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Dr. Ata Ullah

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Dr. Ata Ullah

Associate Professor / Director ITCON & BICON

- Post Doc (2018)

USTB, Beijing, China,

- PHD (CS) (2016) 

IIUI, Islamabad, Pakistan

- MS (CS) (2007)  

COMSATS, Islamabad, Pakistan

- BSCS (2005)

COMSATS, Islamabad, Pakistan

- Associate Professor (BPS-20) (17 Nov 2020 - Present)
Department of Computer Science, National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Islamabad, Pakistan.

- Head ITCON (01 July 2019 - Present)

- Director BICON (Business Indubation) (12 April 2021 - Present)

- Pro-Rector Research and Strategic Initiatives Division

National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Islamabad, Pakistan.

- Asst. Professor (BPS-19) (Sept 2018 - 16 Nov, 2020)

Department of Computer Science, National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Islamabad, Pakistan.

- Research Fellow (Post Doctoral Research) (Nov 17 to Aug 18)

School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB), Beijing, China

- Asst. Professor (BPS-19) / Head Project Committee (Jun 2015 to Oct 2017)

Department of Computer Science, National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Islamabad, Pakistan.

- Lecturer (BPS-18) / Head Project Committee (Mar 2012 to Jun 2015)

Department of Computer Science, National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Islamabad, Pakistan.

- Lecturer (Contract) / Head Project Committee (Aug 2008 to Mar 2012)

Department of Information Technology, National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Islamabad, Pakistan.

- Software Engineer (Oct 2007 to Aug 2008)

Networks Department, Streaming Networks, Islamabad, Pakistan.

 

Distinction/Awards:

> Top Researcher in University (1st Position Dec 2019) By Rector NUML

> Top Researcher in University (2nd Position Nov 2018) By Rector NUML

> Best Paper Award (March 2018) (Dean USTB, Research Lab at China)

> Appreciation for High Achievers in Research (November 2016) (Rector NUML)

> Microsoft Faculty-Industry Partner Appreciation Award (Oct 2016) (MicroSoft Mgr)

> Excellence and Best Performance Award (May 2016) (Rector NUML)

> Microsoft Faculty Partner for NUML (2012 - Oct 2017)

> Head of Project Committee (Aug 2008 - Oct 2017)

> Distinctions in one International and 45 National level competitions for supervised projects. (Aug 2008 - date)

> ICT Funding for 10 Projects for National Grassroots Level ICT Research Initiative

> Supervision of 118 BSCS, MCS, BSSE Degree Projects. (Aug 2008 - Dec 2019)

> Excellence and Best Performance Award for Faculty Member (March 2012) (Rector NUML)

> Secured Scholarship in MS(CS) from COMSATS Islamabad (2005 - 2007)

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS - Total Impact Factor for Published Papers = 165.44

  1. Mohibullah Khan, Ata Ullah, Isra Naz, Sajjad Haider, NZ Jhanji", Mohammad Shorfuzzaman and Mehedi Masud, "Alpha Fusion Adversarial Attack Analysis Using Deep Learning," Computer Systems Science and Engineering, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 461-473, 2023.

4.397

2023
  1. Ghawar Said, Ata Ullah, Anwar Ghani, M. Azeem, Khalid Yahya, Muhammad Bilal, Sayed Chhattan Shah,"Hash Table Assisted Efficient File Level De-duplication Scheme for Data Storage in SD-IoV Assisted Sensing Devices." Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, (Accepted: 04 Feb 2023)

3.401

2023
  1. Muhammad Bilal, Ehsan Ullah Munir, Ata Ullah, "BEMD:Beacon-oriented Emergency Message Dissemination Scheme for Highways", Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, 142,  pp. 1-15, 103095, 2023.

4.816

2023
  1. Maryam Gillani, H. Adnan Niaz and Ata Ullah, "Integration of Software Architecture in Requirements Elicitation for Rapid Software Development," in IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 56158-56178, 2022, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3177659.

3.476

2022
  1. Hafsa Shahid, Humaira Ashraf, Ata Ullah, Shahab S. Band, Said Elnaffar, “Wormhole Attack Mitigation Strategies and their Impact on WSN Performance: A Literature Survey", International Journal of Communication Systems, 2022

1.882

2022
  1. Maryam Gillani, Hafiz Adnan Niaz, Muhammad Umar Farooq, Ata Ullah, "Data collection protocols for VANETs: a survey, Journal of Complex & Intelligent Systems, 2021 DOI:10.1007/s40747-021-00629-x (Online)

6.70

2022
  1. Maryam Gillani, Hafiz Adnan Niaz, Ata Ullah, Muhammad Umar Farooq, Saad Rehman, "Traffic Aware Data Gathering Protocol for VANETs," IEEE Access, Vol. 10, pp. 23438 - 23449, 2022

3.476

2022
  1. Ghawar Said, Anwar Ghani, Ata Ullah, Muhammad Azeem, Muhammad Bilal, Kyung Sup Kwak, "Light-weight Secure Aggregated Data Sharing in IoT-enabled Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Access, pp. 1-15, 2022.

3.476

2022
  1. Asma Zahra, Mubeen Ghafoor, Kamran Munir, Ata Ullah, Zain Ul Abideen,"Application of region‑based video surveillance in smart cities using deep learning'" Multimedia Tools and Applications, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-021-11468-w (Online)

2.757

2021
  1. Ata Ullah, Nagina Ishaq, Muhammad Azeem, Humaira Ashraf, Nz Jhanjhi, Mamoona Humayun, Thamer A Tabbakh, Zahrah A AlmusaylimA. "Survey on Continuous Object Tracking and Boundary Detection Schemes in IoT Assisted Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 126324-126336, 2021.

3.476

2021
  1. A Ullah, M Azeem, H Ashraf, NZ Jhanjhi, L Nkenyereye, M Humayun, "Secure Critical Data Reclamation Scheme for Isolated Clusters in IoT enabled WSN", IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2021, pp. 1-10.

10.238

2021
  1. Huansheng Ning, Rui Yin, Ata Ullah, Feifei Shi, "A Survey on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Driving", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, pp. 1-16, 2021.

9.551

2021
  1. T Jabeen, H Ashraf, A Ullah, "A survey on healthcare data security in wireless body area networks Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing," pp. 1-14, 2021.

3.662

2021
  1. Maryam Shafiq, Humaira Ashraf, Ata Ullah, Mehedi Masud, Muhammad Azeem, N. Z. Jhanjhi4,* and Mamoona Humayu, "Robust Cluster-Based Routing Protocol for IoT-Assisted Smart Devices in WSN" Computers, Materials & Continua, vol. 67, No. 3, 3505-3521, 2021.

3.86

2021
  1. Muhammad Azeem, Ata Ullah, Humaira Ashraf, N. Z. Jhanjhi, FoG-oriented Secure and Lightweight Data Aggregation in IoMT, IEEE Access, pp. 1-11, 2021.

