Masroor Hussain

HoD, Computer Engineering & Data Science; Professor; In‑charge High Performance Computing; Regional Director, ICPC Asia‑West Topi; Acting Director, GIK IT Center; CEO, Kawai Enterprise. 22+ years across HPC/parallel & distributed computing, FEM, NLP/LLMs, neural networks, data mining/warehousing, cloud and MLOps. Led ICPC Asia‑Topi since 2018; chair Islamabad ACM. PI/Co‑PI on 43M+ PKR grants; founded HPC/Data Analytics labs; hands‑on cluster install/ops and AI delivery.

Availability & Rate: Available ~10–15 hrs/week; Preferred consulting rate USD 80/hour.

Top 10 Publications (with links):

1. Hassan E, Maab I, Hussain M, Habib U, Matsuo Y. Polarity Classification of Low Resource Roman Urdu... IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1109/OJCS.2024.XXXXXX
2. Hassan E, Hussain M, Maab I, Habib U, Khan MA, Masood A. Sarcasm Detection in Urdu Tweets... IEEE Access, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.XXXXXX
3. Zhang X, Liu J, Zheng Y, Zheng Y, Hussain M. A novel shape classification using 1-D CNNs. IET Image Processing, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1049/ipr2.12809
4. Ansari SU, Hussain M, Mazhar S, Manzoor T, Siddiqui KJ, Abid M, Jamal H. Mesh Partitioning... Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11831-018-09300-7
5. Hussain M, Ansari SU, Manzoor T, Ahmad A, Khan KI. Parallel Stabilized Mixed Galerkin... Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.petrol.2019.106713
6. Usman M, Malik S, Hussain M, et al. Quaternary-graded AlInGaN barrier for UV LEDs. Optical Materials, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2021.110172
7. Halim Z, Yousaf MN, Waqas M, Suleman M, Abbas G, Hussain M, et al. GA-based feature selection for IDS. Computers & Security, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2021.102293
8. Ansari SU, Hussain M, Ahmed SM, Rashid A, Mazhar S. Stabilized Mixed FEM for Transient Darcy Flow. Trans. Canadian Soc. for Mechanical Engineering, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1139/tcsme-2016-XXXX
9. Hussain M, Abid M, Ahmad M, Khokhar A, Masud A. Parallel ALE Moving Mesh using OpenMP. International Journal of Parallel Programming, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10766-011-0168-3
10. Moghadam Fard M, Moghadam Fard M, Minaei Bidgoli B, Hussain M. Persian online handwritten character recognition by RCE STNN. SCTST 2008. https://doi.org/10.1145/1456223.1456307

Grants & Funding (selected):

• Project Director: Digital Pakistan – Speed Programming (Ignite). 20M PKR. 2025.
• PI: Early warning – Flood Prediction for Swat (WWF). 1.47M PKR + taxes. 2024.
• PI: Development of Super Computer (DoST KPK). 10M PKR. 2012–2014.
• Director: ICPC Asia Topi sponsorships – Noon Dubai (AED 30k) + PSEB/KPITB/Ignite/HEC (>2.5M PKR). 2019–2023.
• Co‑PI: NRPU (HEC) projects – Social media trend detection (4.37M PKR); Optoelectronic devices (5.02M PKR). 2022–2025.
• Coordinator: KPITB Cyber Security & Vulnerability Assessment training. 2020.
• Project Manager: ICIMOD Geospatial Data‑loggers. USD 13,500. 2014.
• Supervisor/Coordinator: National ICT R&D and HEC workshops/projects incl. 3D Darcy simulation (78,499 PKR), 2012–2013; Workshop on Computational Sciences (~73,500 PKR), 2013.

ICPC/ACM Timeline (highlights):

• 2018–present: Regional Director, ICPC Asia‑Topi. Conducted regional contests; represented at World Finals (2019 Porto, 2021 Moscow, 2022 Dhaka, 2024 Luxor, 2024 Astana, 2025 Baku).
• 2019–2023: Organized online prelims and on‑site regionals; managed judging/ops teams; secured sponsorships.
• 2019–2022 Treasurer; 2022–2023 Vice Chair; 2023–present Chair, Islamabad ACM Chapter; led international talks (Google, Bolt, Noon), trainings, and raised 6M+ PKR.

Selected Case Highlights:

• Multi‑Face Recognition (YOLO, Python): Sub‑150ms/frame inference on RTX‑class GPUs with on‑device privacy controls.
• MLOps/AutoML Enablement (DataRobot & bld.ai): CI/CD, model registry, auto‑retraining; deployments reduced from weeks to hours.
• Agentic AI for Operations (Closet, FairStock.trade, Bedrock Restoration): 30–60% reduction in manual ops via agent workflows.
• HumanTech.ai (RL + IoT + Full‑stack): IoT telemetry integrated with RL policies; dashboards and alerting from sensor to action.
• NLP/LLMs for Low‑Resource Languages (Dekleptocracy, Moongig): Urdu/Roman Urdu sentiment/sarcasm/topic models; +8–12 F1.
• Learn Everything (LLMs + Data Eng): RAG with evaluation harness; reduced hallucinations via better chunking and attribution.
• Pentest bld.ai (Compliance): Plaid‑compliant reviews; prioritized remediation and secure‑by‑default pipelines.
• Odoo ERP/CMS Implementations: Multi‑module rollouts with RBAC, migration, and training; improved reporting reliability.