Executive Summary

·         PhD in Computing and Information Engineering (specialization: healthcare modelling and medical informatics, thesis title “Unified modelling for care of the elderly”), University of Ulster, UK. 

·         More than 19 years of teaching and research experience.

Academic distinctions

·            Supervised two DBA students (University of Liverpool) and 180 Master of Science dissertations (University of Liverpool, UK), two Master of Science dissertation (University of Malta) and four Master of Engineering dissertations (Thapar University, India). Many of these were sponsored by industrial organizations. Also, supervising/co-supervising two PhD students (University of Malta).

·            ​The 2009 award of best paper published in Faculty Research Conference by Research Graduate School, University of Ulster, UK.

·            Nominated for the Operational Research Society Doctoral Prize "Most Distinguished Body of Research leading to the Award of a Doctorate in the field of OR".

·            ​The 2009 award of best paper published in Faculty Research Conference by Research Graduate School, University of Ulster, UK.

·            2017 award of the best paper presented in the 17th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2017), Trieste, Italy - July 3-6, 2017.

·            2019 award of the best paper presented in the 8th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (ICORES-2019), Prague, Czech Republic, 19-21 February 2019.

·            Awarded research studentship in Healthcare Modelling to carry out research studies leading to award of the degree of philosophy in the faculty of computing and engineering at University of Ulster, UK.

·            Qualified in GATE 1999 (Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineers’ 1999) in Electronics and Communication Engineering and awarded scholarship to complete Post Graduate Diploma in Information Technology at ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management, Gwalior, India.

·            Peer Reviewer for many reputed international journals and conferences including IEEE transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, Health Care Management Science, European Journal of Operation Research and IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.

Publication Record (since 2007)

·       39 papers published in refereed journals

·       13 refereed book chapters

·       2 edited book and 1 contributed book

·       54 papers in refereed international conferences

·       18 other (extended) abstracts/ posters/ presentations in conferences

  ·     Google Scholar: H-Index: 14 (total 630 citations and 92 indexed publications)

·       The Scopus: H-Index: 10 (total 376 citations and 60 indexed publications) 

·       The ISI Web of Science: H-Index: 9 (total 255 citations and 41 indexed publications).