Mahmood, “Arabic Speaker Recognition: Babylon Levantine Subset Case Study”, Journal of Computer Science, USA 6 (4): 381-385, 2010
19 M. Alsulaiman, Awais Mahmood, Y. Alotaibi and M. A. Bencherif, ”Review of Arabic Speaker Recognition”, Al-Azhar University Engineering journal, JAUES. Vol. 3, No. 17, Dec. 2008, pp: 419-429.
20 Awais Mahmood, ”Linear Classifier Fusion for Speaker Identification System”, Al-Azhar University Engineering Journal, JAUES. Vol. 3, No. 17, Dec. 2008, pp: 364-371.

Research Report

[1] M. Alsulaiman, Y. Alotaibi, Awais Mahmood and M. A. Bencherif ,”Survey of Arabic Speaker Recognition” research report CCIS journal, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.

Conference Papers

[1] Awais Mahmood,” A Solution to the Security Authentication Problem in Smart Houses Based on Speech” Procedia Computer Science Volume 155, 2019, Pages 606-611

[2] Zulfiqar Ali, Mansour Alsulaiman, Ghulam Muhammad, Ahmed Al-Nasheri, and Awais Mahmood, “Clinical Informatics: Mining of Pathological Data by Acoustic Analysis,” International Congress in Health Informatics (ICIHI), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 21-23 February 2017.
[3] Mohamed A. Bencherif, Mansour Alsulaiman, Ghulam Muhammad, Zulfiqar Ali, Awais Mahmood," Gender Effect in Trait Recognition", International Conference on Signal Processing and Image Engineering 2012, San Francisco, USA.
[4] Awais Mahmood, Mansour Alsulaiman, and Ghulam Muhammad," Multidirectional Local Features for Speaker Recognition", ISMS 2012, February 2012, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.
[5] Awais Mahmood,Mansour M. Alsulaiman, Ghulam Muhammad,and Mohamed A. Bencherif, "Verification of A Rich Arabic Speech Database", COCOSDA 2011, October, Taiwan.
[6] Mansour M. Alsulaiman, Ghulam Muhammad, Mohamed A. Bencherif, Awais Mahmood, Zulfiqar Ali, and Mohammad Aljabri, “Building a Rich Arabic Speech Database”, The Fifth Asia International Conference on Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulation (AMS ’11), May 23, Malaysia.
[7] Ghulam Muhammad, Mansour M. Alsulaiman, Zulfiqar Ali and Awais Mahmood, “Automatic Voice Disorder Classification using Vowel Formants”, The 2011 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2011), July 11-15, 2011, Barcelona.
[8] Mansour Alsulaiman, Ghulam Muhammad, Mohammed A. Alomari, Mohammed A. Alshehri, Zulfiqar Ali and Awais Mahmood, “An Automatic Diagnostic System for Medically Disordered Voice”, The 2011 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition (IPCV'11), , July 18-21, 2011, USA.
[9] Mansour Alsulaiman, Awais Mahmood, Ghulam Muhammad, Muhammad A. Bencherif, and Yousef A. Alotaibi, “A Technique to Overcome the Problem of Small Size Database for Automatic Speaker Recognition”, Proc. The 5th International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2010), (IEEE xplore) Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada, July 05-08, 2010.
[10] Mansour Alsulaiman, Ghulam Muhammad, Yousef Alotaibi, Awais Mahmood, and Mohamed Abdelkader Bencherif " Building a Speaker Recognition System with one Sample", Proceedings of the Second Symposium International Computer Science and Computational Technology (ISCSCT ’09) Huangshan, P. R. China, 26-28,Dec. 2009, pp. 330-334.

Project Completed

Arabic Speaker Recognition
Funding Body
KSU-KACST National Plan for Science and Technology (NPST).
Abstract
In this project, we tackled speaker recognition aiming to contribute to the existence of a robust, channel independent, session independent, environment independent Arabic Speaker Recognition system. The main objective of this system is to add some new values to the Arabic Database recognition, as well as participating in the establishment of some new techniques and standards in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. We developed a very rich Arabic database in terms of text, speakers, channels, environments and sessions. We proposed feature extraction technique and compared it with commonly used speech features. We also used some state of the art techniques, mainly the GMM, GMM-UBM generative modeling techniques, as well as the SVM classification. We have modified the SVM technique. We also completed a brief analysis on effect of Arabic text on speaker recognition.
Duration: Two years
Responsibility: PhD student/researcher with PI: Dr. Mansour Alsulaiman
Amount: 1.098 million Saudi Arabian Riyals