Degree awarded: BS Software Engineering
Duration: 4 Years
Course fees: Total Avg. Exp. (per semester) Rs. 47,600
Academic Faculty of: Faculty of of Computing
Contact email: Email: contact@riphah.edu.pk
Contact telephone: UAN: 111-510-511
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Faculty of Computing has been established with a vision to playing a leading role in indigenous development of Information Technology in Pakistan.
The Faculty is committed to generating, disseminating and preserving knowledge and working with others to bring this knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges. We are determined to providing students with an education that combines rigorous academic studies and the excitement of discovery with the support and stimulation of all campus community. We seek to develop in each individual of the Faculty the ability and passion to work wisely, creatively and effectively for the betterment of entire humanity.
Being a constituent unit of RIU, FC is committed to fostering among its students the education and its application so as to enable them to be a catalyst for positive, intellectual, technological and human development.
The programs offered are particularly designed with a clear understanding that information technology plays a vital role in contemporary times. This involves the application of both technology and the perspective concerning computing to resolve the broad range of information based problems in the various domains of business, industry and education.
One of the distinct features of FC is its need based curriculum corresponding and responding to the ground needs and requirements of the industry. The curriculum of the faculty has been scrupulously designed in line with the international standards set by IEEE, ACM, AIIP, AIS etc.
Undergraduate Admission
A candidate seeking admission in Bachelor's program in the Faculty of Computing must fulfil the following requirements:
He/She should pass the Intermediate (F.Sc/FA/ICS) or equivalent examination securing at least 60% marks in aggregate of any Board of Intermediate / Intermediate and Secondary Education in Pakistan or abroad.
Selection
Admissions to candidates shall be granted strictly in accordance with merit which shall be determined on the basis of academic record, entry test and interview. Weightage for calculating the merit shall be as under:
FSc (60%)
Entry Test/ Interview (40%)
Admission Procedure
The Faculty will have admissions twice a year, one in Spring and one in Fall. A complete application package is to be submitted by every candidate within the due date as mentioned in the advertisement. Late applications will not be entertained. After receiving the applications, the entry test will be held according to the date, time and place as intimated by postal mail to the applicants. The successful candidates will further be informed of their results to follow the necessary procedure.
The candidates are required to attach the copies of following documents along with the application forms.
* Recent 4 passport size colour photograph
* Matriculation / Senior Cambridge or equivalent Certificate
* Detailed Marks Certificate of Intermediate or equivalent
* Provisional / Character Certificate of the college/institution last attended
* Bachelors / Masters Detailed Marks Sheet
* National Identity Card / B Form
* An undertaking by students’ parent/guardian
One of the distinct features of FC is its need based curriculum corresponding and responding to the ground needs and requirements of the industry. The curriculum of the faculty has been scrupulously designed in line with the international standards set by IEEE, ACM, AIIP, AIS etc.
Note:
The nature of undertaking is related to the requirement of the University.
No application for admission will be considered unless fully and completely made out on the prescribed form by the candidate in his/her own hand writing.
Degree Requirements
The candidates are required to get pass grades in all the courses offered in a semester with SGPA at least of 2.00 or more, and to pass all the semesters of the degree program, with at least CGPA 2.00 or more besides all recommendations of HEC for computing disciplines.
Graduate Admission
The Faculty is offering Bachelor of Science (BS) programs at undergraduate level in the field of Computing in following disciplines:
Admission
BS (CS), BS (SE), BS (IT), MCS, MSc
1. BS (SE/CS/IT) 4 years degree program (minimum 130 credit hours)
2. CGPA >= 2.0
OR
1. Computer Science conversion course two years degree program referred to as MCS or M.Sc. (Computer Science)
2. CGPA >= 2.0
OR
1. BCS 3-year program degree applicants may be provisionally admitted in the MS (SE) program. Candidates will be required to take additional courses to complete credit hour requirement of min. 120 before being formally enrolled in the MS (SE) program.
2. CGPA >= 2.0
Under eligibility criteria 1-3 the faculty may recommend additional deficiency courses, from the BS (SE) curriculum, considering the deficiency of the candidates.
Selection
Admissions to candidates shall be granted strictly in accordance with merit which shall be determined on the basis of academic record, entry test and interview.
Admission Procedure
The Faculty will have admissions twice a year, one in Spring and one in Fall A complete application package is to be submitted by every candidate within the due date as mentioned in the advertisement. Late applications will not be entertained. After receiving the applications, the entry test will be held according to the date, time and place as intimated by postal mail to the applicants. The successful candidates will further be informed of their results to follow the necessary procedure.
The candidates are required to attach the copies of following documents along with the application forms.
* Recent 4 passport size coloured photograph
* Matriculation / Senior Cambridge or equivalent Certificate
* Detailed Marks Certificate of Intermediate or equivalent
* Provisional / Character Certificate of the college/institution last attended
* Bachelors / Masters Detailed Marks Sheet for post Graduate program
* National Identity Card
* Undertaking
No application for admission will be considered unless fully and completely made out on the prescribed form by the candidate in his/her own hand writing.
