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Research
& practice

Twenty peer-reviewed papers, the systems they turned into, and a decade of roles behind both. Every paper links out to its published version.

Papers
20
Citations
771
Projects
8
Roles
6

01 Impact

Google Scholar

Research impact

  • 771CitationsGoogle Scholar, August 2026
  • 40.2Cumulative impact factorSummed across 12 journal articles
  • 20Peer-reviewed papers12 journal articles + 8 conference proceedings
  • 14h-indexGoogle Scholar, August 2026
  • 15i10-indexPapers with 10 or more citations · Google Scholar, August 2026
  • 4.672Highest impact factorInternational Journal of Energy Research, 2016
  • 5Research grantsKing Abdul-Aziz University, KSA — distinct research study program
  • 4Editorial & TPC rolesIEEE Access, IJER, FIT 2015 and FIT 2016

02 Publications

20 papers

Research publications

20 papers517 citations on Crossref

  1. Feb 2024Journal

    Abstractive Text Summarization for the Urdu Language: Data and Methods

    Muhammad Awais, R. M. Adeel

    IEEE Accessdoi:10.1109/access.2024.3378300

    11citations3.476impact factor
  2. Jul 2023Journal

    Towards Enabling Haptic Communications Over 6G: Issues and Challenges

    Muhammad Awais, Fasih Ullah, et al.

    Electronicsdoi:10.3390/electronics12132955

    23citations2.9impact factor
  3. Feb 2023Journal

    Artificial Intelligence Based Flood Forecasting for River Hunza at Danyor Station in Pakistan

    Waseem Yaseen, Muhammad Awais, Khurram Riaz, M. B. Rasheed

    Archives of Hydro-Engineering and Environmental Mechanicsdoi:10.2478/heem-2022-0005

    5citations1.00impact factor
  4. Jul 2021Journal

    (DA-DOPF): A Day Ahead Dynamic Optimal Power Flow with Renewable Energy Integration in Smart Grid

    Arsalan Ilyas, Thamer Alquthami, Muhammad Awais, M. B. Rasheed

    Frontiers in Energy Research — Solar Energydoi:10.3389/fenrg.2021.696837

    11citations3.858impact factor
  5. May 2021Journal

    An Incentive Based Dynamic Pricing in Smart Grid: A Customer's Perspective

    Thamer Alquthami, Ahmad H. Milyani, Muhammad Awais, M. B. Rasheed

    Sustainabilitydoi:10.3390/su13116066

    18citations3.889impact factor
  6. Apr 2021Journal

    A Comparison of Wireless Standards in IoT for Indoor Localization Using LoPy

    Fasih Ullah, Muhammad Awais, M. B. Rasheed

    IEEE Accessdoi:10.1109/access.2021.3076371

    21citations3.476impact factor
  7. Jul 2020Journal

    Multi-Objective Optimal Power Flow with Integration of Renewable Energy Sources Using Fuzzy Membership Function

    Arsalan Ilyas, Ghulam Abbas, Muhammad Awais, M. B. Rasheed

    IEEE Accessdoi:10.1109/access.2020.3014046

    38citations3.476impact factor
  8. Feb 2020Journal

    An Optimal Scheduling and Distributed Pricing Mechanism for Multi-Region Electric Vehicle Charging in Smart Grid

    M. B. Rasheed, Muhammad Awais

    IEEE Accessdoi:10.1109/access.2020.2976710

    86citations3.476impact factor
  9. Feb 2020Journal

    A Novel Load Scheduling Mechanism using Artificial Neural Network Based Customer Profiles in Smart Grid

    Z. Khalid, G. Abbas, Muhammad Awais, M. B. Rasheed

    Energiesdoi:10.3390/en13051062

    17citations3.252impact factor
  10. Jan 2020Journal

    Dynamic Pricing Mechanism with the Integration of Renewable Energy Source in Smart Grid

    M. B. Rasheed, Muhammad Awais, N. Javaid, T. Alquthami

    IEEE Accessdoi:10.1109/access.2020.2967798

    66citations3.476impact factor
  11. 2018Conference

    Demand Response Benefits for Load Management Through Heuristic Algorithm in Smart Grid

    U. Asgher, M. B. Rasheed, Muhammad Awais

    International Symposium on Recent Advances in Electrical Engineering (RAEE), IEEEdoi:10.1109/raee.2018.8706886

    3citations
  12. 2018Conference

    Multiple user based residential energy management scheme for smart homes

    Muhammad Awais, M. B. Rasheed, M. Z. Iqbal, M. Usman

    1st International Conference on Power, Energy and Smart Grid (ICPESG), Mirpurdoi:10.1109/icpesg.2018.8384492