3.476

2021
  1. Ata Ullah, Muhammad Azeem, Humaira Ashraf, A. Alaboudi, Mamoona Humayun, NZ Jhanjhi, "Secure Healthcare Data Aggregation and Transmission in IoT - A Survey", IEEE Access, Vol. 2021, No. 9, pp. 16849-16865 2021.

3.476

2021
  1. Shumayla Yaqoob, Ata Ullah, Muhammad Awais, Iyad Katib, Aiiad Albeshri, Rashid Mehmood, Mohsin Raza, Saif ul Islam, Houbing Song, "Novel Congestion Avoidance Scheme for Internet of Drones," Elsevier Computer Communications, vol. 69, pp. 202-210.

5.047

2021
  1. Faria Jan Siddiqui, Humaira Ashraf, Ata Ullah*, Dual Server based Security System for Availing Multimedia Services in Next Generation Networks, Springer Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 79, no. 11, pp. 7299-7318.

2.757

2020
  1. Maryam Shafiq, Humaira Ashraf, Ata Ullah, Shireen Tahira, Systematic Literature Review on Energy Efficient Routing Schemes in WSN - A Survey, Mobile Networks and Applications. vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 882-895.

3.426

2020
  1. Huansheng Ning, Fadi Farha, Ata Ullah, Lingfeng Mao, “Physical Unclonable Function: Architectures, Applications and Challenges for Dependable Security,” IET Circuits, Devices & Systems 14 (4), 407-424, 2020.

1.297

2020
  1. Zain Ul Abideen, Mubeen Ghafoor, Ata Ullah, Tehseen Zia, Syed Ali Tariq, Uncertainty Assisted Robust Tuberculosis Identification with Bayesian Convolutional Neural Networks IEEE Access. Vol. 8, pp. 22812 - 22825.

3.367

2020
  1. K. MoyeezUllah Ghori, Muhammad Imran, Asad Nawaz, Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi, Ata Ullah, Laszlo Szathmary, “Performance Analysis of Machine Learning Classifiers for Non-Technical Loss Detection,” Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing.

7.104

2020
  1. Samina Kausar, Xu Huahu, Ata Ullah, Zhu Wenhao and Muhammad Yasir Shabir, “Secure and Efficient Data Transfer using Spreading and Assimilation in MANET" Software: Practice and Experience. vol. 50, no. 11, pp. 2095 - 2109, 2020.

2.028

2020
  1. Samina Kausar, Xu Huahu, Ata Ullah, Zhu Wenhao and Muhammad Yasir Shabir, Fog-Assisted Secure Data Exchange for Examination and Testing in E-learning System, Mobile Networks and Applications.

3.426

2020
  1. Ata Ullah, Ghawar Said, Muhammad Sher, and Huansheng Ning, Fog oriented Healthcare Data Aggregation and Compression Scheme in IoT enabled WSN, Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 163-174.

3.307

2020
  1. K. MoyeezUllah Ghori, Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi, Muhammad Awais, Muhammad Imran, Ata Ullah, Laszlo Szathmary, Performance Analysis of Different Types of Machine Learning Classifiers for Non-Technical Loss Detection, IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 16033-16048.

3.745

2019
  1. Humaira Ashraf, Ata Ullah*, Shireen Tahira, and Muhammad Sher, Efficient Certificate based One-pass Authentication Protocol for VOLTE using IMS, Journal of Internet Technology, vol. 20, no. 4 , pp. 1133-1143, Jul. 2019.

0.786

2019
  1. Muhammad Yasir Shabir, Ata Ullah*, and Zahid Mahmood, ANT-colony based Disjoint Set Assortment in Wireless Sensor Networks, Springer Wireless Networks, vol. 25, no. 8, pp. 5137-5150, 24 Aug, 2019.

2.659

2019
  1. Muhammad Arif Mughal, Peng Shi, Ata Ullah, Khalid Mahmood, Muhammad Abid, Xiong Luo, "Logical Tree based Secure Rekeying Management for Smart Devices" IEEE Access. vol. 7, pp. 76699 - 76711, 2019.

3.745

2019
  1. Nousheen Akhtar, Muazzam A. Khan, Ata Ullah, Muhammad Younus Javed, Congestion Avoidance for Smart Devices by Caching Information in MANETS and IoT, IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 71459-71471.

3.745

2019
  1. Shireen Tahira, Ata Ullah*, Humaira Ashraf, and Muhammad Sher, Efficient Security Associations Establishment using IPSec in IMS after Handover in NGMN”, Journal of Internet Technology Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 359-‌367.

0.786

2019
  1. Ali Li, L. Liu, Ata Ullah, R. Wang, J. Ma, R. Huang, Z. Yu, H. Ning, Association Rule-Based Breast Cancer Prevention and Control System, in IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 1106-1114, 2019.

NA

2019
  1. Shumayla Yaqoob, Ata Ullah*, Muhammad Akbar, Muhammad Imran, Muhammad Shoaib, Congestion avoidance through fog computing in internet of vehicles, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, Vol. 10, No. 10, pp. 3863-3877.

4.594

2019
  1. Ata Ullah, Shumayla Yaqoob, Muhammad Imran, and Huansheng Ning, Message Dissemination Advancements from VANET to Vehicular FoG Computing - A Survey, IEEE Access, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 1570-1585,

3.745

2019
  1. Ata Ullah, Xuanxia Yao, Samiya Shaheen, Huansheng Ning, Advances in Position based Routing Schemes towards FoG-oriented VANET - A Survey, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 828-840.

6.319

2019
  1. Waqas Ahmad, Shengling Wang, Ata Ullah, Sheharyar and Zahid Mahmood, "Reputation-Aware Trust and Privacy-Preservation for Mobile Cloud Computing," in IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp. 46363-46381, 2018.

4.098

2018
  1. Waqas Ahmad, Shengling Wang, Ata Ullah, Sheharyar, Muhammad Yasir Shabir, Reputation-Aware Recruitment and Credible Reporting for Platform Utility in Mobile Crowd Sensing with Smart Devices in IoT, MDPI Sensors, Vol 18, No. 10, 2018.

3.031

2018
  1. Huansheng Ning, Sahraoui Dhelim, Mohammed Amine Bouras, Amar Khelloufi, and Ata Ullah, Cyber-syndrome and its Formation, Classification, Recovery and Prevention, IEEE Access, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 35501-35511.

4.098

2018
  1. Mohammed Amine, Ata Ullah, Huansheng Ning, Synergy between communication, computing, and caching for smart IoT sensing, Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 137, pp. 504-511. (EI Journal)

NA

2018
  1. Muhammad Arif Mughal, Xiong Luo, Ata Ullah*, Subhan Ullah, and Zahid Mahmood, Lightweight Digital Signature Based Security Scheme for Human-Centered Internet of Things, IEEE Access, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 31630-31643.

