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Prof. Dr. Narmeen Zakaria Bawany

    Dean, Faculty of Science
  • Dr. Narmeen Zakaria Bawany is a Professor of Computer Science at Jinnah University for Women, Karachi Pakistan. She has over 20 years of experience in teaching, research, and administration. She is currently working as a Dean, Faculty of Science and is also the Head of the department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Jinnah University for Women, Karachi, Pakistan. She has completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science from National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan. Her research areas include Human Computer Interaction, Cloud Computing, Blockchain technology, NFTs, Deep Learning, Cyber security, and Software Defined Networking. In addition to her educational leadership, she has also made significant contributions to the field of computer science through her research endeavors which include more than 50 publications. She has supervised numerous projects, providing guidance and mentorship to aspiring researchers. Dr. Bawany's contributions to academia extend beyond the classroom. She has been a strong advocate for women in technology and has played a pivotal role in empowering female students to pursue careers in computer science.
  • Google Website: https://sites.google.com/site/narmeenzakariabawany
  • Phone: +92(021)36620614
  • Email: [email protected], [email protected]
  • Ext: 247,248

Career Summary

Year Rank Company/Institute/University
2019 to date Dean Faculty of Science, Jinnah University for Women
2019 to date Professor Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Jinnah University for Women
2016 to 2023 Chairperson Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Jinnah University for Women
2008 to 2019 Associate Professor Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Jinnah University for Women

