Asim Karim

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
School of Science and Engineering (LUMS-SSE)

Ph.D. The Ohio State University
B.Sc. UET Lahore


E-mail: a karim at lums dot edu dot pk
 

 

 

Teaching

Research

I am interested in data mining and machine learning algorithms and applied artificial intelligence. Current research directions include personalized spam filtering, text categorization, generative and discriminative methods, and semantic analysis of text. 

Honors

  • Top 3 Solution at the 2007 ECML PKDD Discovery Challenge (Web Usage Mining) [more]
  • 1st Position at the 2006 ECML PKDD Discovery Challenge (Personalized Spam Filtering) [more]

Books

  1. H. Adeli and A. Karim (2005), Wavelets in Intelligent Transportation Systems, John Wiley & Sons, UK. 248 pages. [Amazon.com]
  2. H. Adeli and A. Karim (2001), Construction Scheduling, Cost Optimization, and Management: A New Model Based on Neurocomputing and Object Technologies, Spon Press, London, UK, 352 pages. [Amazon.com]

Recent Publications

  1. K.N. Junejo and A. Karim , "A Robust Discrininative Term Weighting based Linear Discriminant Method for Text Classification," Proc. of International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Pisa, Italy, 15 - 19 Dec., 2008.

  2. S.P. Uppal, S.T. Butt, and A. Karim, "Effectiveness of Hierarchical Heavy Hitter Identification for Intrusion Detection," Proc. of INMIC, Lahore, Pakistan, Dec. 2007.

  3. K.N. Junejo and A. Karim, "PSSF: A Novel Statistical Approach for Personalized Service-side Spam Filtering," International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI), Silicon Valley, USA, 2 - 5 Nov., 2007.

  4. K.N. Junejo and A. Karim, "Automatic Personalized Spam Filtering through Significant Word Modeling," International Conference on Tools with AI (ICTAI), Patras, Greece, 29 - 31, Oct., 2007.

  5. M.T. Hassan, K.N. Junejo, and A. Karim, "Bayesian Inference for Web Surfer Behavior Prediction," ECM/PKDD Discovery Challenge Workshop, Warsaw, Poland, 17 - 21 Sep., 2007. (Selected as one of the top three solutions)

  6. M.Y. Bawany, A. Karim, A. Khan, and M.S. Siddiqui, "Outlier Detection in Evolving Data Stream: An Evaluation of the LOADED Algorithm," Proc. of International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Information Systems (ICICIS), Cairo, Egypt, 15 - 18 March, 2007.

  7. A. Jawad, A. Karim, and I. Khan, “Online Algorithms for Complete Itemset Counts Over a Data Stream Using Set-to-String Mappings,” Proc. of INMIC, Islamabad, Pakistan, 23 – 24 Dec., 2006.

  8. S.A.A. Shah, Saif-ur-Rehman, U. Naseem, and A. Karim, “Motion Segmentation through Incremental Hierarchical Clustering,” Proc. of INMIC, Islamabad, Pakistan, 23 – 24 Dec., 2006.

  9. S. Ashfaq, M.U. Farooq, and A. Karim, "Efficient Rule Generation for Cost-Sensitive Misuse Detection Using Genetic Algorithms," Proc. Of International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security (CIS), Guangzhou, China, 3 - 6 Nov., 2006.

  10. K.N. Junejo, M.M. Yousaf, and A. Karim, "A Two-Pass Statistical Approach for Automatic Personalized Spam Filtering," ECML/PKDD Discovery Challenge Workshop, Berlin, Germany, 18 - 22 Sep. 2006. Winner of the Spam Filtering Performance Award

  11. A. Karim, I. Ahmad, S.I. Jami, and M. Sarwar, "Cluster Analysis of Traffic Flows on a Campus Network," IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIA), Innsbruck, Austria, 13 - 16 Feb., 2006.

  12. A. Karim, "Computational Intelligence for Network Intrusion Detection: Recent Contributions," Proc. Of International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security, Xian (CIS), China, 15 - 19 Dec., 2005.

  13. O. Maqbool, H.A. Babri, A. Karim, and M. Sarwar, "Metarule-Guided Association Rule Mining for Program Understanding," IEE Proceedings - Software, Vol. 152, No. 6, pp. 281-296, 2005.

  14. O. Maqbool, A. Karim, H.A. Babri and M. Sarwar, "Reverse Engineering Using Association Rules," Proc. of INMIC, Lahore, Pakistan, 24 – 26 Dec.,2004.

  15. A. Karim, S.I. Jami, I. Ahmad, M. Sarwar, and Z. Uzmi, "Clustering IP Addresses Using Longest Prefix Matching and Nearest Neighbor Algorithms," Proc. of the 8th Pacific Rim International Conference on AI (PRICAI), Auckland, NZ, 11 – 13 Aug., 2004.

  16. F. Ather, M.M. Awais, A. Karim, M.A.F. Khawaja, O. Shaikh, and U.H. Siddiqui, "Modeling and Forecasting Financial Time-Series - Comparison of Forecasting Ability of Neural Networks, Genetic Programming, and Econometric Methods," International Conference in Economics VII, Ankara, Turkey, 6-9 Sep., 2003.

  17. A. Mahmood, M.M. Awais, and A. Karim, “Automatically Generating Association Rules Under Diverse Operational Conditions for a Large Scale Power Plant,”  2nd International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and Technology, Bhurban, 19-21 June, 2003.

  18. A. Karim and H. Adeli (2003), “Radial Basis Function Neural Network for Work Zone Capacity and Queue Estimation,” Journal of Transportaiton Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 129, No. 5, pp. 494-502.

  19. A. Karim and H. Adeli (2003), “Fast Automatic Incident Detection on Urban and Rural Freeways Using the Wavelet Energy Algorithm,” Journal of Transportation Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 129, No. 1, pp. 57-68.

  20. A. Karim and H. Adeli (2003), “CBR Model for Freeway Work Zone Traffic Management,” Journal of Transportation Engineering, ASCE,  Vol. 129, No. 2, pp. 134-145.

  21. A. Karim and H. Adeli (2002), “Incident Detection Algorithm Using Wavelet Energy Representation of Traffic Patterns," Journal of Transportation Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 128, No. 3, pp. 232-242.

  22. A. Karim and H. Adeli (2002), “Comparison of Fuzzy Wavelet Radial Basis Function Neural Network Freeway Incident Detection Model with California Algorithm,” Journal of Transportation Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 128, No. 1, pp. 21-30.

A Tutorial on: Nonlinear Optimization: Theory and Practice (PDF)

My CV (including complete list of publications)

Address

Department of Computer Science (Room 429)
Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
Opp. Sector U, DHA
Lahore, 54792
Pakistan

Phone: +92 42 5722670(-79) Ext. 4429
Fax: +92 42 5898315