Member Name: Asim Karim

Title: Associate Professor of Computer Science

Qualifications: Ph.D., Ohio State University

Phone: + 92 (42) 572 2670 Ext: 4429

Fax: + 92 (42) 589 8315

E-Mail: akarim@lums.edu.pk

Website: http://web.lums.edu.pk/~akarim

Research Interests: Data Mining, Machine Learning, Applied Artificial Intelligence

Biography: Dr. Karim holds a B.Sc. degree from UET Lahore and a doctorate from Ohio State University (OSU). Before joining LUMS in 2002, Dr. Karim worked as a graduate research associate and lab manager in the Knowledge Engineering Lab at OSU. He is an active multidisciplinary researcher with a focus on computational intelligence (specifically, data mining and machine learning) and its applications in the sciences and engineering. His work has appeared in over 30 research publications including two books, the most recent of which was published by John Wiley and Sons in 2005. He has participated in the program/technical committees of several journals and conferences. At LUMS, he has been instrumental in strengthening the graduate program in data mining and machine learning, and in setting up a high performance computing resource for computationally intensive applications.

Publications & Patents: A Robust Discriminative Term Weighting based Linear Discriminant Method for Text Classification
K.N. Junejo and A. Karim, In IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Pisa, Italy, 15 – 19, Dec., 2008.

PSSF: A Novel Statistical Approach for Personalized Service-side Spam Filtering
Junejo, K.N., and Karim, A., In IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-2007), Silicon Valley, USA, November 2-5, 2007.

Automatic Personalised Spam Filtering through Significant Word Modeling
Junejo, K.N., and Karim, A., In 19th IEEE International Conference on Tools with AI (ICTAI-2007), Patras, Greece, October 29-31, 2007.

Bayesian Inference for Web Surface Behavior Prediction
Hassan, M.T., Junejo, K.N., and Karim, A., In ECML/PKDD 2007, Warsaw, Poland, September 17-21, 2007.

Outlier Detection in Evolving Data Streams: An Evaluation of the LOADED Algorithms
Bawany, M.Y., Karim, A., Khan, A.H.,and Siddiqui , M.S., In International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Information Systems (ICICIS 2007), Cairo, Egypt, June 2007.