Research Groups


The Department of Computer Games Development offers multiple specialization streams to graduate students including Vision and Automation, Computational Linguistics, Smart and Intelligent Systems, Entertainment Computing, and Health Informatics. The department faculty members are actively engaged in research activities and have established various research groups that collaborate and put their cohesive efforts into research and development tasks.

The details regarding the research groups established at the department are as follows:

1.    Vision and Automation Research Group

This Research Group explores the current state of the art in Image Processing and Computer Vision and carries out research-oriented projects in machine vision-based automation.

Group Members

No. of MS students under supervision

   Dr. Amanullah Yasin

   06

   Dr. Fiza Murtaza

   05

   Ms. Saima Majeed

   -

   Mr. Zain Abubaker

   -

2.    Computational Linguistics Research Group

This research group deals with the latest advances in speech and language processing systems and technologies that understand spoken or written languages; classify, analyze and generate text; sentiment analysis, and information retrieval.

Group Members

No. of MS students under supervision

   Dr. Imran Ihsan

   07

   Dr. Ali Masood

   04

   Dr. Naeem Khalid Janjua

   03

   Ms. Saira Qamar

   -

3.    Smart and Intelligent Systems Research Group

This research group focuses on the areas such as ubiquitous computing, smart sensing, IoT, expert systems, and intelligent machines/agents, exploring how AI agents can be developed and utilized for making intelligent decisions in complex environments.

Group Members

No. of MS students under supervision

   Dr. M. Ehatisham-ul-Haq

   05

   Dr. Syed M. Usman

   -

   Dr. Abdul Haleem Butt

   05

   Mr. Hafiz Muhammad
   Ahsan Shehzad

   -

   Ms. Arooj Arif

   -

   Fahad Shafique

   -

4.    Entertainment Computing Research Group

This research groups explores how CGD can be used to analyze and generate artifacts in the domains of audio, music, game design and development, fiction writing, or artworks.

Group Members

No. of MS students under supervision

   Dr. Hameedur Rahman

   03

   Dr. M. Adnan

   -

   Mr. Numan Ali

   -

   Mr. Amir Ali

   -

   Muhammad Saqib Raza

   -

5.    Health Informatics Research Group

This research group explores the applications of CGD in biomedical informatics, neuroscience, neurocomputation, and other human health-related applications.

Group Members

No. of MS students under supervision

   Dr. Azhar Imran Mudassir

   05

   Dr. Iqbal Murtza

   07

   Ms. Sobia Rasheed Malik

   -