Faculty Profile
arslan.rauf@numl.edu.pk
923487955322
Doctorate in Software Engineering (PhD) | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China | 10/09/2020 - 23/06/2024
Master of Science in Computer Science | National Textile University, Faisalabad, Pakistan | 28/10/2017 - 28/10/2019
Assistant Professor | Riphah International University, Pakistan | 10/08/2024 - 05/10/2026
Post Doctoral Researcher (Remo te)| University of Electronic Science and Technology of China | 09/07/2024 - 08/07/2026
Lecturer (Computer Science) | Riphah International University, Pakistan | 23/10/2019 - 31/03/2023
1. Rauf, Asif, Ghani, Mian Muhammad Yasir Khalil, and Zhen Qin. " AAST-Net: Activity Adaptive Spatio-Temporal Network for Human Activity Recognition." Applied Soft Computing, 115762 (2026) doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2026.115762. (JCR Q1).
2. Rauf, Khalil, Wang, Qingxian Wang, Ghani, and Junaid Hassan. "BCE4ZSR: Bi-Encoder Empowered by Teacher Cross-Encoder for Zero-Shot Cold-Start News Recommendation." Information Processing & Management 61, no.
3 (2024): 103686. (JCR Q1). 3. Rauf, Khalil, Ghani, Weidong Wang, Qingxian Wang, and Junaid Hassan. "ZS-CEBE: Leveraging Zero-Shot Cross and Bi-Encoder Architecture for Cold-Start News Recommendation." Signal, Image and Video Processing 18, no. 8 (2024): 6455-6467. (JCR Q3).
4. Iqbal Asif, Muhammad Arslan Rauf, Md Mahamud, Mian Muhammad Yasir Khalil, and Zhen Qin. "E-harnet: An Efficient Hybrid Transformer Network for Human Activity Recognition." The Journal of Supercomputing 81, no. 10 (2025): 1-23. (JCR Q2).
5. Ghani, Latif, Rauf, Saeed, Khalil, Wang, and Wang. "A Secure and Scalable Framework for the Internet of Vehicles using Integrated Federated Learning and Blockchain." Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (2026). (JCR Q1).
6. Hassan Junaid, Zhen Qin, Muhammad Arslan Rauf, Umar Aftab, Negalign Wake Hundera, and Xinzhong Zhu. "Revocable Policy Hiding Bilateral Access Control Scheme with Equality Test for IIoT Environment." IEEE Internet of Things Journal (2025). (JCR Q1).
7. Khalil Mian Muhammad Yasir, Bo Chen, Muhammad Arslan Rauf, Weidong Wang, and Qingxian Wang. "TAMTE: Topic-Attentive Multimodal Transformer Encoder for Hashtag Recommendation." Knowledge and Information Systems (2025): 1-24. (JCR Q2).
8. Shagufta, Shoukat, Ullah, Khan, Ayesha Faryad, and Muhammad Arslan Rauf (Corresponding). "Em-t2i: Ensemble AI Model for Text-to-Image Synthesis Using Meta AI and Microsoft Copilot." Signal, Image and Video Processing 19, no. 7 (2025): 569. (JCR Q3).
9. Zehra, Ullah, Arshad, Hanan Aljuaid, Rauf (Corresponding), Nadeem Sarwar, and Rimsha Sajid. "Machine Learning Approaches for Muhammad Arslan Rauf Date of birth: 31/10/1996 | Nationality: Pakistani Email: marslanrauf@hotmail.com Phone: +923487955322 Address: Faisalabad, Pakistan Software Defect Prediction." Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing 2025, no. 1 (2025): 7933078. (JCR Q2).
10. Ghani Muhammad Ahmad Nawaz Ul, Kun She, Muhammad Arslan Rauf, Masoud Alajmi, Yazeed Yasin Ghadi, and Abdulmohsen Algarni. "Securing Synthetic Faces: A GAN-Blockchain Approach to Privacy-Enhanced Facial Recognition." Journal of King Saud University-Computer and Information Sciences 36, no. 4 (2024): 102036. (JCR Q1).
11. Mueen, Shoukat, Erssa Arif, Amjad, Muhammad Mohsin, Mumtaz, and Rauf (Corresponding). "Randomized Frame Selection Based Video Steganography Method for Secure Embedding of Secret Data." Journal of Computing & Biomedical Informatics 8, no. 2 (2025).
12. Arslan, Sahar, Amjad, Naila Nawaz, Din, and Muhammad Arslan Rauf (Corresponding). "A Core Moving Average Indicator Based Artificial Market Model for Studying the Bitcoin Trading." Journal of Computing & Biomedical Informatics 9, no. 1 (2025).
13. Ghani Muhammad Ahmad Nawaz Ul, Kun She, Muhammad Arslan Rauf, Shumaila Khan, Masoud Alajmi, Yazeed Yasin Ghadi, and Hend Khalid Alkahtani. "Toward Robust and Privacy-Enhanced Facial Recognition: A Decentralized Blockchain-Based Approach with GANs and Deep Learning." Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 21, no. 3 (2024): 4165-4186. (JCR Q4).
14. Ghani, Kun She, Rauf, Khan, Aldakheel, and Khafaga. "Enhancing Security and Privacy in Distributed Face Recognition Systems through Blockchain and GAN Technologies." Computers, Materials & Continua 79, no. 2 (2024): 2609-2623. (JCR Q3).
15. Muhammad Arslan Rauf, Iqbal, Ghani, and Qin. "KD4Rec: A Knowledge Distillation-Based News Recommendation System for the Cold-Start Problem." Knowledge and Information Systems (Revision Submitted) (JCR Q2).
