Afsheen Rafaqat Ali

Email: afsheen.57@gmail.com

Education Masters in Computer Science (CGPA 3.70)

Information Technology University, Lahore (2014-2016)
Thesis Topic: Affective Analysis of Multimedia Content

Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering (CGPA 3.35)

University of Engineering & Technology (UET), Lahore (2009 - 2013)
Final Year Project: Urdu Speech Recognition

F.Sc. Pre-Engineering (83% Marks)

Punjab College Gujranwala (2007 - 2009)
Matriculation (85.88% Marks)
Workers Welfare School Gujranwala (2005 - 2007)

Research Research Associate at Information Technology University of Punjab, Lahore

Experience (September 2015- present)
Specifically worked on Image Affective Analysis and Classification
Object Detection
Interested in topics related to deep learning
Research Officer at Center for Language Engineering, KICS, UET, Lahore
(September 2013- 2015)
Developed an IVR for Mobile based Urdu Spoken Dialog system
Specifically designed and developed Speech Recognition Systems, Voice
Activity Detectors and Keyword Spotters.

Academic Teaching Assistant for Computer Vision Course at ITU, Lahore (2015)
Experience Teaching Assistant for Deep Learning Course at ITU, Lahore (2017)

Publications Afsheen Rafaqat Ali, Usman Shahid, Mohsen Ali, Jeffrey Ho, High-Level Concepts for
Affective Understanding of Images, in IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of
Computer Vision, 2017.

Afsheen Rafaqat Ali, Mohsen Ali, Automatic Image Transformation for Inducing Affect,
in British Machine Vision Conference, 2017.
Afsheen., Irtza, S., Farooq, M., Hussain, S. "Accent Classification among Punjabi,
Urdu, Pashto, Saraiki and Sindhi Accents of Urdu Language", in Conference on
Language and Technology 2014 (CLT 14), Karachi, Pakistan.

Computer Languages: C++,Python, R, Shell scripting

Skills Tools and Libraries: Matlab, Caffe and Chainer (toolkits for deep learning), Visual
Studio, Weka, HTK and Sphinx (speech recognition toolkits)

Major Subjects Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Digital Signal Processing,
Covered Control Systems, Algorithm Analysis

Honors and Full Merit Scholarship in Masters (2014-2016)

Awards Deans Honor List at ITU (2015-2016)

Reference Assistant Prof. Dr. Mohsen Ali, Department of CS, ITU, Lahore
(mohsen.ali@gmail.com)
Assistant Prof. Dr. Tania Habib, Department of CSE, UET, Lahore
(taniahabib@gmail.com)