Publications

Year Publications
01 2023 Zahoor, K., & Bawany, N. Z. (2023). Explainable artificial intelligence approach towards classifying educational android app reviews using deep learning. Interactive Learning Environments, 1-26. .
02 Qamar, T., & Bawany, N. Z. (2023). Agri-PAD: a scalable framework for smart agriculture. Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 29(3), 1597-1605.
03 Hamid, S., & Bawany, N. Z. (2023). ACME: automated classification model for E-learning feedback. Interactive Learning Environments, 1-28.
04 Bawany, N. Z., Rehman, W., & Imran, J. (2023). Design and development of virtual reality exposure therapy systems: requirements, challenges and solutions. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 1-24.
05 Mahmood, S., Bawany, N. Z., & Tanweer, M. R. (2023). A comprehensive survey of whale optimization algorithm: modifications and classification. Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 29(2), 899
06 2022 Bawany, Narmeen Zakaria, Tehreem Qamar, Hira Tariq, and Saifullah Adnan. "Integrating Healthcare Services Using Blockchain-Based Telehealth Framework." IEEE Access 10 (2022): 36505-36517.
07 Ahmed HA, Hameed A, Bawany NZ. 2022. Network intrusion detection using oversampling technique and machine learning algorithms. PeerJ Computer Science 8:e820 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.820
08 Hamid, S., & Bawany, N. Z. (2022, February). Acids: A secure smart city framework and threat model. In 4th International Conference on Wireless, Intelligent and Distributed Environment for Communication: WIDECOM 2021 (pp. 79-98). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
09 Hamid, S., Bawany, N. Z., Sodhro, A. H., Lakhan, A., & Ahmed, S. (2022). A systematic review and IoMT based big data framework for COVID-19 prevention and detection. Electronics, 11(17), 2777.
10 Zahoor, K., & Bawany, N. Z. (2022, October). ALF-Ambient Assisted Living for Healthcare Framework Based on IoMT and Big Data. In The Proceedings of the International Conference on Smart City Applications (pp. 291-298). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
11 Zainab, H. E., Bawany, N. Z., Imran, J., & Rehman, W. (2022). Virtual dimension—a primer to metaverse. IT Professional, 24(6), 27-33.
12 Zahoor, K., Bawany, N. Z., & Hameed, A. (2022). Blockchain applications for Covid-19-a survey. Suranaree Journal of Science & Technology, 29(5), 1-13.
13 2021 H. A. Ahmed, N. Z. Bawany and J. A. Shamsi, "CaPBug-A Framework for Automatic Bug Categorization and Prioritization Using NLP and Machine Learning Algorithms," in IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 50496-50512, 2021.
14 Tehreem Qamar, and Narmeen Zakaria Bawany. "Impact of COVID-19 on Higher Education in Pakistan: An Exploratory Study." IJERI: International Journal of Educational Research and Innovation 15 (2021): 503-518.
15 Dootio, M. A., Lakhan, A., Sodhro, A. H., Groenli, T. M., Bawany, N. Z., & Kumar, S. (2022). Secure and failure hybrid delay enabled a lightweight RPC and SHDS schemes in Industry 4.0 aware IIoHT enabled fog computing. Mathematical biosciences and engineering, 19(1), 513-536.
16 Iqbal, S., Bawany, N. Z., & Zulfiqar, A. (2021, January). Blockchain Based Security and Privacy in VANETs. In International Conference on Digital Technologies and Applications (pp. 469-482). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
17 Fatima, K., Zahoor, K., & Zakaria Bawany, N. (2021, April). SDN Control Plane Security: Attacks and Mitigation Techniques. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Networking, Information Systems & Security (pp. 1-6).
18 Ilyas, A., Obaid, S., & Bawany, N. Z. (2021, December). Multilevel Classification of Pakistani News using Machine Learning. In 2021 22nd International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT) (pp. 1-5). IEEE.
19 Rehman, W., e Zainab, H., Imran, J., & Bawany, N. Z. (2021, December). NFTs: Applications and challenges. In 2021 22nd International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT) (pp. 1-7). IEEE.
20 Kainat Hanif, Narmeen Bawany* , Kainat Siddiq, Habiba Shareef, Maryam Rizwan, and Rida Amir, “AWECURE VR: A SOLUTION FOR PHOBIA DISORDER USING VIRTUAL REALITY THERAPY”, Suranaree Journal of Science and Technology Vol: 27 No. 3 (2020).
21 2020 Kanwal Zahoor, Narmeen Zakaria Bawany, and Soomaiya Hamid. "Sentiment Analysis and Classification of Restaurant Reviews using Machine Learning."
22 Maida Ahtesham, Narmeen Zakaria Bawany, and Kiran Fatima. "House Price Prediction using Machine Learning Algorithm-The Case of Karachi City, Pakistan." 2020 21st International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT). IEEE, 2020.
23 Soomaiya Hamid, N. Z. Bawany and K. Zahoor, "Assessing Ecommerce Websites: Usability and Accessibility Study," 2020 International Conference on Advanced Computer Science and Information Systems (ICACSIS), Depok, Indonesia, 2020, pp. 199-204, doi: 10.1109/ICACSIS51025.2020.9263162.
24 Qamar, Tehreem, Narmeen Zakaria Bawany, Sadia Javed, and Saima Amber. "Smart City Services Ontology (SCSO): Semantic Modeling of Smart City Applications." In 2019 Seventh International Conference on Digital Information Processing and Communications (ICDIPC), pp. 52-56. IEEE, 2019.
25 Obaid S., Bawany N., Tariq H.., Tahir A., Komal N. (2021) Recent Trends in Green Computing. In: Ben Ahmed M., Rakıp Karaș İ., Santos D., Sergeyeva O., Boudhir A.A. (eds) Innovations in Smart Cities Applications Volume 4. SCA 2020. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 183. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66840-2_82
