Tahir Mehmood
Professor
- School of Natural Sciences
- 0519085589
Summary
He is currently working at SNS, NUST, Islamabad. He has served Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission for 12 years. Research interest includes Data Science, Machine Learning and DeepLearning models
Academic Background
PhD
(Statistics) Norwegian University of Life Sciences
January 30, 2009 - September 05, 2012
Honours and Awards
HEC Talent Scholarship
HEC Talent Scholarship for BSc studies
HEC Talent Scholarship
HEC Talent Scholarship for MSc studies
HEC MS PhD schoalrship
HEC Scholarship MS leading to PhD sties from Norway
Publications
Home range estimate and spatial ecology of a radio-tagged Indian Pangolin
August 01, 2026
Global Ecology and Conservation - Volume 68, Article Number e04253
FTIR Spectral Prediction of Ionic Liquids Using a Novel Hybrid MARS–PLS2 Chemometric Framework
June 01, 2026
Journal of Chemometric - Volume:40, Issue:6, Article Number e70140
A fmLASSO framework for multi-omics cancer prediction and biomarker discovery
June 01, 2026
Ain Shams Engineering Journal - Volume:17, Issue:6, Article Number 104170
Regularized regression in ultra-small chemometric datasets: A methodological case study using FTIR spectra of Schiff bases
June 01, 2026
PLoS One - Volume 21(6), Article Number e0341850
GGAR: gradient guided adaptive regularization enhances deep learning classification of brassica species using codon usage bias
May 19, 2026
BMC Bioinformatics - Volume:27, Issue:1, Article Number 109
Sparse regression and explainable modeling of in vitro dry matter digestibility using near-infrared spectra
May 15, 2026
Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems - Volume 272, Article Number 105677
Sensitivity Analysis of Thermophoretic Transport in Viscoelastic Flow Between Co-Rotating Disks
May 15, 2026
Chemical Engineering and Technology - Volume:49, Issue:5, Article Number e70236
A Deep Learning Approach for OER Electrocatalyst Kinetics Prediction
May 06, 2026
Journal of Chemometric - Volume:40, Issue:5, Article Number e70129
Advanced spectral modeling for bacterial strains: A MARS–PLS2 approach with Lasso regularization and baseline optimization
April 15, 2026
Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy - Volume:351, Article Number 127506
High-Mountain Carnivore Assemblage and Sustainable Conservation Priorities in the K2 Landscape
April 14, 2026
Sustainability - Volume 18(8), Article Number 3888
A novel statistical framework to address FTIR spectral challenges: Hybrid MARS–PCA/KPCA models for pollutants analysis in honey samples
February 15, 2026
Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems - Volume:269, Article Number 105625
Implementation of guideline-directed medical treatment for ischemic heart disease management: A knowledge, attitude and practice based cross-sectional survey
February 04, 2026
PLoS One - Volume 21(2), Article Number e0338634
Camera trapping coupled with field sign survey reveal the mammalian diversity and abundance at Murree-Kotli Sattiankahuta National Park, Pakistan
February 01, 2026
Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences - Volume 36, No. 1, Pages 1-19
A comparative study of deep learning models for two-dimensional MXene ferroelectric data
January 30, 2026
Computational Materials Science - Volume:262, Article Number: 114389
Structured Feature Selection in NIR Spectroscopy Using Multiblock Elastic Net: A Case Study on Corn Data
January 28, 2026
Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems - Pages 20
Predicting extreme thermal degradation of ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) using Bayesian-Inverse Weibull models: Applications in stability analysis and process optimization
December 17, 2025
PLoS One - Volume:20, Issue:12, Article Number e0328554
Self-Reported Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients With Ischemic Heart Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial on Digital Health Pharmacist Interventions
November 01, 2025
Value in Health Regional Issues - Volume:50, Article Number 101174
Directed brain connectivity biomarkers of healthy aging and Parkinson’s disease staging
October 28, 2025
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience - Volume 17, Article Number 1698600
