Machine Learning, Data Science, Pattern Recognition and Deep Learning; 

Computational Intelligence Algorithms for Biological Data Classification, Bioinformatics and Big Data Mining.

Journals

1. S. Y. Arafat and M. J. Iqbal, "Urdu-Text Detection and Recognition in Natural Scene Images Using Deep Learning," in IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 96787-96803, 2020, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2994214. (IF 4.098)
2. S. Y. Arafat and M. J. Iqbal, "Two Stream Deep Neural Network for Sequence-Based Urdu Ligature Recognition," in IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 159090-159099, 2019, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2950537. (IF 4.098)
3. Shah, S.H., Iqbal, M.J., Ahmad, I. et al. Optimized gene selection and classification of cancer from microarray gene expression data using deep learning. Neural Comput & Applic (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-020-05367-8
4. Arafat, S.Y., Ashraf, N., Iqbal, M.J. et al. Urdu signboard detection and recognition using deep learning. Multimed Tools Appl (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-020-10175-2.
5. Faryal Farooq, Qamar Nawaz, Isma Hamid, Mushhad Mustuzhar, M Javed Iqbal, “DWT Based Image Fusion Technique for Infrared and Visible Images Using Particle Swarm Optimization”, Technical Journal, University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Taxila, Pakistan, Vol. 25 No. 1-2020. (X- Category)
6. Amjad Farooq, Shah Rukh Humayoun, M Munwar Iqbal, M Javed Iqbal, ” EAUHHCAMA: Extending and Adapting Usability Heuristics for Healthcare related Context Aware Mobile Applications”. Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics 2019 (In Printing) (IF 0.549)
7. Jilong Li, Memoona Mushtaq, Ayesha Mariam, Shehzad Khalid, Muhammad Ahsan  Latif, Muhammaad Munwar Iqbal, M  Javed Iqbal, “Hazy Glimpse Crook virtual assistant for blind and visual impaired community healthcare”.  Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics 2019 (In Printing) (IF 0.549)
8. Rana Iqrar, M Javed Iqbal, M Bakhsh, “Sentiment Analysis of Social Media Contents using Machine Learning Algorithms”, Technical Journal, University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Taxila, Pakistan, Vol. 24 No. 4-2019. (X- Category).
9. Awais Mahmood, Mushhad Mustuzhar, M Javed Iqbal, Zeeshan Haider, Saqib Daud, “Analysis and Evaluation of Secure Solutions for Terrestrial Networks”, Technical Journal, University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Taxila, Pakistan, Vol. 24 No. 4-2019. (X- Category).
10. Iftikhar Ahmad, M Javed Iqbal, Mohammad Basheri, “Biological Data Classification and Analysis Using Convolutional Neural Network”, Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics 2019 (IF 0.549)
11. Awais, M., Iqbal, M. J., Ahmad, I., Alassafi, M. O., Alghamdi, R., Basheri, M., & Waqas, M. (2019). Real-Time Surveillance Through Face Recognition Using HOG and Feedforward Neural Networks. IEEE Access, 7, 121236-121244. (IF 4.098).
12. Iqbal, M. J., I. Faye, B. B. Samir and A. Md Said (2014). "Computational Technique for Efficient Classification of Protein Sequences with Distance Based Feature Encoding" Computational Intelligence Wiley-Blackwell 2015: 12 (IF=0.78).
13. Iqbal, M. J., I. Faye, B. B. Samir and A. Md Said (2014). "Efficient Feature Selection and Classification of Protein Sequence Data in Bioinformatics" The Scientific World Journal 2014: 12 (IF 1.21(2014)).
14. I. Ahmad, M. Basheri, M. J. Iqbal and A. Rahim, "Performance Comparison of Support Vector Machine, Random Forest, and Extreme Learning Machine for Intrusion Detection," in IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp. 33789-33795, 2018. (IF 4.098).
15. M. Z. Din, S. M. Adnan, M. J. Iqbal, W. Ahmad, S. Aziz, J. Rashid, W. Ismail, Classification of Disease in Tomato Plants' Leaf Using Image Segmentation and SVM, Technical Journal, University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Taxila, Pakistan Vol. 23 No. 2-2018. (X-Category)
16. Sikandar Ejaz, Hafsa Bibi, M Javed Iqbal, Shahbaz Pervez, Kawther A. Al-Dhlan, Seyed Ebrahim Hosseini, Operating System for Data Centers: A Survey, International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences (IJAAS), Jan 2020. (HJRS: Y- Category)
17. M. Bakhsh, I. Ahmad, M. Javed Iqbal, and A. A. Alelaiwi, "An assessment of authentication and key management protocol of IEEE 802.16d (WIMAX) Wireless Mesh Networks" Information (Japan), vol. 16, pp. 3005-3012, 2013. (HJRS: Y- Category)
18. Rizwan Rashid, Asif Nawaz, M Javed Iqbal, “A survey on sentiment classification algorithms, challenges and applications”, Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Informatica, Vol 10, 1-2018. (SCIE indexed)
19. Shamveel Hussain, Muhammad Javed Iqbal, Muhammad Bakhsh, Amjad Iqbal, “Analysis of Different Clustering Algorithms for Accurate Knowledge Extraction from Popular Data Sets”, Inf. Sci. Lett. 9, No. 1, 51- 55 (2020).
20. Nabeel Ashraf, Syed Yasser Arafat, M. Javed Iqbal, An Analysis of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Methods, International Journal of Computational Linguistics Research, Vol. 10 No. 3 2019. pp. 81-91.
21. Shakeela Bibi, M Javed Iqbal, Adnan Iftekhar, Analysis of Compression Techniques for DNA Sequence Data, EUROPEAN ACADEMIC RESEARCH, Vol. 6 No. 1-2018.

