Summary

• Dr. Muhammad Arif Butt is an Assistant Professor at University of the Punjab, since 2008.
• His academic, teaching, administrative and entrepreneurial experience span over 32 years
• He has served as In-Charge /Principal of the largest constituent College of University of the Punjab having 185 faculty and staff members and a student body of over 2500.
• As Chief Security Officer planned and executed security to over 45000 on-campus students and 7000 employees located at 5 campuses of the University having a total area of 1800 acres.
• Annual funds management of over 300 million.
• CEO of a startup having 30+ employees and corporate management of over 20 million per year.
• 1st position and University Gold Medal both in undergraduate and graduate degrees.
• Served in the Armed Forces of Pakistan as an officer and has the honor of serving as an instructor at the School of Infantry and Tactics Quetta – a prestigious training institute of Pakistan Army.

Academic Qualifications

Experience / Employment History (32 years of professional experience)

Awards / Achievements

• • University gold medal in MPhil (Computer Science) from Punjab University College of Information Technology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
  • University gold medal in MSc (Computer Science) from Punjab University College of Information Technology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
  • Ranked among the top three best teachers throughout the teaching carrier at Punjab University College of Information Technology, University of the Punjab
  • Over 200 highly ranked/viewed video lectures on six different subjects available on YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/LearnWithArif/playlists
  • During the stay in uniform, have the honor to serve in the snowy mountains of Kashmir and Siachin
  • During the stay in uniform, served as instructor at School of Infantry & Tactics Quetta, Pakistan

Research & Publications

Books

• • 1. A. Butt (2010), Taxonomy of IDS: Intrusion Detection using System Call Sequence, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, ISBN: 3639294092

Journal Articles

• • 1. M. A. Butt, Z. Ajmal, Z. I. Khan, M. Idrees, Y. Javed, , “An In-Depth Survey of Bypassing Buffer Overflow Mitgation Techniques”, Appl. Sci., vol. 12, no. 13, pp. 1-30, 2022 (I.F 2.838, HEC W Category)
    2. M. A. Butt, M. Idrees, and Muhammad Saleem Raza, “Designing Fuzzy Logic Controller for UNIX Fuzzy find Command”, VFAST Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 10, no. 2, pp 17-26. 2022, ISSN 2411-6246 (HEC Y Category)
    3. H. R. Ahmad, M. Idrees, A. Ahmad, M. A. Butt, S. Shahzad, M. Shahzad, “Unification of Programming Languages”, Webology, ISSN 1735-188X, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 423-457, 2022 (HEC Y Category)
    4. A. Sohail, M. I. Tariq, S. Ali, M. A. Butt, M. Ismail, and F. Ahmad, “Diabetic Patient’s Behavior Observation on Social Media Using Active Surveillance”, Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-219297 vol. Pre-press, pp. 1-16, 2022 (HEC X Category)
    5. M. Idrees, M. A. Butt, and A. Ahmad, “Unification of Programming Languages, A Step Towards Visual Programming”, International Journal of Next-Generation Computing, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 507-517, 2021 (HEC Y Category)
    6. M. Idrees, A. Ahmad, M. A. Butt, and H. M. Danish, “Controlling PowerPoint using Hand Gestures in Python”, Webology, ISSN 1735-188X, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 1372-1388, 2021 (HEC Y Category)
    7. A. Sohail, A. Haseeb, M. Rehman, D. D. Dominic, and M. A. Butt, “An Intelligent Graph Edit DistanceBased Approach for Finding Business Process Similarities”, Computers, Materials & Continua, vol. 69, no. 3, pp. 3603-3618, 2021 (I.F 4.89, HEC W Category)
    8. A. Ahmad, M. Idrees, M. A. Butt, and H. M. Danish, “BBVPL: A Block-Based Visual Programming Language Built on Google’s Blockly”, International Journal of Advanced Trends in Computer Science and Engineering, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 2524-2532, 2021 (HEC Y Category)
    9. A. Sohail, D. D. Dominic, M. Hijji, and M. A. Butt, “Competency Driven Resource Evaluation Method for Business Process Intelligence”, Computers, Materials & Continua, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 1141-1157, 2021 (I.F 4.89, HEC W Category)
    10. S. Habib, A. Ashraf, M. A. Butt, and M. Ahmad, “Medical Diagnosis Based on Single-valued Neutrosophic Information”, Neutrosophic Sets and Systems, vol. 42, pp. 302-323, 2021 (HEC Y Category)
    11. M. Akram, G. Ali, A. Butt, and J. C. R. Alcantud, “Novel MCGDM Analysis under m-Polar Fuzzy Soft Expert Sets”, Neural Computing and Applications, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-021-05850-w, pp. 1-24, 2021 (I.F 4.774, HEC W Category)
    12. G. Shahzadi, G. Muhiuddin, A. Butt, and A. Ashraf, “Hamacher Interactive Hybrid Weighted Averaging Operators under Fermatean Fuzzy Numbers”, Journal of Mathematics, vol. 2021, pp. 1-17, 2021 (I.F 0.712, HEC Y Category)
    13. A. Ashraf and M. A. Butt, “Extension of TOPSIS Method under Single-Valued Neutrosophic N-Soft Environment”, Neutrosophic Sets and Systems, vol. 41, pp. 286-303, 2021 (HEC Y category)
    14. N. Tahir, M. Asif, S. Ahmad, M. Sheraz, A. Malik, H. Aljuaid, A. Butt, and M. Rehman “FNG-IE: an improved graph-based method for keyword extraction from scholarly big-data”, PeerJ Computer Science, https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.389, pp. 1-24, 2021 (I.F 3.091, HEC W Category)
    15. M. Akram, G. Shahzadi, A. Butt and F. Karaaslan, “A hybrid decision making method based on q-rung orthopair fuzzy soft Information”, Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, https://doi.org/10.3233/JIFS-202336, pp. 1-16, 2021 (I.F 1.851, HEC W Category)
    16. A. Sohail, K. Shahzad, P. D. Dominic, A. Butt, M. Arif and M. I. Tariq, “On Computing the Suitability of Non-Human Resources for Business Process Analysis”, Computers, Materials & Continua, vol. 67, no. 1, 2021 (I.F 4.89, HEC W Category)
    17. S. Habib, S. Wardat, A. Butt, M. Akram, F. Smarandache, “A Neutrosophic Clinical Decision-making System for Cardiovascular Diseases Risk Analysis”, Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, ISSN 1875- 8967, vol. 39, no. 5, pp. 7807-7829, 2020 (IF 1.851, HEC W Category)
    18. A. Butt and M. Akram, “A new intuitionistic fuzzy rule-based decision-making system for an operating system process scheduler”, SpringerPlus/SpringerOpen, vol.5, no. 1, pp. 1-17, 2016 (IF 1.130, HEC W Category)
    19. A. Butt and M. Akram, “A novel fuzzy decision-making system for CPU scheduling algorithm”, Neural Computing and Applications, ISSN 0941-0643, vol. 27, no. 7, pp. 1927-1939, 2016 (I.F. 4.774, HEC W Category)
    20. M. Akram, S. Shahzad, A. Butt, and A. Khaliq, “Intuitionistic Fuzzy Logic Control for Heater Fans”, Mathematics in Computer Science, ISSN 1661-8289, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 367-378, 2013 (I.F. 0.76, HEC W Category)

