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Biography

Dr. Shafique Ahmad Chaudhry is an Associate Professor of Operations and Information Systems at ���ճԹϺ���, with a courtesy affiliated with the Department of Computer Science. He specializes in applied machine learning, data analytics, IoT-enabled sensing, intelligent monitoring systems, and user behavior in virtual reality.

He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science (Electrical Engineering) from Ajou University, South Korea, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at MISL, University College Cork, Ireland. With academic and research experience across South Korea, Ireland, the Middle East, and the U.S., he has a strong publication record, has secured major research funding including from the Research Council of Oman, and holds two U.S. and Korean patents. An active IEEE member, he is committed to mentoring students and advancing computing and information systems globally.

Courses Taught

• IS 110: Introduction to Business Intelligence and Data Analytics
• IS 237: Application Development
• IS 301: Applied Data Analytics
• IS 400: Applied Machine Learning
• IS 426: Big Data Architecture
• IA 510: Database Modeling, Design, and Implementation
• SB 687: AI for Business 

Research Interests

Dr. Chaudhry’s research focuses on applying computational and data-driven approaches to emerging problems in intelligent systems. His interests include:

• Applied Machine Learning
• Deep Learning
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• Smart and Virtual Spaces
• Intelligent Monitoring Systems
• Privacy Policies & Data Protection (GDPR/CCPA)
• Data Analytics for Behavior and Environmental Monitoring

Publications

Journal Articles
[1]    TA Ahanger, U Tariq, F Dahan, SA Chaudhry, Y Malik, “Securing IoT Devices Running PureOS from Ransomware Attacks: Leveraging Hybrid Machine Learning Techniques”, Mathematics 2023, 11 (11), 2481.  https://doi.org/10.3390/math11112481

[2]    Abdullah Alshamsan and Shafique Chaudhry " A GDPR Compliant Approach to Assign Risk Levels to Data Practices from Privacy Policies" Computers, Materials & Continua 2023, 74(3), 4631-4647. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2023.034039  

[3]    Ahmed Kadry, Ahmed Torad, Moustafa A. Elwan, Rumit S. Kakar, Dylan Bradley, Shafique Chaudhry, and Ali Boolani. 2022. "Using Machine Learning to Identify Feelings of Energy and Fatigue in Single-Task Walking Gait: An Exploratory Study" Applied Sciences 12, no. 6: 3083. https://doi.org/10.3390/app12063083

[4]    Abdullah R Alshamsan, Shafique A Chaudhry "Understanding the Link Between Gender, Age, and Culture with Face-ID as Smartphone Authentication Method in Saudi Arabia", International Journal of Trend in Research and Development (IJTRD), ISSN: 2394-9333, Volume-8 | Issue-1, February 2021, URL: http://www.ijtrd.com/papers/IJTRD22480.pdf

[5]    Saima Zafar, Abeer Bashir, Shafique Ahmad Chaudhry, “Mobility-aware Hierarchical Clustering in Mobile Sensor Networks”, IEEE Access, 2019.  DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2896938

[6]    Beenish Ayesha Akram, Amna Zafar, Ali Akbar, Bilal Wajid, Shafique Ahmad Chaudhry. Change Detection Algorithms for Surveillance in Visual IoT: A Comparative Study Visual Internet of Things. Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering and Technology, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan, 2018, 37 (1), pp.77-94.

[7]    Saima Zafar, Shafique Ahmad Chaudhry, Sara Kiran, “Adaptive TrimTree: Green Data Center Networks through Resource Consolidation, Selective Connectedness and Energy Proportional Computing.” Energies, Vol. 9 No 10. October 2016.
DOI:10.3390/en9100797

[8]    Saima Zafar, Abeer Bashir, Shafique Ahmad Chaudhry, “On implementation of DCTCP on three-tier and fat-tree data center network topologies”, SpringerPlus, Vol. 5 No. 1. June 2016. 
DOI: 10.1186/s40064-016-2454-4