    4citations
  13. Mar 2017Conference

    A novel pricing mechanism for demand side load management in smart grid

    M. B. Rasheed, Muhammad Awais, Z. A. Khan, M. Akbar, N. Javaid

    31st IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, Taipeidoi:10.1109/waina.2017.119

    5citations
  14. 2016Journal

    Real Time Information Based Energy Management Using Customer Preferences and Dynamic Pricing in Smart Homes

    M. B. Rasheed, N. Javaid, Muhammad Awais, Z. A. Khan, U. Qasim, N. Alrajeh, Z. Iqbal, Q. Javaid

    Energiesdoi:10.3390/en9070542

    66citations3.252impact factor
  15. 2016Journal

    Priority and Delay Constrained Demand Side Management in Real-Time Price Environment with Renewable Energy Source

    M. B. Rasheed, N. Javaid, A. Ahmad, Muhammad Awais, Z. A. Khan, U. Qasim, N. Alrajeh

    International Journal of Energy Researchdoi:10.1002/er.3588

    60citations4.672impact factor
  16. 2016Conference

    Transient stability analysis of an islanded microgrid under variable load

    M. B. Rasheed, Muhammad Awais, N. Javaid, W. Nazar, U. Qasim, Z. Ali

    19th IEEE International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS), Ostravadoi:10.1109/nbis.2016.79

    1citation
  17. 2015Conference

    An Energy Efficient Residential Load Management System for Multi-Class Appliances in Smart Homes

    M. B. Rasheed, Muhammad Awais, N. Javaid, Z. Iqbal, A. Khurshid, F. A. Chaudhry, F. Ilahi

    18th IEEE International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS), Taipeidoi:10.1109/nbis.2015.12

    10citations
  18. 2015Conference

    An Efficient Genetic Algorithm Based Demand Side Management Scheme for Smart Grid

    Muhammad Awais, N. Javaid, N. Shaheen, Z. Iqbal, G. Rehman, K. Muhammad, I. Ahmad

    18th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS), Taipeidoi:10.1109/nbis.2015.54

    60citations
  19. 2015Conference

    Real-Time Pricing with Demand Response Model for Autonomous Homes

    Muhammad Awais, N. Javaid, N. Shaheen, R. Adnan, N. A. Khan, Z. A. Khan, U. Qasim

    IEEE 9th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS), Blumenaudoi:10.1109/cisis.2015.89

    3citations
  20. 2015Conference

    Overload Management in Transmission System using Particle Swarm Optimization

    Muhammad Awais, A. Basit, R. Adnan, Z. A. Khan, U. Qasim, T. Shafique, N. Javaid

    5th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT), Londondoi:10.1016/j.procs.2015.05.143

    9citations

Research projects

  1. Cross-Lingual Abstractive Text SummarizationProposed data and methods for cross-lingual abstractive text summarization for the English–Urdu language pair.
  2. Mono-Lingual Abstractive Text SummarizationProposed data and methods for abstractive text summarization for Urdu.
  3. English Image CaptioningProposed deep learning methods for English image captioning.
  4. Urdu Image CaptioningProposed data and deep learning methods for Urdu image captioning.
  5. Image ClassificationGender identification using classical and deep learning methods.

Research grants

King Abdul-Aziz University, KSA — distinct research study program

  • DF-307-135-1441Real time load scheduling with the integration of renewable energy resources in smart grid
  • DF-307-135-1442Energy Management for Grid Connected Electric Vehicles
  • DF-307-135-1443An Enterprise Control Methodology for Joint Dispatch of Variable Energy Resources
  • DF-307-135-1444Towards multi-objective optimization using fuzzy membership approach for optimal power flow in smart grid
  • DF-307-135-1445Dynamic pricing mechanism in smart grid

Editorial, review & awards

  • IEEE Access — 2017 to date
  • Wiley International Journal of Energy Research — 2015 to date
  • International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT 2016), Islamabad
  • International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT 2015), Islamabad
  • Research Productivity Award 2017 — COMSATS University Islamabad
  • Research Productivity Award 2022 — The University of Lahore

03 Projects

8 systems

Selected projects

  • Production liveFeb 2025

    AI Readiness Assessment Platform

    Scores how prepared a large enterprise is to adopt AI across data maturity, process fit and organisational capability, turning a subjective audit into a repeatable instrument.

