Dr. Azhar Rauf

Assistant Professor Office: (+92-091)-9216732

Department of Computer Science Mobile: (+92) 0333-9131416

University of Peshawar email:

Peshawar, KP, Pakistan Alt: Email:

SUMMARY

  • Over nineteenyears of Research and Teaching Experience
  • Excellent Technical Writing and Documentation Skills
  • Good Interpersonal and Presentation Skills
  • Extensive experience in managing Software and Research Projects
  • Remained at the Chancellor’s list by achieving 4.0 CGPA during the MS Computer Science Program at Colorado Technical University, USA
  • Achieved first class first divisions during academic career from 10th class to Masters
  • Approved Supervisor of the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan
  • Fiveyears industry experience in Technical Writing, Analysis, Design, Documentation, Database Analysis, Entity Relationship Modeling, Normalization steps, Logical Design, Physical Design, Object Oriented Modeling using UML, Object Relational Modeling, Database Migration Plan, Database Implementation, Backup, Tuning and Performance Procedures and Database / Software Life Cycle

EDUCATION

Doctorate of Computer Science

Colorado Technical University, Colorado Springs, CO USA. Dec 2006

Dissertation

“A Tradeoff Analysis between Data Accessibility and Inference Control for Row, Column and

Cell Level Security in Relational Databases”

Research Keywords: Information System Security, Fine-Grand Security in Relational Databases,

Inference Control Systems, Row/Column/Cell Level Security in Database, Data Accessibility

Published March 2007 ACM

Master of Computer ScienceSoftware Engineering concentration

Colorado Technical University, Colorado Springs, CO USA. Dec 2002

Master of Computer Science

University of Peshawar, Peshawar,Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Dec 1995

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

University of Peshawar, Peshawar,Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Jan 1993

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Jan 01, 1996 to March 20, 2009

Lecturer Departments of Economics/Computer Science, University of Peshawar

  • Taught courses at the MS and BCS/BIT levels
  • Supervised the MS and BCS/BIT students projects and thesis

March 21, 2009 to Present

Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Peshawar

  • Taught courses at the Ph.D., MS and BCS/BIT levels
  • Supervised the MS and BCS/BIT students projects and thesis

May 2001 to April 2007

  • Remained a student at Colorado Technical University CO, USA

Areas of Specializations:

  • Database Security (Fine Grained Security Techniques, K-Anonymity, Digital Watermarking, Data Encryption)
  • Data Warehousing (Data Quality Techniques, Data De-duplication)
  • Data Mining
  • Big Data Analytics

