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Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science program at PUCIT, University of the Punjab, Lahore Pakistan. I have completed my Ph.D., from the Asian Institute of Technology, master of engineering in computer science from the Asian Institute of Technology, and master of information technology from the Barcelona School of Informatics, Spain. 

I have contributed in OpenNebula as part of Google Summer of Code 2010.

Recent Updates:
  • February 2016: Delivered keynote speech at TIIT'16, Nawabshah
  • July 2015: Launched www.newslink.pk (Urdu news aggregator and analytics portal).
  • May 2015: Accepted paper in IEEE Systems Journal.


Email:   waheed.iqbal  at  pucit.edu.pk
Phone: +92-42-111923923 Extension 418
Office:  PUCIT, Allama Iqbal Campus. 
Mailing Address: Punjab University College of Information Technology
Allama Iqbal Campus, University of the Punjab, The Mall, 
Lahore, Pakistan. 

Research Interests
  • Cloud Computing
  • Distributed Systems
  • Big Data
  • Machine Learning and Text Mining 

Technical Expertise

  • Private Cloud Infrastructure Management using OpenStack, OpenNebula, and EUCALYPTUS
  • Public Cloud Infrastructure Management using AWS and MAzure
  • Large Scale System Performance Evaluation 
  • Big Data Tools: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, HBase, Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR)
  • Programming languages: Java, C, Ruby, Node.js, Python, PHP
  • Machine Learning Tools: Weka, Prediction.IO, Amazon Machine Learning, Azure Machine Learning