4.098

2018
  1. Zahid Mahmood, Ata Ullah, Huansheng Ning, Distributed Multi-Party Key Management for Efficient Authentication in Internet of Things, IEEE Access, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 29460-29473.

4.098

2018
  1. Zahid Mahmood, Huansheng Ning, Xuanxia Yao, Ata Ullah, Secure Authentication and Prescription Safety Protocol for Telecare Health Services using Ubiquitous IoT”, MDPI Applied Sciences, Vol. 7, No. 10, pp.1-22, October 2017.

1.679

2017
  1. Shireen Tahira, Muhammad Sher, Ata Ullah, Muhammad Imran, and Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Handover based IMS Registration Scheme for Next Generation Mobile Networks, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Vol. 2017, pp. 1-15.

1.899

2017
  1. Ali Khan, Qifu Tyler Sun, Zahid Mahmood and Ata Ullah, Energy Efficient Partial Permutation Encryption on Network Coded MANETs, Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vol, 2017, Article ID 4657831, pp. 1-10, April 2017. (EI Journal / X Category)

NA

2017
  1. Zahid Mahmood, Huansheng Ning, Ata Ullah, Polynomial Subset Based Efficient Multi-Party Key Management for Lightweight Devices Network, MDPI Sensors, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 1-20, March 2017.

2.475

2017
  1. Ata Ullah*, Muhammad Sher, Muhammad Imran, and Imran Baig, Disjoint Key Distribution Scheme for Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks, Journal of Sensors, pp. 1-15, May 2016.

1.704

2016
  1. Humaira Ashraf, Muhammad Sher, Ata Ullah*, Muhammad Imran, A Secure and Efficient IP Multimedia Subsystem Authentication Mechanism for LTE, Journal of Internet Technology, Vol. 17, No. 04, pp. 839-848, July 2016.

1.930

2016
  1. Muhammad Yasir Shabir, Asif Iqbal, Zahid Mahmood, Ata Ullah, Analysis of Classical Encryption Techniques in Cloud Computing. Journal of Tsinghua Science and Technology, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 102-113, Feb 2016.

1.25

2016
  1. Ata Ullah*, M. Sher, M. Imran and A. Derhab, Secure Key Distribution using Fragmentation and Assimilation in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, Vol. 11, No. 9, pp. 1-13, Sep 2015.

0.906

2015

 

CONFERENCE PAPERS

 

  1. Hafiz Adnan Niaz, Maryam Gillani, Ata Ullah, "Multi-Cyclic Requirement Engineering for Educational and Industrial Models in Software Development", in IEEE 23rd International Multi Topic Conference (INMIC), Bahawalpur, Pakistan, 2020.

2020
  1. K. MoyeezUllah Ghori, Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi, Muhammad Awais Muhammad Imran,  Ata Ullah, Laszlo Szathmary, “Impact of Feature Selection on Non-Technical Loss Detection”, 6th International Conference on Data Science and Machine Learning Applications (CDMA2020), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, March, 2020.

2019
  1. Muhammad Azeem, , Ata Ullah, “Secure Healthcare Data Aggregation Scheme for Internet of Things” International Conference on Cyber Data and Analysis (CyberDI 2019), Beijing, China.

2019
  1. Hassan Azeem, Liping Du, Ata Ullah, Muhammad Arif Mughal, Muhammad Muzamil Aslam, Muhammad Ikram, “Sub-array based Antenna Selection Scheme for Massive MIMO in 5G” International Conference on Cyber Data and Analysis (CyberDI 2019), Beijing, China.

2019
  1. Ata Ullah, Secure Healthcare Data Aggregation and De-duplication Scheme for FoG-orineted IoT, IEEE SmartIoT 2019 : IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things, Tianjin, China.

2019
  1. Nousheen Akhtar, Muazzam A. Khan Khattak, Ata Ullah, Muhammad Younus Javed, Congestion Aware and Adaptive Routing Protocols for MANETs”, Future 5V - EAI International Conference on Future Intelligent Vehicular Technologies, Islamabad, Pakistan.

2019
  1. Mohammed Amine, Ata Ullah, Huansheng Ning, Synergy between communication, computing, and caching for smart IoT sensing, 7th International Conference on Identification, Information and Knowledge in the Internet of Things (IIKI), China

2018
  1. Maryam Gillani, Ata Ullah, Hafiz Adnan Niaz, Trust Management Schemes for Secure Routing in VANETs - A Survey, MACS-12, Karachi, Pakistan.

2018
  1. Maryam Gillani, Ata Ullah, Hafiz Adnan Niaz, Survey of Requirement Management Techniques for Safety Critical Systems, MACS-12, Karachi, Pakistan, 2018.

2018
  1. Muhammad Arif Mughal, Xiong Luo, Zahid Mahmood and Ata Ullah, Physical Unclonable Function Based Authentication Scheme for Smart Devices in Internet of Things, IEEE SmartIoT, Xi’an, China.

2018
  1. Ata Ullah, Iqra Sehr, Muhammad Akbar, Huansheng Ning, FoG Assisted Secure De-duplicated Data Dissemination in Smart Healthcare IoT, IEEE SmartIoT, Xi’an, China.

2018
  1. Shumayla Yaqoob, Ata Ullah, Muhammad Akbar, Muhammad Imran and Mohsen Guizani, "Fog-assisted Congestion Avoidance Scheme for Internet of Vehicles," 14th International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Limassol, Cyprus, pp. 618-622, 2018.

2018
  1. Maryam Gillani, Muhammad Abbas, Saad Rehman, Muazzam A. Khan, Ata Ullah, Software quality rich products vs successful products: a comparative analysis, International Conference on Information Technologies and Network (ITSN), Chisinau, Moldova.

2017
  1. Nousheen Akhtar, Muazzam A. Khan Khattak, Ata Ullah, Muhammad Younus Javed, Efficient Routing Strategy for Congestion Avoidance in MANETs, 15th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT), Islamabad, Pakistan.

2017
  1. Zahid Mahmood, Huansheng Ning, Ata Ullah, Rashid Mehmood, Rongfang Bie, Polynomial Subset Based Efficient Key Management for Lightweight Devices Network”, Fifth International Conference on Identification, Information and Knowledge in the Internet of Things (IIKI),Beijing, China.

2016
  1. Zahid Mahmood, Huansheng Ning, Ata Ullah, Light Weight Two-level Session Key Management for End User Authentication in Internet of Things", Internet of Things (iThings),, China.

2016
  1. Ata Ullah, Muhammad Sher, Muhammad Imran, Kashif Saleem, A Lightweight Key Freshness Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks. 12th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

2015

 

 

BOOK / BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. Nosheen Akhtar, Muazzam A. Khan Khattak, Ata Ullah, Muhammad Younas Javed, Congestion Aware and Adaptive Routing Protocols for MANETs: A Survey. In: Jan M., Khan F., Alam M. (eds) Recent Trends and Advances in Wireless and IoT-enabled Networks. EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing. Springer, Cham.

