Dr. Muhammad Ishaq

Education

PhD, Computer Science - Harbin Engineering University (2012)
MSc, Information Technology - Kohat University of Science & Technology (2005)
BSc, Computer Science - University of Peshawar (2002)

Area of Specialization

Bioinformatics | Data Science & AI | Semantic Web & Ontology Engineering | AI & Computational Linguistics | LLMs + Neuro-Symbolic AI | AGI via Semantic Knowledge Integration | Molecular Dynamic Simulation | AI in Biotechnology and Animal Health.

Professional Responsibilities

NCEAC HEC Accreditation Focal Person, BS Bioinformatics Coordinator, BS Artificial Intelligence Coordinator, Teaching, Supervision and Research

Research Projects

1. Architecting Explainable AGI: A Neuro-Symbolic Framework Derived from Specialized AI Programming Agents
2. "OntoGPT": Fine-tuning LLMs over biomedical ontologies for causal inference.
3. "AGI-KG": A knowledge graph framework to track LLM "understanding" vs. memorization.
   https://github.com/ishaqafridi/AGI-through-Ontologies
4. CHARACTERIZATION OF POTENTIAL THERAPEUTIC TARGETS FOR SELECTED INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY-RELATED GENES USING MOLECULAR DOCKING AND DYNAMIC SIMULATION
5. Computational Investigation of the Epigenetic Regulation of HKT Genes in Complex Wheat Varieties
6. Evaluating the Effect of Co-Exposure of Microplastics and Pesticides on Zebrafish Gut Microbiome Using Picrust 2
7. Discriminative deep intelligent precision sprayer/laser destroyer for weeds and crops.
8. COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION OF RESVERATROL'S THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL IN TYPE 2 DIABETES
9. Titled: Comprehensive improvements in Agri-Informatics Semantics

Awards

1. Full Ph.D. Scholarship: from HEC Pakistan and CSC China for the Session 2008-12.
2. Post Doc full Scholarship invitations:
     a. From Assistant Professor Yeon Soo Lee, PhD, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medical Science, Catholic University of Daegu, REP. OF KOREA, 712-702. Area of proposed post doc Research: Anti-Malaria bioinformatics study that belongs to 8 UN millennium development goals (MDGs).
       b. TWAS-UPM Postdoctoral fellowship award from Prof.Dr. Lilly Suriani in the area of "Next Generation Sequence Alignment of enormous amount of biological sequencing data in Hadoop" University of Putra Malaysia.
3. Plenary/Key Note Speeches:
       a. 2017EMN Meeting on Biomedical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
       b. IEEE ICCSNT international conference at Harbin Normal University from December24-26 2011. http://www.iccsnt.org/files/Plenaryspeeches.pdfz
4. Chair international Conference sessions:
       a. IEEE ICCSIT 2011conference that was held in June 2011
       b. IEEE ICCSNT 2011 in December 2011.
5. Reviewer: Oxford Journal of Bioinformatics, Elsevier Journal of Computational Biology and Chemistry Peer review committee of ASME ICCTD 2011(www.icctd.org).
   Springer Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing. Journal of IEEE Access

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