Faculty Profile

Dr. Muhammad Atif Tahir

Professor and Program Coordinator, Graduate & Postgraduate Programs (CS)

Department: Computer Science

Specialization:Computer Science

Onboard Status: Available

Email: atiftahir@iba.edu.pk


Work Experience

  • Professor and Program Coordinator, Graduate & Postgraduate Programs (CS) at Institute of Business Administration, Karachi (Sep-2025 to PRESENT)
  • Professor at IBA, Karachi (Jan-2025 to Aug-2025)
  • Professor at FAST-NUCES, Karachi (Dec-2016 to Jan-2025)
  • Senior Lecturer at Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK (Jun-2015 to Nov-2016)
  • Assistant Professor at Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, KSA (Jan-2014 to May-2015)
  • Senior Researcher at Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK (Nov-2010 to Dec-2013)
  • Research Fellow at University of Surrey, Guildford, UK (May-2008 to Oct-2010)
  • Research Fellow at University of the West of England, Bristol, UK (Feb-2006 to Apr-2008)
  • Lecturer at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Aug-2001 to Dec-2003)

Academic Qualification

  • PhD (Computer Science), Queen’s University, Belfast, United Kingdom - 2005
  • MSc , King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, KSA - 2001
  • BE , NED Karachi - 1997

Research Interests

  • Computer Science

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Research Output

Journal Publication(s)

  • Muhammad Mustafa Ali Usmani, Dr. Muhammad Atif Tahir, Humna Faisal, Muhammad Rafi ,"Federated Unlearning using Diffusive Noise Injection",Information Fusion,Mar 01, 2026,,
  • Muhammad Rafi, Farhan Dhanani, Dr. Muhammad Atif Tahir ,"Tickling translations: Small but mighty open-sourced transformers bring English PUN-ny entities to life in French!",Computer Speech & Language,Jan 03, 2025,,
  • Sumaiyah Zahid, Dr. Muhammad Atif Tahir ,"Unlocking quantum SVM potential: optimal feature map generation and feature selection",Physica Scripta,Dec 27, 2024,,
  • Muhammad Shahzad, Adila Zain Ul Abedin Kadani, Dr. Muhammad Atif Tahir, Rauf Ahmed Shams Malick, Richard Jiang ,"DRPO: A deep learning technique for drug response prediction in oncology cell lines",Alexandria Engineering Journal,Oct 01, 2024,,
  • Muhammad Waqas, Syed Umaid Ahmed, Dr. Muhammad Atif Tahir, Jia Wu, Rizwan Qureshi ,"Exploring multiple instance learning (MIL): A brief survey",Expert Systems with Applications,Sep 24, 2024,,
  • Mohamed Albashir Omar, Fouad Khelifi, Dr. Muhammad Atif Tahir ,"Exudate and drusen classification in retinal images using bagged colour vector angles and inter colour local binary patterns",Multimedia Tools and Applications,May 01, 2024,,
  • Muhammad Waqas, Dr. Muhammad Atif Tahir, Sumaya Al-Maadeed, Ahmed Bouridane, Jia Wu ,"Simultaneous instance pooling and bag representation selection approach for multiple-instance learning (MIL) using vision transformer",Neural Computing and Applications,Apr 01, 2024,,
  • Z Khan, Dr. Muhammad Atif Tahir ,"Real time anatomical landmarks and abnormalities detection in gastrointestinal tract",PeerJ Computer Science,Dec 23, 2023,,
  • M Shahzad, Dr. Muhammad Atif Tahir, M Alhussein, A Mobin, R A Shams Malick, Muhammad Shahid Anwar ,"NeuPD: A neural network-based approach to predict antineoplastic drug response",Diagnostics,Jun 06, 2023,,

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