Muhammad shahid farid

Short Bio

Muhammad Shahid Farid obtained the B.S., M.Sc., and M.Phil. degrees with distinction in Computer Science from the University of the Punjab, Lahore. He worked as Software Engineer for short time before joining Punjab University College of Information Technology (PUCIT), Lahore as a Lecturer of Computer Science in 2008. Dr. Farid obtained his Ph.D. degree from Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy in 2015. He was with the EIDOSLAB Research Group under the supervision of Prof. Marco Grangetto. In his Ph.D., he worked on 3D television technology particularly on efficient representation & coding of multiview videos, novel view synthesis techniques, and quality assessment of 3D videos. His research interests also include image segmentation, image fusion, gait recognition, image composition, and image retrieval. He was a visiting researcher for a short term in 2017 at the Computer Science and Engineering Department, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar. Currently, Dr. Farid is an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computing & Information Technology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.

Dr, Farid has over 60 publications to his name, including 38 journal articles, 21 international peer-reviewed conference papers, and 2 international patents. He has won numerous research grants including the two competitive and prestigious HEC NRPU research grants. He recently won another research grant worth more than 14 million PKR from the Punjab Agricultural Research Board (PARB), Pakistan in corroboration with Department of Soil Science. He is an Area Editor in PLOS One and Mathematical Problems in Engineering journals, and Associate Editor of IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI). He is active reviewer of numerous journals. He has been serving as an Area Chair in the prestigious ACM SIGMM, and ACM IMX, and member Technical Program Committee for several international conferences. He also served as Session Chair in ICACS'24. He is an HEC Pakistan approved PhD supervisor, and member IEEE, and member ACM.

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1. [2024] Area Chair (AC), ACM Multimedia (ACM SIGMM)
2. [2024] Area Chair (AC), ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences (IMX 2024)
3. [2024] Session Chair, International Conference on Advancements in Computational Sciences (ICACS 2024)
4. [2024] Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member, IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IEEE CAI 2024)
5. [2024] TPC Member, International Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2024)
6. [2023] Area Chair (AC), ACM Multimedia (ACM SIGMM)
7. [2023] Appointed as Associate Editor of the IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI)
8. [2023] Appointed as Academic Editor of the PLOSE ONE journal
9. [2023] TPC Member, International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (IEEE FIT 2023)
10. [2022] Area Chair (AC), ACM Multimedia (ACM SIGMM)
11. [2022] TPC Member, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2022)
12. [2022] TPC Member, International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (IEEE FIT 2023)
13. [2022] Won competitive research grant. Title: Development and optimization of android smartphone imaginary application for real-time nitrogen management in wheat, rice and maize crops, Role: Team Leader-I (Co-Principal Investigator), Funding Agency: Punjab Agriculture Research Board (PARB), Project No.: 21-140, Grant Amount: Rs. 14.004 million
14. [2022] Won competitive research grant Title: HumCare: Human Activity Analysis in Healthcare, Role: Co-Principal Investigator, Funding Agency: HEC National Research Program for Universities (NRPU), Project No.: NRPU-15041, Grant Amount: Rs. 11.32 million
15. [2021] Area Chair (AC), ACM Multimedia (ACM SIGMM)
16. [2020] Appointed as Area Editor of the Mathematical Problems in Engineering journal
17. [2019] Won competitive research grant, NRPU-7389, Title: "3DViCoQa: Advanced Techniques for 3D Video Coding and Quality Assessment", Funding agency: HEC National Research Program for Universities (NRPU) [Rs. 3.1 Million]
18. [2017] Won Intra-university research grant. Title: Compression Distortion Estimation of Depth Maps, Funding agency: University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
19. [2016] Won Intra-university research grant. Title: Perceptual Quality Assessment of 3D Synthesized Images, Funding agency: University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
20. [2012] Won Intra-university research grant. Title: An Image Composition Technique to Handle Global Effects of Local Content Manipulations, Funding agency: University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan