About LAB director

Prof. Dr. Saman Shahid deals with the teaching of Physics to BS Computer Science, Data Science, and Electrical Engineering programs. Her doctoral research work was related to brain cancer genetics and the discovery of mutations induced by environmental radiation with bioinformatics tools. She also teaches Environmental Sciences courses to MS/Ph.D. programs at the National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences, NUCES-FAST, and Lahore Campus. 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 101 research articles in national & international journals. She has also published 40 abstracts at different national and international conferences. Her current impact factor is 121.9. 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.

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