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Ali Mustafa Qamar
Ali Mustafa Qamar
National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad
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Short Biography
Dr. Ali Mustafa Qamar is currently serving as an Assistant Professor at School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS) at National University of Sciences and Technology, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan. He completed his PhD in Machine Learning from University of Grenoble, France in November 2010. During his PhD, he worked in Grenoble Informatics Laboratory where he developed Similarity Metric Learning algorithms for Nearest Neighbor classification. After completing his PhD, he served as a Post-Doc scientist/teacher at University Joseph Fourier (UJF). He has done his Masters in Artificial Intelligence in 2007 from UJF and Bachelors of Software Engineering from College of Signal, NUST in 2005.

His research interests include Similarity Metric Learning, Metric Learning, Machine Learning, Classification, Information Filtering etc. 

List of top 5 publications in the last 5 years

A. M. Qamar, E. Gaussier, "Similarity Learning in Nearest Neighbor and Relief Algorithm", Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), pp. 183-189, 2010, Washington United States.


A. M. QamarE. Gaussier, "Online and Batch Learning of Generalized Cosine Similarities", Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), pp. 926-931, 2009, Miami United States.


List of top 5 academic activities during the last 5 years

Assistant Professor (July 2011 todate) NUST, SEECS, Islamabad, Pakistan

Post-Doc (Nov 2010 - June 2011), University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France