Muhammad Usman Shahid
Associate Professor
- School of Interdisciplinary Engineering & Sciences
- 3349653930
Summary
M. U. S. Khan completed a PhD in 2015 from the North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA. He also received a MS degree in 2008 from National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan and a BCS (Hons) degree in 2005 from Bahauddin Zakariya University, Pakistan. Currently, he is an Associate Professor with SINES, NUST, Pakistan. Dr. Khan’s research interests include data mining, AI, and computer security.
Academic Background
PhD
(Electrical and Computer Engineering) North Dakota State University
August 20, 2012 - September 07, 2015
Honours and Awards
Publications
Robotic Capsules: Precision in Ingestible Robots
October 01, 2025
Computer - Volume:58, Issue:10, Page(s): 61-68
Improved Open World Object Detection Using Class-Wise Feature Space Learning
November 29, 2023
IEEE Access - Volume 11, Pages 131221-131236
Explainable YouTube Video Identification Using Sufficient Input Subsets
April 05, 2023
IEEE Access - Volume 11, Pages 33178-33188
E-Ensemble: A Novel Ensemble Classifier for Encrypted Video Identification
December 08, 2022
Electronics - Volume 11, Issue 24, Article Number 4076
Fingerprinting Technique for YouTube Videos Identification in Network Traffic
July 26, 2022
IEEE Access - Volume 10, Pages 76731-76741
SCNN-Attack: A Side-Channel Attack to Identify YouTube Videos in a VPN and Non-VPN Network Traffic
January 24, 2022
Electronics - Volume 11, Issue 3, Article Number 350
Beyond the horizon, backhaul connectivity for offshore iot devices
October 21, 2021
Energies - Volume 14, Issue 21, Article Number 6918
Adadb: Adaptive diff-batch optimization technique for gradient descent
July 20, 2021
IEEE Access - Volume 9, Pages 99581-99588
A robust optimization technique for energy cost minimization of cloud data centers
April 01, 2021
IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing - Volume 9, Issue 2, Pages 447-460
Blockchain-based decentralized workload and energy management of geo-distributed data centers
March 16, 2021
Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems - Volume 29, Part B, Article Number 100461
HateClassify: A Service Framework for Hate Speech Identification on Social Media
February 03, 2021
IEEE Internet Computing - Volume 25, Issue 1, Pages 40-49
SeSPHR: A Methodology for Secure Sharing of Personal Health Records in the Cloud
January 01, 2021
IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing - Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages 347-359
Machine learning based energy management model for smart grid and renewable energy districts
October 21, 2020
IEEE Access - Volume 8, Pages 185059-185078
An Ancillary Services Model for Data Centers and Power Systems
October 01, 2020
IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing - Volume 8, Issue 4, Pages 1176-1188
A cost-effective electric vehicle intelligent charge scheduling method for commercial smart parking lots using a simplified convex relaxation technique
August 27, 2020
Sensors - Volume 20, Issue 17, Article Number 4842
Requirement Validation for Embedded Systems in Automotive Industry through Modeling
January 15, 2020
IEEE Access - Volume 8, Pages 8697-8719
An Adaptive Distributed Averaging Integral Control Scheme for Micro-Grids with Renewable Intermittency and Varying Operating Cost
January 02, 2020
IEEE Access - Volume 8, Pages 455-464
Adaptive filtering on gps-aided mems-imu for optimal estimation of ground vehicle trajectory
December 05, 2019
Sensors - Volume 19, Issue 24, Article Number 5357
Towards a fog enabled efficient car parking architecture
November 13, 2019
IEEE Access - Volume 7, Pages 159100-159111
An optimal ride sharing recommendation framework for carpooling services
November 14, 2018
IEEE Access - Volume 6, Pages 62296-62313
Segregating Spammers and Unsolicited Bloggers from Genuine Experts on Twitter
July 01, 2018
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing - Volume15, Issue 4, Pages 551-560
On the Correlation of Sensor Location and Human Activity Recognition in Body Area Networks (BANs)
March 01, 2018
IEEE Systems Journal - Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages 82-91
Analysis of online social network connections for identification of influential users: Survey and open research issues
January 31, 2018
ACM Computing Surveys - Volume 51, Issue 1, Article Number 16
MobiContext: A Context-Aware Cloud-Based Venue Recommendation Framework
October 01, 2017
IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing - Volume 5, Issue 4, Pages 712-724
MacroServ: A Route Recommendation Service for Large-Scale Evacuations
July 01, 2017
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing - Volume 10, Issue 4, Pages 589-602
Personalized healthcare cloud services for disease risk assessment and wellness management using social media
June 01, 2016
Pervasive and Mobile Computing - Volume 28, Pages 81-99
EvacSys: A Cloud-Based Service for Emergency Evacuation
February 26, 2016
IEEE Cloud Computing - Volume 3, Issue 1, Pages 60-68
A survey on energy-efficient methodologies and architectures of network-on-chip
November 01, 2014
Computers & Electrical Engineering - Volume 40, Issue 8, Pages 333-347
OmniSuggest: A ubiquitous cloud-based context-aware recommendation system for mobile social networks