[9]    Shafique Ahmad Chaudhry and Jun Zhang, “Network-State-Aware Quality of Service Provisioning for the Internet of Things” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA), Vol. 7 No. 6, 2016. pp 369 – 376. 
DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2016.070648

[10]   Andri Mirzal and Shafique Ahmad Chaudhry, “Call for a Computer-Aided Cancer Detection and Classification Research Initiative in Oman”, Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention, Vol. 17. No. 5. pp 2375-2382. June 2016.
DOI: 10.7314/APJCP.2016.17.5.2375

[11]   Junaid Ahsenali Chaudhry, Shafique Ahmad Chaudhry, Robert Rittenhouse, “Phishing Attacks and Defenses”, International Journal of Security and Its Applications, Vol. 10. No.1 (2016) pp. 247-256.

[12]   Shafique Ahmad Chaudhry, "On the Need of Source Address for Route-Error Delivery in 6LoWPAN," Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 11 No. 8., Nov 2015. pp 902-914.
DOI: 10.3844/jcssp.2015.902.914

[13]   Shafique Ahmad Chaudhry, Weiping Song, Muhammad Habeebvulla, and Cormac Sreenan, “EMP:   A Protocol for IP-Based Wireless Sensor Networks Management,” International Journal of Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks, JUSPN, Vol 2, No. 1, pp 15-22, April 2011.

[14]   Mohsen Rouached, Shafique Ahmad Chaudhry, Anis Koubaa, “LoWPANs Meet Service Oriented Architecture,” International Journal of Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks, Vol 1, No1, December 2010.

[15]   Shafique Ahmad Chaudhry, Ali Hammad Akbar, Ki-Hyung Kim, “On the Interplay of proximity and Ubiquity,” IEICE Transactions on Communication, Vol. 90-B, No. 12, Dec 2007.

[16]   Ali Hammad Akbar, Ahmad Ali Iqbal, Waleed Mansoor, Shafique Ahmad Chaudhry, and Ki-Hyung Kim," Longevity Enhancing Measures for Sensor Grids," KNOM Review Vol. 8, No. 2, February 2006.

Conference papers

[1]    N. Zafar, J. Locke and S.A. Chaudhry, "Deep Learning-Based Visual Fatigue Detection Using Eye Gaze Patterns in VR," 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Emerging Metaverse (ISEMV), Honolulu, HI, USA, 2025, pp. 69-76, doi: DOI 10.1109/ISEMV67326.2025.00022. keywords: {Human-Computer Interaction; Virtual Reality; Deep Learning; Visual Fatigue}

[2]    N. Zafar, P.K.R. Prosun and S.A. Chaudhry " Behavioral Biometrics for Automatic Detection of User Familiarity in VR," 2025 16th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), Madrid, Spain, 2025, pp. 68-71, doi: 10.1109/QoMEX61742.2024.10598243. keywords: { Human-Computer Interaction, Virtual Reality,Familiarity, Security, Deep Learning, Experience }

[3]       I. Yaqoob, V. Kumar and S. A. Chaudhry, " Machine learning calibration to air sensor data during wildfire smoke events," 4th IEEE International Conference on Computing and Machine Intelligence, April 05-06, 2025, Michigan, USA

[4]       I. Yaqoob, V. Kumar and S. A. Chaudhry, " Machine Learning Calibration of Low-Cost Sensor PM2.5 data,” 10th IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering, 2024, Perugia, Italy.

[5]       A. R. Alshamsan and S. A. Chaudhry, " A Novel Approach to Detect Privacy Policies Violations Using Natural Language Inference (NLI),” The 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer Science and Data Engineering, 2022, Gold Coast, Australia.

[6]        A. R. Alshamsan and S. A. Chaudhry, "Machine Learning Algorithms for Privacy Policy Classification: A Comparative Study," 2022 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence (SEAI), 2022, pp. 214-219, doi: 10.1109/SEAI55746.2022.9832027.

