Faculty of CS & Engineering, Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering (GIKI), Swabi, Pakistan
Sep 2022 - Present

Faculty of CS & AI, Air University, Islamabad, Pakistan
March 2021 - June 2022

Get Out Polio, CMACED Entrepreneurship Center, Lahore
July 2020 - August 2022

Software Engineering Department, Superior University, Lahore, Pakistan
Oct 2019 - March 2021

Automated Software Engineering Research Group, CEME, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan
July 2018 - July 2019

Dept. of Maths & Stats, International Islamic University (IIUI), Islamabad, Pakistan
Sep 2017 - June 2018

Centangle Interactive Pvt. Ltd., Islamabad, Pakistan
Feb 2017 - Nov 2017

National University of Science & Technology (NUST), Islamabad - 2019

University of Agriculture (UAF), Faisalabad (UAF) - 2016

Government College University (GCUF), Faisalabad - 2014

CNNs, Encoder/Decoder, GRU, LSTM, Bert Transformers architectures using Tensorflow, Pytorch along with SciPy, Sklearn, Pandas, Numpy, Matplotlib

NLTK, spaCy, TextBlob & Gensim along with API's for implementation of LLMs provided by Hugging Face, LangChain & OpenAI.

Python (Flask, Tkinter, PyQt) - Java (Mobile App Development, JDBC, GUI) - C++ (OOP, Visual C++) - Web (HTML, CSS, JS) - SQL (PostgreSQL, Oracle 21c) - Google Firebase - MongoDB.

Software Requirements Modeling, UML Modeling, Factory & Adapter Patterns, MVVM, MVC, Model to Text Transformations, Papyrus, Selenium & Appium for testing, Personas Development for GUI & UX/UI using Figma.

NLP & ML based grammar and language checker to point out spelling, verb and punctuation mistakes.

Use of Rules & ML based Language Processing to analyse and filter CV/Resume according to job description.

Text Analysis & rules based based phone number pattern recognition for identification of specific phone number series.

Ingeniously developed HTML Parser and DOM Tree Creator for tags identification and data extraction from websites.

Embedded Systems & Image Processing based cold chain management system to track temperature of products, speed of vehicle along with driver drowsiness detection system.

Embedded Systems & Mobile Application based Bus Tracking System for university students helped in reducing waiting time and more accurate arrivals.

Cloud musical application based clone of Sound Cloud designed specifically for preservation of folk music of people of Gilgit Baltistan.

Google Maps based self-location identification and sharing with loved once. Includes automatic messaging system for periodic location idenficiation.

Cloud integrated Embedded Systems & Mobile app based system to track Vaccination process along with location based distribution & analysis.

Open source tool for automatic detection of ambiguous software requirements using NLP. Includes the lexical, semantic and pragmatic ambiguity analysis.

Emotion Detection of Contextual Text using Deep learning
U. Rashid, M. W. Iqbal, M. A. Skiandar, M. Q. Raiz, M. R. Naqvi and S. K. Shahzad, "Emotion Detection of Contextual Text using Deep learning," 2020 4th International Symposium on Multidisciplinary Studies and Innovative Technologies (ISMSIT), Istanbul, Turkey, 2020, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ISMSIT50672.2020.9255279

Automatic Detection of Ambiguous Software Requirements: An Insight
M. Q. Riaz, W. H. Butt and S. Rehman, "Automatic Detection of Ambiguous Software Requirements: An Insight," 2019 5th International Conference on Information Management (ICIM), Cambridge, UK, 2019, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/INFOMAN.2019.8714682

Building a Biomedical Ontology for Respiratory Tract Infection
K. M. Sarmad, U. Qamar, K. Wahab, M. Q. Riaz, "Building a Biomedical Ontology for Respiratory Tract Infection," 7th International Conference on Computer and Communications Management (ICCCM), Bangkok, Thailand, 2019, pp. 8-12, doi: 10.1145/3348445.3348461

Scrum Software Maintenance Model: Efficient Software Maintenance in Agile Methodology
F. u. Rehman, B. Maqbool, M. Q. Riaz, U. Qamar and M. Abbas, "Scrum Software Maintenance Model: Efficient Software Maintenance in Agile Methodology," 2018 21st Saudi Computer Society National Computer Conference (NCC), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2018, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/NCG.2018.8593152

Customization of Requirement Engineering Best Practices for Pakistan Software Industry
M. Q. Riaz, Fateh-ur-Rehman, B. Maqbool and W. H. Butt, "Customization of requirement engineering best practices for Pakistan software industry," 2018 International Conference on Computing, Mathematics and Engineering Technologies (iCoMET), Sukkur, Pakistan, 2018, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICOMET.2018.8346347

Evaluation of team expertise in software development organizations
M. Q. Riaz, M. Abbas and S. Irshad, "Evaluation of Team Expertise in Software Development Organizations," 2017 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT), Islamabad, Pakistan, 2017, pp. 58-63, doi: 10.1109/FIT.2017.00018

0.3 million Rupees grant – (For Conducting NLP-RE Research & Publishing Articles).

Get Out Polio a startup of ours stood winner in health startup category in Denmark Venture Cup, University Startup World Cup 2020.

Scholarship in 2nd Semester of M.Sc CS – (For being one of the top GPA Scorers).

Under Merit based Prime Minister Youth Laptop Scheme – Recipient in 2016

Government College University (GCUF), Faisalabad - 2014