Dr Raheem Sarwar
Dr Raheem Sarwar
Senior Lecturer
My profile
Biography
Dr. Raheem Sarwar holds a PhD from the City University of Hong Kong, with expertise spanning Technology Development, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Data Science, Scientometrics, Altmetrics, Information Retrieval, and Text Mining. He has published numerous research articles in prestigious international journals and conference proceedings. With over ten years of teaching experience at renowned institutions worldwide, including the City University of Hong Kong, Information Technology University, VISTEC, and the University of Wolverhampton (UK), Dr. Sarwar continues to contribute significantly to both academia and industry.
PHD Supervision
I currently have capacity to supervise PGR students in the areas of:
- Natural Language Processing
Teaching
- Advanced Web Application Programming
- Fundamentals of Programming
- Data Management
I have the capacity to supervise doctoral students in the areas of:
- Natural Language Processing
Courses
Research outputs
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Chapters in books
Sarwar, R. (2022) 'Author Gender Identification for Urdu Articles.' pp. 221-235.
Sarwar, R., Soroya, S.H., Muazzam, A., Sabah, F., Iqbal, S., Hassan, S.U. (2019) 'A Bibliometric Perspective on Technology-Driven Innovation in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries in Relation to Its Transformative Impact on International Business.' Practice, Progress, and Proficiency in Sustainability. IGI Global, pp. 49-66.
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Journal articles
Maqsood, F., Zhenfei, W., Ali, M.M., Qiu, B., Rehman, N.U., Sabah, F., Mahmood, T., Din, I., Sarwar, R. (2024) 'Artificial Intelligence-Based Classification of CT Images Using a Hybrid SpinalZFNet.' Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences, 16(4) pp. 907-925.
Sabah, F., Chen, Y., Yang, Z., Raheem, A., Azam, M., Ahmad, N., Sarwar, R. (2024) 'FairDPFL-SCS: Fair Dynamic Personalized Federated Learning with strategic client selection for improved accuracy and fairness.' Information Fusion, 115
Sarwar, R., Ahmad, B., Teh, P.S., Tuarob, S., Thaipisutikul, T., Zaman, F., Aljohani, N.R., Zhu, J., Hassan, S.U., Nawaz, R., Ansari, A.R., Fayyaz, M.A.B. (2024) 'HybridEval: An Improved Novel Hybrid Metric for Evaluation of Text Summarization.' Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering, 3(3) pp. 233-255.
Zaman, F., Afzal, M., Teh, P.S., Sarwar, R., Kamiran, F., Aljohani, N.R.A., Nawaz, R., Hassan, M.U., Sabah, F. (2024) 'Intelligent Abstractive Summarization of Scholarly Publications with Transfer Learning.' Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering, 3(3)
Hadi, M., Safder, I., Waheed, H., Zaman, F., Aljohani, N.R., Nawaz, R., Hassan, S.U., Sarwar, R. (2024) 'A transformer-based Urdu image caption generation.' Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 15(9) pp. 3441-3457.
Mohamed, E., Sarwar, R. (2024) 'Exploring Gender Differences in Fatwa through Machine Learning.' Journal of Cultural Analytics, 9(3)
Sabah, F., Chen, Y., Yang, Z., Azam, M., Ahmad, N., Sarwar, R. (2024) 'Model optimization techniques in personalized federated learning: a survey.' Expert Systems with Applications, 243
Khan, A.Q., Sun, G., Khalid, M., Imran, A., Bilal, A., Azam, M., Sarwar, R. (2024) 'A novel fusion of genetic grey wolf optimization and kernel extreme learning machines for precise diabetic eye disease classification.' PLoS ONE, 19(5)
Sarwar, R., Perera, M., Teh, P.S., Nawaz, R., Hassan, M.U. (2024) 'Crossing linguistic barriers: authorship attribution in Sinhala texts.' ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, 23(5) pp. 1-14.
Sarwar, R., Perera, M., Teh, P.S., Nawaz, R., Hassan, M.U. (2024) 'Crossing Linguistic Barriers: Authorship Attribution in Sinhala Texts..' ACM Trans. Asian Low Resour. Lang. Inf. Process., 23pp. 67-67.
Abbas, S.K., Khan, M.U.G., Zhu, J., Sarwar, R., Aljohani, N.R., Hameed, I.A., Hassan, M.U. (2024) 'Vision based intelligent traffic light management system using Faster R-CNN.' CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, 9(4) pp. 932-947.
