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)
