Zulqar Nain, Ph.D

Zulqar Nain, Ph.D

Zulqar Nain, Ph.D

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About Me.

Assistant Professor

I love to overcome new research challenges. My research is mainly focused on the ML-based Route Update Scheme for future-generation IoT networks, Fault-tolerant Routing protocols for Network-on-chip architectures, and ML-based Routing schemes for Optical NoCs, and WNoC's

My Resume.

Experience

  • Assistant Professor

    Woosong University
    AI and Big Data Department

    • Teaching courses to undergraduate/graduate students.
    • Conducting Research and Publishing Articles.
    • Writing proposals to secure funding for projects.
    • Supervising and mentoring undergraduate/graduate students.

    Present 2023
  • Assistant Professor

    Yeungnam University
    Department of Information and Communication Engineering

    • Teaching courses to post-graduate students.
    • Conducting Research and Publishing Articles.
    • Writing proposals to secure funding for projects.
    • Supervising and mentoring graduate students.

    2023 2022
  • Technical Lead

    Mission

    • Worked as a technical architect
    • Led the software development and performed Code reviews and solution design

    2022 2021
  • Lecturer

    Government Post-Graduate College, Mandian, Abbottabad

    • Taught the following courses to undergraduate students of BS(CS) and BS(IT).
    - Introduction to Information and Communication Technologies (CSC111)
    - Programming Fundamentals (CSC112)
    - Computer Organization and Assembly Language (CSC233)
    - Digital Logic Design(CSC232)
    - Database Systems (CSC241)
    - Information Security (CSC481)

    2019 2018
  • Lecturer(Visiting)

    COMSATS University, Islamabad

    • Taught the following courses to undergraduate students of BS(SE).
    - Software Engineering Concepts(CSC291)
    - Professional Practices for IT(CSD303)

    2019 2019
  • Full-Stack Web Developer

    Upwork (Freelance)

    • Worked as web developer with following programming languages /frameworks.
    PHP(laravel), HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Javascript, React.js, Node.js, docker, Agile development.

    2018 2013

Education

Programming Languages

Python

100%

C/C++

100%

PHP/Laravel

100%

Node.js/React.js/Typescript

60%

Simulators

Cooja Emulator

100%

Nirgam/NoC Tweak

80%

\cvskill{NS3}{4}

80%

Matlab

60%

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Let's Talk

Publications.

International Journal Papers (indexed by SCI/SCIE)

  1. Muhammad Sshareef Mekala, Gaurav Dhiman, Gautam Srivastava, Zulqar Nain, Haolin Zhang, Wattana Viriyasitavat, and G.P.S.Varma "A DRL-Based Service Offloading Approach Using DAG for Edge Computa- tional Orchestration", EEE Transactions on Computational Social Sys- tems Early Access, 2022{Impact Factor = 5.36}.
  2. Zulqar Nain, Arslan Musadiq, Yazdan Ahmed Qadri, Ali Nauman, Muhammad Khalil Afzal, S W Kim "RIATA : A Reinforcement Learning-Based Intelligent Routing Update Scheme for Future Generation IoT Networks", IEEE Access 2021 vol 9, pp.81161-81172{Impact Factor = 3.367}.
  3. Zulqar Nain, Rashid Ali, Sheraz Anjum, Muhammad Khalil Afzal, S W Kim "A Network Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Routing Algorithm for Demanding Latency and Throughput Applications of Network-on-a-Chip Designs", MDPI Electronics 2020 9(7), 1076{Impact Factor = 2.397}.
  4. Arslan Musaddiq, Zulqar Nain, Yazdan Ahmad Qadri, Rashid Ali, Sung Won Kim "Reinforcement Learning-Enabled Cross-Layer Optimization for Low-Power and Lossy Networks under Heterogeneous Traffic Patterns", MDPI Sensors 2020 20(15), 4158{Impact Factor = 3.576}.
  5. A Musaddiq, YB Zikria, Zulqar Nain, SW Kim "Routing protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks for heterogeneous traffic network", EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2020, 21 (2020) {Impact Factor = 1.408}.
  6. Waqar Amin, Fawad Hussain, Sheraz Anjum, Sarzamin Khan, Naveed Khan Baloch, Zulqar Nain, Sung Won Kim "Performance Evaluation of Application Mapping Approaches for Network-on-Chip Designs", IEEE Access 2020 vol. 8, pp. 63607-63631 {Impact Factor = 3.367}.
  7. Ali Nauman, Muhammad Ali Jamshed, Rashid Ali, Korhan Cengiz, Zulqar Nain, Sung Won Kim "Reinforcement Learning-Enabled Intelligent Device-to-Device (I-D2D) Communication in Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) ", Computer Communications 2021 vol. 176, pp. 13-22 {Impact Factor = 3.167}.

International Conference Papers

  1. Ali Rashid, Zulqar Nain, Won Kim Sung, Seok Kim Hyung "Exponentially Distributed Random Access in LTE-A networks", International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC) 2020 Montreal-Canada.
  2. Zulqar Nain , Arslan Musaddiq, Yazdan Ahmed Qadri, Sung Won Kim "History-Aware Adaptive Route Update Scheme for Low-Power and Lossy Networks", International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence (ICTC) 2021 Jeju-South Korea.