Dr Kifayat Khan
Dr. Kifayat Khan is working as Senior Lecturer of AI and Business Analytics in the department of Accounting, Finance, and Economics (AFE), at BCU. He serves as the Program Director for the prestigious Business Finance course, as well as leader for modules related to Fintech. He is an experienced professional with proficiency in Fintech, Open Banking, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Analytics, and Health Informatics, combining robust academic achievements with hands-on industrial experience.
He has led significant research projects and secured funding for initiatives ranging from HR, cyber security, social network analysis, HealthTech, designing scalable data engineering algorithms, among others. So far, he has published 65 international publications and 3 patents. He is recognized as a leader in Fintech, Open Banking, and AI-driven solutions. Dr. Kifayat is actively involved in collaboration with SMEs and various fintech companies. His background in AI and its applications in fintech domain is of special importance within as well as outside the boundaries of BCU.
Areas of Expertise
- Fintech
- Open Banking
- Artificial Intelligence
- Big Data
- Data Science
- Social Network Analysis
- Health Informatics
Qualifications
- PhD in Computer Engineering, Kyung Hee University, South Korea, 2016
- MSc in Data Warehousing and Data Mining, University of Greenwich, England, 2007
- BSc in Information Technology, Gomal University, Pakistan, 2005
Teaching
- Fintech
- Data Intelligence
Publications
Journal Publications
[J-26] Waqas Nawaz, Muhammad Uzair, Kifayat Ullah Khan, Iram Fatima, "Integrating Cyber-Physical Modeling for Pandemic Surveillance: A Graph-Based Approach for Disease Hotspot Prediction and Public Awareness", IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, (SCIE Indexed), 2024
[J-25] Muhammad Toqeer, Kifayat Ullah Khan, Waqas Nawaz, "Trajectory-Based Clustering for Enhanced Attractive Region Mining in Urban Taxi Services”, International Journal of Digital Earth TJDE, (SCIE Indexed) 2024
[J-24] Humera Sabir, Kifayat Ullah Khan, Omer Ishaq, Abdulwahab Alazeb, Hanan Aljuaid, Asaad Algarni , and Jeongmin Park, "Fingertip Video Dataset for Non-invasive Diagnosis of Anemia using ResNet-18 Classifier”, IEEE Access, (SCIE Indexed) 2024
[J-23] Hafiz Tayyeb Javed, Kifayat Ullah Khan, Muhammad Faisal Cheema, Asaad Algarni, Jeongmin Park, “Instance-based Lossless Summarization of Knowledge Graph with Optimized Triples and Corrections (IBA-OTC)”, IEEE Access (SCIE Indexed), 2024
[J-22] Bushra Almas, Hasan Mujtaba, Kifayat Ullah Khan. “EHHR: An Efficient Evolutionary Hyper-heuristic based Recommender Framework for Short-text Classifier Selection”, Cluster Computing, Springer, (SCIE Indexed) 2023
[J-21] Muhammad Fasih Javed Waqas Nawaz, Kifayat Ullah Khan, “HOVA-FPPM: Flexible Periodic Pattern Mining in Time Series Databases using Hashed Occurrence Vectors and Apriori-approach”, Scientific Programming (SCIE Indexed) , 2021
[J-20] Waqas Nawaz, Kifayat Ullah Khan, and Khalid Bashir, ”A Review on Path Selection and Navigation Approaches Towards an Assisted Mobility of Visually Impaired People”, KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, (SCIE Indexed), 2020
[J-19] Waqas Nawaz, Kifayat Ullah Khan, Muhammad Shoaib Siddiqui. “An On-line Analytical Processing (OLAP) Aggregation Function for Rising Aspects in Collaboration and Social Networks”. Journal of Computer Science, 2020