Degree Requirements
The candidates are required to get pass grades in all the courses offered in a semester with SGPA at least of 3.00 or more, and to pass all the semesters of the degree program, with at least CGPA 3.00 or more besides all recommendations of HEC for Computing discipline.
A dynamic and dedicated teaching faculty should awaken in its student's inquisitiveness towards more learning and a keen consciousness of their manifold relations with the society and environment. With this vision and insight, the Faculty has engaged a highly qualified, experienced and eminent teaching staff of national and international repute. The faculty members in close coordination and collaboration with teaching fellows endeavor to provide students with par excellent knowledge in the various disciplines of Information Technology (IT) and Computer Sciences (CS). At present the student faculty ratio is 1:11 .
Faculty
Dr Saad Naeem Zafar (Dean)
Ph. D (Australia)
Research Interests:
1. Integration of safety and security requirements into system design.
2. Development of security integration patterns
3. Development of a graphical Role-based Access Control (RBAC) model
4. Translation of access control requirements into a formal specification
language for model-checking
5. Development of a light-weight formal method for model-checking of complex
access control requirements
Contact: saadzafar@riphah.edu.pk
Dr. Abdul Aziz (Director Research)
Ph. D - Computer Science (UK)
Research Interests:
1. Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD)
2. Data Mining
3. Pattern Recognition
4. Machine Learning
5. Algorithm Designing.
Dr. Iftikhar Azim Niaz (Head of Department)
Ph. D (Japan)
Research Interests:
1. Object Oriented Technology
2. Unified Modeling Language (UML)
3. Design Patterns
4. Automatic Code Generation
5. Human Computer Interaction
Contact: ianiaz@riphah.edu.pk
Mr. M. Sabir Qamar (Assistant Professor)
MS - Information Systems (UK)
Research Interests:
1. Database Modeling
2. Relational and Object Oriented Databases
3. Data warehousing
4. Management Information Systems
5. Health Information systems
Contact: sabir@riphah.edu.pk
Mr. Abdul Mateen (Assistant Professor)
MS - Information Systems (UK)
Research Interests:
1. Databases
2. Life Sciences Applications
3. Process Improvement
4. Professional Ethics
Contact: mateen@riphah.edu.pk
Mr. Shahzad Rafiq (Assistant Professor)
MS - Computer Science (M.A.J.U)
Research Interests:
1. Impact of early incorporation inof NFR on S/W design
2. Design on term of reducing cost
Contact: rafiq@ripaha.edu.pk
Mr. Muhammad Zubair (Assistant Professor)
MS - Information Technology (H. U)
Research Interests:
1. Signal Processing
2. Image Processing
Contact: zubair@riphah.edu.pk
Mr. Arif Mushtaq (Assistant Professor)
MS - Digital Media (Germany)
Contact: arifmustaq@riphah.edu.pk
Mr. Musharif Ahmad (Assistant Professor)
MS - Systems & Software Engineering (M.A.J.U)
Research Interests:
1. Human Computer Interaction
2. Information Exploration Interfaces
Contact: musharif@riphah.edu.pk
Mr. Bilal Khurshid (studying abroad) (Lecturer)
M. Sc - Computer Science (I.I.U.I)
Mr. Syed Zulqarnain (studying abroad) (Lecturer)
MS - Information Technology (P.I.M.S.A.T)
Mr. Muhammad Imran (studying abroad) (Lecturer)
M. Sc - Computer Science (N.U.M.L)
Mr. Syed Yasser Arafat (Lecturer)
MS - Computer Science (I.I.U.I)
Research Interests:
1. Languages, compilers, and automata theory.
2. Image processing, intelligent computer vision and visualization.
3. 3-D object reorganization, 3-D modeling, Data mining, and Artificial
intelligence.
4. Computer Graphics.
Contact: yasser@riphah.edu.pk
Ms. Sumera Saleem (Lecturer)
MS - Computer Science (M.A.J.U)
Contact: sumera@riphah.edu.pk
Mr.Saleem Anwar(Lecturer)
MS - Computer Science (N.U.S.T)
Contact: slaeen@riphah.edu.pk
Mr.Fazal-e-Hadi(Lecturer)
MS - Computer Science (I.I.U.I)
Contact: hadi@riphah.edu.pk
Mr. Umer Rashid (Lecturer)
M, Phil - Computer Science (Qauid-I-Azam University)
Research Interests:
1. Frameworks and Architectures for multimedia Information Retrieval.
2. Multimodal query formulation and multimedia information presentation.
3. Multimedia document modeling and information organization
4. Human Computer Interaction
Contact: umerr@riphah.edu.pk
Mr. Atif Naseer (Teaching Fellow)
B.S - Software Engineering (U.E.T, Taxila)
Research Interests:
1. Wireless Mesh Networks
2. Sensors Networks
3. Design and Optimization of Different protocols
Contact: atifss@gmail.com