26 Kiran Fatima, N. Z. Bawany and M. Bukhari, "Usability and Accessibility Evaluation of Banking Websites," 2020 International Conference on Advanced Computer Science and Information Systems (ICACSIS).
27 S. Hamna Bibi, Rumsha Muhammad Munaf, Narmeen Zakaria Bawany, Arifa Shamim, Zara Saleem. "Usability Evaluation of Islamic Learning Mobile Applications." Elkawnie 6.1 (2020): 1-12.
28 Tehreem Qamar, Narmeen Zakaria Bawany. "A Cyber Security Ontology for Smart City", International Journal on Information Technologies and Security, No.3 (vol. 12), 2020, pp. 63-74.
29 S. Hamna Bibi, Rumsha Muhammad Munaf, Narmeen Zakaria Bawany, Arifa Shamim, Zara Saleem. "Smart Learning Companion (SLAC)" International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET). Vol 15, No 16 (2020)
30 Tehreem Qamar, Narmeen Bawany and Najeed Khan. "EDAMS: Efficient Data Anonymization Model Selector for Privacy-Preserving Data Publishing", Engineering, Technology and Applied Science Research, vol. 10, no. 2, 2020, pp. 5423–5427., www.etasr.com/index.php/ETASR/article/view/3374.
31 2019 Kainat Siddiq, Narmeen Bawany, Tehreem Qamar, Ayesha Naveed, Bisma Arif, Mariam Usman, and Mehek Jamal. “CareD: Non-Pharmacological Assistance for Dementia Patients.” EAI Endorsed Transactions on Pervasive Health and Technology, September 16, 2019, 160073.
32 Narmeen Zakaria Bawany, and Jawwad A. Shamsi. "SEAL: SDN based secure and agile framework for protecting smart city applications from DDoS attacks." Journal of Network and Computer Applications 145 : 102381,(2019).
33 Tehreem Qamar, Narmeen Zakaria. Bawany, Sadia Javed and Saima Amber, "Smart City Services Ontology (SCSO): Semantic Modeling of Smart City Applications," 2019 Seventh International Conference on Digital Information Processing and Communications (ICDIPC), Trabzon, Turkey, 2019, pp. 52-56. doi: 10.1109/ICDIPC.2019.8723785
34 Soomaiya Hamid, Narmeen Bawany, and Shahzeb Khan. "AcSIS: Authentication System Based on Image Splicing." Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research 9, no. 5 (2019): 4808-4812.
35 Lariab Memon, Narmeen Bawany, Jawwad A Shamsi, A Comparison of Machine Learning Techniques for Android Malware Detection using Apache Spark ”, Journal of Engineering Science and Technology (JESTEC) Volume 14, Issue 3, (2019).
36 Hameed, Anum, Hafiza Anisa Ahmed, and Narmeen Zakaria Bawany. "Survey, Analysis and Issues of Islamic Android Apps." Elkawnie 5.1 : 1-15,(2019).
37 2018 Tehreem Qamar, Narmeen Zakaria Bawany, and Tehreem Hussain. "Report_It: Citizen Centric Approach towards e-Governance." International Journal of e-Education, e-Business, e-Management and e-Learning (IJEEEE) 2018 Vol.8(4): 212-218 ISSN: 2010-3654
38 Tariq, R., Rahim, M., Aslam, N., Bawany, N., & Faseeha, U. (2018, October). DronAID: A Smart Human Detection Drone for Rescue. In 2018 15th International Conference on Smart Cities: Improving Quality of Life Using ICT & IoT (HONET-ICT) (pp. 33-37). IEEE.
39 Shamsi, J. A., ul Hassan, S. Z., Bawany, N., & Shoaib, N. (2018, May). A Comprehensive Course on Big Data for Undergraduate Students. In 2018 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW) (pp. 353-360). IEEE.
40 2017 Narmeen Zakaria Bawany, Zubair A. Shaikh “Data Privacy Ontology for Ubiquitous Computing” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 8, Issue 2 2017 (ISI Indexed)
41 Narmeen Zakaria Bawany, Jawwad A. Shamsi, Khalid Saleh “DDoS Attack Detection and Mitigation using SDN: Methods, Practices, and Solutions”, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, February 2017 (ISI Indexed Impact Factor 0.78)
42 Tehreem Hussain, Kiran Atta, N.Z.Bawany, Tehreem Qamar, “Passwords and User Behavior” Journal of Computers, Volume 13, Number 6, June 2017. http://www.jcomputers.us/vol13/jcp1306-09.pdf
43 Soomaiya Hamid, Narmeen Zakaria Bawany and Jawwad Ahmed Shamsi, “ReCSDN: Resilient Controller for Software Defined Networks” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 8(8), 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080826
44 2016 Narmeen Zakaria Bawany, Zubair A. Shaikh, “Document Authentication Framework” Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2016 FAST-NU Research Journal,ISSN: 2313-7045
45 Narmeen Bawany, Sheeraz Ahmed, and Jawwad A. Shamsi. "Mitigating Malware for Effective Utilization of Network Resources at ISPs." The Third International Conference on Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Social Media (CSCESM) 2016, Greece
46 Narmeen Bawany, and Jawwad A. Shamsi. "Application Layer DDoS Attack Defense Framework for Smart City using SDN." The Third International Conference on Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Social Media (CSCESM) 2016, Greece
47 2015 Narmeen Zakaria Bawany and Jawwad A. Shamsi, “Smart City Architecture: Vision and Challenges” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 6(11), 2015.
48 2014 Hamna Khan, Munira Iqbal, and Narmeen Bawany. "Web Accessibility Evaluation of News Websites Using WCAG 2.0." published in Research Journal of Recent Sciences.Vol. 3(1), 23-32, January (2014) ISSN 2277: 2502
49 2013 Narmeen Bawany and Nazish Nouman. "A Step towards Better Understanding and Development of University Ontology " published in Research Journal of Recent Sciences Vol. 2(10), 57-60, October (2013) ISSN 2277: 2502