Connected Health Insights for Sustainable Development

Shama Siddiqui is an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Science, DHA Suffa University (DSU), Karachi Pakistan. She acquired her PhD (Computer Science) with specialization in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) from Faculty of Computer Science, Institute of Business Administration in 2018. She works in the areas of Media Access Control Protocols design and optimization for WSNs, and applications of Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), Industrial IoT and other emerging applications of IoT. She has been actively supervising undergraduate projects and MS/PhD dissertations and also serves as a program manager for Masters and PhD programs at DSU. She is a regular reviewer of various prestigious conferences and journals including IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Transactions of Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, Physical Communication, Mobile Information Systems, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, NUST Journal of Engineering Sciences and IEEE Sensors Conference. Additionally, she has established numerous international collaborations, with one of the most prominent being an EU-funded staff exchange project, focused on the Joint Optimization of Data and Energy Networks aimed at advancing the digitization of sustainable communities.

Anwar Ahmed Khan is an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Science, Millennium Institute of Technology and Entrepreneurship (MiTE), Karachi, Pakistan. He holds a PhD (Computer Science) with specialization in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) from Faculty of Computer Science, Institute of Business Administration, completed in 2020. Earlier he did Master in Electronics from NED University, Karachi and Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics from Hamdard University. Anwar's areas of interest include MAC protocol design, design and development of IoT solutions with a special focus on achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Due to his interest in electronic circuit design and optimization, he serves as advisor to various final year project groups at MiTE and other universities. He has international collaborations with researchers from across the globe including Qatar, Ireland, Saudi Arabia and the USA. He is associated with EU-funded staff exchange project focused on the Joint Optimization of Data and Energy Networks for sustainable communities.

Prof. Muazzam Ali Khan Khattak (SM IEEE, PAS) is serving as Director Science and Technology at Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), Islamabad, Pakistan. He has a joint PhD in Wireless networks from IIUI and (UMKC), USA. He is also an adjunct professor with University of Missouri Kansas City, USA and USAK University, Turkey. Besides other academic activities he is also leading the ICESCO Chair Data Analytics and Edge Computing. He has over 17 years of experience in the fields of ICT both at national and international level; he is a member of Prime Minister Advisory Committee for Establishment of IT Center of Excellence in Pakistan, member of Higher Education Commission, member of Asian Council of Science Editors and Member International advisory board of Usak University Türkiye. He has been granted $350M for research projects from different bodies such as OIC, ICESCO and from various agencies at Pakistan, China and USA. His research interests include IoT, IoMT, Information & Network Security, Multimedia encryption and compression and block chain and IoTA. To date, He has 210+ international publications with total citations of 4610+ and H-index 40.

Raazia Sosan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at DHA Suffa University (DSU), Karachi, Pakistan. She received her PhD in Computer Science with a specialization in Computer Graphics and Visualization using High-Performance Computing from DSU in 2023. During her PhD, she was awarded the Association for Computing Machinery's Women in Computing (ACM-W) Scholarship, recognizing her potential and contributions in the field. Her research interests include computer graphics, image processing, machine learning, and high-performance computing using Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA). She has also contributed to a national Research and Development (R&D) project with Space & Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO).