Saim Rasheed

I joined as Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor. I am supposed to perform the following set of responsibilities as my main duties.
1. Teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in the university by developing and presenting lectures and/or academic materials to students and facilitating laboratory sessions or discussion groups.
2. Preparing and evaluating assessments such as examinations, laboratory assignments, and course project reports and assisting students with their coursework and research activities by providing concrete feedback and guidance.
3. Providing counseling sessions to students on academic-related matters and facilitating their career choices.
4. Attending and participating in meetings, conferences and events in and outside of the institution to network, present your work and learn from others and organizing reference materials, visual aids, conducting seminars and laboratory sessions for the students.
5. Collaborating with other academics and professionals to enhance pedagogical approaches and expand the knowledge base.
6. Course Coordinator/Module Leader for Human-Computer Interaction, Systems Analysis and Design, Multimedia Technologies, Computer Graphics, Technical Writing, Quantitative Analysis, Advanced Probability, and Statistics to make decisions on any kind of course-related issues.
7. Existing course Coordinator for undergraduate course CPIT250-Systems Analysis and Design and postgraduate courses CS-602 Advanced Computer Graphics and a Ph.D. course CPIT701-Advanced Probability and Statistics.
8. Preparing Articulation Matrices as being course coordinator including course contents, recommended/reference books, grade distributions, mapping of course learning outcomes (CLOs) to student outcomes (SOs), In-class and out-class activities, course assessment, and evaluation methods.
9. Writing End-of Semester or Course Reports as course coordinator incorporating all other course instructors’ reports indicating the reasoning for under-achieved results and recommending corresponding Improvement Statements, for all the assigned undergraduate and graduate courses to perform ‘Closing the loop’ at the end of each term.
10. Serving on Departmental committees dealing with accreditation planning and requirements, curriculum planning and degree requirements, and performing a variety of other administrative tasks.
11. Member/Head of ABET committee for the BSIT Program at the Department and accomplished writing giant document Self-Study Report for ABET accreditation of BSIT Program.
12. Member of MSIT Program accreditation committee, writing SSRP Self-Study Report for NCAAA, particularly focusing on Program’s Standards ‘Mission and Goals’ and ‘Program Management and Quality Assurance’.
13. Member of the committee for the formation of the Cybersecurity Department in the Faculty of Computing and IT. Designed a complete list of program specifications for BS in Cybersecurity, identifying the program’s Mission, Objectives, and Learning Outcomes, Defined curriculum structure and program courses, including the identification of program resources and a procedure for the establishment of a program’s quality assurance.
14. Member/Head of Senior Year Project Coordination Committee being responsible as Project Advisor and guiding students to execute complete planning of final year projects. Also involved in teaching general guidelines for final projects to senior year project students as a course.
15. Reviewer for internal MS/Ph.D. proposals/thesis and several national/international journals/conferences.
16. Conducting independent research in fields of Human-Computer Interaction, Multimedia and Artificial intelligence, EEG, and BCI and publishing findings in scholarly journals, conferences, and/or books.
17. Conduct literature reviews, surveys, and laboratory experiments, and compile research results for use in scholarly publications.

Along with my position as Assistant Professor at KAU, I have also worked (during specified period above) as ABET Committee Head, at our Department of IT. In addition, I am working as member of ABET Committee at our Department. Responsibilities include preparing policies for assessment and evaluation methods, planning and formulating new procedures, implementation and execution of these procedures, analyzing the needs of accreditation system at the Department. Starting from curriculum designing, mapping onto ABET student outcomes, defining assessment methods to evaluate student outcomes, analyzing and documenting course's end of semester reports, making suggestion for continuous improvement and finally making plans to execute suggestions. Also working on writing up 'Self-Study Report (SSR)', one big document required by ABET organization, that comprised of all details of the BS program running in the department. In
this regard, further responsibilities include, data acquisition from different sources managed
by an internal system of our faculty, such as, examinations, labs, projects, assignments, variety of different surveys by students and faculty. Then analyzing and interpretation of these data, identifying problems and preparing correction plans. Measuring the level of achievement of program objectives and student outcomes and integrating everything for continuous improvement.

Along with my position as Assistant Professor at KAU, I have also worked (during specified period
above) as ABET Committee Director, at our Faculty of Computing and IT.
Responsibilities include preparing policies for assessment and evaluation methods, planning
and formulating new procedures, implementation and execution of these procedures, analyzing
the needs of accreditation system at the faculty level, according to the requirements of ABET
Organization, . In addition, coordinating between all the three Departments (IT, CS and IS) running
under the faculty, ensuring all procedures and policies are implemented uniformly.

1) Teaching university courses to undergraduate and graduate students by preparing and
delivering lectures and/or any demonstrating academic materials to students and conducting
laboratory sessions or discussion groups.
2) Preparing and grading examinations, laboratory assignments and course project reports.
3) Advising students on course and academic related issues and guiding them for career decisions.
4) Directing graduate and undergraduate students and advising them in their final year project,
thesis and/or other research oriented matters.
5) Conducting independent research in fields of Human-Computer Interaction, Multimedia and
Artificial intelligence and publish findings in scholarly journals, conferences and/or books.
6) Serving on faculty committees dealing with accreditation requirements, curriculum planning
and degree requirements, and performing a variety of other administrative tasks.

Worked as Researcher at Department of Computer Science, University of Milan on a project “Color Rendering Index” by ENEA, an Italian National Agency for new technologies, Energy and sustainable economic development. In particular the idea was to develop physiological and perceptual measuring the brightness and contrast and its relation to the perceived color rendering and lighting efficiency.

Worked as Lecturer in Department of Information Technology, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Worked as Lecturer in Department of Computer Science, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT) Lahore, Pakistan.

Worked as Lecturer in Department of Mathematics, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT) Lahore, Pakistan.

Worked as Research Associate in Department of Mathematics, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT) Lahore, Pakistan