Gradient responsive regularization: a deep learning framework for codon frequency based classification of evolutionarily conserved genes
October 01, 2025
BMC Genomic Data - Volume:26, Issue:1, Article Number: 72
Spatial Non-Targeted Screening and Machine Learning-Based Risk Assessment of Organic Pollutants in Honey from Bhakkar District, Pakistan
October 01, 2025
Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering - Volume 13, Issue 5, Article Number 118509
Bayesian and Classical Methods for Log LogisticDistribution: Exploring Upper Record Values in BladderCancer Remission Times
September 18, 2025
Journal of Statistical Theory and Applications - Volume: 24, Pages:570-589
Leveraging PLS and Lasso in MARS for high-dimensional FTIR data: A hybrid proposed model for antidiabetic activity of schiff base compounds
August 15, 2025
Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems - Volume:263, Article Number 105418
Machine learning-inspired uncertainty analysis of unsteady flow along a deforming cylinder with variable physical properties
July 02, 2025
PRAMANA-JOURNAL OF PHYSICS - Volume:99, Article Number:91, Pages:15
Assessing Human-Wildlife Conflict in Lakki Marwat, Pakistan: Economic Impacts and People’s Perceptions
June 21, 2025
European Journal of Wildlife Research - Volume:71, Article Number:73
Spatio-temporal distribution, diet and human conflict of snow leopard (Panthera uncia) in the Khunjerab National Park, Gilgit Baltistan
June 01, 2025
Food Webs - Volume:43, Article Number: e00402
Robust Särndal-Type Mean Estimators with Re-Descending Coefficients
March 29, 2025
Axioms - Volume 14(4), Article Number 261
Block selection in multiblock partial least squares for modeling genotype-phenotype relations in Saccharomyces
January 02, 2025
PLoS ONE - Volume 20(1), Article Number e0316350
Classification of melanoma skin Cancer based on Image Data Setusing different neural networks
November 29, 2024
Scientific Reports - Volume 14, Article Number: 29704
Insights into Population Status and Habitat Patches of Conservation Concern for the Endangered Indian Pangolin (Manis crassicaudata) in Nowshera District, Northwestern Pakistan
September 16, 2024
Biology - Volume 13(9), Article Number 727
Impact of low oscillating magnetic field on ternary hybrid nanofluid flow between two spinning disks with Thompson and Troian slip and modified fourier's law
September 01, 2024
Chemical Physics Letters - Volume 850, Article Number 141456
Healthy life expectancy with cardiovascular disease among Chinese rural population based on the prospective cohort study
August 08, 2024
Journal of Geriatric Cardiology - Volume 21(8), Pages E1–E8
Classification of LAMOST spectra of B-type and hot subdwarf stars using kernel support vector machine
July 22, 2024
Scientific Reports - Volume 14, Issue 1, Article Number 16815
Modeling slip flow of Bingham fluid induced by a porous revolving disk with viscous dissipation and Joule heating effects
June 01, 2024
Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calarometry - Volume 149, Issue 11, Pages 5555-5567
Exploring slip flow of viscoelastic fluid with frictional heating effects: Uncertainty analysis using response surface methodology (RSM)
June 01, 2024
International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer - Volume:155, Article Number: 107548
Blasius–Rayleigh–Stokes nanofluid dusty flow influenced by Cattaneo–Christov double diffusion and melting heat transfer — application of response surface methodology
January 20, 2024
International Journal of Modern Physics B - Article Number: 2450428, Pages: 19
New Distribution Records of Small Kashmir Flying Squirrel Eoglaucomys fimbriatus (Gray, 1837) (Mammalia: Sciuridae), with Notes on its Diel Activity in the Musk Deer National Park, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan
December 01, 2023
Acta Zoologica Bulgarica - Volume 75(4), Pages 477-484
Factors affecting habitat selection of the endangered Indian pangolin (Manis crassicaudata) in ravine habitats at the Himalayan foothills, Pakistan
November 25, 2023
Applied Ecology and Environmental Research - Volume 21(6), Pages 5889-5899
Patterns, costs, and drivers of livestock depredations by leopards, in rural settlements of Pakistan
October 01, 2023
Global Ecology and Conservation - Volume 46, Article Number e02564