[J-18] Waqas Nawaz, Khalid Bashir, Kifayat Ullah Khan, Muhammad Anas, Hafiz Obaid and Mughees Nadeem. “VIPEye: Architecture and Prototype Implementation of Autonomous Mobility for Visually Impaired People”. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA), 2020
[J-17] HoJin Seo, Kisung Park, Yongkoo Han, Hyunwook Kim, Muhammad Umair, Kifayat Ullah Khan, and Young-Koo Lee. “An Effective Graph Summarization and Compression Technique for Large Scale Graph”, Super Computing, Springer, (SCI Indexed), 2020
[J-16] Batjargal Dolgorsuren, Kifayat Ullah Khan, Young-Koo Lee. “EM-FGS: Graph Sparsification via Faster Semi-Metric Edges Pruning”. Applied Intelligence (SCI Indexed), 2019
[J-15] Batjargal Dolgorsuren, Kifayat Ullah Khan, Mostafa Kamal Rasel, Young-Koo Lee. “StarZip: Streaming Graph Compression Technique for Data Archiving”. IEEE Access (SCIE Indexed), 2019
[J-14] Nguyen Anh Tu, Thien Huynh-The, Kifayat Ullah Khan, and Young-Koo Lee. “ML-HDP: A Hierarchical Bayesian Nonparametric Model for Recognizing Human Actions in Video”. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (SCI Indexed), 2019
[J-13] Weihua Xu, Md Azher Uddin, Batjargal Dolgorsuren, Mostafijur Rahman Akhond, Kifayat Ullah Khan, Md Ibrahim Hossain, Young-Koo Lee. “Similarity Estimation for Large-scale Human Action Video Data on Spark”. Applied Sciences by MDPI. (SCIE Indexed), 2018
[J-12] Kifayat Ullah Khan, Batjargal Dolgorsuren, Tu Nguyen Anh, Waqas Nawaz,and Young-Koo Lee. “Faster Compression Methods for a Weighted Graph using Locality Sensitive Hashing”. Information Sciences by Elsevier. (SCI Indexed), 2017
[J-11] Kifayat Ullah Khan, Aftab Alam, Batjargal Dolgorsuren, Md Azher Uddin, Muhammad Umair,
Uijeong Sang, Van T.T. Duong, Weihua Xu and Young-Koo Lee. “LPaMI: A Graph-Based Lifestyle Pattern Mining Application Using Personal Image Collections in Smartphones”. Applied Sciences by MDPI. (SCIE Indexed), 2017
[J-10] Nguyen Anh Tu, Kifayat Ullah Khan, and Young-Koo Lee. “Featured Correspondence Topic Model for Semantic Search on Social Image Collections”. Expert Systems With Applications. Elsevier, (SCIE Indexed), 2017
[J-09] Kifayat Ullah Khan, Waqas Nawaz, Young-Koo Lee. “Set-based unified approach for summarization of a multi-attributed graph”, World Wide Web, Springer (SCIE Indexed), 2017
[J-08] Waqas Nawaz, Kifayat Ullah Khan, Young-Koo Lee. “A Multi-User Perspective for Personalized Email Communities”, Expert Systems with Applications, Elsevier (SCIE Indexed), 2016
[J-07] Kifayat Ullah Khan, Waqas Nawaz, Young-Koo Lee. “Set-based Approximate Approach for Lossless Graph Summarization”, Computing, Springer (SCI Indexed), 2015
[J-06] Waqas Nawaz, Kifayat-Ullah Khan, Young Koo Lee, “SPORE: Shortest Path Overlapped Regions and Confined Traversals Towards Graph Clustering”, Applied Intelligence, Springer (SCI Indexed), 2015
[J-05] Waqas Nawaz, Kifayat-Ullah Khan, Young Koo Lee, “Intra Graph Clustering using Collaborative Similarity Measure”, Distributed and Parallel Databases, Springer. (SCIE Indexed), 2015
[J-04] Kamran Najeebullah, Kifayat Ullah Khan, Waqas Nawaz, Young-Koo Lee, “Bishard parallel processor: A disk-based processing engine for billion-scale graphs”, International Journal of Multimedia & Ubiquitous Engineering (IJMUE), 2014
[J-03] Waqas Nawaz, Kifayat-Ullah Khan, and Young-Koo Lee, “Shortest Path Analysis for Efficient Traversal Queries in Large Networks”, Contemporary Engineering Sciences, HIKARI, 2014.
[J-02] Kifayat-Ullah Khan, Waqas Nawaz, and Young-Koo Lee, “An Efficient Algorithm for MDL Based Graph Summarization for Dense Graphs”, Contemporary Engineering Sciences, HIKARI, 2014.
[J-01] Kifayat Ullah Khan, Sheikh Muhammad Saqib, Bashir Ahmad, Shakeel Ahmad and Muhammad Ahmad Jan, “Cloud based Data Warehouse 2.0 Storage Architecture: An extension to traditional Data Warehousing”, International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security. Vol. 9 No. 6 June 2011.
Conference Publications
[C-39] Kifayat Ullah Khan, Hafiz Usman Rana, “Text Mining of News Articles in Financial Times for Open Banking”, BAFA Annual Conference on Corporate Finance & Asset Pricing, UK, 2024
[C-38] Waqas Nawaz, Maryam Baig, Kifayat Ullah Khan, “Efficient Textual Similarity using Semantic Min-hashing”, 2024 International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing, Bankok, Thailand, 2024
[C-37] Aminah Bilal Lodhi, Muhammad Abdullah Bilal, Hafiz Syed Muhammad Bilal, Kifayat Ullah Khan, Fahad Ahmed Satti, Syed Imran Ali,“ PNRG: Knowledge graph-driven methodology for personalized nutritional recommendation generation”, 20th International Conference On Smart Living and Public Health, Wonju, Republic of Korea, 2023
[C-36] Riva Malik, Kifayat Ullah Khan, Waqas Nawaz,“Maximal gSpan: Multi-Document Summarization through Frequent Subgraph Mining”, 2023 17th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (IMCOM), Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 2023
[C-35] Talha Nazar, Shujaat Hussain Kausar and Kifayat Ullah Khan, “Localizing and Analyzing the Infographics in Document Using Deep Learning” 2023 17th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (IMCOM), Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 2023
[C-34] Yasmeen Afzal, Kifayat Ullah Khan, Muhammad Asim, “HDA-TIP: A framework for Heterogeneous Data Aggregation for Threat Intelligence Platform", 2023 17th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (IMCOM), Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 2023
[C-33] A. H. Minhas, M. D. Shaiq, S. A. Qureshi, M. D. A. Cheema, S. Hussain and K. U. Khan, "An Efficient Algorithm for Ranking Candidates in E-Recruitment System," 2022 16th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (IMCOM), Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 2022, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/IMCOM53663.2022.9721629.
[C-32] S. Ur Rehman Bhatti, M. Daniyal Shaiq, H. Sajid, S. Ali Qureshi, S. Hussain and K. Ullah Khan, "Resu-mizer: Hybrid Resume Information Retrieval System," 2022 16th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (IMCOM), Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 2022, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/IMCOM53663.2022.9721722.
[C-31] S. Kiyani, M. Dildar Ahmed Cheema, S. Ali Qureshi, S. Hussain and K. Ullah Khan, "Feature-Wise Ranking of Candidates through Maximum Degrees in Hidden Bipartite Graphs," 2022 16th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (IMCOM), Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 2022, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/IMCOM53663.2022.9721803.
[C-30] S. U. Rehman Bhatti, S. Hussain and K. U. Khan, "A Robust Algorithm for Candidate Pruning and Feature Weight Generation in E-Recruitment System," 24th International Multitopic Conference (INMIC), Islamabad, Pakistan, 2022, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/INMIC56986.2022.9972934.
