Ghufran Ahmed has been serving as Professor at the Department of Computer Science, FAST NUCES since July 2023. From Jan 2020 to June 2023, he was serving as Associate Professor at FAST-NUCES. Before joining FAST, he served as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan. He completed PostDoc in 2016 from the Department of Computer Science and Digital Technology, Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. He has completed his Ph.D. in 2013 from the Department of Computer Science, Mohammad Ali Jinnah University (renamed to Capital University of Science and Technology), Islamabad. His areas of research are IoT, Wireless Sensor Networks, Wireless Body Area Networks, and Cloud Computing. He started his Ph.D. in 2006 at the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, GIK Institute, Topi, Swabi, KPK. He also worked as a visiting scholar at the CReWMaN Lab, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington in 2008–09. He has served as a Guest Editor for the special sections of the International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (IJDSN), the Hindawi Journal of Sensors, and the Hindawi Journal of Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing. He is also working as an Associate Editor for IEEE Access, Academic Editor for Hindawi J. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, and Hindawi J. Sensors. He is also serving as an Editorial Board Member of Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks (AHSWN).
Project Title: Monitoring and Prediction of Cows’ Health in Dairy Farms
Sponsor: Higher Education Commission, Pakistan under National Research Program for Universities (NRPU)
Principal Investigator (PI): Dr Ghufran Ahmed
Co-PI: Dr Rauf Ahmed Shams Malick (FAST-NUCES), Dr Muhammad Faisal Khan (Hamdard University) and Prof. Dr Mubashir Khan (NED UET)
Funding: 10.9 million PKR
Project Duration: 2022-24
Health Monitoring Using Wireless Body Area Networks 2016-09 to 2017-09 | Grant Higher Education Commission, Pakistan GRANT_NUMBER: 21-906/SRGP/R&D/HEC/2016