Optimizing Clustering Algorithms for Anti-Microbial Evaluation Data: A Majority Score-Based Evaluation of K-Means, Gaussian Mixture Model, and Multivariate T-Distribution Mixtures
June 21, 2023
IEEE Access - Volume:11, Page:79793-79800
Prescription drug dependence with and without concurrent illicit drug use: a multicenter cross-sectional survey among an addiction treatment seeking population
June 10, 2023
Frontiers in Psychiatry - Volume 14, Article Number 1133606
Prediction of inhibition activity of dihydrofolate reductase inhibitors with multivariate adaptive regression splines and deep neural network
May 31, 2023
IEEE Access - Volume 11, Pages 50595-50604
Inverse Matrix Problem in Regression for High-Dimensional Data Sets
February 23, 2023
Mathematical Problems in Engineering - Volume 2023, Article ID 2308541, 8 pages
Impacts of the Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) on the Livelihood of Rural Communities in Pakistan and Understanding Public Attitudes towards Wild Boars
December 01, 2022
Animals - Volume 12(23), Article Number 3381
Evaluation of loci to predict ear morphology using two SNaPshot assays
November 19, 2022
Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology - Pages 1-22
Classification of Thoracic Diseases Based on Chest X-ray Images Using Kernel Support Vector Machine
November 14, 2022
Mathematical Problems in Engineering - Volume 2022, Article ID 9457730, 9 pages
Role of community-based conservation and natural resource management in building climate resilience among vulnerable mountain societies
November 06, 2022
Climate and Development - Pages 1-14
A Perspective of the Human–Grey Wolf (Canis lupus) Conflicts in Kumrat Valley, Northern Pakistan
October 20, 2022
Diversity - Volume 14(10), Article Number 887
Assessing human–Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus) conflicts in Kumrat Valley—Western flanks of Hindu Kush Region, northern Pakistan
October 01, 2022
Global Ecology and Conservation - Volume 38, Article Number e02230
Prediction and Classification of COVID-19 Admissions to Intensive Care Units (ICU) Using Weighted Radial Kernel SVM Coupled with Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE)
July 21, 2022
Life - Volume 12, Issue 7
Prediction of COVID-19 severity from clinical and biochemical markers: a single-center study from Saudi Arabia
April 01, 2022
European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences - Volume 26, Issue 7, Pages 2592-2601
Naive Bayes combined with partial least squares for classification of high dimensional microarray data
March 15, 2022
Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems - Volume 222, Article Number 104492
The aging behavior of microplastics manufactured from diverse polymers is predicted by the Johnsen index with regularized PLS
March 11, 2022
Chemical Papers - Pages 1-7
Patterns of livestock depredation and Human–wildlife confict in Misgar valley of Hunza, Pakistan
December 07, 2021
Scientific Reports - Volume 11, Article Number 23516
Variable selection of spectroscopic data through monitoring both location and dispersion of PLS loading weights
December 01, 2021
Journal of the Korean Statistical Society - Volume 50, Issue 4, Pages 905-917
Comparative study of hybrid and nanofluid flows amidst two rotating disks with thermal stratification: Statistical and numerical approaches
December 01, 2021
Case Studies in Thermal Engineering - Volume 28, Article Number 101596
Optimized extraction of Pb (II) and Co (II) with glycolamide mono and di-ionic liquids using response surface methodology
December 01, 2021
Journal of Chemometric - Volume 35, Issue 12, Article Number e3382
Predicting Ethanol Steam Reforming Products of Au-Cu Supported over Nano-Shaped CeO2 Using the Johnsen Measure in PLS
November 05, 2021
Applied Sciences - Volume 11(21), Article Number 10402
Using least angular regression to model the antibacterial potential of metronidazole complexes
September 29, 2021
Scientific Reports - Volume 11, Article Number: 19295
Understanding the Dynamics of Human–Wildlife Conflicts in North-Western Pakistan: Implications for Sustainable Conservation
September 28, 2021
Sustainability - Volume 13(19), Article Number 10793
Soft threshold partial least squares predicts the survival fraction of malignant glioma cells against different concentrations of methotrexate’s derivatives