[C-29] Yasmeen Afzal, Kifayat Ullah Khan, Muhammad Asim, “A Robust Architecture for Aggregation of Heterogeneous Data for Threat Intelligence Platforms ", 24th International Multitopic Conference (INMIC), Islamabad, Pakistan, 2022
[C-28] Zeeshan Ali, Waqas Nawaz and Kifayat Ullah Khan. “An Efficient Multi-Criteria Path Selection Approach in Road Networks through Influencer Nodes and K-hop Search”. IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (IMCOM), 2022
[C-27] Hira Sajid, Javeria Kanwal, Amna Basharat, Shujaat Hussain and Kifayat Ullah Khan. “Resume Parsing Framework for E-recruitment”. IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (IMCOM), 2022
[C-26] Naveed Javaid, Kifayat Ullah Khan, Asad Masood Khattak, Waqas Nawaz. “Community Search in a Multi-Attributed Graph using Collaborative Similarity Measure and Node Filtering”. IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (IMCOM), South Korea, 2021
[C-25] Awais Yousaf, Asad Masood Khattak, Kifayat Ullah Khan . “Ontology Evolution using Recoverable SQL Logs”. International Workshop on Machine Learning for Web Services Security (MLWSS), Dubai,2020
[C-24] Kifayat Ullah Khan, Waqas Nawaz, Young-Koo Lee. “Succinct LSH Indexing Scheme for a Dynamic Graph”, Korea Computer Congress (KCC). Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, 2017.
[C-23] Batjargal Dolgorsuren, Aftab Alam, Kifayat Ullah Khan, Young-Koo Lee. “Time-Series Graph Data Partitioning in Spark”, Korea Computer Congress (KCC). Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, 2017.
[C-22] Kifayat Ullah Khan, Tu Nguyen Anh, Mostafijur Rahman Akhond, Waqas Nawaz, Young-Koo Lee. “Accelerating Community-Search Problem through Faster Graph Dedensification”, 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp, 2017), Jeju, Korea
[C-21] Noorul Amin, Kifayat Ullah Khan, Batjargal Dolgorsuren and Young-Koo Lee. “Extracting Top-K Interesting Information with Weighted Query Semantics”, 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp, 2017), Jeju, Korea
[C-20] Van T.T. Duong, Kifayat Ullah Khan, Young-Koo Lee, “Top-k Frequent Induced Subgraph Mining on a Sliding Window using Sampling”, 11th ACM International conference on Ubiquitous information Management and Communication (ACM IMCOM, 2017), Beppu, Japan
[C-19] Elena En, Aftab Alam, Kifayat Ullah Khan and Young-Koo Lee. “Parallel Compression of Weighted Graphs”, 9th International Conference on Emerging Databases (EDB, 2017), Seoul, Korea
[C-18] Kifayat Ullah Khan, Waqas Nawaz, Young-Koo Lee. “Scalable Compression of a Weighted Graph”, Korea Computer Congress (KCC). Jeju, Korea, 2016. (Best Paper Award)
[C-17] Van T.T. Duong, Kifayat Ullah Khan, Young-Koo Lee, “Faster Mining of Frequent Subgraphs having Bridge-Nodes in Streaming Graphs through Summarization”, Korea Computer Congress (KCC). Jeju, Korea, 2016
[C-16] Van T.T. Duong, Kifayat Ullah Khan, Byeong-Soo Jeong, Young-Koo Lee, “Top-k Frequent Induced Subgraph Mining Using Sampling”, 6th International Conference on Emerging Databases (EDB, 2016), Jeju, Korea
[C-15] Batjargal Dolgorsuren, Weihua Xu, Kifayat Ullah Khan, Byeong-Soo Jeong and Young-Koo Lee, “SP2: Spanner construction for Shortest Path computation on Streaming Graph”, 6th International Conference on on Emerging Databases (EDB, 2016), Jeju, Korea
[C-14] Kifayat Ullah Khan, Mostofa Kamal Rasel, Muhammad Noorulamin, Waqas Nawaz, Young-Koo Lee. “On Efficiently Summarizing a Large Dynamic Graph”, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp 2016), Hong Kong, China
[C-13] Guillermo Crocker Garcia, Kifayat Ullah Khan, and Young-Koo Lee. “DASJ: A Hadoop-based and Approximate Approach for Similarity Join Computations in Metric Spaces”, Korea Computer Congress (KCC). Phoenix Park, Korea, 2015. (Best Paper Award)