Sarwar, R., An Ha, L., Teh, P.S., Sabah, F., Nawaz, R., Hameed, I.A., Hassan, M.U. (2024) 'AGI-P: A Gender Identification Framework for Authorship Analysis Using Customized Fine-Tuning of Multilingual Language Model.' IEEE Access, 12pp. 15399-15409.
Kanwal, S., Inam, S., Shah, A.A., Iqbal, H., Bilal, A., Hashmi, M.U., Sarwar, R. (2024) 'A robust approach to satellite image encryption using chaotic map and circulant matrices.' Engineering Reports,
Nawaz, R., Gholampour, B., Gholampour, S., Elahi, A., Sarwar, R., Liu, L., Saboury, A.A., Noruzi, A. (2023) 'Analyzing the legacy and scientific impact of Saeed-Ul Hassan: a Pakistani scientometrician, data scientist and winner of the Eugene Garfield Award 2017 and 2022.' Science and Technology Libraries, 42(4) pp. 428-440.
Hassan, S.U., Aljohani, N.R., Tarar, U.I., Safder, I., Sarwar, R., Alelyani, S., Nawaz, R. (2023) 'Exploiting tweet sentiments in altmetrics large-scale data.' Journal of Information Science, 49(5) pp. 1229-1245.
Kanishka Silva, K.S., Can, B., Sarwar, R., Blain, F., Mitkov, R. (2023) 'Text data augmentation using generative adversarial networks – a systematic review.' Journal of Computational and Applied Linguistics, 1pp. 6-38.
Bakar, A., Sarwar, R., Hassan, S.U., Nawaz, R. (2023) 'Extracting algorithmic complexity in scientific literature for advance searching.' Journal of Computational and Applied Linguistics, 1pp. 39-65.
Saadany, H., Mohamed, E., Sarwar, R. (2023) 'Towards a better understanding of Tarajem: creating topological networks for Arabic biographical dictionaries.' Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities, 11
Mohamed, E., Sarwar, R., Mostafa, S. (2023) 'Translator attribution for Arabic using machine learning.' Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 38(2) pp. 658-666.
Hassan, M.U., Alaliyat, S., Sarwar, R., Nawaz, R., Hameed, I.A. (2023) 'Leveraging deep learning and big data to enhance computing curriculum for industry-relevant skills: a Norwegian case study.' Heliyon, 9(4) pp. e15407-e15407.
Afzal, M.K., Shardlow, M., Tuarob, S., Zaman, F., Sarwar, R., Ali, M., Aljohani, N.R., Lytras, M.D., Nawaz, R., Hassan, S.U. (2023) 'Generative image captioning in Urdu using deep learning.' Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 14(6) pp. 7719-7731.
Sarwar, R., Mohamed, E. (2022) 'Author verification of Nahj Al-Balagha.' Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 37(4) pp. 1210-1222.
Mohamed, E., Sarwar, R. (2022) 'Linguistic features evaluation for hadith authenticity through automatic machine learning.' Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 37(3) pp. 830-843.
Sarwar, R., Hassan, S.U. (2022) 'UrduAI: writeprints for Urdu authorship identification.' ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, 21(2)
Safder, I., Batool, H., Sarwar, R., Zaman, F., Aljohani, N.R., Nawaz, R., Gaber, M., Hassan, S.U. (2021) 'Parsing AUC Result-Figures in Machine Learning Specific Scholarly Documents for Semantically-enriched Summarization.' Applied Artificial Intelligence, 36(1) pp. 2004347-2004347.
Safder, I., Mehmood, Z., Sarwar, R., Hassan, S., Aljohani, N.R., Nawaz, R. (2021) 'Sentiment analysis for Urdu online reviews using deep learning models.' Expert Systems, 38(8) pp. e12751-e12751.
Sarwar, R., Zia, A., Nawaz, R., Fayoumi, A., Aljohani, N.R., Hassan, S.U. (2021) 'Webometrics: evolution of social media presence of universities.' Scientometrics, 126(2) pp. 951-967.
Hassan, S.U., Aljohani, N.R., Shabbir, M., Ali, U., Iqbal, S., Sarwar, R., Martínez-Cámara, E., Ventura, S., Herrera, F. (2020) 'Tweet Coupling: a social media methodology for clustering scientific publications.' Scientometrics, 124(2) pp. 973-991.
