Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi

Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi is a Professor at the Department of Computer Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. With a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Koblenz, Germany (2010), and an MS from FAST-NU, Pakistan (2004), he has over 20 years of academic and research experience.

• Education: PhD (Computer Science, University of Koblenz), MS (Computer Science, FAST-NU)

Research Interests span Data Science, Network Science, Social Media Analytics, and Social Network Analysis. His work focuses on:

• Twitter data mining for societal challenges
• Network-based approaches to knowledge discovery
• Machine learning for social behavior modeling
• Event detection in social streams
• Bibliometric and scientometric analysis

Scientific Awards include:

• Tenured Professor (2023, Quaid-i-Azam University)
• Best Teacher Award (2017, King Abdul Aziz University)
• HEC Approved PhD Supervisor (2012)
• PetaMedia European scholarship (2010)

Grants and Projects involve leading 7 funded initiatives totaling over PKR 1,235,000, including:

• Large Scale Machine Learning for Real-Life Problems (2024-2025, Quaid-i-Azam University)
• Social Media Analytics Tool (2020, IGNITE)
• Stress Monitoring System (2020, IGNITE)

Advising has mentored 87 students across:

• PhD (2 ongoing)
• MSc (21 graduated)
• MPhil (18 graduated)
• BS (5 graduated)

Labs and Teams include:

• Supervising social media mining projects at Quaid-i-Azam University
• Collaborating with international teams (Germany, Saudi Arabia, Austria)
• Leading data science workshops (e.g., Python for Social Scientists 2023)