[C-12] Kifayat Ullah Khan, Young-Koo Lee. “Set-based Approach for Lossless Graph Summarization using Locality Sensitive Hashing”, 31st International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2015) Ph.D. Symposium, Seoul, Korea
[C-11] Kifayat Ullah Khan, Waqas Nawaz, Young-Koo Lee. “Lossless Graph Summarization using Dense Subgraphs Discovery”, 9th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (ICUIMC 2015), Bali, Indonesia
[C-10] Noorul Amin, Kifayat Ullah Khan, and Young-Koo Lee. “Analyzing Subgraph Isomorphism on Graphs with Diverse Structural Properties”, 1st ACM International Conference on Big Data Applications and Services (BigDAS 2015). Jeju Island, Republic of Korea
[C-09] Kifayat Ullah Khan, Waqas Nawaz, Young-Koo Lee. “Set-based Unified Approach for Attributed Graph Summarization”, 7th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking (SocialCom 2014), Sydney, Australia
[C-08] Waqas Nawaz, Kifayat-Ullah Khan, and Young-Koo Lee, “CORE Analysis for Efficient Shortest Path Traversal Queries in Social Graphs”, 7TH IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking (SocialCom, 2014) , Sydney, Australia
[C-07] Waqas Nawaz, Kifayat Ullah Khan, Young Koo Lee. “Shortest Path Analysis in Social Graphs”, 3rd International Conference on Convergence and its Application (ICCA 2014), Seoul, Korea
[C-06] Kifayat Ullah Khan, Kamran Najeebullah, Waqas Nawaz, Young-Koo Lee. “OLAP on Structurally Significant Data in Graphs”, 5th International Conference on Data Mining and Intelligent Information Technology Applications (ICMIA 2013), Jeju Island, Korea
[C-05] Waqas Nawaz, Yongkoo Han, Kifayat Ullah Khan, Young Koo Lee, “Personalized Email Community Detection using Collaborative Similarity Measure”, 5th International Conference on Data Mining and Intelligent Information Technology Applications (ICMIA 2013), Jeju, Korea
[C-04] Kamran Najeebullah, Kifayat Ullah Khan, Waqas Nawaz, Young-Koo Lee, “BPP: Large Graph Storage for Efficient Disk Based Processing”, Advanced Science and Technology Letters, Vol 30, 2nd International Conference on Convergence and its Application (ICCA 2013) Jeju, Korea
[C-03] Muhammad Aamir Saleem, Iram Fatima, Kifayat Ullah Khan, Young Koo Lee, Sungyoung Lee, “Trajectory based activity monitoring and healthcare provisioning”, 10th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (PiCom 2012), Changzhou, China
[C-02] Muhammad Aamir Saleem, Muhammad Usman Saleem, Kifayat Ullah Khan, Sungyoung Lee, Sungyoung Lee, “Towards Theft Protection Using Trajectory Based Anomaly Detection ”, 38th Korea Information Processing Society (KIPS) Conference, Korea, 2012
[C-01] Kifayat Ullah Khan, Waqas Nawaz, Muhammad Aamir Saleem, Young-Koo Lee, Sungyoung Lee. “Rising_Pairs: An OLAP Aggregation Function for Social Networks”, 4th International Conference on Emerging Databases (EDB 2012), Seoul, Korea
Patents
[P-03] Title: Method, Apparatus, and Computer program for Summarizing of a Weighted Graph Application Number: 10-2017-0037513
Registration Number: 10-1878213-0000
[P-02] Patent Title: Method for producing Graph Cube for Online Analytical Process Application Number : 1020140029214
Patent Registration Number: 1015763580000
[P-01] Title: Method, System, and Computer program for Semantic Image Retrieval Based on Topic Modelling Application Number: 10-2017-0090390 Registration Number: 10-1976081-0000
URL: All 3 patents can be accessed by using my name “Kifayat Ullah Khan” on the ENG portal.
Work With Industry
Dr Kifayat possesses detailed experience of working in Fintech and software development industry within and outside UK where he worked on various funded projects as PI, Co-PI, Consultant, and Lead.