Hammad Farooq

Research Assistant

National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, A.K. Brohi Road, H-11, Islamabad

  hammad.farooq@nu.edu.pk

Education

• 2014 - 2018: BS (Computer Science). National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences - Islamabad, Pakistan

Projects

• Predicting the functional effects of non-synonymous SNPs

• Histopathological Image Analysis using Deep learning

• Protein Secondary structure prediction using Deep learning

• Pharmacovigilance from social media

Employment

• Sept 2018 - Present: Research Assistant at the Computational Biology Research Lab, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan

• Jun 2018 - Sept 2018: AI/Platform Developer at Automative Artifical Intelligence, Islamabad, Pakistan

• Jan 2018 - Feb 2018: Intern as AI Developer at Automotive Artifical Intelligence, Islamabd, Pakistan

• Jun 2017 - Aug 2017: Machine Learning Intern at ReVeaL (Recognition, Vision and Learning) Lab, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan

• Fall 2018, Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Applied Programming, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan

• Fall 2016, Lab Demonstrator Computer Organization and Assembly Language, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan

Publications

• Hammad Farooq, Junaid Suhail Niaz, Saira Fakhar, Hammad Naveed. Leveraging digital media data for pharmacovigilance. American Medical Informatics Association 2020 Annual Symposium, Accepted.

• Naeem Rehmat, Hammad Farooq, Sanjay Kumar, Sibt ul Hussain, Hammad Naveed. Predicting the pathogenicity of protein coding mutations using Natural Language Processing. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2020, Accepted.

Honors

• Secure funding from Ignite (formerly National ICT R&D Fund) program "National Grassroots ICT Research Initiative (NGIRI)" for the year 2017-2018 for the undergraduate final year project: Genetic mutation based cancer classification using machine learning

• Dean’s list of honor during undergraduate (four times for securing SGPA>=3.5))

• Winner: Inter-FAST CS Quiz Competition, Nascon 2017, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan

• Winner: Intra-College Quiz Competition, Punjab College of Information Technology, Satellite Town, Rawalpindi, Pakistan