    LLMScoringEnterprise

    CyberGen (USA)

  • Production liveMay 2025

    Knowledgebase Chatbot with RBAC-enabled RAG

    Retrieval-augmented assistant where access control lives in the retrieval filter rather than a post-hoc check, so two users with different entitlements cannot receive the same answer.

    RAGRBACVector search

    CyberGen (USA)

  • Production live2025

    Safety Copilot for Engro Polymers

    Operator-facing copilot for process safety in a live polymer plant, surfacing risk context at the point of decision rather than in a report read afterwards.

    Industrial AILLMProcess safety

    Qubit Dynamics

  • Production liveMay 2025

    Multi-Agent Content System (v2)

    Agent ecosystem generating content across social, blogs and market reports, extended with a content calendar, email journeys and automated post regeneration.

    Multi-agentOrchestrationNLP

    CyberGen (USA)

  • BetaDec 2024

    Cortex Shield — LLM output control

    A secure interface sitting between production models and their consumers, monitoring and constraining what an LLM is permitted to emit.

    GuardrailsSafetyMonitoring

    CyberGen (USA)

  • BetaOct 2024

    ARGUS — AI observability

    Proactive observability and anomaly detection across deployed model endpoints, built to catch silent degradation before users report it.

    ObservabilityAnomaly detection

    CyberGen (USA)

  • PublishedFeb 2024

    Abstractive Text Summarization for Urdu

    Data and methods for abstractive summarization in a low-resource language, published in IEEE Access. The dataset work proved harder — and more decisive — than the modelling.

    NLPLow-resourceTransformers

    IEEE Access

  • Ongoing research2022–2026

    Urdu & English Image Captioning

    Deep learning methods and purpose-built data for captioning in both English and Urdu, extending vision-language work into a script with almost no existing corpora.

    Computer VisionMultimodalUrdu

    PhD research

04 Experience

6 roles

Experience

  1. 2025 — Present

    AI Architect Associate & Assistant Professor

    The University of Lahore

    Building enterprise AI platforms while teaching the subject, so the research and the shipping inform each other.

    What this involvedHide detail
    • Leading the design and development of enterprise AI solutions and intelligent automation platforms.
    • Teaching Machine Learning, Deep Learning, NLP, and Generative AI while mentoring future AI professionals.
    • Bridging academic research with real-world industry applications through innovative AI projects.

  2. 2025 — Present

    Director AI & Smart Tech

    Qubit Dynamics

    Taking industrial AI from architecture to the plant floor — safety copilots and alarm intelligence for live process environments.

    What this involvedHide detail
    • Architecting AI-powered industrial solutions for manufacturing and process optimization.
    • Leading the development of Safety Copilot systems and intelligent alarm analysis platforms.
    • Driving AI strategy from research and architecture to production deployment.

  3. 2023 — 2025

    AI Lead

    CyberGen (USA)

    Architected and delivered 20+ enterprise AI products: agents, copilots, RAG knowledge platforms, guardrails and observability.

    What this involvedHide detail
    • Led the architecture and delivery of 20+ enterprise AI products.
    • Built AI Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, Enterprise Copilots, and RAG-based Knowledge Platforms.
    • Developed AI Readiness Assessment, HR Automation, Intelligent Service Desk, Writing Assistant, AI Dashboards, and Recruitment Intelligence platforms.
    • Designed secure LLM Guardrails, AI Monitoring Systems, and scalable AI microservice architecture for enterprise applications.

  4. 2021 — 2023

    Machine Learning Engineer

    Ilm O Irfan Technologies

    Built the applied ML groundwork — domain chatbots, resume ranking and recommendation systems for real business problems.

    What this involvedHide detail
    • Developed domain-specific AI chatbots powered by GPT models.
    • Built NLP-based resume ranking and intelligent recommendation systems.
    • Delivered custom Machine Learning solutions for real-world business challenges.

  5. 2015 — 2025

    Assistant Professor

    The University of Lahore

    Taught and mentored hundreds of students across a decade, and led curriculum, accreditation and quality assurance.

    What this involvedHide detail
    • Educated and mentored hundreds of undergraduate and postgraduate students.
    • Led curriculum development, accreditation activities, quality assurance, and academic innovation.
    • Supervised AI and Machine Learning research while fostering industry-focused education.

  6. 2014 — 2015

    Research Associate

    COMSATS University Islamabad

    Where the publication record began: AI, smart grids and optimisation, in international journals and IEEE conferences.

    What this involvedHide detail
    • Conducted research in Artificial Intelligence, Smart Grids, and Optimization.
    • Published high-impact research in international journals and IEEE conferences.
    • Contributed to research projects that laid the foundation for my career in AI and intelligent systems.