FACULTY PROFILE

Dr. Neelam Gohar

Assistant Professor


Department:
Computer Science

Email:
neelam.gohar@sbbwu.edu.pk

Name

Dr. Neelam Gohar

Personal

Contact #: 091-9224769
Email: neelam.gohar@sbbwu.edu.pk
Address: Department Of Computer Science, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University, Main Campus, Landay Sarrak Charsadda Road, Larama Peshawar

Experience

Assistant Professor: Department of Computer Science, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University, Peshawar, Pakistan (July 2012 till date)


Lecturer: Department of Computer Science, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University, Peshawar, Pakistan (Dec 2005 till July 2012)


Demonstrator: Game theory, Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK, 2010

  • Invigilation at the University of Liverpool (2009 & 2011)
  • Worked as a teaching assistant for 3 weeks in Liverpool, UK
  • Worked as a Note-taker at University of Liverpool, UK 2011
  • Worked as a Student Helper at the University of
  • Liverpool International Welcome Week 2011

Qualification

PhD Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK, November 2007-2011.

Honor and Awards

  • Pioneer of Department of Computer Science, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University
  • Faculty Development Scholarship in 2007 for PhD
  • Certified Master trainer of Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, (January – March 2013) Best Participant award of Advanced Faculty
  • Professional Development Course on "Ensuring Training Effectiveness" from 23rd March - 10th April, 2015 at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
  • Received certificate of Commendation for organizing National Conference on “Emerging Trends in Computing, Statistics and Mathematical Sciences 2017” in University Foundation Day on September 10, 2018

Memberships

  • Member of National Curriculum Revision Committee (NCRC) of HEC Pakistan
  • Member of International Association of Engineers (IAENG) and following societies
  • The IAENG Society of Artificial Intelligence
  • The IAENG Society of Computer Science
  • The IAENG Society of Scientific Computing
  • The IAENG Society of Internet Computing and Web Services
  • The IAENG Society of Software Engineering
  • Member of Graduate Studies Committee of Department of Computer Science SBBWUP 2013 – till date
  • On Panel of PASTIC Journal Editor
  • MS(CS) SAR Member (2015 till date)
  • MS(CS) SAR Team Leader (June 2017 till date)
  • Member of Pakistan School on Internet Governance (PKSIG 2017)
  • Member of Board of Studies of Department of Computer Science SBBWUP (Since 2013)
  • Member of Board of Faculty SBBWUP (2018)
  • Member of Committee for Establishment of Community College SBBWUP (2018)
  • Member of Affiliation Committee SBBWUP (2018)
  • Internal Reviewer on the Panel of Annual MPhil and PhD Review of SBBWUP by itself (2018)
  • Program Evaluator of National Computing Education Accreditation Council (NCEAC) (Since 2018)
  • Member of Board of Studies of City University of Science and Information Technology (CUSIT) Peshawar (Since 2018)

 

Reviewer

  • On Panel of PASTIC Journal Editor (Since 2014)
  • Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory Journal (Springer Link) (Since 2018)
  • Journal of Software Engineering & Intelligent Systems JSEIS (ISSN: 2518-8739) http://www.jseis.org/ (Since 2018)
  • Journal of Grid Computing (Springer Link) (Since 2018)
  • IEEE Access Reviewer (Since 2018)

 

Editorial Board member

  • Member of Editorial board of “National Conference on Emerging trends in Computing, Statistics and Mathematical Sciences” NCETCSM 2017 at SBBWU Peshawar (November 14, 15 2017)
  • Member of Editorial Board of Journal of Software Engineering & Intelligent Systems JSEIS (ISSN: 2518- 8739) http://www.jseis.org/ (Since 2018) 

 

Session chair

  • Session chair in “National Conference on Emerging trends in Computing, Statistics and Mathematical Sciences” NCETCSM 2017 at SBBWU Peshawar (November 14, 15 2017)
  • Session chair in “4th International Multidisciplinary Research Conference on Global Prosperity through Research & Development (IMRC-2018)” held on October 09-11, 2018 at Sarhad University of Science & Information Technology Peshawar.

