Transforming UW into Research Intensive University
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UW will be transforming into research intensive University based on research publications and projects. In the current year only, 58 research proposals were submitted to NRPU, NCGSA, PSF, National Injury Research
Grant (Agha Khan University), and RASTA (PIDE) and IGNITE projects granted to final year BS students. Impact Factor of the published papers from 01 June, 2021 till 30 June 2021 is 30.113 and the total Impact Factor in
the year 2021 is 103.61. The Impact Factor for the years 2019 and 2020 was 196.585 and 242.546, respectively. Researchers in the Active Researchers’ list for the year 2021 to date are 63 in number.
UW participated in Grand Challenge Fund (GCF), worth Rs 2,495,340/-, for the first time in collaboration with GIK Institute and Wah Industries Limited (WIL).
The details of titles, PIs, Co-PIs and the amount of the projects submitted during the current year is stipulated as under:
Research Grants 2022 |
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| National Research Program for Universities (NRPU) by HEC | ||||
| Sr# | Title | P.I | CO-P.I | Amount |
| 1 | Neutrino cooling and decay rates for important weak interaction nuclei for core-collapse supernova simulations | Prof. Dr. Jameel-Un Nabi | Dr. Muhammad Riaz | |
| 2 | Waste Water Remediation: Design of sustainable membranes hybrid membranes to mitigate hazardous pollutants | Dr. Humaira Razzaq | Dr. Faiza Asghar | |
| 3 | Biomimetic Hydrogel Nanocomposites for Injectable Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering Scaffolds Applications | Dr. Mussamir Khan | Dr. Fawad Ahmad | |
| 4 | Synthesis, spectroscopic characterization, pharmacological investigation and DFT study of ferrocene-modified acyl ureas | Dr. Faiza Asghar | - | |
| 5 | Role of Imidazole and Phenanthroline Derivatives on The Biology of Leukemic Stem Cells” | Dr. Dilawar Khan Assistant Professor NUST | Dr. Zaheer Ahmed (UW) | |
| 6 | Molecular Characterization of bacterial isolates and their application for organophosphates (chlorpyrifos and cypermethrin) biodegradation in peach orchards | Dr. Mazhar Rafique Assistant Professor, University of Haripur | Ms. Bushra Gul (UW) | |
| Joint Scientific Exchange Program Between Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) | ||||
| Sr# | Title | P.I | CO-P.I | Amount |
| 7 | China Pakistan nexus of electtronic vehicle industry chain and coordinated development policy | Dr. Asma Arif | - | |
| International Grant Institute of Physics | ||||
| Sr# | Title | P.I | CO-P.I | Amount |
| 8 | International Member Grant | Prof. Dr. Jameel-Un Nabi | Dr. Matiullah Shah | GBP 500 |
Research Grants 2021 |
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| National Research Program for Universities (NRPU) by HEC | ||||
| Sr# | Title | P.I | CO-P.I | Amount |
| 1 | Analytical and experimental analysis of fretting wear in shell and tube heat exchanger for better prediction of operational life | Dr. Shahab Khushnood | - | 19,870,554 |
| 2 | Development of an A-I based Tool for Condition Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance of a Manufacturing Plant/Machinery | Dr. Adnan Tariq | Dr. Waseem Shehzad | 18,917,509 |
| 3 | Factors Effecting Youth Empowerment and Entrepreneurial Initiatives: An Analysis and Way forward | Dr. Anam Javeed | 1. Dr. Nasir Mehmood 2. Dr. Faiza Saleem | 18,912,939 |
| 4 | Neutrino cooling and decay rates for important weak interaction nuclei for core-collapse supernova simulations | Prof. Dr. Jameel-Un Nabi | Dr. Muhammad Riaz | 18,649,550 |
| 5 | Role of Gender Differences and Financial Innovation in Financial Inclusion: Opportunities and Challenges in Pakistan | Dr. Faiza Saleem | 1. Dr. Nasir Mehmood 2. Dr. Shafqat Mukarram | 18,509,193 |
| 6 | Influence of guidance and counseling on students’ locus of control, self esteem and academic performance of public and private sector universities of Punjab | Dr. Wajiha Kanwal | - | 17,395,000 |
| 7 | Education and Socio-Economic Empowerment of the Transgender | Dr. Rukhshanda Mushtaq | Ms Uzma Khalid Ghori | 16,169,400 |
| 8 | Waste Water Remediation: Design of sustainable membranes hybrid membranes to mitigate hazardous pollutants. | Dr. Humaira Razzaq | Dr. Faiza Asghar | 14,994,986 |
| 9 | Real Time Application for Space Occupied Lesion of Brain Segmentation and Classification Using Quanvolutional Neural Network (QNN) | Dr. Javeria Amin | - | 14,612,520 |
| 10 | Synthesis of Naphthopyran Derivative from “Rhinacanthusnasutus” for evaluation of anticancer activity. | Dr. Zaheer Ahmad | - | 13,519,454 |
| 11 | Synthesis and Antidiabetics type-II Evaluation of Chiral and Achiral Imidazole and Indole based Heterocyclic Compounds | Dr. Faisal Nawaz | - | 13,267,344 |
| 12 | Biomimetic Hydrogel Nanocomposites for Injectable Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering Scaffolds Applications | Dr. Mussamir Khan | Dr. Fawad Ahmad | 12,560,497 |
| 13 | Evaluation of antimicrobial resistance, virulence factors and horizontal gene transfer in S. aureus isolated from COVID-19 patients | Dr. Muhammad Idreees | Ms. Zeenat Haq | 11,940,000 |
| 14 | Shifting Teachers to Teach Online: Continuing teaching During School Closure | Dr. Nasrullah | - | 11,697,440 |
| 15 | Plant based synthesis of vaccine antigen against mycobacterial pathogen in transplastomic tomato plants. | Dr. Syed Waqas Hassan | - | 10,235,680 |
| 16 | Tuning the Dielectric Properties of ZnO Base Nano-Structures | Prof. Dr. Uzma Ghazanfar | - | 9,219,438 |
| 17 | Production of L-asparaginase from potential probiotic bacteria: In vitro investigation of anticancer, antioxidant and anti proliferative activities of the purified enzyme using different cell lines | Dr. Shumaila Naz | - | 9,163,748 |
| 18 | Role of corianderum sativum in male reproduction | Dr. Razia Bibi | - | 7,468,415 |
| 19 | Synthesis of new ferrocene functionalized surfactants as potent corrosion inhibitors. | Dr. Faiza Asghar | Dr. Humaira Razzaq | 7,425,120 |
| 20 | Manufacturing of Hydrogels by Grafting Natural Polysaccharides for Removal of Heavy Metal Present in Water and Design of Absorber for Its Commercial / industrial Applications | Dr. Khurrum Shehzad Baig | Mr. Umar Mushtaq | 6,862,020 |
| 21 | Removal of Toxic Heavy Metals From Industrial Waste Water by Low Cost Sorbents. | Dr. Shazia Naheed | - | 5,779,033 |
| 22 | Efficiency enhancement of cellulose based Polyziridine blended Diyalysis Membrane | Dr. Hizba Waheed | 1 . Dr. Fawad Ahmed 2. Dr. Sarah Farrukh | 5,645,200 |
| 23 | Drone base early agricultural disaster detection and emergency alert model using AI techniques | Dr Ayesha Saddiqa | Mr. Mohaibullah | 4,427,560 |
| 24 | Preparation of bifunctional catalyst for boosting fuel cell catalysis | Dr. Fawad Ahmad | Dr. Musammir Khan | 3,763,276 |
| 25 | An Agent- Based Conflict Resolutioin Model for Water Resources Management: Case Study of Pakistan’s Indus Basin | Dr. Shahmir Janjua | Dr. Aftab Sadiq | 3,696,000 |
| 26 | Development of agro-biomass based cellulose Nano-Crystals (CNCs)/Reduced Graphene Oxide (rGO) 3-D Composite Sponges for Cost Effective Local Waste – Water Treatment for Organic Pollutant Removal | Dr. Saleem Iqbal | Ms Rabia Sabir | 3,045,416 |
| 27 | Smart Home Appliance Automation System with Gesture Recoginition | Dr. Sohaira Ahmad | - | 2,860,800 |
| 28 | New Semi-Analytical Techniques for Dynamical Systems | Dr. Qazi Mahmood Ul Hassan | Dr. Tasawar Abbas | 2,679,144 |
| 29 | Soliton Solutions of Nonlinear Real World problems Using Analytical Techniques | Dr. Muhammad Shakeel | - | 2,391,142 |
| 30 | Flipping the Classroom: Measuring the Impact of A Flipped Classroom on Student Achievement and Cognitive Load Levels in the Context of Online Teaching and Learning | Dr Samina Rashid | Dr Noman Aftab | 994,680 |
| 31 | Controlling Academic Procrastination of University Students by Using Psychological Capital Intervention Model | Dr Noman Aftab | Mr. Maaz Ahmed | 851,100 |
| National Center of GIS and Space Applications (NCGSA) by Institute of Space Technology | ||||
| Sr# | Title | P.I | CO-P.I | Amount |
| 32 | Assessment of water resources availability for long term abstraction from Industrial area of selected Potohar Region under water scarce condition using GIS and Remote Sensing | Prof. Dr. Zulfiqar Ahmad | - | 13,700,000 |
| 33 | Study of Gamma Ray Heating and Effective Beta Decay Rates for Supernovae Simulations | Prof. Dr. Jameel-Un Nabi | Dr. Muhammad Riaz | 11,580,000 |
