Asim Karim

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

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

I am interested in data mining and machine learning algorithms and applications. Current research directions include personalized spam filtering, text categorization, generative and discriminative methods, and social computing applications.  

I direct the Knowledge and Data Engineering (KADE) Lab @ LUMS.

My teaching engagements are given below.

Honors

• Second position at the 2007 ECML PKDD Discovery Challenge (Web Usage Mining) [more]
• First 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

Helicobacter Urease: Niche Construction at Single Molecule Level
S. Khan, A. Karim, and S. Iqbal, Journal of Biosciences, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 503-511, 2009. [PDF]

Discriminative Clustering for Content-Based Tag Recommendation in Social Bookmarking Systems
M.T. Hassan, A. Karim, S. Manandhar, and J. Cussens, In Proc. of ECML PKDD Discovery Challenge Workshop 2009, Bled, Slovenia, 7 Sep., 2009. [PDF]

Learning and Predicting Key Web Navigation Patterns Using Bayesian Models
M.T. Hassan, K.N. Junejo, and A. Karim, Computational Science and its Applications (Proc. of ICCSA), LNCS, Vol. 5593, pp. 877-887, Jun. 2009. [PDF]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Radial Basis Function Neural Network for Work Zone Capacity and Queue Estimation
A. Karim and H. Adeli, Journal of Transportation Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 129, No. 5, pp. 494-502, 2003. [PDF]

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

CBR Model for Freeway Work Zone Traffic Management
A. Karim and H. Adeli, Journal of Transportation Engineering, ASCE,  Vol. 129, No. 2, pp. 134-145, 2003. [PDF]

Incident Detection Algorithm Using Wavelet Energy Representation of Traffic Patterns
A. Karim and H. Adeli, Journal of Transportation Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 128, No. 3, pp. 232-242, 2002. [PDF]

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

Teaching

• CS 536 - Data Mining (Sp 09-10 | Au 08-09 | Wi 07-08 | Au 06-07 | Au 05-06 | Au 04-05 | Au 03-04)
• CS 535 - Machine Learning (Wi 08-09 [on LMS] | Wi 07-08 | Wi 06-07 | Wi 05-06)
• CS 531 - Artificial Intelligence (Au 07-08)
• CS 543: Data Warehousing (Sp 07-08 | Sp 06-07 | Sp 05-06 | Sp 04-05 | Su 03-04)
• CS 636 - Adv. Data Mining (Wi 06-07 | Wi 04-05)
• CS 537 - Neural Networks (Sp 06-07 | Sp 04-05)
• CS 524 - High-Performance Computing (Au 05-06 | Au 04-05 | Wi 03-04)
• CS 631 - Research Trends in AI  (Sp 04-05 | Wi 03-04)

Other Stuff

• To promote the inclusion of persons with disabilities in society, I started and manage the Assistive Technology Resource and Research Center at LUMS.
• I am involved in the development and maintenance of a high performance computing facility at LUMS.
• 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 35608205
Fax: +92 42 35898315