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Faculty Profile

Dr. Adnan Ahmed Siddiqui

Professor
Computer Science
Dr. Adnan Ahmed Siddiqui is a Professor of Computer Science at UIT University, Karachi, with over 26 years of combined academic, research, and executive experience spanning higher education, information technology, and cybersecurity consulting. He currently serves as Professor, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computing Sciences (FCS), UIT University, and concurrently holds senior leadership roles across multiple technology and consulting organizations.

Previously, he served Hamdard University for over 24+ years (2001–2025), rising from Faculty Member to Chairman and Associate Professor of the Department of Computing, FEST. His areas of specialization include Data Communications & Computer Networks, Wireless & Mobile Communications, Cyber Security & Cryptography, Information Systems, and Optimization Algorithms.

He has authored over 20 peer-reviewed journal articles — several ISI-indexed with strong impact factors — alongside numerous conference papers and a book chapter, and actively supervises PhD and MS research.
  1. PhD, Information Technology (IT) — Graduate School of Engineering Sciences & Information Technology (GSESIT), FEST, Hamdard University, Karachi (2017)
  2. MS, Mobile Computing & Information Systems — Usman Institute of Technology (UIT), FEST, Hamdard University, Karachi (2006)
  3. MCS, Computer Science — Department of Computer Science, University of Karachi (1999)
  4. BSc, Mathematics, Statistics & Physics — Department of Statistics, University of Karachi (1996)
  1. Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Faculty of Computing Sciences — UIT University (Feb 2025 – Present)
  2. Director, Technology & Innovation — CX Health Technologies UK & Sehat Connection Pakistan (Oct 2025 – Present)
  3. Executive Director & Board Member — The Guidance Academy (Dec 2024 – Present)
  4. EVP / IT & Cybersecurity Consultant — Syslync Consulting (Pvt.) Ltd. (Sep 2024 – Present)
  5. Director/Administrator & Instructor, Huawei ICT Academy — UIT University (Aug 2025 – Present)
  6. Associate Professor & Chairman, Dept. of Computing — HIET-FEST, Hamdard University (2020 – 2025; Chairman 2019–20, 2022–23)
  7. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computing — HIET-FEST, Hamdard University (2007 – 2020); Adjunct Faculty, GSESIT-FEST (2018 – Present)
  8. Faculty Member / Lecturer & Program Coordinator (HoD), BS Computer Science, Software Development & Telecommunications — Hamdard University (2001 – 2009)
Academic & Administrative Roles:
  1. Member, Board of Studies (BoS) — SSUET (2025)
  2. Member, Board of Studies (BoS) — Muhammad Ali Jinnah University (2024 – Present)
  3. Member, Board of Studies (BoS) — GU Tech / Al-Ghazali University (2024 – Present)
  4. External Examiner/Evaluator — MS & PhD Programs, FAST-NUCES, SZABIST, and PAF-KIET
  1. A Study on Hate Speech Detection in Roman Urdu Social Media Posts Through Sentiment Analysis
  2. A new multistrategy Sailfish Optimizer with dynamic sardine population and improved search technique for efficient robot path planning
  3. Benchmarking Modern Evolutionary Algorithms for Multi-Modal Multi-Objective Optimization: A Comprehensive Performance Matrix Analysis
  4. A Region-based Illumination Fusion Method for Low-Light Image Enhancement
  5. Smart Home Automation and Security System using WIFI Android Mobile Application: IoT Based System
  6. Comparative Analysis of Photovoltaic Power Generation System and Economical Impact
  7. Impact of popular chaotic maps on the population initialization of Sailfish Optimization Algorithm – An experimental study
  8. An Improved Variant of Multi-Population Cooperative Constrained Multi-Objective Optimization (MCCMO) for Multi-Objective Optimization Problem
  9. A Systematic Study on Recent Evolutionary Algorithms for Multi-Modal Multi-Objective Optimization
  10. Efficient Implementation Of Intelligent Traffic Management System Under Severe Adverse Weather Condition (aITMS)
  11. A Survey on SQL Injection Attacks Types & their Prevention Techniques
  12. A Novel Markov Model-Based Traffic Density Estimation Technique for Intelligent Transportation System
  13. Lightweight Deep Learning Classification Model for Identifying Low-Resolution CT Images of Lung Cancer
  14. Towards Secure Implementations of SDN Based Firewall
  15. An Ontology Based Approach to Search Women Clothing from Pakistan’s Top Clothing Brands
  16. Extending ONTAgri with Service Oriented Architecture towards Precision Farming Applications
  17. Bi-directional LSTM with Saliency-aware 3D-CNN features for Human Action Recognition
  18. Single Modality-Based Event Detection Framework for Complex Videos
  19. Algorithms and Techniques for Computation Offloading in Edge Enabled Cloud of Things (ECoT)—A Primer
  20. Object Shape Recognition using Local Binary Pattern
  21. Restraining Terrorism: A UWB Based Communication Infrastructure for Preventing Terrorist Activities in Pakistan
  22. A Survey of Semantic Computing: General and Islamic Domain Applications
  23. A Comparative Investigation on WCDMA Power Control Mechanism
  24. Selecting Best Mother Wavelets for Suppressing Non-Homogeneous Noise Patterns in Magnetic Resonance (MR) Images
  1. Future Leader Award — ITCN Asia, Karachi (September 2025)
  2. 3rd Best Presenter — HUSTEM Research Symposium, IEEE SCONEST, Hamdard University (2016)
  3. Chair, Local Arrangement Committee — 21st IEEE International Multitopic Conference (INMIC 2018)