University of Management and Technology

SST (CS)

February 2021 - March 2023

Lecturer

During my teaching career, I am able to perform job functions very safely and responsible for other managerial duties as assigned like student advisory, conferences work, etc. I am actively served on university committees and participated in institutional meetings.

Courses: Data Structure and Algorithms, Object Oriented Programming, Discrete Structures, Database Systems and Introduction to Computing.

AIMRL, PUCIT

July 2016 - January 2021

Research Assistant

Research Area: Text Mining, Data Mining, NLP, ML.

Research responsibilities: Conduct literature study, Collect and analyse data, Clean and Prepare dataset, Analyze different algorithms, Prepare setup for experiments, Carry out experiments according to protocols laid out by supervisor, Analyze and summarize project results and attend project meetings.

Development language: Python and C#

API: Stanford NER (CRF), Stanford Classifier (MaxEnt), Thorsten Brants API (TNT), TensorFlow, Recurrent Neural Networks.

Journal

Sharafat, Shahmin, Zara Nasar, and Syed Waqar Jaffry. "Data mining for smart legal systems." Computers & Electrical Engineering 78 (2019): 328-342.

Conference

• Sharafat, Shahmin, Zara Nasar, and Syed Waqar Jaffry. "Legal Data Mining from Civil Judgments." International Conference on Intelligent Technologies and Applications. Springer, Singapore, 2018.
• Nasar, Zara, et al. "Civil Data Mining using Machine Learning." 2022 International Conference on Engineering and Emerging Technologies (ICEET). IEEE, 2022.

University of the Punjab

2018

Master of philosophy in computer science

CGPA: 3.64

Research Work: Extract named entities from Legal Judgements of Lahore High Court using different Text Mining techniques.

Related Task: Literature Review, Set hypothesis, Collect data from LHC website using Web Scrapping, Convert pdf into text files, Filter the data according to hypothesis, Identify entities, Prepare annotation guidelines, Clean and Prepare data set according to annotation guidelines, Breakdown data set for experiments, Prepare setup for experiments, Carry out experiments according to hypothesis, Analyse and summarize project results.

Language: Python and C#.

API: Stanford NER (CRF), Stanford Classifier (MaxEnt), Thorsten Brants API (TNT).

University of the Punjab

2015

Bachelor of science in Information Technology

CGPA: 3.46

Final Term Project: TubeCentrex app.

It brings the experience of YouTube to your Windows and Mobile device! Browse all your favorite videos, upload your own videos, and access your channels and more! With integrated search, share, and download. It provides an elegant, smooth Windows experience as well as android.

University of Management and Technology

SST (CS)

February 2021 - March 2023

Lecturer

During my teaching career, I am able to perform job functions very safely and responsible for other managerial duties as assigned like student advisory, conferences work, etc. I am actively served on university committees and participated in institutional meetings.

Courses: Data Structure and Algorithms, Object Oriented Programming, Discrete Structures, Database Systems and Introduction to Computing.

AIMRL, PUCIT

July 2016 - January 2021

Research Assistant

Research Area: Text Mining, Data Mining, NLP, ML.

Research responsibilities: Conduct literature study, Collect and analyse data, Clean and Prepare dataset, Analyze different algorithms, Prepare setup for experiments, Carry out experiments according to protocols laid out by supervisor, Analyze and summarize project results and attend project meetings.

Development language: Python and C#

API: Stanford NER (CRF), Stanford Classifier (MaxEnt), Thorsten Brants API (TNT), TensorFlow, Recurrent Neural Networks.

Journal

Sharafat, Shahmin, Zara Nasar, and Syed Waqar Jaffry. "Data mining for smart legal systems." Computers & Electrical Engineering 78 (2019): 328-342.

Conference

• Sharafat, Shahmin, Zara Nasar, and Syed Waqar Jaffry. "Legal Data Mining from Civil Judgments." International Conference on Intelligent Technologies and Applications. Springer, Singapore, 2018.
• Nasar, Zara, et al. "Civil Data Mining using Machine Learning." 2022 International Conference on Engineering and Emerging Technologies (ICEET). IEEE, 2022.