2019
  1. Ata Ullah, Xuanxia Yao, Qingjuan Li, Huansheng Ning, Big Data Oriented Unit and Ubiquitous Internet of Things (BD-U2IoT) Security - Chapter 16 In: Usman Shahid Khan, Samee U. Khan & Albert Y. Zomaya, “Big Data-Enabled Internet of Things”, IET.

2019
  1. Raheel Zafar, Ata Ullah, Modalities for Decoding Human Brain Activity - Chapter 5. In: Huansheng Ning, Liming Chen, Xiong Luo, Ata Ullah, “Cyber-enabled Intelligence”, Taylor & Francis,  CRC Press.

2019
  1. Muhammad Noman Malik, Ata Ullah, Computational Intelligence through Human Machine Interaction in Cyber World - Chapter 7. In: Huansheng Ning, Liming Chen, Xiong Luo, Ata Ullah, “Cyber-enabled Intelligence”, pp. 141-148, Taylor & Francis, CRC Press.

2019
  1. Nosheen Akhtar, Muazzam A. Khan Khattak, Ata Ullah, Muhammad Younas Javed, Congestion Aware and Adaptive Routing Protocols for MANETs: A Survey. In: Jan M., Khan F., Alam M. (eds) Recent Trends and Advances in Wireless and IoT-enabled Networks. EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing. Springer, Cham.

2019
  1. Huansheng Ning, Liming Chen, Ata Ullah Xiong Luo (Editors), Book Title: “Cyber-enabled Intelligence” CRC Press. (Online)

2019

 

 

List of Competition Winning Projects Initiated and Supervised By Dr. Ata Ullah

       

Sr.

Competition

Institution

Year

Position

Students

1

VisioSpark

COMSATS Wah

2010

3rd

Adeel Amin

2

Softcom

GIKI

2010

1st

3

Nascon

FAST Islamabad

2011

2nd

4

Softec

FAST Lahore

2011

3rd

(International Competition)

5

CEPEX

COMSATS ISB

2011

2nd

Umer Zaman

6

Nascon

FAST ISB

2013

2nd

Ibrahim Adeel, Murtaza Abbas

7

Google Glass

MofTec Solutions

2013

1st

Abid Ali

8

SoftCom

GIKI

2013

2nd

Farhan Sharif

9

ExcITeCup

MAJU ISB

2013

2nd

10

TectIQs

IQRA University

2013

2nd

11

2nd

Abid Ali, Farhan, Waleed

12

ExcITeCup

MAJU ISB

2013

2nd

Abdul Wali, Mehwish hamid, Kanwal Rani

13

Nascon

FAST ISB

2014

2nd

14

VisioSpark

COMSATS Wah

2014

2nd

Shumayla Yaqoob

15

ExcITeCup

MAJU ISB

2014

3rd

16

Olympiad

MUST Mirpur

2015

2nd

Ramil Ahmed, Faisal Shafi, Daud Nasir Kiyani, Sheroz Irshad

17

Cloud Olympiad

AJK Muzafarabad

2015

1st

18

COMPPEC

EME-NUST

2015

2nd

19

COMBIT

COMSATS Attock

2015

1st

20

ExcITe Cup

MAJU

2015

1st

21

Talent Expo 2015

Aiwan-e-Quaid F-9

2015

2nd

22

Youth Expo 2015

Convention Centre

2015

2nd

23

PiON

PIEAS Nilore

2016

1st

24

Open House

NUML ISB

2015

1st

Waleed Abdullah, Ali Farhan

25

2nd

Mehwish Hamid

26

3rd

Musawir Hussain, Moomina Waheed, Sammia Nawaz

27

IN-House

NUML ISB

2015

3rd

28

1st

Touseef Tariq, Bilal Zulfiqar, Habiba Rasheed, Uzma Jabeen

29

VisioSpark

COMSATS Wah

2015

2nd

30

COMBITS

COMSATS Attock

2015

2nd

31

ExcITe Cup

MAJU

2015

3rd

32

Youth Expo

Convention Centre

2015

1st

33

PiON

PIEAS Nilore

2016

2nd

34

ASCII

Islamic University

2016

1st

35

1st

Hamid Raza, Maliha Azmat, Tariq Mehmood

36

PACCE (female)

Riphah Islamabad

2017

2nd

37

MUST Olympiad

MUST Mirpur

2017

1st

Junaid Ishaq, Syed Salman, Faiza Khan

38

ICSEC

CUST Islamabad

2017

1st

39

PACCE (male)

Riphah Islamabad

2017

1st

40

COMBITS

COMSATS Attock

2017

2nd

41

NASCON

FAST ISB

2022

2nd

Muhammad Shahmir Khan

42

BICON’s Idea Competition

NUML

2022

1st

43

Youth Speaker

AIESEC

2022

1st

44

Open House

NUML

2023

2nd

45

Expedition Exploit

IEEE

2022

1st

 

 

Presenting a Conference Paper.

 

International/National Conferences Arranged / Attended:

Conference Title

Location

Date

Role

IEEE 23rd International Multi Topic Conference (INMIC)

Bahawalpur, Pakistan.

5 - 7 Nov, 2020

Speaker

IEEE SmartIoT 2018

Xi’an, China

Aug 17-19, 2018

Speaker,

Program Chair

MACS-12 2018

Karachi, Pakistan

Nov. 24-25, 2018

Speaker

The 2nd China-Europe Forum on Smart Healthy Aging and Privacy Protection (Share2018)

Beijing, China

June 28-29

Speaker,

Program Chair

 

National Conferences:

MACS-12 2018

Karachi, Pakistan

Nov. 24-25, 2018

Speaker

Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT) 2015

Islamabad

December 14-16, 2015

Speaker

 

iv. Went to some Competition as a Judge.

Judge at Visio Spark 2022, Software Exhibition, CUI Wah Cantt

Judge at Visio Spark 2018, Software Exhibition, CUI Wah Cantt

 

v. Called for in an Event as a Speaker.

Seminar on “Code to Success” as Guest Speaker at Nu-FAST, Islamabad Feb 2023

Awareness Session on “Innovative Business Ideation” as Guest Speaker at NUML Rwp 2022

Seminar on “Information Security Threats” as Guest Speaker at Directorate of Workers Education (DWE) 2020

Invited Speaker at Seminar on Security of Information Systems at Directorate of Workers Education (DWE) 2019

- Wireless Sensor Networks

- Networks Security,

- Mobile Application Development,

- VoIP,

- Cloud Computing,

- Software Defined Networking,

- Internet of Things,

- Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks,

- Next Generation Networks,

- IMS,

- VOLTE

Education

- Post Doc (2018)

USTB, Beijing, China,

- PHD (CS) (2016) 

IIUI, Islamabad, Pakistan

- MS (CS) (2007)  

COMSATS, Islamabad, Pakistan

- BSCS (2005)

COMSATS, Islamabad, Pakistan

Experience

- Associate Professor (BPS-20) (17 Nov 2020 - Present)
Department of Computer Science, National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Islamabad, Pakistan.

