Publications

Theses

Data-driven approaches for context-aware sports performance assessment and web energy optimization [PDF] PhD Thesis - LUMS 2023
Efficiently Finding Minimal Failing Input in MapReduce Programs [PDF] Masters' Thesis - LUMS 2015
Design and Development of a Java Parallel I/O Library [PDF] Bachelors' Final Year Project - NUST 2012

Journal Publications

Data sharing for citizen-driven repair and reuse of electronics and electrical equipment Umair ul Hassan, P. Paul, Muhammad Sohaib Ayub, K. Shaheed, and L. Hoang Data in Brief 2026
A supervised system for curating browsing whitelists for individuals with cognitive disabilities under legal guardianship D. Komosny, M. S. Ayub, and S. Rehman EPJ Data Science 2026
A Comparative Study of Machine Learning Models for Taxi-Demand Prediction Using a Big Data Framework Alam, Shafiq, Ayub, Muhammad Sohaib, Cui, Hao, Khan, Muhammad Asad Public Transport 2025
Part of speech (POS) tagging in Roman Urdu: datasets and models Faheem, Ali, Ullah, Faizad, Azam, Ubaid, Ayub, Muhammad Sohaib, Karim, Asim Language Resources and Evaluation 2025
Prompt-Based Fine-Tuning with Multilingual Transformers for Language-Independent Sentiment Analysis Ullah, Faizad, Faizullah, Safiullah, Khan, Imdad Ullah, Ali, Toqeer Syed, Alghamdi, Turki, Ayub, Muhammad Sohaib, Karim, Asim Scientific Reports 2025
Synthetic Browsing Histories for 50 Countries Worldwide: Datasets for Research, Development, and Education Komosny, Dan, Rehman, Saeed, Ayub, Muhammad Sohaib Scientific Data 2025
Abstractive Summarization for Urdu Video Description Generation Faheem, Ali, Ullah, Faizad, Ayub, Muhammad Sohaib, Karim, Asim ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing 2025
A Component-Based Localization Algorithm for Sparse 3-D Wireless Sensor Networks Islam, Mazhar, Ikram, Muhammad, Alhussein, Musaed, Ayub, Muhammad Sohaib, Khan, Muhammad Asad, Aurangzeb, Khursheed IEEE Access 2024
CAMP: A context-aware cricket players performance metric [PDF] Ayub, Muhammad Sohaib, Ullah, Naimat, Ali, Sarwan, Khan, Imdad Ullah, Awais, Mian Muhammad, Khan, Muhammad Asad, Faizullah, Safiullah Journal of the Operational Research Society 2024
Revolutionizing Historical Document Digitization: LSTM-Enhanced OCR for Arabic Handwritten Manuscripts Faizullah, Safiullah, Ayub, Muhammad Sohaib, Alghamdi, Turki, Ali, Toqeer Syed, Khan, Muhammad Asad, Nabil, Emad International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA) 2024
An Investigation of Imputation Techniques for Missing Values in Ordinal Data Enhancing Clustering and Classification Analysis Validity Alam, Shafiq, Ayub, Muhammad Sohaib, Arora, Somya, Khan, Muhammad Asad Decision Analytics Journal 2023
A comparative analysis of global optimization algorithms for surface electromyographic signal onset detection [PDF] S Alam, X Zhao, IK Niazi, MS Ayub, MA Khan Decision Analytics Journal 2023
A Survey of OCR in Arabic Language: Applications, Techniques, and Challenges [PDF] S Faizullah, MS Ayub, S Hussain, MA Khan Applied Sciences 2023

Conference Publications

GreenWebInspector: A Tool for Real-Time Web Energy Efficiency Assessment Ayub, Muhammad Sohaib, ul Hassan, Umair, Khan, Imdad Ullah, Curry, Edward ACM Web Conference (WWW'26) 2026
U-MIRAGE: Benchmarking Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Urdu Medical QA A. Faheem, F. Ullah, M. Hammad, A. Hassan, M. S. Ayub, and A. Karim The 2nd Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script (AbjadNLP-EACL), EACL 2026
Maskedverbalizer: Automatic verbalizer construction for few-shot text classification in low-resource right-to-left languages F. Ullah, F. Sikandar, A. Waqar, F. Ali, M. S. Ayub, M. Mushtaq, and A. Karim Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) 2026
Generative Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation in Contact Center Businesses Alam, Shafiq, Skelton, Lorraine, Ayub, Muhammad Sohaib, Dharmawan, Windy International Conference on Information Resources Management (Conf-IRM) 2025
Urdu Extractive Text Summarization: Evaluating Sentence Scoring Techniques Faheem, Ali, Faizad, Ullah, Ayub, Muhammad Sohaib, Karim, Asim Applied Intelligence and Informatics (AII) Conference 2025
Clustering-Based Balance Phenotyping in Older Adults from Treadmill Training Interventions Alam, Shafiq, Niazi, Imran K., Shafi, Hania, Ayub, Muhammad Sohaib, et al. IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData) 2025
Evaluating Explainable AI Implementation and User Agency Across Major Social Media Platforms Alam, Shafiq, Pawade, Anushka, Ayub, Muhammad Sohaib, et al. IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData) 2025
Detecting cybercrimes in accordance with pakistani law: Dataset and evaluation using plms Ullah, Faizad, Faheem, Ali, Azam, Ubaid, Ayub, Muhammad Sohaib, Kamiran, Faisal, Karim, Asim Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) 2024
Enhanced Facial Emotion Detection Models Utilizing Geometry-Based Features for Superior Human-Computer Interaction Alam, Shafiq, Ayub, Muhammad Sohaib, Sathasivam, Rohan, Khan, Muhammad Asad 31st International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2024) 2024
Towards Unveiling the Potential of Fuzzy Values as Features: A Comparative Study in Cybercrime Text Analysis Ullah, Faizad, Ayub, Muhammad Sohaib, Faheem, Ali, Awais, Main Muhammad, Karim, Asim 31st International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2024) 2024
UrduMASD: A Multimodal Abstractive Summarization Dataset for Urdu Faheem, Ali, Ullah, Faizad, Ayub, Muhammad Sohaib, Karim, Asim Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) 2024
Sequence-Based Nanobody-Antigen Binding Prediction [PDF] U Sardar, S Ali, MS Ayub, M Shoaib, K Bashir, IU Khan, M Patterson International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA) 2023
Towards Developing an Automated Chatbot for Predicting Legal Case Outcomes: A Deep Learning Approach [PDF] S Alam, R Pande, MS Ayub, MA Khan Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS) 2023
Efficiently Finding Minimal Failing Input in MapReduce Programs [PDF] MS Ayub, JH Siddiqui International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2018
Verifying MPI Java Programs Using Software Model Checking [PDF] MS Ayub, WU Rehman, JH Siddiqui International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) 2017
Verification of MPI Java Programs using Software Model Checking [PDF] WU Rehman, MS Ayub, JH Siddiqui ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP) 2016
Virtual TCAM for Data Center Switches [PDF] Q Maqbool, MS Ayub, J Zulfiqar, A Shafi IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Network (NFV-SDN) 2015
Towards Efficient Support for Parallel I/O in Java HPC [PDF] AA Awan, MS Ayub, A Shafi, S Lee International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT) 2012
Reliable Identification of Counterfeit Medicine using Camera Equipped Mobile Phones [PDF] SU Rehman, RU Rasool, MS Ayub, S Ullah, A Kamal, QM Rajpoot, and Z Anwar High Capacity Optical Networks and Enabling Technologies (HONET) 2011