Graduate Students Postdocs Undergraduate Students Honor Students

M.Sc Students supervised

  1. Salma, Razia Khan, Ghazal Jan (2010 – 2012) “An interface for Pukhtoon culture” 2013
  2. Wagma Saleem, Jamila Bibi, Khadija Yazdan (2011- 2013) “Online Course Management System” 2014
  3. Maryam Khan, Sehrish Aslam, Anam Qadeer (2013 – 2015) “Analysis Of Dynamics Of Voting System In The Perspective Of Game Theory” (January - June 2016)
  4. Faiza Babar, Ammara Malik, Sania Shaheen (2013 – 2015) “Dynamics Of manipulation in Voting Rules plurality & Veto ” (January - June 2016)
  5. Al Syeda Maham Huda, Saira Sultan, Afsana Durrani, Hadia Bibi “Convergence of Iterative voting under restrictive dynamics for Plurality rule” (Session 2015-2017)
  6. Aneela Gul, Neelam Waqar, Reema Amir “Strategic behavior of voters using Game theoretic tools: A review” (Session 2015 – 2017)
  7. Warda Kainat, Kiran Shehzadi, Sadia Sardar “Iterative Voting Model for weighted voters with Manipulative moves using Plurality and pair-wise tie-breaking rule” (Session 2013-2017)
  8. Laraib Omer and Maryam Saleem “Can we stop a manipulator from Manipulation using game theoretic approach?” (Session 2014 – 2018)
  9. Laiba Omer, Shah Rukh and Saman Zahid “Suitable domain restrictions to ensure convergence in iterative voting for limited number of candidates” (Session 2014 – 2018)
  10. Hifsa Ayub, Sana Javed, Maryam Siraj (Session 2016-2018)

Service Activity

  • Students Guidance and Counseling
  • Organizer of “Peace walk with reference to attack on Bacha Khan University Charsadda” at SBBWUP February 02, 2016
  • Worked as an organizer in arranging “Spring Festival 2014” at SBBWUP, 28th April 2014
  • Organized “Plantation Day” at SBBWUP, March 12, 2015
  • Departmental Staff Proctor (September 2015 – December 2016)
  • Focal Person of Science and Technology corner on International Women’s Day (March 18, 2015) at SBBWUP
  • Organizer of “Breast Cancer Awareness” Stall on International Women’s Day (March 18, 2015) at SBBWUP
  • Technical expert for the establishment of Digital Logic Design Laboratory in SBBWU Peshawar
  • The focal person of Digital Library of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University, Peshawar, Pakistan (2012 to 2014)
  • Departmental Scholarship Committee member
  • Organizer of Peace Walk in SBBWUP for condemning the attack on Bacha Khan University (2nd February 2016)
  • Organizer of Skit and debate (Urdu and English) competition on International Women’s Day (6th and 8th March 2017)
  • Organized the Research Proposal Defense of MSCS first batch on 22nd March, 2017 at ERCP, SBBWUP
  • Jury member of Digital Youth Summit Startup Pitching competition Round 1 at SBBWUP (19th April 2017)
  • Blood Donor Society Stall representative on University Foundation Day (September 21, 2017)
  • Organizer of “Digital Media Production” workshop in collaboration with DYNIMAX Intermedia SMC-Pvt Ltd at SBBWUP (October 27, 2017)
  • Entertainment Society initiator and focal person (2015 – till date)
  • Computing and Entertainment Society focal person (2017 – till date)
  • Social work In-charge (2017 – till date) 
  • Internal Reviewer on the Panel of Annual MPhil and PhD Review of SBBWUP by itself (May 04, 2018)
  • Focal person of KP Government's “Youth Employment Program 2018” in collaboration with KPITB to train the female students of KP with employable digital skills (Conducted courses of Digital Marketing, Graphic Design, Blogging and Content Writing and Internet of Things)
  • Organizer of “Google Business Group Peshawar’s Road Show” at SBBWUP (October 17, 2018)
  • Organizer of Breast Cancer Awareness Symposium in collaboration with Public Health Association KP and Shifa International Islamabad at SBBWUP (October 24, 2018)

Brief Statement of Research Interest

  • AI, multi-agent decision problems, Computational Social Choice theory, Voting system
  • Phenomenon of manipulation in voting as a dynamic process in which voters may repeatedly alter their reported preferences until either no further manipulation are available, or else the system goes into a cycle.
  • Manipulative Dynamics of weighted plurality voting
  • Convergence to pure Nash equilibria in plurality voting games
  • Other positional scoring rules like Borda, Veto, kapproval voting and non-positional scoring rules like Copeland and Bucklin voting system

