Education

PhD Software Engineering (University of Malaya)

Masters in Computer Science (CUI Islamabad)

Bachelors in Computer Science (VU Islamabad)

Research Interests

• Automated Software Engineering
• Intelligent/AI methodologies for SE
• Natural language-based SE
• Software Architecture, SOA
• Requirements engineering
• Evidence-based SE
• Software Maintenance & Evolution
• Software Quality Assurance
• Transformers-based Language Models (LLMs)
• PEFT Language Models
• Decision support systems
• Soft computing/Fuzzy Systems
• Mathematical optimization

Selected Publications

Alam, K. A. & Haroon, M. (2024). A Data-driven API recommendation approach for Service Mashup composition. International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management: Accepted (ISI, Scopus Indexed)

Ahmed, M., Khan, S. U. R., & Alam, K. A. (2023). An NLP-based quality attributes extraction and prioritization framework in Agile-driven software development. Automated Software Engineering, 30(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10515-022-00371-9. (ISI, Scopus indexed)

Iqbal, U., Imtiaz, R., Saudagar, A. K. J., & Alam, K. A. (2023). CRV-NET: Robust Intensity Recognition of Coronavirus in Lung Computerized Tomography Scan Images. Diagnostics, 13(10), 1783. (ISI, Scopus indexed)

Ajmal, S., Sarfraz, M. S., Memon, I., Bilal, M., & Alam, K. A. (2023). PUB-VEN: a personalized recommendation system for suggesting publication venues. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 1-22. (ISI, Scopus indexed)

Abbas, S. M., Alam, K. A., & Shamshirband, S. (2019). A Soft-Rough Set Based Approach for Handling Contextual Sparsity in Context-Aware Video Recommender Systems. Mathematics, 7(8), 740. (ISI, Scopus indexed)

Zakari, A., Lee, S., Alam, K. A., & Ahmad, R. (2018). Software Fault Localization: A Systematic Mapping Study. IET Software. (ISI, Scopus indexed)

Alam, K. A., Ahmad, R., & Ko, K. (2017). Enabling far-edge analytics: performance profiling of frequent pattern mining algorithms. IEEE Access, 5, 8236-8249. (ISI, Scopus indexed)

Al-Shamayleh, A. S., Ahmad, R., Abushariah, M. A. M., Alam, K. A., & Jomhari, N. (2018). A systematic literature review on vision based gesture recognition techniques. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 77(21), 28121–28184. (ISI, Scopus indexed)

Alam, K. A., Ahmad, R., Akhunzada, A., Nasir, M. H. N. M., & Khan, S. U. (2015). Impact analysis and change propagation in service-oriented enterprises: A systematic review. Information Systems, 54, 43–73. (ISI, Scopus indexed)

Mohammadi, K., Shamshirband, S., Tong, C. W., Alam, K. A., & Petković, D. (2015). Potential of adaptive neuro-fuzzy system for prediction of daily global solar radiation by day of the year. Energy Conversion and Management, 93, 406–413. (ISI, Scopus indexed)

 

Teaching Courses

Software Design & Architecture
Software Requirements Engineering
Software Engineering
Object-oriented Analysis & Design, Software Analysis & Design,
Software Quality Assurance
Secure Software Engineering
Intro. To Programming
Empirical Software Engineering
Software Metrics & Process

Memberships

• Professional Member ACM (5433020)
• Member, ACM SIGSOFT- ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering
• Member, IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering (IEEE CS TCSE)
• Member, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Business Informatics and Systems (IEEE CS TCBIS)
• Member, International Society on MCDM (Multiple Criteria Decision Making)
• Member, Malaysian Software Engineering Interest Group (MySEIG)
• Member, Pakistan Agile Development Society (PADS)

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all.

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