September 21, 2021
Scientific Reports - Volume 11, Article Number 18741
PLS and kernel SVM based hybrid classifier for discriminating FTIR spectrum data with limited sample size
August 15, 2021
Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems - Volume 215, Article Number 104365
Tukey Control Chart for Radon Monitoring in Relation to the Seismic Activity
May 25, 2021
Mathematical Problems in Engineering - Volume 2021, Article ID 9999500, 8 pages
A Flexible and Robust Approach to Analyze Survival Systems in the Presence of Extreme Observations
May 19, 2021
Mathematical Problems in Engineering - Volume 2021, Article ID 9927377, 11 pages
Regularized Feature Selection in Categorical PLS for Multicollinear Data
May 17, 2021
Mathematical Problems in Engineering - Volume 2021, Article ID 5561752, 8 pages
Majority scoring based PLS filter mixture for variable selection in spectroscopic data
May 15, 2021
Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems - Volume 212, Article Number 104282
Hostile Interactions of Punjab Urial (Ovis vignei punjabiensis) towards Indian Gazelle (Gazella bennettii) during Feeding Sessions in Captive Breeding Settings
April 28, 2021
Animals - Volume 11(5), Article Number 1274
Application of response surface methodology on the nanofluid flow over a rotating disk with autocatalytic chemical reaction and entropy generation optimization
February 17, 2021
Scientific Reports - Volume 11, Article Number: 4021
Variable selection of spectroscopic data through monitoring both location and dispersion of PLS loading weights
January 19, 2021
Journal of the Korean Statistical Society - Pages 1-16
FTIR Fingerprints Discriminate Ionic Liquids’ Antibacterial Activity
January 15, 2021
Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems - Volume 208, Article Number 104200
Automated detection of diabetic retinopathy using machine learning classifiers
January 12, 2021
European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences - Volume 25(2), Pages 583-590
Insight into occupancy determinants and conflict dynamics of grey wolf (Canis lupus) in the dry temperate zone of Hindukush Range
January 01, 2021
Global Ecology and Conservation - Volume 25, Article Number e01402
Predictors of hcv seroconversion among end-stage renal disease patients in hemodialysis unit.
December 04, 2020
Bulletin of Pharmaceutical Sciences - Volume 43(2), Pages 199-208
Prediction of antibacterial activity in ionic liquids through FTIR spectroscopy with selection of wavenumber by PLS
November 15, 2020
Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems - Volume 206, Article Number 104124
Comparison of variable selection methods in partial least squares regression
June 01, 2020
Journal of Chemometrics - Volume 34, Issue 6, Article Number e3226
Assessment of maternal health services utilization in Pakistan: the role of socio-demographic characteristics
February 01, 2020
Asian Biomedicine - Volume 14, Issue 1, Pages 3-7
Evaluation of Medication Adherence and its Predictors Among Psychiatric Outpatients at a Mental Healthcare Hospital in Lahore, Pakistan: A Cross-Sectional Study
January 27, 2020
American Scientific Research Journal for Engineering, Technology, and Sciences - Volume 63, No.1, Pages 193-204
Long-lasting patterns of radon in groundwater at Panzhihua, China: Results from DFA, fractal dimensions and residual radon concentration
December 20, 2019
Geochemical Journal - Volume 53, Issue 6, Pages 341-358
Filter-Based Factor Selection Methods in Partial Least Squares Regression
November 01, 2019
IEEE Access - Volume 7, Pages 153499-153508
A transboundary study of spatiotemporal patterns of livestock predation and prey preferences by snow leopard and wolf in the Pamir
October 01, 2019
Global Ecology and Conservation - Volume 20, Article No e00719
Identifying the factors associated with cesarean section modeled with categorical correlation coefficients in partial least squares
July 26, 2019
PLoS ONE - Volume 14, Issue 7, Article Number e0219427
PLS Modeling the Starch Contents of Corn Data Measured Through Different NIR Spectrometers
June 01, 2019
International Journal of Food Engineering - Volume 5, No. 2, Pages 132-135
Saccharomyces cerevisiae genotype phenotype mapping through leptokurtic PLS loading weights.
