Dr.  Junaid Qadir

Junaid Qadir [SM'14] is a Professor at the Qatar University in Doha, Qatar, and the Information Technology University (ITU) of Punjab in Lahore, Pakistan. He directs the IHSAN Research Lab. His primary research interests are in the areas of computer systems and networking, applied machine learning, using ICT for development (ICT4D); human-beneficial artificial intelligence; ethics of technology, artificial intelligence, and data science; and engineering education. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed articles at various high-quality research venues including publications at top international research journals including IEEE Communication Magazine, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication (JSAC), IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (CST), and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). He was awarded the highest national teaching award in Pakistan—the higher education commission's (HEC) best university teacher award—for the year 2012-2013. He has obtained research grants from Facebook Research, Qatar National Research Fund, and the HEC, Pakistan. He has been appointed as ACM Distinguished Speaker for a three-year term starting from 2020. He is a senior member of IEEE and ACM.

• Adversarial Machine Learning and Vehicular Networks: Strategies for Attack and Robust Defense
  Machine learning (ML) has seen a lot of recent success in a wide variety of applications and industries. But despite their great success, researchers have shown that ML algorithms are easy to fool...
• Adversarial Machine Learning and Vehicular Networks: Strategies for Attack and Robust Defense
  Machine learning (ML) has seen a lot of recent success in a wide variety of applications and industries. But despite their great success, researchers have shown that ML algorithms are easy to fool...
• Big Data For Human Development
  With the explosion of social media sites and proliferation of digital computing devices and Internet access, massive amounts of public data are being generated on a daily basis. Efficient...
• Caveat Emptor: The Risks of Using Big Data for Human Development
  "Big Data" has the potential to facilitate sustainable development in many sectors of life such as education, health, agriculture, and in combating humanitarian crises and violent...
• Engineering and Computing Education for the 21st Century
  We live arguably in the most exciting period in human history for engineering in which advances in knowledge and abilities to process, communicate, and analyze large amounts of data has resulted...
• How 5G Wireless (and Concomitant Technologies) Will Revolutionize Healthcare?
  The need to have equitable access to quality healthcare is enshrined in the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which defines the developmental agenda of the UN for the next...
• How to Write A Paper That Readers Will Thank You For?Tips on Bringing Clarity to Writing
  The ability to write clear prose to communicate ideas is an essential 21st century skill. Washington accord, the international accreditation agreement for undergraduate professional engineering...
• Learning 101: What All Computing and Engineering Should Know About Learning
  As we move into the third decade of the 21st century, the 2020s, the unprecedented rate of technological disruption and the short-lived nature of the specifics of engineering...
• Secure and Robust Machine Learning for Healthcare
  Recent years have witnessed widespread adoption of machine learning (ML)/deep learning (DL) techniques due to their superior performance for a variety of healthcare applications ranging from the...
• The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
  AI technology has revolutionized numerous disciplines but it also has significant use of abuse (e.g., deep fakes, social bots, profiling people, social discrimination). We have realized that...