Mian Ibad Ali Shah -Multi-agent systems -Best Researcher Award
Mr. Main Ibad Ali Shahย distinguished academic and researcher in the field Multi- Agent System.ย
Educations๐๐๐
He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science with a focus on Reinforcement Learning and AI at the University of Galway, Ireland, which he began in 2022. Prior to this, he earned a Master of Science in Computer Systems Engineering with a specialization in Data Science from the University of Engineering & Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan, between 2018 and 2020. He also holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Systems Engineering from the same university, completed between 2014 and 2018. His academic journey began with an F.Sc. in Pre-Engineering from Edwards College Peshawar, Pakistan, from 2012 to 2014, and he completed his Matriculation at Edwards College School Peshawar, Pakistan, between 2010 and 2012.
ย Experience:
He is currently serving as a Lab Engineer in the Department of Computer Systems Engineering at the University of Engineering & Technology Peshawar, Pakistan, a role he has held since September 2019. In this capacity, he teaches courses in Data Analytics & Business Intelligence, covering Statistics, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning, as well as Web Engineering. He ensures the practical implementation of case studies using tools and languages such as MS Excel, Tableau, R, Python, and MySQL. Previously, he worked as a Project Engineer at the US-Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Energy UET Peshawar, in collaboration with the Pakistan Air Force, from August 2018 to June 2019. There, he led a team in condition monitoring and predictive maintenance of an aircraft using machine learning, conducting data analysis and literature review to identify key variables and develop predictive maintenance techniques. From September 2017 to July 2018, he was an Undergraduate Researcher at the US-Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Energy, in collaboration with USAID and Arizona State University, where he led the development of a socio-technical model for distributed sustainable green energy power plants, creating a database and conducting data analysis following social and technical surveys in Pakistan. Additionally, he has gained diverse work experience, including roles as a Visiting Lecturer/Instructor at the Institute of Management Sciences Peshawar, teaching Data Analytics & Business Intelligence with hands-on case studies, and as a Trainer/Instructor at the University of Galway for Computer Programming courses for young students, along with serving as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for undergraduate programming courses. He has also served as a Program Coordinator/Trainer for the National Vocational & Technical Training Commission of Pakistan, managing a program and providing training on Cloud Computing, civic sense, entrepreneurial and soft skills. Furthermore, he has experience in entrepreneurship, having owned and managed Thali Spot Restaurant in Peshawar, Pakistan. His organizational and management skills are demonstrated through his roles as Director of the Literary & Debating Society, PR Executive of the Computer Society at the University of Engineering & Technology Peshawar, and as an Ambassador and Volunteer for the Office of the Local Government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.
Trainings, Certifications & Conferences
He has earned an IBM Data Engineering Professional Certificate in 2023 and completed the Advanced Business Analytics Specialization on Coursera. He is also a Huawei Certified ICT Associate in AI (HCIA-AI). In 2019, he completed both “The Business Intelligence Analyst Course” and “The Data Science Course 2019 Complete Data Science Bootcamp” on Udemy. He has participated in several conferences, attending the International Conference on Sustainable Energy on September 12-13, 2017, and the 5th International Conference on Energy, Environment, and Sustainable Development in November 2018 as an author. Additionally, he attended the International Science-Policy Conference on Climate Change in Pakistan in 2018. He has furthered his expertise by attending a workshop on “Fundamentals of Deep Learning for Computer Vision” by the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute. His training credentials include Cisco Certified Network Associate certifications in both Routing & Switching and Security. Moreover, he arranged and attended a hands-on workshop on developments in Reach JS.
Awards
He has been awarded a fully funded Ph.D. scholarship by Science Foundation Ireland for the EIRE AIAI Project, spanning from 2022 to 2026. His academic and research efforts were recognized when he secured the second runner-up position in the Project Poster Competition at the International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies held on September 12-13, 2017, in Islamabad, highlighting the concept and quality of his research. He received a grant of 2 million PKR from the Government of KP Pakistan’s Youth Impact Challenge for his startup initiative. Additionally, he achieved runner-up positions in Speed Programming competitions at the I.T Fiesta’15 at UET Peshawar and Code Crunch’16 at IMSciences Peshawar.
Notable Projects
He has undertaken several notable projects, utilizing a diverse set of skills and technologies. His COVID-19 analysis project involved the use of descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive statistics and data analytics, employing tools such as Python, Tableau, Power BI, and Excel. For fault prognostics of hydro power projects, he applied data analytics and machine learning using Python, R, Tableau, and Excel. He worked on condition monitoring and predictive maintenance of a jet aircraft using machine learning techniques with R, Stata, Excel, MATLAB, and Python. He developed a socio-technical mathematical model for sustainable distributed green energy using R, Tableau, and MS Access. In his analysis of the Peshawar Development Authority’s Driver and Road Assessment Project, he compared the architecture, efficiency, ease, and cost of cloud versus on-premise solutions using Amazon Web Services for IoT and data analytics. He also set up and configured a Cisco networking lab in the Department of Computer Systems Engineering at UET Peshawar using Cisco networking technologies. He configured a Linux server for Tesla K40 to apply protein alignment algorithms and data compression (JPEG) on the GPU, utilizing CUDA and Ansible. Additionally, he simulated system process handling on a multicore processor and developed a programming syntax compiler using C language. He created a first-person shooter game with Unity and C#, and completed multiple embedded systems and IoT projects with microcontrollers. Lastly, he developed and designed websites using DBMS, CMS, HTML, CSS, and PHP.
๐๐ฌPublications๐๐ฌ
- Multi-agent systems in Peer-to-Peer energy trading: A comprehensive survey
MIA Shah, A Wahid, E Barrett, K MasonEngineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 132, 107847
- Reinforcement Learning Enabled Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading for Dairy Farms
MIA Shah, E Barrett, K MasonarXiv preprint arXiv:2405.12716
- A Multi-agent Systems Approach for Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading in Dairy Farming
MIA Shah, A Wahid, E Barrett, K MasonEuropean Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 254-261
- YOLOatr : Deep Learning Based Automatic Target Detection and Localization in Thermal Infrared Imagery
A Safdar, U Akram, W Anwar, B Malik, MIA ShahThe Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 2023
- The Prognostic Maintenance Systemยฉ
YS Afridi, MIA Shah, L Hasan
- MI2T-UNet: Integrating Multi-Scale Input Image and Top-hat Context for Infrared Small Object Segmentation
IA Shah, IU Khalil, MIA Shah, N Mohamed, E Ali, SSM Ghoneim
- Rule-Based Multi-Agent System for Autonomous P2P Energy Trading in Dairy Farming
MIA Shah, E Barrett, K Masonhttps://cs.universityofgalway.ie/media/collegeofscience/files
- Descriptive Analysis of Pakistanโs COVID Data
MIA Shah, YS Afridi, L HasanJournal of Engineering and Applied Sciences 40 (1), 15-23