PUBLICATIONS

Journals

  1. Fatima Liaqat, Azhar Rauf, Shah Khusro, Saeed Mahfooz, “Variable K-Anonymity: An Approach for Minimizing Data Loss and Maintaining Usefulness of Data”, NED University Journal of Research – Applied Sciences, vol. xi, no. 2, pp. 27-36, 2014(ISSN: 1023-3873 HEC Category ‘Y’)
  1. Shah Khusro, Irfan Ullah, Azhar Rauf, Saeed Mahfooz, “Issues and Challenges in Book Information Retrieval”, Information----An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 17 no. 6(A) pp. 2055-2078, 2014 (ISSN: 1343-4500, JCR Impact Factor 0.358)
  1. Fouzia Jabeen, Shah Khusro, Amna Majid, Azhar Rauf, “Semantics Discovery in Social Tagging Systems: A Review”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, DOI 10.1007/s11042-014-2309-3 October 2014 (ISSN: 1380-7501, JCR Impact Factor 1.058)
  1. Azhar Rauf, Adnan Amin, Saeed Mahfooz, Shah Khusro, “The Performance of MapReduce Over the Varying Nature of Data”Life Science Journal,vol. 10 no. 4, pp. 1263-1266, 2013 (ISSN: 1097-8135, JCR Impact Factor 0.165)
  1. Shaukat Ali, Azhar Rauf, Huma Javed, “A Technique for Handling Range and Fuzzy Match Queries on Encrypted Data”, The International Arab Journal of Information Technology vol. 10 no. 3, pp. 239-244, 2013 (ISSN: 1683-3198, JCR Impact Factor 0.39)
  1. Fakhre Alam, Shaukat Ali, Muhammad Abid Khan, Shah Khusro, Azhar Rauf, “A Comparative Study of RDF and Topic Maps Development Tools and APIs”, Bahria University Journal of Information & Communication Technologies, vol. 7 no. 1 pp. 01-12, 2014 (ISSN: 1999-4974, HEC Category “Y”)
  1. Akif Khan, Shah Khusro, Azhar Rauf, Saeed Mahfooz, “Rebirth of Augmented Reality --- Enhancing Reality via Smart-phones”, Bahria University Journal of Information & Communication Technologies, vol. 8 no. 1 pp. 01-13, 2015 (ISSN: 1999-4974, HEC Category “Y”)
  1. Shaukat Ali, Shah Khusro, Azhar Rauf, Saeed Mahfooz, “Sensors and Mobile Phones: Evolution and State-of-the-Art”, Pakistan Journal of Science, vol. 66 no. 4 pp. 386-400, 2014 (ISSN: 0030-9877, HEC Category “Y”)
  1. Azhar Rauf, Sheeba, Saeed Mahfooz, Shah Khusro, Huma Javed, “Enhanced K-Mean Clustering Algorithm to Reduce Number of Iterations and Time Complexity”, Middle-East Journal of Scientific Research, vol.12 no.7, pp. 959-963, 2012 (ISSN 1990-9233, ISI Indexed)
  1. Iftikhar Alam, Shah Khusro, Azhar Rauf, Qamruz Zaman, “Conducting Surveys and Data Collection: From Traditional to Mobile and SMS-Based Surveys”, Pakistan Journal of Statistics and Operation Research, vol. X no. 2 pp. 169-187, 2014 (ISSN: 1816-2711, HEC Category “Y”)
  1. Mohammad Nauman, Tamleek Ali, Azhar Rauf “Using Trusted Computer for Privacy Preserving Keystroke-based Authentication in Smartphones”, Telecommunication Systems, vol. 52 no. 4, pp. 2149--2161, 2013 (ISSN: 1018-4864, JCR Impact Factor 1.027)
  1. Shah Khusro, Akif Khan, Saeed Mahfooz, Azhar Rauf, Shaukat Ali, “Navigating and Browsing Linked Open Data: State-of-the-Art”,Life Science Journal,vol. 10 no. 11s, pp. 349-358, 2013 (ISSN: 1097-8135, JCR Impact Factor 0.165)
  1. Azhar Rauf, Saeed Mahfooz, Shah Khurso, Shabir Ahmad, “Achieving K-Anonymity without Generalization and Suppression”, Journal of Science and Technology University of Peshawar, vol. 34, no. 2, pp.59-66, July 2010 (ISSN 0250-5339, HEC Category “Z”)
  1. Sajid Iqbal, Azhar Rauf, Saeed Mahfooz, Shah Khusro, Sajid H, Shah, “Self-Constructing Fragile Watermark Algorithm for Relational Database Integrity Proof”, World Applied Sciences Journal, vol. 19 no. 9, pp. 1273-1277, 2012, (ISSN 1818-4952, ISI Indexed)
  1. Fouzia Jabeen, Shah Khusro, Saeed Mehfooz, Azhar Rauf, Jehangir Khan, “Relevance of Tags to Images: A Brief Survey of Major Parameters and Evaluation Measures”,Life Science Journalvol.10 no. 12s, pp. 401-404, 2013 (ISSN: 1097-8135, JCR Impact Factor 0.165)
  1. Umara Noor, Zahid Rashid, Azhar Rauf, “A Survey of Automatic Deep Web Classification Techniques”, International Journal of Computer Applications (IJCA), vol. 19 no.6, April 2011, pp 43-50ISSN: (ISSN: 0975-8887)
  1. Azhar Rauf, Shah Khurso, Sharafat Ali, Sareer Badshah, “Joining Tables on Secret Primary Keys”, Journal of Science and Technology University of Peshawar, vol. 34 no. 1, pp.73-80, 2010(ISSN 0250-5339, HEC Category “Z”)
  1. Bilal Khan, Azhar Rauf, Sajid H, Shah, Shah Khusro, “Identification and Removal of Duplicated Records”, World Applied Sciences Journal, vol. 13 no. 5, pp. 1178-1184, 2011, (ISSN 1818-4952, ISI Indexed)
  1. Shaukat Ali, Azhar Rauf, Huma Javed, “SQLIPA: An Authentication Mechanism Against SQL Injection”, European Journal of Scientific Research, vol. 38 no. 4, pp. 604-611, 2009 (ISSN 1450-216X, ISI Indexed)
