Biography:
I have more than 16 years of working experience in renowned national and international institutions, including seven years of research and more than nine years of teaching. In addition, my role as a member of the board of studies in the GIFT University and the University of Gujrat was significant in design and approval of curriculums for bachelor and master degrees of computer science. I earned Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (major in Digital Signal Processing) from Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Malaysia. I obtained MS and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore. I have a strong background in mathematics as I completed M.Sc. Mathematics in 2001 from the University of the Punjab, Lahore. I have throughout First Division in my education career.  Since 2010, I am associated with King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, and doing research in the area of speech/speaker recognition, biomedical signal processing, cloud and multimedia for healthcare, security and privacy using encryption and watermarking, and multimedia forensics. I have more than 50 publications in high-quality impact factor journals and reputed international conferences. The cumulative impact factor of my 23 ISI journal publications according to 2016 journal citation report is more than 62. I have been involved in various scientific research projects funded by National Science Technology and Innovation Plan (NSTIP), King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Saudi Arabia. Under the scope of the projects, two speech databases have been recorded, and Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC), University of Pennsylvania, USA, published one of the databases.
 

Zulfiqar Ali

Digital Speech Processing Group
Department of Computer Engineering (P.O.Box 51178)
College of Computer and Information Sciences
King Saud University, Riyadh 11543, Saudi Arabia. 
Cell: +966590620332
Email: zuali@ksu.edu.sa, zulfiqarbutt2000@gmail.com

Research Interests:

• Biomedical Signal Processing
• Speech and Speaker Recognition
• Digital Image Processing
• Cloud and Multimedia for healthcare
• Multimedia Forensics
• Privacy and Security
• Watermarking and Steganography