Dr. Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi

Rabeeh Abbasi is working as a tenured associate professor at the Department of Computer Science, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan. He completed his PhD from the Institute of Web Science and Technologies (WeST) University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. He has a vast research experience in the fields of social media analytics and social network analysis. His research focuses on leveraging positive aspects of social media including social media’s use in saving lives, understanding events, and analyzing sentiments among many others. He has published more than 50 articles in reputed journals like IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, Computers in Human Behavior, Telematics and Informatics, Applied Soft Computing, Knowledge-Based Systems, Journal of Informetrics, Expert Systems with Applications, and Scientometrics and international conferences like ACM HyperText Conference (HT), ACM World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data mining (PAKDD), and European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR). He has introduced and taught a variety of courses at undergrad and graduate level. He is often invited for talks at various conferences and universities. He has also supervised a number of BS, MS, and PhD theses.