[7]       BT Sayed, A Dekdouk, Y Ashraf, S Chaudhry, “Cerebral approach to track malfunction of assets in a smart power grid information system”, 2020 International Conference on Advanced Electrical and Energy Systems 18-21 August 2020, Osaka, Japan.

[8]       BT Sayed, KM Al Mushikhi, S Chaudhry, “A Pragmatic Prototype to Enhance The Quality Pre-University Level Skills Towards Further Development of Human and Knowledge Attributes in the Region”, Procedia Computer Science (2019) 154, 824-83

[9]       Hedi Haddad, Zied Bouyahia, Shafique Chaudhry, “A Multiagent Geosimulation and IoT-based Framework for Safety Monitoring in Complex Dynamic Spatial Environments,” Accepted in The 10th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT) April 29 - May 2, 2019, Leuven, Belgium.

[10]   Malathi Balaji and Shafique Ahmad Chaudhry, “A cooperative trilateration technique for object localization”, 20th IEEE ICACT, Korea, February 2018.

[11]   Junaid Ahsenali Chaudhry, Shafique Ahmad Chaudhry, Robert Rittenhouse, "Phishing: Classification and Countermeasures," Mulgrab 2015, Jeju, Korea, November 25-27, 2015.

[12]   Olfa Gaddour, Anis Koubâa, Shafique Chaudhry, Miled Tezeghdanti, Rihab Chaari, Mohamed Abid, “Performance Evaluation of DAG with RPL,” (to appear in) 3rd IEEE Conference on Communication and Networking (COM’NET 2012), Tunisia, March 29-April 01, 2012.

[13]   Anis Koubaa, Shafique Chaudhry, Olfa Gaddour, Rihab Chaari, Nada Al-Elaiwi,  Hanan Al-Soli, Hichem Boujelben, “Z-Monitor: Monitoring and Analyzing IEEE 802.15.4-based Wireless Sensor Networks,” 6th IEEE LCN Workshop on Network Measurements, in conjunction with 36th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2011), Bonn, Germany, October 04, 2011.

[14]   Shafique Ahmad Chaudhry, Shen Yong, “Service Discovery in Urban Cooperative Networks,” International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN),  Las Vegas, USA, July 18-21, 2011.

[15]   Yasir Javed, Shafique Ahmad Chaudhry, “Performance Evaluation of Machine Learning Methods for Intrusion Detection,” SAMS 2011, Las Vegas 2011, July 18-21, 2011.

[16]   Shafique Ahmad Chaudhry, George Boyle, Weiping Song, and Cormac Sreenan, “EMP: A Network Management Protocol for IP-based Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Ubiquitous Systems, Sousse, Tunisia, October 8-10, 2010.

[17]   Jun Zhang, Yasir Javed, Shafique Ahmad Chaudhry, “QoS Provisioning in IP-based Wireless Sensor Networks,” International Conference on Wireless Networks, ICWN’ 10, Las Vegas, USA, July 7-9, 2010.

[18]   S. Zafar, A. H. Akbar,  M. Amjad, S. Shams, S. A. Chaudhry,  Jung Seuk, Byeong-hee Roh, Ki-Hyung Kim; “BRIDGE: Border-node assistance for diffusion through a gating mechanism for collocated WPANs,”  6th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET 2010),  October 2010, Page(s): 76 - 81

[19]   Shafique Ahmad Chaudhry, Cormac Sreenan, “Supporting Address Auto-configuration in IP-based Wireless sensor networks,” IEEE ITNG 2009, Nevada, USA, April 27-29, 2009.

[20]    Hamid Mukhtar, Shafique Ahmad Chaudhry, Ali Hammad Akbar, Kang-myo Kim, Ki-Hyung Kim, Seung Wha Yoo, “LNMP- Management Architecture For Ipv6 Based Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6lowpan),” IEEE NOMS ’08, April 7-11, 2008.

[21]   Taqi Raza Mehdi, Ali Hammad  Akbar, Shafique Ahmad Chaudhry, Gargi Bag, Seoung Hwa Yoo and Ki-HYung Kim, “A Yaw Rate Aware Sensor Wakeup Protocol (YAP) For Target Prediction And Tracking In Sensor Networks”, MILCOM 2007, Orlando, Florid, October 29-31, 2007.

