Day 1: Monday, December 16, 2013

Plenary Session

Shamadan Hall

09:15 am

Guests to be Seated

9:30 – 9:35 am

Tilawat

9:35 – 9:40 am

Conference Introduction

9:40 – 9:45 am

Opening Address

9:45 – 10:35 am

Keynote Address, “Challenges and Opportunities with Big Data”  by Professor Dr. Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA

10:35 – 10:45 am

Welcome Address

Aangan

10:45 – 11:30 am

Refreshments

Parallel Sessions 4, 5, 6 and 7

Session 4: Microwave and Antenna Design

Sheesh Mehal 1

02:15 – 02:55 pm

Invited Talk: “Saving UWB Power: Efficient Low-Profile UWB Antennas with Thin Engineered Reflectors and  Other Solutions” by Karu Esselle, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia

02:55 – 03:15 pm

“Design and Analysis of Pyramidal Conformal Array Antenna with Circular Sub-arrays Mounted on a Moving Platform” by Iftikhar Rasheed, Tayyab Mehmood and Anisa Qasim

03:15 – 03:35 pm

“An Efficient Power Divider for Dual-Band Microwave Applications” by Faheem Akhtar Mughal, M. Mansoor Ahmed and Umair Rafique

03:35 – 03:55 pm

“Wi-Fi Range Extension with Cost Effective Simple Design of Multi-Element Antenna” by Sulaiman Khan, Hazrat Ali, Muhammad Irfan Khattak and Muhammad Shafi

03:55 – 04:15 pm

Refreshments

Session 5: Artificial Intelligence and Signal Processing

Sheesh Mehal 2

02:15 – 02:55 pm

Invited Talk: “Digital Signal and Image Processing in Bio-Medical Systems” by Shoab Ahmed Khan, NUST, Pakistan

02:55 – 03:15 pm

“Feature Selection and Tumor Identification in Brain MRI using hybrid Swarm Intelligence and Machine Learning” by Atiq Ur Rehman and Aasia Khanum

03:15 – 03:35 pm

“An Adaptive Learning Automata for Genetic Operators Allocation Probabilities” by Imtiaz Korejo and Kamran Brohi

03:35 – 03:55 pm

“Automated Plant Disease Analysis (APDA): Performance Comparison of Machine Learning Techniques” by Asma Akhtar, Aasia Khanum, Shoab Ahmed Khan and Arsalan Shoukat

03:55 – 04:15 pm

Refreshments

Session 6: Software Engineering

Sheesh Mehal 3

02:15 – 02:55 pm

Invited Talk: “Evolving Threats/Attacks of Cyber Security in Pakistan and How to Prevent Them” by Raziq Yaqub, NIKSUN Inc., USA

02:55 – 03:15 pm

“Motivational and De-Motivational Factors for Software Engineers: An Empirical Investigation” by Ikram Asghar and Muhammad Usman

03:15 – 03:35 pm

“Performance Analysis of Non-cryptographic Hash Functions for Real-time Storage and lookup of URLs” by Tahir Ahmad and Usman Younis

03:35 – 03:55 pm

“Software Engineering Challenges for Ubiquitous Computing in Various Applications” by Usman Ashraf and Naveed Khan

03:55 – 04:15 pm

Refreshments

Session 7: PhD Symposia

Kehkashan 2

02:15 – 03:55 pm

Presentations

03:55 – 04:15 pm

Refreshments

Parallel Sessions 8, 9, 10 and 11

                                                                 Session 8: Tutorial Session

Sheesh Mehal 1

04:15 – 06:15 pm

“Inkjet Printed RF Electronics”, by Hammad Cheema, KAUST/SEECS, NUST

Session 9: Tutorial Session

Sheesh Mehal 2

04:15 – 06:15 pm

“Introducing CASH (Campus Affordable Solar House)/Zero Energy Home Initiative to Developing World’s schools and Universities”, by Fahimuddin, University of Bridgeport – CT – USA.

Session 10: Workshop Session

Sheesh Mehal 3

04:15 – 06:15 pm

“Towards Effective Oral Communication:  Ideas that Engineers can use  to be Better Speakers”, by Tony Eng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Session 11: Best IT Innovation Awards

Kehkashan 2

04:15 – 06:15 pm

Presentations