  1. Shah Khusro, Syed Rahman Mashwani, Azhar Rauf, Saeed Mahfooz, Shaukat Ali, “A Study of File System Objects’ Metadata”,Life Science Journal,vol. 10 no. 11s, pp. 343-348, 2013 (ISSN: 1097-8135, JCR Impact Factor 0.165)
  1. Azhar Rauf, Shah Khurso, Sareer Badshah, “Estimated Models for Fine Grained Security Techniques”, Journal of Science and Technology University of Peshawar, vol. 33 no. 1&2, pp. 35-39, 2009(ISSN 0250-5339, HEC Category “Z”)
  1. Shaukat Ali, Huma Javed, Azhar Rauf, Saeed Mahfooz, Shah Khusro, “Natural Language Interface for Sensor Networks”, World Applied Sciences Journal, vol. 19 no. 11, pp. 1563-1267, 2012, (ISSN 1818-4952, ISI Indexed)
  1. Shah Khusro, Azhar Rauf, Saeed Mahfooz, A Min Tjoa, “PIM and Semantic Desktop-Past, Present, and the Future”, Journal of Science and Technology University of Peshawar, vol. 34 no. 2, pp. 67-76, 2010 (ISSN 0250-5339, HEC Category “Z”)
  1. Kanwal Imran, Saeed Mahfooz, Azhar Rauf, Shah Khusro, “Enhanced Authentication Scheme for Proxy Mobile IPv6”,Life Science Journalvol.11 no. 3s, pp.12-18, 2014 (ISSN: 1097-8135, JCR Impact Factor 0.165)
  1. Azhar Rauf, Sareer Badshah, Shah Khusro - A Comparative Study of Fine Grained Security Techniques on the Basis of Data Accessibility and Inference, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET)vol. 55no 1, July 2009, pp 302-310 (ISSN 2070-3724)
  1. Inayat Ullah, Shah Khusro, Saeed Mahfooz, Azhar Rauf, “Impact of Network Scalability on the Performance of RIP and IGRP for Email Services’ Metadata”,Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences,vol. 32 no. 1, pp. 115-130, 2013 (ISSN: 1023-862X, HEC Category “X”)
  1. Atif Khan, Azhar Rauf, Shah Khusro, Saeed Mahfooz, “A Frame Work for Measuring and Improving Data Quality”, Peshawar University Teachers’ Association Journal (PUTAJ) Sciences University of Peshawar, vol. 18-2011, pp 251-277 (ISSN: 2219-2468)
  1. Mohammad Amin, Mohammad Jamal Khan, Mohammad Tariq Jan, Nazir Ahmad, Masood ur Rehman, Azhar Rauf, “Effect of Tillage and Sowing Methods on Weed Biomass and Mungbean Yield Under Irrigated Conditions”, Pakistan Journal of Weed Science Research, vol. 20 no. 1, pp. 59-66, 2014 (ISSN: 1815-1094, HEC Category “Y”)
  1. Azhar Rauf, Tariq Sadad, Shah Khusro, Imran Saeed, “Measuring Data Loss with K-Anonymity”Peshawar University Teachers’ Association Journal (PUTAJ) Sciences University of Peshawar, vol. 18-2011, pp 279-291 (ISSN: 2219-2468)
  1. Shah Khusro, Shaukat Ali, Azhar Rauf, Saeed Mahfooz, Syed Rahman Mashwani, Akif Khan, Fouzia Jabeen, “Unleashing Sensor Data on Linked Open Data-The Story So Far”,Life Science Journal,vol. 10 no.4, pp. 1766-1786, 2013 (ISSN: 1097-8135, JCR Impact Factor 0.165)
  1. Shah Khusro, Jamil Ahmad, Azhar Rauf – User Modeling: From Early Shell Systems to the Desktop and Smartphones”, Peshawar University Teachers’ Association Journal (PUTAJ) Sciences University of Peshawar, vol. 18-2011, pp 293-304 (ISSN: 2219-2468)
  1. Sareer Badshsh, Gohar Zaman, Zubaida Saleem, Anwar Khan, Azhar Rauf, “The Level of Subjectivity in the Evaluation of Examination Papers – I: A Case Study of the Pre – Board Examination Intermediate Level, Islamia College Peshawar”, Sarhad Journal of Agriculture vol. 16, no. 2, 2000 (ISSN: 1016-4383, , HEC Category “X”)
  1. Azhar Rauf, Sareer Badshah, Shah Khusro, Saeed Mahfooz, Huma Javed, “Mathematical Models for Cell-Plus-Innocent Security Techniques”, Peshawar University Teachers’ Association Journal (PUTAJ) Sciences University of Peshawar, vol. 17-2010, November 2010, pp 39-44 (ISSN: 2219-2468)
  1. Shaukat Ali, Azhar Rauf, Shah Khusro, Muhammad Zubair, Haleem Farman, Sajid Ullah, “An Authorization Model to Access the Summarized Data of Data Warehouse,”Life Science Journal,vol. 11 no.6s, pp. 608-610, 2014(ISSN: 1097-8135, JCR Impact Factor 0.165)
  2. Shaukat Ali, Azhar Rauf, Huma Javed, “A Technique for Handling the SQL Aggregate Functions over Encrypted Data”, Global Journal of Computer Science and Technology (GJCST), vol. 10 no. 8, September 2010, pp 2-5 (ISSN: 0975-4350)
  1. Shah Khusro, Azhar Rauf, Saeed Mahfooz, “Towards Better Ranking of Search Results in Social Book Marking Environments”, Peshawar University Teachers’ Association Journal (PUTAJ) Sciences University of Peshawar, vol. 17-2010, November 2010, pp 73-82 (ISSN: 2219-2468)
  1. Nisar Muhammad, Shah Khusro, Saeed Mahfooz, Azhar Rauf, “A Literature Survey on Ranking Tagged Web Documents in Social Bookmarking Systems”, IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 56-69, 2013 (ISSN: 2278-8727)
  1. Haider Ali, Saeed Mahfooz, Azhar Rauf, Shah Khusro, “Using Mobile Phones for Quizzes in M-Learning Environments,” Peshawar University Teachers’ Association Journal (PUTAJ) Sciences University of Peshawar, vol. 17-2010, November 2010, pp 93-101 (ISSN: 2219-2468)