[22]    Shafique Ahmad Chaudhry, Faysal Adeem Siddiqui, Ali Hammad Akbar, and Ki-Hyung Kim, “NETSAQ: Network State Adaptive QoS Provisioning in MANETs,” Elsevier Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4238, pp. 170-179, 2006.

[23]   Shafique Ahmad Chaudhry, Won-Do Jung, Ali Hammad Akbar, and Ki-Hyung Kim, “Proxy-Based Service Discovery and Network Selection in 6LoWPAN,” Elsevier Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4208, pp. 525-534 (2006).

[24]   Shafique Ahmad Chaudhry, Faysal Adeem Siddiqui, Ali Hammad Akbar, and Ki-Hyung Kim, “Autonomic Network Management for Wireless Mesh and MANETs,” IWSOS, Germany, September 13-15, 2006.

[25]   Shafique Ahmad Chaudhry, Ali Hammad Akbar, Kim Ki-Hyung, Suk-Kyo Hong, and Won-Sik Yoon, “HYWINMARC: An Autonomic Network Management Architecture for Wireless Hybrid Networks”, NCUS ‘06, Korea, August 1-4, 2006.

[26]   Shoaib Mukhtar, Ali Hammad Akbar, Shafique Ahmad Chaudhry, Won-Sik Yoon, Ki-Hyung Kim, and Suk-Kyo Hong, "Mitigating Broadcast Storms in Stateless Address Auto-Configuring MANETs," The 2006 International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications ICCSA 2006 (LNCS), Scotland, 8-11 May, 2006.

[27]   Jung Won-do, Shafique Ahmad Chaudhry, Ali Hammad Akbar, Sohn Young-ho and Kim Ki-Hyung, “Route Error Reporting Schemes for On-Demand Routing in 6LoWPAN”, GPC, Taiwan, May 3-5,2005.

[28]   Ali Kashif Bashir, Ali Hammad Akbar, Shafique Ahmad Chaudhry, Chaudhry Sajjad Hussain, Ki-Hyung Kim, “Collaborative Detection and Agreement Protocol for Routing Malfunctioning in Wireless Sensor Networks”, ICACT 2006, Phoenix Park Korea, Feb 20-22  2006.

[29]   Ali Hammad Akbar, Waleed Mansoor, Shafique Ahmad Chaudhry, Ali Kashif, Ki-Hyung Kim, “Node-link-failure Resilient Routing Architecture for Sensor Networks”, ICACT 2006, Phoenix Park Korea, Feb 20-22  2006.

[30]   Jung Won-do, Shafique Ahmad Chaudhry, Ali Hammad Akbar, Sohn Young-ho and Kim Ki-Hyung, “Route Error Reporting Schemes for 6LoWPAN”, IT-SOC 2005, Seoul, Korea, November 3-5, 2005.

[31]   Ali Hammad Akbar, Waleed Mansoor, Shafique Ahmad Chaudhry, Ali Kashif, and Ki-Hyung Kim, “Longevity techniques for sensor grids”, IT-SOC 2005, Seoul, Korea, November 3-5, 2005.

[32]   Ali Hammad Akbar, Ahmad Ali Iqbal, Shafique Ahmad Chaudhry, Chaudhary Sajjad Hussain, Ki-Hyung Kim, “A Routing Overlay for Wireless Sensor Networks with Multiple Services Support”, IT-SOC 2005, Seoul, Korea, November 3-5, 2005.

[33]   Ali Hammad Akbar, Ahmad Ali Iqbal, Shafique Ahmad Chaudhry, Chaudhary Sajjad Hussain, Ki-Hyung Kim, "A Routing Overlay for Wireless Sensor Networks with Multiple Services Support," (Outstanding Paper Award) Korea International Next Generation Personal Computer Conference (KINGPC), Seoul, 3-4 Nov, 2005, pp. 171-175.