- Head ITCON (01 July 2019 - Present)

- Director BICON (Business Indubation) (12 April 2021 - Present)

- Pro-Rector Research and Strategic Initiatives Division

National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Islamabad, Pakistan.

- Asst. Professor (BPS-19) (Sept 2018 - 16 Nov, 2020)

Department of Computer Science, National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Islamabad, Pakistan.

- Research Fellow (Post Doctoral Research) (Nov 17 to Aug 18)

School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB), Beijing, China

- Asst. Professor (BPS-19) / Head Project Committee (Jun 2015 to Oct 2017)

Department of Computer Science, National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Islamabad, Pakistan.

- Lecturer (BPS-18) / Head Project Committee (Mar 2012 to Jun 2015)

Department of Computer Science, National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Islamabad, Pakistan.

- Lecturer (Contract) / Head Project Committee (Aug 2008 to Mar 2012)

Department of Information Technology, National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Islamabad, Pakistan.

- Software Engineer (Oct 2007 to Aug 2008)

Networks Department, Streaming Networks, Islamabad, Pakistan.

 

Distinction/Awards:

> Top Researcher in University (1st Position Dec 2019) By Rector NUML

> Top Researcher in University (2nd Position Nov 2018) By Rector NUML

> Best Paper Award (March 2018) (Dean USTB, Research Lab at China)

> Appreciation for High Achievers in Research (November 2016) (Rector NUML)

> Microsoft Faculty-Industry Partner Appreciation Award (Oct 2016) (MicroSoft Mgr)

> Excellence and Best Performance Award (May 2016) (Rector NUML)

> Microsoft Faculty Partner for NUML (2012 - Oct 2017)

> Head of Project Committee (Aug 2008 - Oct 2017)

> Distinctions in one International and 45 National level competitions for supervised projects. (Aug 2008 - date)

> ICT Funding for 10 Projects for National Grassroots Level ICT Research Initiative

> Supervision of 118 BSCS, MCS, BSSE Degree Projects. (Aug 2008 - Dec 2019)

> Excellence and Best Performance Award for Faculty Member (March 2012) (Rector NUML)

> Secured Scholarship in MS(CS) from COMSATS Islamabad (2005 - 2007)

Publications

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS - Total Impact Factor for Published Papers = 165.44

  1. Mohibullah Khan, Ata Ullah, Isra Naz, Sajjad Haider, NZ Jhanji", Mohammad Shorfuzzaman and Mehedi Masud, "Alpha Fusion Adversarial Attack Analysis Using Deep Learning," Computer Systems Science and Engineering, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 461-473, 2023.

4.397

2023
  1. Ghawar Said, Ata Ullah, Anwar Ghani, M. Azeem, Khalid Yahya, Muhammad Bilal, Sayed Chhattan Shah,"Hash Table Assisted Efficient File Level De-duplication Scheme for Data Storage in SD-IoV Assisted Sensing Devices." Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, (Accepted: 04 Feb 2023)

3.401

2023
  1. Muhammad Bilal, Ehsan Ullah Munir, Ata Ullah, "BEMD:Beacon-oriented Emergency Message Dissemination Scheme for Highways", Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, 142,  pp. 1-15, 103095, 2023.

4.816

2023
  1. Maryam Gillani, H. Adnan Niaz and Ata Ullah, "Integration of Software Architecture in Requirements Elicitation for Rapid Software Development," in IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 56158-56178, 2022, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3177659.

3.476

2022
  1. Hafsa Shahid, Humaira Ashraf, Ata Ullah, Shahab S. Band, Said Elnaffar, “Wormhole Attack Mitigation Strategies and their Impact on WSN Performance: A Literature Survey", International Journal of Communication Systems, 2022

1.882

2022
  1. Maryam Gillani, Hafiz Adnan Niaz, Muhammad Umar Farooq, Ata Ullah, "Data collection protocols for VANETs: a survey, Journal of Complex & Intelligent Systems, 2021 DOI:10.1007/s40747-021-00629-x (Online)

6.70

2022
  1. Maryam Gillani, Hafiz Adnan Niaz, Ata Ullah, Muhammad Umar Farooq, Saad Rehman, "Traffic Aware Data Gathering Protocol for VANETs," IEEE Access, Vol. 10, pp. 23438 - 23449, 2022

3.476

2022
  1. Ghawar Said, Anwar Ghani, Ata Ullah, Muhammad Azeem, Muhammad Bilal, Kyung Sup Kwak, "Light-weight Secure Aggregated Data Sharing in IoT-enabled Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Access, pp. 1-15, 2022.

3.476

2022
  1. Asma Zahra, Mubeen Ghafoor, Kamran Munir, Ata Ullah, Zain Ul Abideen,"Application of region‑based video surveillance in smart cities using deep learning'" Multimedia Tools and Applications, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-021-11468-w (Online)

2.757

2021
  1. Ata Ullah, Nagina Ishaq, Muhammad Azeem, Humaira Ashraf, Nz Jhanjhi, Mamoona Humayun, Thamer A Tabbakh, Zahrah A AlmusaylimA. "Survey on Continuous Object Tracking and Boundary Detection Schemes in IoT Assisted Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 126324-126336, 2021.

3.476

2021
  1. A Ullah, M Azeem, H Ashraf, NZ Jhanjhi, L Nkenyereye, M Humayun, "Secure Critical Data Reclamation Scheme for Isolated Clusters in IoT enabled WSN", IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2021, pp. 1-10.

10.238

2021
  1. Huansheng Ning, Rui Yin, Ata Ullah, Feifei Shi, "A Survey on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Driving", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, pp. 1-16, 2021.

9.551

2021
  1. T Jabeen, H Ashraf, A Ullah, "A survey on healthcare data security in wireless body area networks Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing," pp. 1-14, 2021.

3.662

2021
  1. Maryam Shafiq, Humaira Ashraf, Ata Ullah, Mehedi Masud, Muhammad Azeem, N. Z. Jhanjhi4,* and Mamoona Humayu, "Robust Cluster-Based Routing Protocol for IoT-Assisted Smart Devices in WSN" Computers, Materials & Continua, vol. 67, No. 3, 3505-3521, 2021.

3.86

2021
  1. Muhammad Azeem, Ata Ullah, Humaira Ashraf, N. Z. Jhanjhi, FoG-oriented Secure and Lightweight Data Aggregation in IoMT, IEEE Access, pp. 1-11, 2021.