October 11, 2018
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DATA MINING AND BIOINFORMATICS - NULL
Monitoring and descriptive analysis of radon in relation to seismic activity of Northern Pakistan.
March 08, 2017
Journal of Environmental Radioactivity - Volume: 172 Pages: 43-51
Pastoralist-predator interaction at the roof of the world: Conflict dynamics and implications for conservation.
January 01, 2017
Ecology and Society - Volume: 22 Issue: 2
Carnivores’ diversity and conflicts with humans in Musk Deer National Park, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan
October 01, 2016
European Journal of Wildlife Research - Volume 62, Issue 5, Pages 565-576
Hotelling T2 based variable selection in partial least squares regression
May 15, 2016
Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems - Volume 154, Pages 23-28
Skilled birth attendance in Balochistan, Pakistan.
February 01, 2016
Asian Biomedicine - Volume: 10, Issue: 1,Pages: 25-34
The diversity in the applications of partial least squares: an overview
January 01, 2016
Journal of Chemometrics - Volume 30, Issue 1, Pages 4-17
Multivariate Procedure for Variable Selection and Classification of High Dimensional Heterogeneous Data
November 30, 2015
Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods - Volume 22, No. 6, Pages 575–587
Factors Associated with Utilization of Antenatal Care Services in Balochistan province of Pakistan: An Analysis of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2010.
November 11, 2015
Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences - Volume: 31 Issue: 6 Pages: 1447-1452
A Partial Least Squares Based Procedure for Upstream Sequence Classification in Prokaryotes
June 02, 2015
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics - Volume 12, Issue 3, Pages 560-567
Improving stability and understandability of genotype-phenotype mapping in Saccharomyces using regularized variable selection in L-PLS regression.
December 08, 2012
BMC Bioinformatics - Volume 13, Article Number 327
A review of variable selection methods in Partial Least Squares Regression
August 15, 2012
Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems - Volume 118, Pages 62-69
Exploration of multivariate analysis in microbial coding sequence modeling.
May 14, 2012
BMC Bioinformatics - Volume 13, Article Number 97
A Partial Least Squares based algorithm for parsimonious variable selection.
December 05, 2011
Algorithms for Molecular Biology - Volume 6, Article Number 27
Mining for genotype-phenotype relations in Saccharomyces using partial least squares.
August 03, 2011
BMC Bioinformatics - Volume 12, Article Number 318
Conferences
Integrating Genomic and Environmental Data Using Machine Learning for Vernalization Response Prediction
January 10, 2025 - January 15, 2025
Tahir Mehmood,
32nd International Plant & Animal Genome Conference (PAG 32)
Data-driven Predictive Model of Windows 10's Vulnerabilities
November 16, 2022 - November 18, 2022
Freeh N. Alenezi, Dr. Tahir Mehmood,
International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering, ICECCME 2022
Sr Scientist
Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission
February 06, 2006 - January 17, 2018
Scientific Officer
Global Change Imapct Study Center (GCISC)
March 01, 2005 - February 05, 2006