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Biography

Dr. Raheem Sarwar earned his PhD from the City University of Hong Kong. His research interests lie within the areas of Technology Development, Artificial Intelligence, NLP, Data Science, Scientometrics, Altmetrics, Information Retrieval and Text Mining. He has published research articles in reputed international journals and conference proceedings. He has more than 9 years of teaching experience at different universities in the world including the City University of Hong Kong, Information Technology University, VISTEC and the University of Wolverhampton, UK.

Teaching

  • Advanced Web Application Programming
  • Fundamentals of Programming
  • Data Management

I have the capacity to supervise doctoral students in the areas of:

  • Applied Artificial Intelligence
  • Data Management
  • Natural Language Processing

Business Technology

As technology has increasingly become part of every business, data has become the new oil and businesses are striving to make the most of it in order to gain a competitive and lasting advantage.
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Research outputs

  • 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.

  • Journal articles

    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

    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.

    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.

    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,

    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.

    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,

    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,

    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,

    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.

  • 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.

    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. (2021) 'Handling Cross- and Out-of-Domain Samples in Thai Word Segmentation.' pp. 1003-1016.

    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,

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