July 01, 2014
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing - Volume 7, Issue 3, Pages 401-414
Conferences
Small Object Detection with Super-Resolution Cascaded YOLOv4: An Average Precision Analysis
December 15, 2025 - December 16, 2025
Sharaz Javed, Muhammad Usman Shahid, Syed Irtiza Ali Shah, Maqsood Mahmud, Muhammad Tariq Saeed,
2025 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT)
The Unseen Hand: Manipulating Model Fairness and SHAP with Targeted Identity Re-Association Attacks
November 30, 2025 - December 02, 2025
Mohammad Amir Sannaan Ullah Khan, Muhammad Usman Shahid,
5th Muslims in ML Workshop co-located with NeurIPS 2025
Selecting Loss-Function for Unseen (Out-of-Distribution) Action Recognition in Videos
April 10, 2024 - April 12, 2024
Hasanat Ahmed Lodhi, Aymen Tariq, Areej Bashir, Muhammad Jawad, Syed Mustafa Hassan Gilani, Raheem Sarwar, Muhamamd A. B. Fayyaz, Muhammad Usman Shahid,
The Research & Innovation Forum (Rii Forum) 2024
Enhancing Android Platform Security: Investigating Malware Patterns with Sufficient Input Subset
December 11, 2023 - December 12, 2023
Farrakh Nazir, Neeli Khan, Muhammad Usman Shahid, Ahmad Fayyaz,
2023 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT)
Encrypted video identification - Normalization and activation function perspective
May 17, 2023 - May 18, 2023
Syed M. A. H. Bukhari, Waleed Afandi, Tahir Maqsood, Muhammad Usman Shahid,
2023 International Conference on Communication, Computing and Digital Systems (C-CODE)
Analysis of Intrusion Detection Using Ensemble Stacking-Based Machine Learning Techniques in IoT Networks
May 08, 2023 - May 10, 2023
Rao Naveed Bin Rais, Osman Khalid, Jazib -e Nazar, Muhammad Usman Shahid,
International Conference on Advances in Computing Research 2023
Examining Malware Patterns in Android Platform using Sufficient Input Subset (SIS)
February 04, 2023 - February 05, 2023
Farrakh Nazir, Muhammad Usman Shahid, Neeli Khan, Ahmad Fayyaz,
2023 International Multi-disciplinary Conference in Emerging Research Trends (IMCERT)
YouTube Video Identification in Encrypted Network Traffic —A Case of Attacking Assumptions
December 16, 2022 - December 20, 2022
Syed S. Hassan, Syed M. A. H. Bukhari, Muhammad Usman Shahid, Tahir Maqsood,
2022 19th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and Technology (IBCAST)
A Bucket-Based Data Pre-Processing Method for Encrypted Video Detection
October 17, 2022 - October 19, 2022
Waleed Afandi, Syed M. A. H. Bukhari, Muhammad Usman Shahid, Tahir Maqsood, Samee U. Khan,
35th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering
Traffic Pattern Plot: Video Identification in Encrypted Network Traffic
August 24, 2022 - August 27, 2022
Ali S. Kamal, Syed M. A. H. Bukhari, Muhammad Usman Shahid, Tahir Maqsood, Muhammad A. B. Fayyaz,
6th WorldS4 2022
Malware Detection and Classification along with Trade-off Analysis for Number of Features, Feature Types, and Speed
December 13, 2021 - December 14, 2021
Duaa Baig, Muhammad Usman Shahid, Darren Dancey, Assad Abbas, Mazhar Ali, Raheel Nawaz,
2021 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT)
ISP can identify YouTube videos that you just watched
December 13, 2021 - December 14, 2021
Muhammad Usman Shahid, Syed M. A. H. Bukhari, Shazir A. Khan, Tahir Maqsood,
2021 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT)
Malware Detection in Android via Neural Network using Entropy Features
December 13, 2021 - December 14, 2021
Neeli Khan, Duua Baig, Muhammad Usman Shahid, Assad Abbas, Mazhar Ali,
2021 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT)
Social media, AI, and political affiliation
November 09, 2021 - November 10, 2021
Syed M. A. H. Bukhari, Muhammad Usman Shahid, Tariq Khan, Mazhar Ali,
2021 International Conference on Innovative Computing (ICIC)
AdaDiffGrad: An Adaptive Batch Size Implementation Technique for DiffGrad Optimization Method
November 17, 2020 - November 18, 2020
Wajid Khan, Sara Ali, Muhammad Usman Shahid, Muhammad Jawad, Mazhar Ali, Raheel Nawaz,
2020 14th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT)
Malware Classification Framework using Convolutional Neural Network
October 20, 2020 - October 21, 2020
Mamoona Khan, Duua Baig, Muhammad Usman Shahid, Ahmad Karim,
2020 International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security (ICCWS)
Synonym-based Attack to Confuse Machine Learning Classifiers Using Black-box Setting
December 10, 2019 - December 11, 2019
Aasher Khan, Suriya Rehman, Muhammad Usman Shahid, Mazhar Ali,
2019 4th International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering, Sciences and Technology (ICEEST)
A Conditional-Constraint Optimization for Joint Energy Management of Data Center and Electric Vehicle Parking-Lot
October 21, 2019 - October 24, 2019
Sara Sajid , Muhammad Bilal Qureshi, Muhammad Jawad, Muhammad Usman Shahid, Sahibzada Muhammad Ali, Samee U. Khan,
2019 Tenth International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC)
Associate Professor
COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus
May 23, 2023 - February 28, 2024
Assistant Professor
COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus
August 24, 2015 - May 21, 2023
Lecturer
COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus
August 22, 2008 - August 23, 2015