Conferences

  1. Azhar Rauf, Adnan Amin, Saeed Mahfooz, Shah Khusro, Big Data opportunities and challenges Symposium on Emerging Technologies in IT Aug 27-29, 2013 Baragali Summer Campus
  1. Umara Noor, Zahid Rashid, Azhar Rauf,TODWEB: Training-less Ontology Based Deep Web Source Classification,In The 13th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Application & Services (iiWAS2011), Dec 5-7, 2011, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, pp. 190-197
  1. Sara Mumtaz,Azhar Rauf, Shah Khusro,A Distortion Based Technique for Preserving Privacy in OLAP Data Cube,In IEEE International Conference on Computer Networks and Information Technology (ICCNIT), July 11-13, 2011, Baragali, Pakistan, pp. 185-189
  1. Shaukat Ali,Azhar Rauf, Saeed Mahfooz, UPDATE Query over Encrypted Data,In IEEE International Conference on Computer Networks and Information Technology (ICCNIT), July 11-13, 2011, Baragali, Pakistan, pp. 279-282
  1. Shaukat Ali, Shah Khusro,Azhar Rauf,A Cryptography-Based Approach to Mashup Security,In IEEE International Conference on Computer Networks and Information Technology (ICCNIT), July 11-13, 2011, Baragali, Pakistan, pp. 53-57
  1. Amna Majid, Shah Khusro,Azhar Rauf,Semantics in Social Tagging Systems: A Review,In IEEE International Conference on Computer Networks and Information Technology (ICCNIT), July 11-13, 2011, Baragali, Pakistan

7.Azhar Rauf, Sajid Iqbal, Huma Javed - Distortion Free Algorithm to Handle Secondary Watermark Attack in Relational Databases, Paper presented in the 2ndInternational Conference on Information Management and Evaluation (ICIME 2011), Ryerson University, Toronto Canada 27-28 April, 2011