Research Supervision

PhD Candidates under Supervision

1. PHDCSF16M005 – Muhammad Saad, “Adaptive Heterogeneous Resource Allocation of Containerized Infrastructure”

Graduate (MPhil) Thesis Supervised

1. MSCSF19M024 – Muhammad Ali Tariq, Fuzzification of Virtualized Resources in Cloud computing
2. MSCSF19M015 – Zarafshan Ajmal, “A Survey on By-passing x86-64 Buffer Over Flow Mitigation Techniques”
3. MSGSF16M013 – Muhammad Mubeen Maroof, “Fuzzy GIS Based Impart of Climate Charge on Agriculture Drought”
4. MSGSF17M011– Muhammad Nasir, “Assessment of urban Gentrification in engulfed villages of Lahore using GIS: A Case study of Gohawa Village”
5. MSCSF06M005 – Muhammad Saleem Raza, “Applying Fuzzy Decision-Making Models in Memory Management of Operating Systems”

Undergraduate (BS/MSc) Thesis/Projects Supervised

1. Najam-ul-Saqib, “GraphQL in Scope: An In-Depth Approach on How GraphQL APIs Can Be Exploited”. 2020-2021
2. Amina Saif, Hadia Shafiq, “Elxion of Network Analysis, Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Exploitation”. 2020-21
3. Huzaifa Khalid, Qurat-ul-Ain, “An In-depth Discussion on Stack Smashing via Buffer Overflow: Bypassing Mitigation Techniques on ARM, MIPS, x86-64”. 2020-21
4. Najam-ud-Din, Abdul Hanan, Muhammad Harris, Muteeb Ahmed, “Silk OS: A Linux Distribution”, June, 2020.
5. Sami Masood, Maryam Saif, Ahtisham, Komal Shahzadi, Samam Raza, “A survey on Open Source Teaching Operating System and Linux Loadable Kernel Modules”, June 2020.
6. Ayesha Amer, Sameen Mehtab, Raveeha Kamran, Zain Rizwan, Zeeshan Tariq, “Survey and Exploitation of Computer System Vulnerabilities and By-passing Buffer Overflow”, June 2020
7. . Talha Hanif, Faisal, Jahanzeb Khan, “IOT Based Irrigation and Fertilization system with Decision Support”, June 2019
8. Muhammad Anas, Hamza Habib, Mutasim, Zain-ul-Abidin, Syed Uzair, “Fuzzified Vision Based Real Time Embedded Entrance Control System”, June 2019
9. Waqas, Nabeela, Nabeel, Umer, “Teachers Book, A mobile App”, June 2018
10. Adeel, Waqar, Farooq, “A Survey on Network and Web Security Infrastructures, Vulnerabilities and Intrusion Detection System”, June 2018
11. Sana, Tehreem, Mariam, “PUCIT: IOT Based Smart Campus with Andorid Control”, June 2018
12. Muhammad Mohsin, Anas, Abdullah Waheed, “The Virtual Guardian”, June 2018
13. Asab Bashir, Ayaz Khalid, Haider Ali, Abdul Rehman, Adil Farhan, “Design of Campus Versioning System (CVS)”, June 2017
14. Abdul Wahab, Muhammad Danish, “Accessing and Enhancing IT Infrastructure of an Organization”, June 2017

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