Publications

  • Gohar Neelam “Game theory in Computer Science” Presented at Complexity Theory and Algorithms Group of Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK, 2008
  • Gohar Neelam “Tactical and Manipulative voting dynamics”, Presented at British Colloquium for Theoretical Computer Science, University of Edinburgh, UK, May 2010
  • Gohar Neelam “Tactical and Manipulative voting dynamics”, Presented at Complexity Theory and Algorithms Group of Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK, 2010
  • Poster presentation of “Voting dynamics (Computational Social Choice theory)” at University of Liverpool, UK (March 2009)
  • Gohar, Neelam, and Paul W. Goldberg. "Potential Functions for Voting Dynamics." Proceedings on the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI). The Steering Committee of the World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing (WorldComp), 2013.
  • Gohar, Neelam. "Voting Dynamics." Proceedings on the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI). The Steering Committee of the World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing (WorldComp), 2013.
  • Book “Manipulative Voting Dynamics” Published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK (January 05, 2017) (http://www.cambridgescholars.com/manipulativevoting-dynamics)
  • Gohar Neelam, Noor Salma, Babar Faiza, Malik Ammara, Shaheen Sania, “Dynamics of Manipulation in Voting, Veto And Plurality” Cluster Computing SPRINGER Journal, 2017. (IF:2.04).
  • Noor Salma, Jamil Sehrish, Gohar Neelam, Shah Lubna “Knowledge Retrieval of Historic Concepts Using Semantic Web” Cluster Computing SPRINGER Journal, 2017. (IF:2.04)
  • Gohar Neelam, Gul e Saman, Noor Salma, Aslam Sehrish, Khan Maryam, Qadeer Anam, Qayyum Fawad “Analysis of Dynamics of Voting System for Small Number of Candidates” Journal of Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory Springer link. (IF:0.769)
  • Noor Salma, Shah Lubna, Adil Muhammad, Gohar Neelam, Gule Saman, Jamil Sehrish, Qayum Fawad “Modeling and Representation of Built Cultural Heritage Data using Semantic Web Technologies and Building Information Model” Journal of Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory Springer link (IF:0.769)
  • Sardar Sadia, Kainat Warda, Shehzadi Kiran, Gohar Neelam “Iterative voting for Plurality and pairwise election as a tie breaking rule” presented at National Conference on Emergingm Trends in Computing, Statistics and Mathematical Sciences, November 14 – 15, 2017
  • Fouzia, Gohar Neelam “Shot boundary detection and classification using k-means clustering algorithm” presented at National Conference on Emerging Trends in Computing, Statistics and Mathematical Sciences, November 14 – 15, 2017
  • Saira Sultan, Alsyeda Maham Huda, Afsana Durrani and Hadia Bibi, Neelam Gohar “Convergence of Iterative Voting under Restrictive Dynamics for Plurality Rule: A review” International Conference IEEE INMIC 2018: 21st IEEE International Multi Topic Conference 2018 Hamdard University Karachi, Pakistan (November 01 - 02, 2018)

Research Grants and Contracts

Other Research or Creative Accomplishments

  • Curriculum designing and Compilation of MS(CS) and PhD
  • New Specialization MSCS (Data Science) has been introduced in Department of Computer Science SBBWUP in MSCS curriculum (2017) and approved from BOS, BOF, Academic Council and Syndicate
  • New courses introduced in MSCS National curriculum (2017)
    1. Algorithmic Game Theory
    2. Computational Social Choice Theory
    3. Multi-Agent systems
  • Main organizer and focal person of Computing for the “National Conference on Emerging trends in Computing, Statistics and Mathematical Sciences” NCETCSM 2017 at SBBWU Peshawar (November 14, 15 2017)
  • Coordinator Advanced studies (Since 2013)

Selected Professional Presentations

  • Talk on “Tactical and Manipulative voting dynamics” at British Colloquium for Theoretical Computer Science, University of Edinburgh, UK, May 2010
  • A talk on “Tactical and Manipulative voting dynamics” at Complexity Theory and Algorithms Group of Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK, 2010
  • Poster presentation at University of Liverpool, UK (March 2009) 

Trainings conducted as a resource person

  • Organized six days training workshop on “Innovative teaching techniques and Micro-teaching “at SBBWUP as a resource person (2 – 7th September, 2013) Modules covered as a resource person: Innovative teaching techniques, Micro-teaching, Micro-teaching Cycle I and Micro-teaching Cycle II
  • Session on “Teaching Methods” as a resource person organized by Department of Education, SBBWUP (May 20, 2015)
  • 8 sessions (2 days) conducted on module “ICT and ELearning” as a resource person to 28th MT-FPDP at Learning Innovation Division, HEC Pakistan (August 08 – 09, 2016)
  • Two sessions conducted on “National Digital Library Program and University Research Framework” as a resource person in “Technical skills in scientific writing for Chemical, Physical, Biological and Numerical Sciences” workshop organized by Department of Bioinformatics SBBWUP (January 23 - 25, 2018)
  • Session conducted on “Research Process: Designing a research report/thesis” as a resource person in “Three Days Workshop on Designing Research Report and Research Paper at Undergraduate Level” organized by Directorate of Higher Education Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Peshawar at Baragali Campus, University of Peshawar (September 10 -12, 2018)