3.476

2021
  1. Ata Ullah, Muhammad Azeem, Humaira Ashraf, A. Alaboudi, Mamoona Humayun, NZ Jhanjhi, "Secure Healthcare Data Aggregation and Transmission in IoT - A Survey", IEEE Access, Vol. 2021, No. 9, pp. 16849-16865 2021.

3.476

2021
  1. Shumayla Yaqoob, Ata Ullah, Muhammad Awais, Iyad Katib, Aiiad Albeshri, Rashid Mehmood, Mohsin Raza, Saif ul Islam, Houbing Song, "Novel Congestion Avoidance Scheme for Internet of Drones," Elsevier Computer Communications, vol. 69, pp. 202-210.

5.047

2021
  1. Faria Jan Siddiqui, Humaira Ashraf, Ata Ullah*, Dual Server based Security System for Availing Multimedia Services in Next Generation Networks, Springer Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 79, no. 11, pp. 7299-7318.

2.757

2020
  1. Maryam Shafiq, Humaira Ashraf, Ata Ullah, Shireen Tahira, Systematic Literature Review on Energy Efficient Routing Schemes in WSN - A Survey, Mobile Networks and Applications. vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 882-895.

3.426

2020
  1. Huansheng Ning, Fadi Farha, Ata Ullah, Lingfeng Mao, “Physical Unclonable Function: Architectures, Applications and Challenges for Dependable Security,” IET Circuits, Devices & Systems 14 (4), 407-424, 2020.

1.297

2020
  1. Zain Ul Abideen, Mubeen Ghafoor, Ata Ullah, Tehseen Zia, Syed Ali Tariq, Uncertainty Assisted Robust Tuberculosis Identification with Bayesian Convolutional Neural Networks IEEE Access. Vol. 8, pp. 22812 - 22825.

3.367

2020
  1. K. MoyeezUllah Ghori, Muhammad Imran, Asad Nawaz, Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi, Ata Ullah, Laszlo Szathmary, “Performance Analysis of Machine Learning Classifiers for Non-Technical Loss Detection,” Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing.

7.104

2020
  1. Samina Kausar, Xu Huahu, Ata Ullah, Zhu Wenhao and Muhammad Yasir Shabir, “Secure and Efficient Data Transfer using Spreading and Assimilation in MANET" Software: Practice and Experience. vol. 50, no. 11, pp. 2095 - 2109, 2020.

2.028

2020
  1. Samina Kausar, Xu Huahu, Ata Ullah, Zhu Wenhao and Muhammad Yasir Shabir, Fog-Assisted Secure Data Exchange for Examination and Testing in E-learning System, Mobile Networks and Applications.

3.426

2020
  1. Ata Ullah, Ghawar Said, Muhammad Sher, and Huansheng Ning, Fog oriented Healthcare Data Aggregation and Compression Scheme in IoT enabled WSN, Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 163-174.

3.307

2020
  1. K. MoyeezUllah Ghori, Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi, Muhammad Awais, Muhammad Imran, Ata Ullah, Laszlo Szathmary, Performance Analysis of Different Types of Machine Learning Classifiers for Non-Technical Loss Detection, IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 16033-16048.

3.745

2019
  1. Humaira Ashraf, Ata Ullah*, Shireen Tahira, and Muhammad Sher, Efficient Certificate based One-pass Authentication Protocol for VOLTE using IMS, Journal of Internet Technology, vol. 20, no. 4 , pp. 1133-1143, Jul. 2019.

0.786

2019
  1. Muhammad Yasir Shabir, Ata Ullah*, and Zahid Mahmood, ANT-colony based Disjoint Set Assortment in Wireless Sensor Networks, Springer Wireless Networks, vol. 25, no. 8, pp. 5137-5150, 24 Aug, 2019.

2.659

2019
  1. Muhammad Arif Mughal, Peng Shi, Ata Ullah, Khalid Mahmood, Muhammad Abid, Xiong Luo, "Logical Tree based Secure Rekeying Management for Smart Devices" IEEE Access. vol. 7, pp. 76699 - 76711, 2019.

3.745

2019
  1. Nousheen Akhtar, Muazzam A. Khan, Ata Ullah, Muhammad Younus Javed, Congestion Avoidance for Smart Devices by Caching Information in MANETS and IoT, IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 71459-71471.

3.745

2019
  1. Shireen Tahira, Ata Ullah*, Humaira Ashraf, and Muhammad Sher, Efficient Security Associations Establishment using IPSec in IMS after Handover in NGMN”, Journal of Internet Technology Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 359-‌367.

0.786

2019
  1. Ali Li, L. Liu, Ata Ullah, R. Wang, J. Ma, R. Huang, Z. Yu, H. Ning, Association Rule-Based Breast Cancer Prevention and Control System, in IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 1106-1114, 2019.

NA

2019
  1. Shumayla Yaqoob, Ata Ullah*, Muhammad Akbar, Muhammad Imran, Muhammad Shoaib, Congestion avoidance through fog computing in internet of vehicles, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, Vol. 10, No. 10, pp. 3863-3877.

4.594

2019
  1. Ata Ullah, Shumayla Yaqoob, Muhammad Imran, and Huansheng Ning, Message Dissemination Advancements from VANET to Vehicular FoG Computing - A Survey, IEEE Access, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 1570-1585,

3.745

2019
  1. Ata Ullah, Xuanxia Yao, Samiya Shaheen, Huansheng Ning, Advances in Position based Routing Schemes towards FoG-oriented VANET - A Survey, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 828-840.

6.319

2019
  1. Waqas Ahmad, Shengling Wang, Ata Ullah, Sheharyar and Zahid Mahmood, "Reputation-Aware Trust and Privacy-Preservation for Mobile Cloud Computing," in IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp. 46363-46381, 2018.

4.098

2018
  1. Waqas Ahmad, Shengling Wang, Ata Ullah, Sheharyar, Muhammad Yasir Shabir, Reputation-Aware Recruitment and Credible Reporting for Platform Utility in Mobile Crowd Sensing with Smart Devices in IoT, MDPI Sensors, Vol 18, No. 10, 2018.

3.031

2018
  1. Huansheng Ning, Sahraoui Dhelim, Mohammed Amine Bouras, Amar Khelloufi, and Ata Ullah, Cyber-syndrome and its Formation, Classification, Recovery and Prevention, IEEE Access, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 35501-35511.

4.098

2018
  1. Mohammed Amine, Ata Ullah, Huansheng Ning, Synergy between communication, computing, and caching for smart IoT sensing, Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 137, pp. 504-511. (EI Journal)

NA

2018
  1. Muhammad Arif Mughal, Xiong Luo, Ata Ullah*, Subhan Ullah, and Zahid Mahmood, Lightweight Digital Signature Based Security Scheme for Human-Centered Internet of Things, IEEE Access, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 31630-31643.

