RESEARCH ASSISTANT (DECEMBER 2018 TO AUGUST 2023) CONTROL AUTOMOTIVE AND ROBOTICS LAB, MUST, MIRPUR, AJK NATIONAL CENTRE OF ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION (NCRA), PAKISTAN MIRPUR AJ&K, PAKISTAN

COURSE INSTRUCTOR (NAVTTC) (2020 TO 2021) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (MACHINE LEARNING AND DEEP LEARNING) DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, MUST MIRPUR AJ&K, PAKISTAN

Journal Publications:
1.    Sarmad Shafique and Samabia Tehsin, “Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Detection and Classification of its Subtypes using Pre-trained Deep Convolutional Neural Networks,” Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment, vol. 17, 7 pages, 2018. doi:10.1177/1533033818802789, Impact Factor 3.399 
2.    Sarmad Shafique and Samabia Tehsin, “Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia,” Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, vol. 2018, Article ID 6125289, 13 pages, 2018. doi:10.1155/2018/6125289, Impact Factor 2.809 
3.    C H Abbas Gondal, Muhammad Irfan, Sarmad Shafique, Muhammad Salman Bashir, Mansoor Ahmed, Osama M.Alshehri, Hassan H Almasoudi, Samar M. Alqhtani, Mohammed M. Jalal, Malik A. Altayar and Khalaf F Alsharif "Automated leukemia screening and sub-types classification using deep learning," Computer Systems Science and Engineering, vol. 46, no.3, pp. 3541-3558, 2023. Impact Factor 4.397 
4.    Abid Samia, Bashir Hayat, Sarmad Shafique, Zain Ali, Bilal Ahmed, Faisal Riaz, Tae-Eung Sung, and Ki-Il Kim. "A Robust QR and Computer Vision-Based Sensorless Steering Angle Control, Localization, and Motion Planning of Self-Driving Vehicles." IEEE Access 9 (2021): 151766-151774. Impact Factor 3.367 
5.    Muhammad Atif Butt, Asad Masood Khattak, Sarmad Shafique, Bashir Hayat, Saima Abid, Ki-Il Kim, Muhammad Waqas Ayub, Ahthasham Sajid, Awais Adnan, “Convolutional Neural Network Based Vehicle Classification in Adverse Illuminous Conditions for Intelligent Transportation Systems,” Complexity, 2021, Impact Factor 2.833 
6.    Muhammad Atif Butt, Faisal Riaz, Shehzad Khalid, Samia Abid, Muhammad Asif Habib, Sarmad Shafique, Kijun Han, “Micro-electromechanical system based optimized steering angle estimation mechanism for customized self-driving vehicles,” Measurement and Control, 2021, Impact Factor 1.704

International Conference Publications:
1.    Sarmad Shafique, Samabia Tehsin, Syed Anas and Farrukh Masud, “Computer-assisted Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia detection and diagnosis” 2019 2nd International Conference on Communication, Computing and Digital systems (C-CODE), pp. 184-189. IEEE, 2019
2.    Sarmad Shafique, Samia Abid, Faisal Riaz, and Zainab Ejaz. "Computer Vision based Autonomous Navigation in Controlled Environment." In 2021 International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Industry (ICRAI), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2021
3.    Muneeb Zafar, Sarmad Shafique, Faisal Riaz, Samia Abid, Umar Raza, and William Holderbaum. "A Cost-effective Smart Labor Assistance Trolley for Industrial Applications." In 2023 International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Industry (ICRAI), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2023

Research Award:
Best Session Paper Award for the Paper "Computer Vision based Autonomous Navigation in Controlled Environment" presented at ICRAI 2021
 

• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning
• Deep Learning
• Bio-medical Image Processing
• Computer Vision
• Autonomous Vehicles
• Programming
   

Education

MS   COMPUTER SCIENCE   BAHRIA UNIVERSITY, ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN 2018

