Nasir Ayub

Dr. Nasir Ayub

National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Islamabad
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Academic Career Length

10Years (2017-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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4 December 2023 in IEEE Access
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AAAbdulwahab Almazroi
Abdulwahab Almazroi
Nasir AyubNasir Ayub
Nasir Ayub
In a world where wireless communications are critical for transferring massive quantities of data while protecting against interference, the growing possibility of financial fraud has become a significant concern. The ResNeXt-embedded Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) model (RXT) is a unique approach precisely created for real-time financial transaction data processing. Motivated by the need to address the rising threat of financial fraud, which poses major risks to financial institutions and customers, our technique takes a systematic approach. We initiate the process with data input and preprocessing, addressing data imbalance through the Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique (SMOTE). Feature extraction uses an ensemble approach that combines autoencoders and ResNet (EARN) to reveal critical data patterns, while feature engineering further enhances the model’s discriminative capabilities. The core of our classification task lies in the RXT model, fine-tuned with hyperparameters using the Jaya optimization algorithm (RXT-J). Our model undergoes comprehensive evaluation on three authentic financial transaction datasets, consistently outperforming existing algorithms by a substantial margin of 10% to 18% across various evaluation metrics while maintaining impressive computational efficiency. This pioneering research represents a significant advancement in the ongoing battle against financial fraud, promising heightened security and optimized efficiency in financial transactions. In defense against wireless communication interference, our work aims to strengthen security, data availability, reliability, and stability against cyber warfare attacks within the financial industry.

21 March 2023 in Sustainability
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AKAimen Khalid
Aimen Khalid
GBGran Badshah
Gran Badshah
Nasir AyubNasir Ayub
Nasir Ayub
Muhammad ShirazMuhammad Shiraz
Muhammad Shiraz
MGMohamed Ghouse
Mohamed Ghouse
There is always a desire for defect-free software in order to maintain software quality for customer satisfaction and to save testing expenses. As a result, we examined various known ML techniques and optimized ML techniques on a freely available data set. The purpose of the research was to improve the model performance in terms of accuracy and precision of the dataset compared to previous research. As previous investigations show, the accuracy can be further improved. For this purpose, we employed K-means clustering for the categorization of class labels. Further, we applied classification models to selected features. Particle Swarm Optimization is utilized to optimize ML models. We evaluated the performance of models through precision, accuracy, recall, f-measure, performance error metrics, and a confusion matrix. The results indicate that all the ML and optimized ML models achieve the maximum results; however, the SVM and optimized SVM models outperformed with the highest achieved accuracy, 99% and 99.80%, respectively. The accuracy of NB, Optimized NB, RF, Optimized RF and ensemble approaches are 93.90%, 93.80%, 98.70%, 99.50%, 98.80% and 97.60, respectively. In this way, we achieve maximum accuracy compared to previous studies, which was our goal.

5 June 2020 in Energies
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WAWaqas Ahmad
Waqas Ahmad
Nasir AyubNasir Ayub
Nasir Ayub
Tariq AliTariq Ali
Tariq Ali
MIMuhammad Irfan
Muhammad Irfan
Muhammad AwaisMuhammad Awais
Muhammad Awais
AGAdam Glowacz
Adam Glowacz
Forecasting the electricity load provides its future trends, consumption patterns and its usage. There is no proper strategy to monitor the energy consumption and generation; and high variation among them. Many strategies are used to overcome this problem. The correct selection of parameter values of a classifier is still an issue. Therefore, an optimization algorithm is applied with deep learning and machine learning techniques to select the optimized values for the classifier’s hyperparameters. In this paper, a novel deep learning-based method is implemented for electricity load forecasting. A three-step model is also implemented, including feature selection using a hybrid feature selector (XGboost and decision tee), redundancy removal using feature extraction technique (Recursive Feature Elimination) and classification/forecasting using improved Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Extreme Learning Machine (ELM). The hyperparameters of ELM are tuned with a meta-heuristic algorithm, i.e., Genetic Algorithm (GA) and hyperparameters of SVM are tuned with the Grid Search Algorithm. The simulation results are shown in graphs and the values are shown in tabular form and they clearly show that our improved methods outperform State Of The Art (SOTA) methods in terms of accuracy and performance. The forecasting accuracy of Extreme Learning Machine based Genetic Algo (ELM-GA) and Support Vector Machine based Grid Search (SVM-GS) is 96.3% and 93.25%, respectively. The accuracy of our improved techniques, i.e., ELM-GA and SVM-GS is 10% and 7%, respectively, higher than the SOTA techniques.