4.098

2018
  1. Zahid Mahmood, Ata Ullah, Huansheng Ning, Distributed Multi-Party Key Management for Efficient Authentication in Internet of Things, IEEE Access, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 29460-29473.

4.098

2018
  1. Zahid Mahmood, Huansheng Ning, Xuanxia Yao, Ata Ullah, Secure Authentication and Prescription Safety Protocol for Telecare Health Services using Ubiquitous IoT”, MDPI Applied Sciences, Vol. 7, No. 10, pp.1-22, October 2017.

1.679

2017
  1. Shireen Tahira, Muhammad Sher, Ata Ullah, Muhammad Imran, and Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Handover based IMS Registration Scheme for Next Generation Mobile Networks, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Vol. 2017, pp. 1-15.

1.899

2017
  1. Ali Khan, Qifu Tyler Sun, Zahid Mahmood and Ata Ullah, Energy Efficient Partial Permutation Encryption on Network Coded MANETs, Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vol, 2017, Article ID 4657831, pp. 1-10, April 2017. (EI Journal / X Category)

NA

2017
  1. Zahid Mahmood, Huansheng Ning, Ata Ullah, Polynomial Subset Based Efficient Multi-Party Key Management for Lightweight Devices Network, MDPI Sensors, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 1-20, March 2017.

2.475

2017
  1. Ata Ullah*, Muhammad Sher, Muhammad Imran, and Imran Baig, Disjoint Key Distribution Scheme for Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks, Journal of Sensors, pp. 1-15, May 2016.

1.704

2016
  1. Humaira Ashraf, Muhammad Sher, Ata Ullah*, Muhammad Imran, A Secure and Efficient IP Multimedia Subsystem Authentication Mechanism for LTE, Journal of Internet Technology, Vol. 17, No. 04, pp. 839-848, July 2016.

1.930

2016
  1. Muhammad Yasir Shabir, Asif Iqbal, Zahid Mahmood, Ata Ullah, Analysis of Classical Encryption Techniques in Cloud Computing. Journal of Tsinghua Science and Technology, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 102-113, Feb 2016.

1.25

2016
  1. Ata Ullah*, M. Sher, M. Imran and A. Derhab, Secure Key Distribution using Fragmentation and Assimilation in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, Vol. 11, No. 9, pp. 1-13, Sep 2015.

0.906

2015

 

CONFERENCE PAPERS

 

  1. Hafiz Adnan Niaz, Maryam Gillani, Ata Ullah, "Multi-Cyclic Requirement Engineering for Educational and Industrial Models in Software Development", in IEEE 23rd International Multi Topic Conference (INMIC), Bahawalpur, Pakistan, 2020.

2020
  1. K. MoyeezUllah Ghori, Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi, Muhammad Awais Muhammad Imran,  Ata Ullah, Laszlo Szathmary, “Impact of Feature Selection on Non-Technical Loss Detection”, 6th International Conference on Data Science and Machine Learning Applications (CDMA2020), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, March, 2020.

2019
  1. Muhammad Azeem, , Ata Ullah, “Secure Healthcare Data Aggregation Scheme for Internet of Things” International Conference on Cyber Data and Analysis (CyberDI 2019), Beijing, China.

2019
  1. Hassan Azeem, Liping Du, Ata Ullah, Muhammad Arif Mughal, Muhammad Muzamil Aslam, Muhammad Ikram, “Sub-array based Antenna Selection Scheme for Massive MIMO in 5G” International Conference on Cyber Data and Analysis (CyberDI 2019), Beijing, China.

2019
  1. Ata Ullah, Secure Healthcare Data Aggregation and De-duplication Scheme for FoG-orineted IoT, IEEE SmartIoT 2019 : IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things, Tianjin, China.

2019
  1. Nousheen Akhtar, Muazzam A. Khan Khattak, Ata Ullah, Muhammad Younus Javed, Congestion Aware and Adaptive Routing Protocols for MANETs”, Future 5V - EAI International Conference on Future Intelligent Vehicular Technologies, Islamabad, Pakistan.

2019
  1. Mohammed Amine, Ata Ullah, Huansheng Ning, Synergy between communication, computing, and caching for smart IoT sensing, 7th International Conference on Identification, Information and Knowledge in the Internet of Things (IIKI), China

2018
  1. Maryam Gillani, Ata Ullah, Hafiz Adnan Niaz, Trust Management Schemes for Secure Routing in VANETs - A Survey, MACS-12, Karachi, Pakistan.

2018
  1. Maryam Gillani, Ata Ullah, Hafiz Adnan Niaz, Survey of Requirement Management Techniques for Safety Critical Systems, MACS-12, Karachi, Pakistan, 2018.

2018
  1. Muhammad Arif Mughal, Xiong Luo, Zahid Mahmood and Ata Ullah, Physical Unclonable Function Based Authentication Scheme for Smart Devices in Internet of Things, IEEE SmartIoT, Xi’an, China.

2018
  1. Ata Ullah, Iqra Sehr, Muhammad Akbar, Huansheng Ning, FoG Assisted Secure De-duplicated Data Dissemination in Smart Healthcare IoT, IEEE SmartIoT, Xi’an, China.

2018
  1. Shumayla Yaqoob, Ata Ullah, Muhammad Akbar, Muhammad Imran and Mohsen Guizani, "Fog-assisted Congestion Avoidance Scheme for Internet of Vehicles," 14th International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Limassol, Cyprus, pp. 618-622, 2018.

2018
  1. Maryam Gillani, Muhammad Abbas, Saad Rehman, Muazzam A. Khan, Ata Ullah, Software quality rich products vs successful products: a comparative analysis, International Conference on Information Technologies and Network (ITSN), Chisinau, Moldova.

2017
  1. Nousheen Akhtar, Muazzam A. Khan Khattak, Ata Ullah, Muhammad Younus Javed, Efficient Routing Strategy for Congestion Avoidance in MANETs, 15th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT), Islamabad, Pakistan.

2017
  1. Zahid Mahmood, Huansheng Ning, Ata Ullah, Rashid Mehmood, Rongfang Bie, Polynomial Subset Based Efficient Key Management for Lightweight Devices Network”, Fifth International Conference on Identification, Information and Knowledge in the Internet of Things (IIKI),Beijing, China.

2016
  1. Zahid Mahmood, Huansheng Ning, Ata Ullah, Light Weight Two-level Session Key Management for End User Authentication in Internet of Things", Internet of Things (iThings),, China.

2016
  1. Ata Ullah, Muhammad Sher, Muhammad Imran, Kashif Saleem, A Lightweight Key Freshness Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks. 12th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

2015

 

 

BOOK / BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. Nosheen Akhtar, Muazzam A. Khan Khattak, Ata Ullah, Muhammad Younas Javed, Congestion Aware and Adaptive Routing Protocols for MANETs: A Survey. In: Jan M., Khan F., Alam M. (eds) Recent Trends and Advances in Wireless and IoT-enabled Networks. EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing. Springer, Cham.

