Draft:Hasan Ali Khattak

Hasan Ali Khattak received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering degree from Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy in April 2015, a Master's degree in Information Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy, in 2011, and a B.CS. degree in Computer Science from the University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan in 2006. He is currently serving as an Associate Professor in the Information and Computer Science (ICS) Department, at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and also as an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National University of Sciences and Technology - Pakistan since October 2020.

His current research interests focus on Future Internet Architectures such as the Web of Things and leveraging Data Sciences and Social Engineering for Future Smart Cities. Along with publishing in good research venues and completing successfully funded National and International projects, he also serves as a reviewer in reputed venues such as IEEE Access, IEEE Network Magazine, IEEE Consumer Electronics, Hindawi, SAI, IET, and a few national publishers.

He is currently involved in several funded research projects in various domains such as Healthcare Information Management, Semantic Web of Things, and Fog Computing while exploring Ontologies and other Semantic Web Technologies. He has worked on Contiki OS, NS 2/3, and Omnet++ frameworks. His perspective research areas are the application of Machine Learning and Data Sciences for improving and enhancing Quality of life in Smart Urban Spaces especially in the Healthcare and Transportation domain through Knowledge management, predictive analysis, and visualization.

He is an active Senior Member of IEEE, a professional member of ACM, and a member of societies such as IEEE ComSoc, IEEE VTS, and Internet Society.

- 2024 Associate Professor - Information and Computer Science (ICS) Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. (2024 - present)

- 2020 Associate Professor - School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National University of Sciences and Technology - Pakistan (2020 - present)

- 2016 Assistant Professor - Computer Science COMSATS University Islamabad - 44500, Pakistan. (2016 - 2020)

- 2015 Ph.D. - Electrical and Information Engineering (Architectures for the Semantic Web of Things - Prof. Eugenio Discia Scio and Prof. Michele Ruta, Politecnico di Bari, Bari - 71000, Italy. (2012 - 2015)