Education
Doctorate in Software Engineering (PhD) | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China | 10/09/2020 - 23/06/2024
Master of Science in Computer Science | National Textile University, Faisalabad, Pakistan | 28/10/2017 - 28/10/2019
Experience
Assistant Professor | Riphah International University, Pakistan | 10/08/2024 - 05/10/2026
Post Doctoral Researcher (Remo te)| University of Electronic Science and Technology of China | 09/07/2024 - 08/07/2026
Lecturer (Computer Science) | Riphah International University, Pakistan | 23/10/2019 - 31/03/2023
Publications
1. Rauf, Asif, Ghani, Mian Muhammad Yasir Khalil, and Zhen Qin. " AAST-Net: Activity Adaptive Spatio-Temporal Network for Human Activity Recognition." Applied Soft Computing, 115762 (2026) doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2026.115762. (JCR Q1).
2. Rauf, Khalil, Wang, Qingxian Wang, Ghani, and Junaid Hassan. "BCE4ZSR: Bi-Encoder Empowered by Teacher Cross-Encoder for Zero-Shot Cold-Start News Recommendation." Information Processing & Management 61, no.
3 (2024): 103686. (JCR Q1). 3. Rauf, Khalil, Ghani, Weidong Wang, Qingxian Wang, and Junaid Hassan. "ZS-CEBE: Leveraging Zero-Shot Cross and Bi-Encoder Architecture for Cold-Start News Recommendation." Signal, Image and Video Processing 18, no. 8 (2024): 6455-6467. (JCR Q3).
4. Iqbal Asif, Muhammad Arslan Rauf, Md Mahamud, Mian Muhammad Yasir Khalil, and Zhen Qin. "E-harnet: An Efficient Hybrid Transformer Network for Human Activity Recognition." The Journal of Supercomputing 81, no. 10 (2025): 1-23. (JCR Q2).
5. Ghani, Latif, Rauf, Saeed, Khalil, Wang, and Wang. "A Secure and Scalable Framework for the Internet of Vehicles using Integrated Federated Learning and Blockchain." Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (2026). (JCR Q1).
6. Hassan Junaid, Zhen Qin, Muhammad Arslan Rauf, Umar Aftab, Negalign Wake Hundera, and Xinzhong Zhu. "Revocable Policy Hiding Bilateral Access Control Scheme with Equality Test for IIoT Environment." IEEE Internet of Things Journal (2025). (JCR Q1).
7. Khalil Mian Muhammad Yasir, Bo Chen, Muhammad Arslan Rauf, Weidong Wang, and Qingxian Wang. "TAMTE: Topic-Attentive Multimodal Transformer Encoder for Hashtag Recommendation." Knowledge and Information Systems (2025): 1-24. (JCR Q2).
8. Shagufta, Shoukat, Ullah, Khan, Ayesha Faryad, and Muhammad Arslan Rauf (Corresponding). "Em-t2i: Ensemble AI Model for Text-to-Image Synthesis Using Meta AI and Microsoft Copilot." Signal, Image and Video Processing 19, no. 7 (2025): 569. (JCR Q3).
9. Zehra, Ullah, Arshad, Hanan Aljuaid, Rauf (Corresponding), Nadeem Sarwar, and Rimsha Sajid. "Machine Learning Approaches for Muhammad Arslan Rauf Date of birth: 31/10/1996 | Nationality: Pakistani Email: marslanrauf@hotmail.com Phone: +923487955322 Address: Faisalabad, Pakistan Software Defect Prediction." Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing 2025, no. 1 (2025): 7933078. (JCR Q2).
10. Ghani Muhammad Ahmad Nawaz Ul, Kun She, Muhammad Arslan Rauf, Masoud Alajmi, Yazeed Yasin Ghadi, and Abdulmohsen Algarni. "Securing Synthetic Faces: A GAN-Blockchain Approach to Privacy-Enhanced Facial Recognition." Journal of King Saud University-Computer and Information Sciences 36, no. 4 (2024): 102036. (JCR Q1).
11. Mueen, Shoukat, Erssa Arif, Amjad, Muhammad Mohsin, Mumtaz, and Rauf (Corresponding). "Randomized Frame Selection Based Video Steganography Method for Secure Embedding of Secret Data." Journal of Computing & Biomedical Informatics 8, no. 2 (2025).
12. Arslan, Sahar, Amjad, Naila Nawaz, Din, and Muhammad Arslan Rauf (Corresponding). "A Core Moving Average Indicator Based Artificial Market Model for Studying the Bitcoin Trading." Journal of Computing & Biomedical Informatics 9, no. 1 (2025).
13. Ghani Muhammad Ahmad Nawaz Ul, Kun She, Muhammad Arslan Rauf, Shumaila Khan, Masoud Alajmi, Yazeed Yasin Ghadi, and Hend Khalid Alkahtani. "Toward Robust and Privacy-Enhanced Facial Recognition: A Decentralized Blockchain-Based Approach with GANs and Deep Learning." Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 21, no. 3 (2024): 4165-4186. (JCR Q4).
14. Ghani, Kun She, Rauf, Khan, Aldakheel, and Khafaga. "Enhancing Security and Privacy in Distributed Face Recognition Systems through Blockchain and GAN Technologies." Computers, Materials & Continua 79, no. 2 (2024): 2609-2623. (JCR Q3).
15. Muhammad Arslan Rauf, Iqbal, Ghani, and Qin. "KD4Rec: A Knowledge Distillation-Based News Recommendation System for the Cold-Start Problem." Knowledge and Information Systems (Revision Submitted) (JCR Q2).