Book Chapter

1. Bakhsh, Muhammad, Amjad Mahmood, Nazir A. Sangi and Muhammad Javed Iqbal. "M-Learning Acceptance Among Faculty and Students in Pakistan: A Structural Equation Modeling." Structural Equation Modeling Approaches to E-Service Adoption. IGI Global, 2019. 187-221.
2. Iqbal, M. J., I. Faye, A. Said, and B. Samir, "Data Mining of Protein Sequences with Amino Acid Position-Based Feature Encoding Technique" in Proceedings of the First International Conference on Advanced Data and Information Engineering (DaEng-2013). vol. 285, T. Herawan, M. M. Deris, and J. Abawajy, Eds., ed: Springer Singapore, 2014, pp. 119-126.

Conferences

1. Yosha Jawad, Muhammad Javed Iqbal, Pakistan Stock Exchange Analysis and Forecasting using Hybrid Machine Learning Technique, 2020 IEEE 23rd International Multitopic Conference (INMIC), 2020
2. Asif, Mehmood, Iqbal M. Javed, Hassan Dawood, Ping, Guo, “Computationally Efficient Low Power Neuron Model for Digital Brain” 14th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security (CIS) 2018.
3. Huzaifa Rashid, Nauman Zafar, M Javed Iqbal, Hassan Dawood, Hussain Dawood, “Single Image Dehazing using CNN”, 2018 International Conference on Identification, Information and Knowledge in the Internet of Things, IIKI 2018.
4. J Rashid, SM Adnan, M Javed Iqbal, MW Nisar, A Irtaza, SY Arafat, Advertiser's perception of Internet marketing for small and medium enterprises in Pakistan, 2018 International Conference on Computing, Mathematics and Engineering Technologies (iCoMET 2018).
5. Iqbal, M. J., I. Faye, A. Said, and B. Samir, “Classification of GPCRs Proteins Using a Statistical Encoding Method”, IEEE IJCNN 2016.
6. Iqbal, M. J., I. Faye, A. Said, and B. Samir, “Optimized Tree-Classification Algorithm for the Classification of Protein Sequences”, in IEEE International Symposium on Mathematical Sciences and Computing (iSMSC) 2015.
7. Iqbal, M. J., I. Faye, A. Said, and B. Samir, “Computational Intelligence Techniques for Biological Data Mining: An Overview”, in the proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Fundamental and Applied Sciences (ICFAS2014), UTP ESTCON 2014.
8. Iqbal, M. J., I. Faye, A. Said, and B. Samir, “An Efficient Computational Intelligence Technique for Classification of Protein Sequences” in the proceedings of Second International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences, ICCOINs 2014 UTP ESTCON 2014.
9. Iqbal, M. J., I. Faye, A. Said, and B. Samir, “A Distance-Based Feature-Encoding Technique for Protein Sequence Classification in Bioinformatics”, in Proceedings of IEEE 2013 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Cybernetics (IEEE CyberneticsCom 2013).

1. Principal Investigator of NRPU 2016 research funding of approximately 2.3 Million PKR.
2. Principal Investigator of a PG Research Project of worth 500,000 PKR titled” Big Data Analysis & Visualization using State of Art Machine Learning Techniques”

Postraudate and Underraduate Classes.

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• International Conference on Advanced Data and Information Engineering (DaEng-2013)
• 14th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security (CIS) 2018.
• International Conference on Identification, Information and Knowledge in the Internet of Things, IIKI 2018.
• 2018 International Conference on Computing, Mathematics and Engineering Technologies (iCoMET 2018).
• International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
• IEEE International Symposium on Mathematical Sciences and Computing (iSMSC) 2015.
• International Conference on Fundamental and Applied Sciences (ICFAS2014), UTP ESTCON 2014.
• International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences, ICCOINs 2014 UTP ESTCON 2014.
• IEEE 2013 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Cybernetics (IEEE CyberneticsCom 2013 Indonesia

• Deep Learning Based Cursive Script Detection and Recognition in Outdoor Roads Environment.
• An Efficient Computational Model of Biological Neuron of Human Brain.
• Optimized Gene Selection and Classification of Cancer from Microarray Gene Expression Data Using Deep Learning
• Insightful Predictions and visual analytics of Biological Inspired Data.
• Design and Development of an Intelligent Real-Time Security and Surveillance System for Smart Public/Private Organizations
• Stock Value Prediction and Classification Using State of the Art Machine Learning Techniques
• Grammatical Evolution of Neural Networks for Forecasting the Stock Price and Volume
• Prediction and classification of Cardiovascular and Thyroid Disease using Risk Factors
• Sentiment Analysis of the popular Social Media Networks.
• Recommender System for Gender Prediction from Text.
• Natural Language Processing for handling Structured and Unstructured Data.

• Instructor of the two days short course on pattern recognition for biomedical applications organized by Centre for Intelligent Signal and Imaging Research (CISIR), Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia.
• One Week Workshop on Big Data Analytics and Cloud Computing for High Performance Computing at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia.
• Five days Training on state of the art Techniques of Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition for Analysis and Predictions at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.
• Workshop on Data Science and Future Predictions at COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Wah Cantt.
• Two Days Workshop on Outcome Based Education (OBE) for Technologist and Graduate Assistant on 19th December, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia.
• Three days Training Course on PC2 Software Training at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia.
• Analsysis of Next Generation Sequencing Data at COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Islamabad Campus