Member Name: Shafay Shamail

Title: Associate Professor of Computer Science

Qualifications: Ph.D., University of Bath

Phone: + 92 (42) 572 2670 Ext: 4401

Fax: + 92 (42) 589 8315

E-Mail: sshamail@lums.edu.pk

Research Interests: Software Engineering and Simulation of Large Systems

Biography: Dr. Shafay Shamail completed his BSc Electrical Engineering from UET Lahore in 1985, MSc Electronics from University of Wales in 1987, and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Bath U.K in 1990. Before joining LUMS Dr Shamail worked in both the Software industry as well as the academia. During his stay at Soft Net Systems, he gained experience in e-commerce technologies, especially those from Microsoft. Dr. Shamail has taught at UET Lahore as well as at Pak-AIMS, mostly at the undergraduate level and has a vast experience of curriculum design and implementation. He is a member of IEEE.

Publications & Patents: Devolution in a Virtual Enterprise
Farooq, M. K., Shamail, S., and Awais, M. M., In 9th IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises (PRO-VE'08), Poznan, Poland, September 8-10, 2008.

On Vowels Segmentation and Identification using Formant Transitions in Continuous Recitation of Quranic Arabic
Iqbal, H.R., Awais, M.M., Masud, S., and Shamail, S., In 21st International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE 2008), Wroclaw, Poland, June 18-20, 2008.

Self-Configuration in Autonomic Systems using Clustered CBR Approach
Khan, M.J., Awais, M.M., and Shamail, S., In 5th International Conference on Autonomic Computing, (ICAC 2008), Chicago, IL, USA, June 2-6, 2008.

Towards a Generic Model for Software Quality Prediction
Rana, Z.A., Shamail, S., and Awais, M.M., In 6th International workshop on Software Quality during 30th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '08) Leipzig, Germany, 10-18 May 2008.

Enabling Self-Configuration in Automatic Systems using Case-Based Reasoning with Improved Efficiency
Khan,M.J., Awais, M.M., and Shamail, S., In Fourth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS-2008), Gosier, Guadeloupe, Caribbean, March 16-21, 2008.