About LAB director

Prof. Dr. Saman Shahid teaches Physics and Environmental Sciences/Sustainability courses. She had developed AI-based Neural Networks for the state-space models of the Fusion Reactor during her M.Phil. research. Her doctoral research was related to Radiation Physics & Bioinformatics.

Her doctoral research work was related to brain cancer genetics and the discovery of mutations induced.

Recently, she designed and successfully taught a novel course “Environmental Data Science” as an elective to the final year students of BS (Computer Science).

She has published 107 research articles in national & international journals. She has also published 40 abstracts at different national and international conferences. Her current impact factor is 132. She is also a peer reviewer and editorial board member of some local and international journals. Her areas of interest are Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Medicine & Environment, Medical/Health Physics, Medical Radiation Physics, Environmental Health, and Bioinformatics.

The following objectives were met as the course (Environmental Data Science) learning objectives:

1. Environmental data types
2. Role of data science in analyzing environmental issues
3. Environmental Intelligence
4. Environmental data scientists-job demands
5. Environment and sustainability -Background
6. Environmental Monitoring and sensors
7. Use of IoT in the environment
8. Role of AI in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
9. Remote sensing and satellite databases
10. Downloading environmental data sets
11. Use of ArcGIS for environmental data manipulations
12. Tools for atmospheric modeling & retrieval algorithms
13. Machine/deep learning models, ANNs, Transfer learning approaches, etc. for exploratory Data analysis.