FACULTY PROFILE

Ms.Sonam Yar

Lecturer, Staff Proctor


Department:
Computer Science

Email:
cs@sbbwu.edu.pk

Name

Sonam Yar

Personal

Designation: Lecturer

Department: Computer Science,SBBWU

Email: sonamyar@sbbwu.edu.pk

Contact No: 0344-7984505


Experience

  1. December 2025-till date: Lecturer in Department of Computer Science, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University.
  2. September 2024- February 2025, visiting lecturer in Bacha Khan University Charsadda
  3. Feb 2020--June 2023: Lecturer in Department of Computer Science, Women University Mardan.
  4. December 2016- 2025 , SST IT in KPESED
  5. May 2016-December 2016 work as an Assistant IT Manager in KP DOIT
  6. January 2015-May 2016 Principal, Dar e Arqam School System , Takht Bhai
  7. Sept-2010-january 2011, lecturer in Qurtaba College for girls Hayatabad

Qualification

BSCS , MS (Web Engineering)


Honor and Awards

Remained incharge of Department of CS Fall 2021-Spring 2023

Invited as guest speaker in an awareness session by Enablers Mardan

Remained part of faculty development program in Women University Mardan


Memberships

-


Graduate Students Postdocs Undergraduate Students Honor Students

BS Final Year Project (FYP): 5 students (2 groups), Session 2022–2026.


Service Activity

Shaheed Benazir Women University Peshawar

  1. Curriculum Revision and conduction of BoS Committee member
  2. BSCS Student Affairs Coordinator
  3. Social Work Incharge
  4. Staff Proctor from the Department
  5. PREE Team member – Post graduate program for the year 2026
  6. HEC/SBBWU focal person for HEC-IT test enrollment,  verifications
  7. Focal Person for LMS-SAP Fusion
  8. Focal Person of DLSEI by HEC (Nominated by Vice Chancellor)
  9. Event Coordinator
  10.      Women University Mardan

  11. Incharge of Department of CS Fall 2021-Spring 2023
  12. Accreditation Focal Person
  13. BOS Member
  14. Sports society member
  15. SST IT in KPESED

  16. Remained Part of early age programming project
  17. Dar e Arqam School System

    Remained Principal

Brief Statement of Research Interest

My research focuses on sentiment analysis and fake review detection in low-resource, code-mixed languages such as Roman Urdu, addressing the linguistic gaps that current English-centric models fail to capture


Publications

  • Khan, T., Yar, S., & Khalid, S. (2016). Evolving long-term dependency rules in lifelong learning models. Conference Paper, September 2016.
  • Khan, T., Yar, S., & Khalid, S. (2016). Histogram based rule verification in lifelong learning models. Conference Paper, December 2016.

Yar, S., Khusro, S., Alam, I., & Khan, T. (2019). Client-Side Revisitation Support with Contextual and Dynamic Suggestions for the Speed Dial's Thumbnail. Conference Paper, July 2019.


Research Grants and Contracts

-


Other Research or Creative Accomplishments

-


Selected Professional Presentations

-