9 January 2024 in IEEE Access
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FAFaisal S. Alsubaei
Faisal S. Alsubaei
AAAbdulwahab Almazroi
Abdulwahab Almazroi
Nasir AyubNasir Ayub
Nasir Ayub
Protecting against interference is essential at a time when wireless communications are essential for sending large amounts of data. Our research presents a novel deep learning technique, the ResNeXt method and embedded Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) model (RNT), rigorously developed for real-time phishing attack detection. Focused on countering the escalating threat of phishing assaults and bolstering digital forensics, our systematic approach involves SMOTE for managing data imbalance during initial data processing. The model’s discriminative capability is improved, particularly in the feature extraction process, when autoencoders and ResNet (EARN) are integrated with feature engineering. The ensemble technique of feature extraction reveals crucial data patterns. At the core of our AI categorization is the RNT model, optimized using hyperparameters through the Jaya optimization method (RNT-J). Rigorously tested on real phishing attack datasets, our AI model consistently outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms by a substantial margin of 11% to 19% while maintaining exceptional computing efficiency. Furthermore, our model achieves 98% accuracy, low false positive/false negative values, and a statistical execution time with a mean of 36.99s, median of 35.99s, minimum of 34.99s, maximum of 41.99s, and a standard deviation of 1.10s. Moreover, it demonstrates superior accuracy with SMOTE (98%) and without SMOTE (83%) compared to other algorithms. This state-of-the-art AI study, which focuses on digital forensics, offers enhanced security and optimized productivity for businesses and industries, signifying a breakthrough in the continuing battle against phishing attempts. Through strengthening protection against interference in wireless communication, our AI research strives to amplify data accessibility, resilience, and trustworthiness in the face of cybersecurity threats within the organizational context.

1 October 2021 in Applied Soft Computing
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Saleh AlbahliSaleh Albahli
Saleh Albahli
Nasir AyubNasir Ayub
Nasir Ayub
Muhammad ShirazMuhammad Shiraz
Muhammad Shiraz

16 November 2021 in Sustainability
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SAShahzad Aslam
Shahzad Aslam
Nasir AyubNasir Ayub
Nasir Ayub
Umer FarooqUmer Farooq
Umer Farooq
MAMuhammad Alvi
Muhammad Alvi
FAFahad Albogamy
Fahad Albogamy
RBRasool Bukhsh
Rasool Bukhsh
Medium-term electricity consumption and load forecasting in smart grids is an attractive topic of study, especially using innovative data analysis approaches for future energy consumption trends. Loss of electricity during generation and use is also a problem to be addressed. Both consumers and utilities can benefit from a predictive study of electricity demand and pricing. In this study, we used a new machine learning approach called AdaBoost to identify key features from an ISO-NE dataset that includes daily consumption data over eight years. Moreover, the DT classifier and RF are widely used to extract the best features from the dataset. Moreover, we predicted the electricity load and price using machine learning techniques including support vector machine (SVM) and deep learning techniques such as a convolutional neural network (CNN). Coronavirus herd immunity optimization (CHIO), a novel optimization approach, was used to modify the hyperparameters to increase efficiency, and it used classifiers to improve the performance of our classifier. By adding additional layers to the CNN and fine-tuning its parameters, the probability of overfitting the classifier was reduced. For method validation, we compared our proposed models with several benchmarks. MAE, MAPE, MSE, RMSE, the f1 score, recall, precision, and accuracy were the measures used for performance evaluation. Moreover, seven different forms of statistical analysis were given to show why our proposed approaches are preferable. The proposed CNN-CHIO and SVM techniques had the lowest MAPE error rates of 6% and 8%, respectively, and the highest accuracy rates of 95% and 92%, respectively.