| 34 | Design and Development of a System for Monitoring, Controlling, Protection and Quality Improvement of RTU/IoT Based Automated Substation Using PLC & SCADA | Mr. Kashif Iqbal | - | 8,939,000 |
| 35 | Real Time Smart Metering for Power Factor Improvement Using PLC | Ms. Ayla Safdar | Ms. Anas Ibrar | 7,106,000 |
| National Injury Research Competition by The Agha Khan University | ||||
| Sr# | Title | P.I | CO-P.I | Amount |
| 36 | Antibacterial effect of Metal- doped Hydroxyapatite on S. aureus strains associated with Osteomyelitis in bone injury cases | Prof. Dr. Uzma Ghazanfar | Dr. Muhammad Idrees | 2,000,000 |
| 37 | Bacterial infections in fall-related traumatic injuries in patients suffering from type 2 diabetes | Dr. Muhammad Idrees | Dr. Syed Waqas Hassan | 2,000,000 |
| 38 | Alleviating post-injury psychological distress: Development and validation of an indigenous training program To help medical professionals reduce psychological distress of Patients with injury | Dr. Samina Rashid | Mr. Maaz Ahmed | 2,000,000 |
| 39 | Internet Based Intervention- ERITA for NSSI (Non-Suicidal Self-Injury) | Dr. Noman Aftab | Ms. Sheeza Mahak | 1,953,000 |
| 40 | Design, Development and Control of a Smart, Reconfigurable Wheel Chair | Dr. Adnan Tariq | Dr. Waseem Shehzad | 1,951,600 |
| 41 | Real Time Application for Screening and Localization of COVID-19 using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks | Dr. Javeria Amin | Prof. Dr. M. Almas Anjum | 1,874,500 |
| 42 | Drone based early agricultural disaster detection and emergency alert model using ai techniques (d3) | Prof. Dr. M. Almas Anjum | Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa | 1,529,000 |
| 43 | Skin Alignment Detection and Prevention using Smart Mirror | Dr. Qaiser Ayub | - | 1,055,000 |
| 44 | Resource aware routing protocols for city based Environments via IOT | Dr. Qaiser Ayub | - | 1,035,000 |
| 45 | Intentional and unintentional injuries in Pakistani women of Different altitude aged 1-35 years | Dr. Khuda Sarwar | - | 605,000 |
| RASTA Competitive Grants Program for Policy-oriented Research by Pakistan Institute of Development Economics | ||||
| Sr# | Title | P.I | CO-P.I | Amount |
| 46 | Tariff, Protection Policy and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI): A tax heaven analysis | Dr. Asma Arif | Ms. Baserat Sultana | 3,897,520 |
| 47 | Politics of External Debt Management and Economic Growth in Pakistan | Dr. Asma Arif | Mr. Abdul Mansoor | 3,353,680 |
| 48 | Fruits and Vegetables Diseases Recognition and Classification using Convolutional Neural Networks | Dr. Javeria Amin | Prof. Dr. M. Almas Anjum | 3,127,080 |
| Product development through indigenous research and innovation by Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF) | ||||
| Sr# | Title | P.I | CO-P.I | Amount |
| 49 | Polymeric membranes for dialysis operation with enhanced performance | Dr. Hizba Waheed | Dr. Faisal Nawaz | 15,000,000 |
| Competitive Research Programme by Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF) | ||||
| Sr# | Title | P.I | CO-P.I | Amount |
| 50 | Biodegradable and Functionalized Biocompatible Polymers as Precursors for Fabrication of Composite Hydrogels as Tissue Engineering Scaffolds and Injectable Biomaterials | Dr. Musammir Khan | Dr. Fawad Khan | 10,000,000 |
| 51 | To study the current practices of disposal of face mask being used for prevention of COVID-19 virus. | Dr. Muhammad Idrees | Ms. Zeenat Haq | 2,967,000 |
| 52 | Effect of Personal Protective equipment (PPE) Waste on Environment and its Management in Pakistan | Dr. Imran Rais | Mr. Abdul Mansoor | 2,000,000 |
| 53 | Production of diesel from waste glucose bottles at hospitals | Dr. Khurrum Shehzad Baig | Mr. Umar Mushtaq | 1,950,000 |
| 54 | Smart Mirror for Skin Aliment Detection and Prevention | Dr. Qaiser Ayub | Mr. Mohaibullah | 1,550,000 |
| 55 | Polysulphone based nanocomposite membranes for the simultaneous removal of heavy metal ions and textile dyes from water. | Dr. Humaira Razzaq | - | 1,000,000 |
| 56 | Photo catalytic degradation of solid / liquid waste | Dr. Fawad Khan | Dr. Musammir Khan | 1,000,000 |
| 57 | Development of Virtual Manufacturing Enterprise | - | Dr. Adnan Tariq Dr. Waseem Shehzad | 2,495,340 |