BS   COMPUTER SCIENCE MIRPUR UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (MUST), MIRPUR, AJK 2014

Experience

RESEARCH ASSISTANT (DECEMBER 2018 TO AUGUST 2023) CONTROL AUTOMOTIVE AND ROBOTICS LAB, MUST, MIRPUR, AJK NATIONAL CENTRE OF ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION (NCRA), PAKISTAN MIRPUR AJ&K, PAKISTAN

COURSE INSTRUCTOR (NAVTTC) (2020 TO 2021) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (MACHINE LEARNING AND DEEP LEARNING) DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, MUST MIRPUR AJ&K, PAKISTAN

Publications

Journal Publications:
1.    Sarmad Shafique and Samabia Tehsin, “Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Detection and Classification of its Subtypes using Pre-trained Deep Convolutional Neural Networks,” Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment, vol. 17, 7 pages, 2018. doi:10.1177/1533033818802789, Impact Factor 3.399 
2.    Sarmad Shafique and Samabia Tehsin, “Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia,” Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, vol. 2018, Article ID 6125289, 13 pages, 2018. doi:10.1155/2018/6125289, Impact Factor 2.809 
3.    C H Abbas Gondal, Muhammad Irfan, Sarmad Shafique, Muhammad Salman Bashir, Mansoor Ahmed, Osama M.Alshehri, Hassan H Almasoudi, Samar M. Alqhtani, Mohammed M. Jalal, Malik A. Altayar and Khalaf F Alsharif "Automated leukemia screening and sub-types classification using deep learning," Computer Systems Science and Engineering, vol. 46, no.3, pp. 3541-3558, 2023. Impact Factor 4.397 
4.    Abid Samia, Bashir Hayat, Sarmad Shafique, Zain Ali, Bilal Ahmed, Faisal Riaz, Tae-Eung Sung, and Ki-Il Kim. "A Robust QR and Computer Vision-Based Sensorless Steering Angle Control, Localization, and Motion Planning of Self-Driving Vehicles." IEEE Access 9 (2021): 151766-151774. Impact Factor 3.367 
5.    Muhammad Atif Butt, Asad Masood Khattak, Sarmad Shafique, Bashir Hayat, Saima Abid, Ki-Il Kim, Muhammad Waqas Ayub, Ahthasham Sajid, Awais Adnan, “Convolutional Neural Network Based Vehicle Classification in Adverse Illuminous Conditions for Intelligent Transportation Systems,” Complexity, 2021, Impact Factor 2.833 
6.    Muhammad Atif Butt, Faisal Riaz, Shehzad Khalid, Samia Abid, Muhammad Asif Habib, Sarmad Shafique, Kijun Han, “Micro-electromechanical system based optimized steering angle estimation mechanism for customized self-driving vehicles,” Measurement and Control, 2021, Impact Factor 1.704

International Conference Publications:
1.    Sarmad Shafique, Samabia Tehsin, Syed Anas and Farrukh Masud, “Computer-assisted Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia detection and diagnosis” 2019 2nd International Conference on Communication, Computing and Digital systems (C-CODE), pp. 184-189. IEEE, 2019
2.    Sarmad Shafique, Samia Abid, Faisal Riaz, and Zainab Ejaz. "Computer Vision based Autonomous Navigation in Controlled Environment." In 2021 International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Industry (ICRAI), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2021
3.    Muneeb Zafar, Sarmad Shafique, Faisal Riaz, Samia Abid, Umar Raza, and William Holderbaum. "A Cost-effective Smart Labor Assistance Trolley for Industrial Applications." In 2023 International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Industry (ICRAI), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2023

Research Award:
Best Session Paper Award for the Paper "Computer Vision based Autonomous Navigation in Controlled Environment" presented at ICRAI 2021
 

Interests

• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning
• Deep Learning
• Bio-medical Image Processing
• Computer Vision
• Autonomous Vehicles
• Programming