Faculty Usman Zia 1

Usman Zia

Adjunct Faculty
Summary

Enterprise Solutions Architect with more than 18 yrs experience in leading design and development teams for enterprise business applications. PhD in Generative AI. Asst Professor (adjunct) at SINES, NUST

Academic Background
PhD (Software Engineering) NUST, Islamabad October 14, 2015 - November 29, 2022
Honours and Awards
Publications
Reparameterized and regularized prompt learning based on feature attention for explainable recommendation system March 01, 2026 Applied Soft Computing - Volume 189, Article Number 114519
Robust bias mitigation using dual contrastive learning based text style transfer February 01, 2026 International Journal of Human Computer Studies - Volume:209, Article Number 103748
Efficient Text Style Transfer through Robust Masked Language Model and Iterative Inference December 12, 2024 IEEE Access - Volume 12, Pages 182353-182373
Deep-view linguistic and inductive learning (DvLIL) based framework for Image Retrieval November 01, 2023 Information Sciences - Volume 649, Article Number: 119641
An Effective Model for Indirect Trust Computation in Pervasive Computing Environment April 01, 2014 Wireless Personal Communications - Volume: 75 Issue: 3 Pages: 1689-1713 Special Issue: SI
A mechanism for detecting dishonest recommendation in indirect trust computation July 13, 2013 EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Article Number: 189
Conferences
Remote Sensing Cross-Modal Text-Image Retrieval Using Multi-Grade Dynamic Feature Fusion April 23, 2025 - April 24, 2025 Fatima Ali, Naima Iltaf, Usman Zia, 2025 International Conference on Communication Technologies, ComTech 2025
Lt Col GHQ April 13, 2003 - April 29, 2023