Zubair Shah | Hamad Bin Khalifa University

Dr. Zubair Shah

Assistant Professor

Office location

A009J, Ground Floor, LAS Building

Dr. Zubair Shah

Assistant Professor

Educational Qualifications

PhD

MS

Entity

College of Science and Engineering

Divison

Information & Computing Technology

Biography

Dr. Zubair Shah is an Assistant Professor at the Division of ICT, College of Science and Engineering, HBKU. Dr. Shah received an MS degree in Computer System Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of New South Wales, Australia. He was a Research Fellow from 2017-2019 at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Australia. Dr. Shah’s expertise is in the field of artificial intelligence and big data analytics, and their application to health informatics. 

His research is focused on health informatics, particularly in relation to public health, using social media data (e.g., Twitter) and news sources to identify patterns indicative of population-level health. He has published his work in various A-tier international journals and conferences.

 

PhD

University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia

2017

MS

Politecnico Di Milano, Milano, Italy

2011

BS

University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan

2005

  • Health Informatics
  • Machine Learning
  • Deep Learning

Research Fellow

Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney

2017 - 2019

Lecturer

Department of Computer Science, City University of Science and IT, Peshawar, Pakistan

2012 - 2013

System Engineer

National Database & Registration Authority (NADRA), Peshawar, Pakistan

2006 - 2009

  • 2016 Postgraduate Research Student Support (PRSS), UNSW, Australia
  • 2014 University College Postgraduate Research Scholarship (UCPRS), UNSW, Australia
  • 2009 DSU-International Postgraduate Scholarship, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  • 2005 Distinction at Department of Computer Science, University of Peshawar, Pakistan