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Awards & Honors

Recognition for research, teaching and service. Most of this work is shared with students and collaborators, and I am grateful to them and to my colleagues. The list below follows my CV.

• Recipient of the Qatar University Outstanding Faculty Service Award (OFSA) for the Academic Year 2025 - 2026.Qatar Tribune report ↗
• Recipient of the QU College of Engineering Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching, May 2026.
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• Recipient of the QU College of Engineering Dean's Award for Excellence in Service, May 2025.
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• Recipient of the QU College of Engineering Dean's Award for Excellence in Research, May 2024.
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• IEEE Education Society Distinguished Lecturer 2025–2026.
• ACM's Distinguished Speaker 2020–2026.
• ACM Senior Member, 2020.
• Awarded the Best Paper Award for the following conferences:

  • 12th EAI International Wireless Internet Conference (WICON) 2019, TaiChung, Taiwan.
  • 2nd IEEE International Conference on Advancements in Computational Sciences (ICACS'19), Lahore, Pakistan.
  • 7th International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering (ICCCE), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2018.
• IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON) Most Cited Paper granted for the paper, “Engineering Education in the Era of ChatGPT: Promise and Pitfalls of Generative AI for Education”, at IEEE EDUCON 2025, London, UK.
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• Awarded 1st Prize in the 2023 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Prize Paper Award for the paper, “Secure and Robust Machine Learning for Healthcare: A Survey,” published in IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering (RBME) in 2020.
• Awarded the Outstanding Paper Award in the 2023 Emerald Literati Awards for the article, “Toward accountable human-centered AI: rationale and promising directions,” published in the Emerald Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society.
• Awarded the Best University Teacher Award by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan for the year 2012-2013.
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• IEEE Senior Member, 2014.
• Editor's Choice Article, MDPI Future Internet, First Half of 2023, Quantum Computing for Healthcare: A Review (https://doi.org/10.3390/fi15030094).
• Selected as the Associate Editor of the month by IEEE Access, May 2016.
• Recipient of the Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) PhD scholarship, 2006 to 2008.
• Recipient of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) Split PhD scholarship, 2002.
• Paper shortlisted for the best paper award in IEEE WoWMoM 2008.
• Nominated for the HEC best teacher award two times—first for 2011 and the second for 2012-2013. Nominated for the best teacher award from the “Communication and Networks” knowledge group at SEECS, NUST in 2012.
• Supervisor of the Best Poster Award winner at the Qatar University Annual Research Forum & Exhibition (QUARFE'25), Information and Communications Technologies discipline (Undergraduate Students).
• Included in the list of top scientists by researchers (Top 2% of Researchers Worldwide) from Stanford University led by Dr. John PA Ioannidis in terms of productivity and impact in the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, and for career-long impact.