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Prof. Dr. Muazzam Ali Khan Khattak is currently serving as Director Science & Technology as well Director ICESCO Chair Data Analytics and Edge Computing at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. Beside that he is also adjunct Professor at School of Computing and Engineering, University of Missouri, KC, USA.

He is an outstanding faculty member of computer science department and have made significant contributions in research and designing advance computing courses on most modern lines for the syllabi of PhD, Master’s and Bachelor in Computer Science programs at Higher Education Commission Pakistan, National University of Sciences & Technology, Islamabad, (NUST), Department of Computing, NUST SEECS, NUST College of Electrical & Mechanical Engineering (CEME) and Department of Computer Science, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan. Currently his personal endeavors have been vitally instrumental in transforming department of computer science into a regional center of excellence to offer state-of-the-art indigenous research and academic services to the nation.

Earlier Dr. Khattak served as Associate Dean of Computing Department at NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS) 2017-2020, Post graduate Head, Department of Computer Engineering, NUST CEME 2013-2016 and Chair Department of Computer Science, AWKU, Mardan 2012-2013. During his tenure as Associate Dean Computing (S-HoD), NUST, the computer science program attained the top position at national level and 138^th position at international level.

Dr. Khattak started new degree programs of MS and PhD in Data Science, Artificial intelligence and machine learning. He also played a vital role in establishment of Computer Science Department at NUST Quetta Campus and at AWK University Mardan. Dr. Khattak contributed and also led cutting edge scientific research projects imbued with sound potential for national progress. He is credited with establishing research collaboration with many international universities such as School of Computing & Electrical Engineering (SCE), University of Missouri, Kansas City (UMKC), USA, Institute of Distributed Systems, University of Ulm, Germany, Kansas State University, Kansas USA, The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea, Linnaeus University (LNU), Sweden and Kazakh British Technical University, Kazakhstan. He carried out his PhD research and Postdoc Research Fellowship at University of Missouri Kansas City (UMKC), USA and International Islamic University, Islamabad. Despite his involvement in multiple professional and administrative activities he has copiously contributed to prestigious scientific journals, seminars/conferences both at national/international levels, and has 200 research papers with more than 400+ Impact factor and book chapters to his credit having 3160+ citations. He also organized many international Conferences such as C-CODE-2017, HONET-ICT 2018, C-CODE 2019, HONET-ICT 2019, HONET-ICT 2020, HONET-ICT 2021 and HONET-ICT 2022.

Apart from being a Senior Member of IEEE, Senior Member Pakistan Academy of Sciences he is also senior member of National Computing Education Accreditation Council (NCEAC), member of HEC Accreditation & Attestation Division for Computing Programs. He is also a technical reviewer of more than 40 national and international conferences and journals.

He has been awarded grant of 25 Million by ICESCO and 06 Million by Huawei International for establishment of Huawei Academy at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.