Sarwar, R., Rutherford, A.T., Hassan, S.U., Rakthanmanon, T., Nutanong, S. (2020) 'Native Language Identification of Fluent and Advanced Non-Native Writers.' ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, 19(4)
Sarwar, R., Porthaveepong, T., Rutherford, A., Rakthanmanon, T., Nutanong, S. (2020) 'StyloThai: A scalable framework for stylometric authorship identification of Thai documents.' ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, 19(3)
Sarwar, R., Urailertprasert, N., Vannaboot, N., Yu, C., Rakthanmanon, T., Chuangsuwanich, E., Nutanong, S. (2020) 'CAG : Stylometric Authorship Attribution of Multi-Author Documents Using a Co-Authorship Graph.' IEEE Access, 8pp. 18374-18393.
Hassan, S.U., Aljohani, N.R., Idrees, N., Sarwar, R., Nawaz, R., Martínez-Cámara, E., Ventura, S., Herrera, F. (2019) 'Predicting literature’s early impact with sentiment analysis in Twitter.' Knowledge-Based Systems, 192pp. 105383-105383.
Sabah, F., Hassan, S.U., Muazzam, A., Iqbal, S., Soroya, S.H., Sarwar, R. (2019) 'Scientific collaboration networks in Pakistan and their impact on institutional research performance: A case study based on Scopus publications.' Library Hi Tech, 37(1) pp. 19-29.
Sarwar, R., Li, Q., Rakthanmanon, T., Nutanong, S. (2018) 'A scalable framework for cross-lingual authorship identification.' Information Sciences, 465pp. 323-339.
Sarwar, R., Yu, C., Tungare, N., Chitavisutthivong, K., Sriratanawilai, S., Xu, Y., Chow, D., Rakthanmanon, T., Nutanong, S. (2018) 'An effective and scalable framework for authorship attribution query processing.' IEEE Access, 6pp. 50030-50048.
Hassan, S.U., Sarwar, R., Muazzam, A. (2016) 'Tapping into intra- and international collaborations of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation states across science and technology disciplines.' Science and Public Policy, 43(5) pp. 690-701.
Sarwar, R., Hassan, S.U.I. (2015) 'A bibliometric assessment of scientific productivity and international collaboration of the Islamic World in science and technology (S&T) areas.' Scientometrics, 105(2) pp. 1059-1077.
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Conference papers
Silva, K., Frommholz, I., Can, B., Blain, F., Sarwar, R., Ugolini, L. (2024) 'Forged-GAN-BERT: Authorship Attribution for LLM-Generated Forged Novels.' pp. 325-337.
Silva, K., Can, B., Blain, F., Sarwar, R., Ugolini, L., Mitkov, R. (2023) 'Authorship attribution of late 19th century novels using GAN-BERT.' In 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Student Research Workshop. 4. Toronto, Canada, 10/7/2023 - 12/7/2023. Stroudsburg: Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 310-320.
Sabah, F., Chen, Y., Yang, Z., Raheem, A., Azam, M., Sarwar, R. (2023) 'Heart Disease Prediction with 100% Accuracy, Using Machine Learning: Performance Improvement with Features Selection and Sampling.' pp. 41-45.
Limkonchotiwat, P., Phatthiyaphaibun, W., Sarwar, R., Chuangsuwanich, E., Nutanong, S. (2021) 'Handling Cross- and Out-of-Domain Samples in Thai Word Segmentation.' pp. 1003-1016.
Trijakwanich, N., Limkonchotiwat, P., Sarwar, R., Phatthiyaphaibun, W., Chuangsuwanich, E., Nutanong, S. (2021) 'Robust Fragment-Based Framework for Cross-lingual Sentence Retrieval.' pp. 935-944.
Limkonchotiwat, P., Phatthiyaphaibun, W., Sarwar, R., Chuangsuwanich, E., Nutanong, S. (2020) 'Domain adaptation of Thai word segmentation models using stacked ensemble.' pp. 3841-3847.
Sarwar, R., Yu, C., Nutanong, S., Urailertprasert, N., Vannaboot, N., Rakthanmanon, T. (2018) 'A scalable framework for stylometric analysis of multi-author documents.' 10827 LNCS. pp. 813-829.
Nutanong, S., Yu, C., Sarwar, R., Xu, P., Chow, D. (2017) 'A scalable framework for stylometric analysis query processing.' 0. pp. 1125-1130.
Nutanong, S., Yu, C., Sarwar, R., Xu, P., Chow, D. (2016) 'A Scalable Framework for Stylometric Analysis Query Processing.' In 2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). 12/12/2016 - 15/12/2016. IEEE, pp. 1125-1130.
Career history
2014
Information Technology University
2015
City University of Hong Kong
2018
School of Information Science and Technology, VISTEC.
2020
University of Wolverhampton
2022
Manchester Metropolitan University