  1. Zahoor Jan, Azhar Rauf, Muhammad Shah – Access Control Mechanism for Web Databases by Using Parameterized Cursor, Paper presented in the 5th International Conference on Future Information Technology (FutureTech 2010), Busan South Korea May 20-24, 2010
  1. Azhar Rauf, Sareer Badshah, Shah Khusro - A Comparative Study of Fine Grained Security Techniques on the Basis of Data Accessibility and Inference, Paper presented in the International Conference on Data, Information and Knowledge Management, Oslo Norway July 29-31, 2009
  1. Bilal Khan, Azhar Rauf, Huma Javed - Removing Fully and Partially Duplicated Records Through K-Mean Clustering, Paper presented in the 2010 International Conference on Intelligence and Information Technology (ICIIT2010), Lahore Pakistan October 28-30 2010

11.Umara Zahid, Azhar Rauf, Zahid Rashid - A Survey of Automatic Deep Web Classification Techniques, Paper presented in the 2010 International Conference on Intelligence and Information Technology (ICIIT2010), Lahore Pakistan October 28-30 2010

Students’ Supervised

MS Program

Student NameThesis Title

  1. Shaukat AliEnhancing the Performance of Range, Fuzzy Match, and Exact Match Select Queries on Encrypted Data (Session 2008-09)
  2. Bilal KhanRemoval of Duplicated Records Throught K-Mean Clustering (Session 2009-10)
  3. Sajid IqbalA Novel Distortion Free Relational Database Watermarking Algorithm (Session 2009-11)
  4. Umara NoorTraining Less Ontology Based Deep Web Source Classification (IM Sciences Peshawar)
  5. Sara MumtazPreserving Privacy in OLAP Data Cube (Session 2010-11)
  6. Nauman RazaReasoning Based Sentiment Analysis of Social Media Data (Virtual University)

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

Systems Analyst Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo ON, Canada May 2011 – Feb 2012

Environment: Oracle 11g, Pro C, PL/SQL, Banner 8.5, Unix, SQL Server 2005, MS Access

  • Worked on the Enterprise Solutions (ES) team on Student Awards, Accessible Learning Center (ALC), and Writing Center modules
  • Updated the PL/SQL packages
  • Developed the Self Service Engine (SSEN) pages using Banner ERP
  • Created the Long Distance Reports on the monthly basis

Systems Analyst Great West Life Healthcare, Denver CO Aug. 2006 – April 2007

  • Designed and analyzed data marts for Claims Data
  • Developed Source to Target mapping documents, System Requirements Specification documents, and Interface Design documents
  • Involved in meetings and answering technical and business related questions of developers and testers
  • Responsible for testing of data at different stages of the mart and identified defects in ETL code
  • Supported EOB/EOP and Member/Provider Portals on Tibmart and Extract Marts respectively

Data Modeler Bearing Point Inc. Denver CO Dec. 2005 - Aug. 2006

Environment: Oracle 9i, PL/SQL, TOAD 8.5, Peoplesoft, Informix

  • Met with end user, collected requirements and converted into technical specification
  • Created Data Flow Chats from functional documents and built Data Models using ERWIN
  • Developed the pseudo code walk-thru with the ETL group
  • Maintained and regularly updated the Source to Target Mapping document to store Meta data of the warehouse
  • Wrote ad-hoc queries and developed stored procedures and functions in Oracle 9i using TOAD 8.5
  • Wrote scripts to load data from Informix to Oracle environment
  • Tested the quality of data at different stages of the warehouse and prepared different status reports for the Project milestones

ORACLE Support iDispatcher Oracle Corporation, Colorado Springs CO Jan. 2002 - Apr. 2002

Environment: Oracle 8.0, Oracle Web IV, Oracle Meta Link

  • Created and Troubleshot TARs (Technical Assistance Requests) using Oracle Intranet
  • Researched customers’ technical problems using Oracle Web IV
  • Helped customers solving their technical problems using Oracle Meta Link

Technical Support Engineer Actiontec Electronics, Colorado Springs, CO Aug. 2001 – Dec. 2002

  • Provided expertise support in Actiontec brand products including Home Networking, Bluetooth Products, Voice communications, Broadband Connectivity Products, DSL Gateways and DSL/Analog Modems

CERTIFICATIONS / TRAININGS

  • Certificates of Merit in Basic Networking, DSL Modem, Mendocino, AOL Analog Modem at Actiontec Electronics, Colorado Springs, CO USA
  • Professional Certificate in System Security, Colorado Technical University, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
  • Two weeks Professional Training at Actiontec Electronics, Silicon Valley,Sunnyvale, California, USA

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