2019
  1. Ata Ullah, Xuanxia Yao, Qingjuan Li, Huansheng Ning, Big Data Oriented Unit and Ubiquitous Internet of Things (BD-U2IoT) Security - Chapter 16 In: Usman Shahid Khan, Samee U. Khan & Albert Y. Zomaya, “Big Data-Enabled Internet of Things”, IET.

2019
  1. Raheel Zafar, Ata Ullah, Modalities for Decoding Human Brain Activity - Chapter 5. In: Huansheng Ning, Liming Chen, Xiong Luo, Ata Ullah, “Cyber-enabled Intelligence”, Taylor & Francis,  CRC Press.

2019
  1. Muhammad Noman Malik, Ata Ullah, Computational Intelligence through Human Machine Interaction in Cyber World - Chapter 7. In: Huansheng Ning, Liming Chen, Xiong Luo, Ata Ullah, “Cyber-enabled Intelligence”, pp. 141-148, Taylor & Francis, CRC Press.

2019
  1. Nosheen Akhtar, Muazzam A. Khan Khattak, Ata Ullah, Muhammad Younas Javed, Congestion Aware and Adaptive Routing Protocols for MANETs: A Survey. In: Jan M., Khan F., Alam M. (eds) Recent Trends and Advances in Wireless and IoT-enabled Networks. EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing. Springer, Cham.

2019
  1. Huansheng Ning, Liming Chen, Ata Ullah Xiong Luo (Editors), Book Title: “Cyber-enabled Intelligence” CRC Press. (Online)

2019

 

 

List of Competition Winning Projects Initiated and Supervised By Dr. Ata Ullah

       

Sr.

Competition

Institution

Year

Position

Students

1

VisioSpark

COMSATS Wah

2010

3rd

Adeel Amin

2

Softcom

GIKI

2010

1st

3

Nascon

FAST Islamabad

2011

2nd

4

Softec

FAST Lahore

2011

3rd

(International Competition)

5

CEPEX

COMSATS ISB

2011

2nd

Umer Zaman

6

Nascon

FAST ISB

2013

2nd

Ibrahim Adeel, Murtaza Abbas

7

Google Glass

MofTec Solutions

2013

1st

Abid Ali

8

SoftCom

GIKI

2013

2nd

Farhan Sharif

9

ExcITeCup

MAJU ISB

2013

2nd

10

TectIQs

IQRA University

2013

2nd

11

2nd

Abid Ali, Farhan, Waleed

12

ExcITeCup

MAJU ISB

2013

2nd

Abdul Wali, Mehwish hamid, Kanwal Rani

13

Nascon

FAST ISB

2014

2nd

14

VisioSpark

COMSATS Wah

2014

2nd

Shumayla Yaqoob

15

ExcITeCup

MAJU ISB

2014

3rd

16

Olympiad

MUST Mirpur

2015

2nd

Ramil Ahmed, Faisal Shafi, Daud Nasir Kiyani, Sheroz Irshad

17

Cloud Olympiad

AJK Muzafarabad

2015

1st

18

COMPPEC

EME-NUST

2015

2nd

19

COMBIT

COMSATS Attock

2015

1st

20

ExcITe Cup

MAJU

2015

1st

21

Talent Expo 2015

Aiwan-e-Quaid F-9

2015

2nd

22

Youth Expo 2015

Convention Centre

2015

2nd

23

PiON

PIEAS Nilore

2016

1st

24

Open House

NUML ISB

2015

1st

Waleed Abdullah, Ali Farhan

25

2nd

Mehwish Hamid

26

3rd

Musawir Hussain, Moomina Waheed, Sammia Nawaz

27

IN-House

NUML ISB

2015

3rd

28

1st

Touseef Tariq, Bilal Zulfiqar, Habiba Rasheed, Uzma Jabeen

29

VisioSpark

COMSATS Wah

2015

2nd

30

COMBITS

COMSATS Attock

2015

2nd

31

ExcITe Cup

MAJU

2015

3rd

32

Youth Expo

Convention Centre

2015

1st

33

PiON

PIEAS Nilore

2016

2nd

34

ASCII

Islamic University

2016

1st

35

1st

Hamid Raza, Maliha Azmat, Tariq Mehmood

36

PACCE (female)

Riphah Islamabad

2017

2nd

37

MUST Olympiad

MUST Mirpur

2017

1st

Junaid Ishaq, Syed Salman, Faiza Khan

38

ICSEC

CUST Islamabad

2017

1st

39

PACCE (male)

Riphah Islamabad

2017

1st

40

COMBITS

COMSATS Attock

2017

2nd

41

NASCON

FAST ISB

2022

2nd

Muhammad Shahmir Khan

42

BICON’s Idea Competition

NUML

2022

1st

43

Youth Speaker

AIESEC

2022

1st

44

Open House

NUML

2023

2nd

45

Expedition Exploit

IEEE

2022

1st

 

 

Presenting a Conference Paper.

 

International/National Conferences Arranged / Attended:

Conference Title

Location

Date

Role

IEEE 23rd International Multi Topic Conference (INMIC)

Bahawalpur, Pakistan.

5 - 7 Nov, 2020

Speaker

IEEE SmartIoT 2018

Xi’an, China

Aug 17-19, 2018

Speaker,

Program Chair

MACS-12 2018

Karachi, Pakistan

Nov. 24-25, 2018

Speaker

The 2nd China-Europe Forum on Smart Healthy Aging and Privacy Protection (Share2018)

Beijing, China

June 28-29

Speaker,

Program Chair

 

National Conferences:

MACS-12 2018

Karachi, Pakistan

Nov. 24-25, 2018

Speaker

Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT) 2015

Islamabad

December 14-16, 2015

Speaker

 

iv. Went to some Competition as a Judge.

Judge at Visio Spark 2022, Software Exhibition, CUI Wah Cantt

Judge at Visio Spark 2018, Software Exhibition, CUI Wah Cantt

 

v. Called for in an Event as a Speaker.

Seminar on “Code to Success” as Guest Speaker at Nu-FAST, Islamabad Feb 2023

Awareness Session on “Innovative Business Ideation” as Guest Speaker at NUML Rwp 2022

Seminar on “Information Security Threats” as Guest Speaker at Directorate of Workers Education (DWE) 2020

Invited Speaker at Seminar on Security of Information Systems at Directorate of Workers Education (DWE) 2019

Interests

- Wireless Sensor Networks

- Networks Security,

- Mobile Application Development,

- VoIP,

- Cloud Computing,

- Software Defined Networking,

- Internet of Things,

- Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks,

- Next Generation Networks,

- IMS,

- VOLTE