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Dr. Asif I. Baba

Clinical Associate Professor

University of North Texas

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Email: Asif.Baba@unt.edu

Education

  • PhD, Aalborg Universitet - Denmark, 2016
    Major: Computer Science and Engineering
    Dissertation: Cleansing Indoor RFID tracking Data
  • MS, Chalmers University of Technology - Sweden, 2009
    Major: Computer Science and Engineering
  • BS, University of Lahore - Pakistan, 2005
    Major: Computer Science

Development Activities

  • Workshop, 2024-25 University Forum on Teaching and Learning: Generative Artificial Intelligence, UNT. Denton,Texas,United States of America. (September 2024 - September 2024).
  • Other (Symposium), AI Collaboration Symposium, UNT, UTA, UTD, SMU, and TRA. Frisco,Texas,United States of America. (September 29, 2023 - September 29, 2023).
  • Seminar, Equity-Minded Workloads by Design, University of North texas. Denton,Texas,United States of America. (February 16, 2023 - February 16, 2023).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

    University of North Texas

  • CSCE 1030 - Computer Science I, 19 courses.
  • CSCE 1040 - Computer Science II, 9 courses.
  • CSCE 3530 - Introduction to Computer Networks, 3 courses.
  • CSCE 4010 - Social Issues in Computing, 7 courses.
  • CSCE 4999 - Senior Thesis, 1 course.
  • CSCE 5310 - Methods in Empirical Analysis, 3 courses.
  • CSCE 5520 - Wireless Networks and Protocols, 14 courses.
  • CSCE 5580 - Computer Networks, 9 courses.

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Conference Proceeding

  • Baba, A.I. (2023). Fog Computing in the Internet of Things: Challenges and Opportunities.
  • Zahra, S.R., Chishti, M.A., Baba, A.I., Wu, F. (2021). Cushioning the Impact of Covid-19 on the Psyche of Individuals by Using Internet of Things. 2021 International Conference on Smart Applications, Communications and Networking (SmartNets). 1-4. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/smartnets50376.2021.9555432
  • Baba, A.I. (2017). Removing Object Bouncing from Indoor Tracking Data. Proceedings of the SouthEast Conference. 134-141. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3077286.3077568
  • Baba, A.I., Lu, H., Ku, W., Pedersen, T.B. (2016). Cleansing indoor RFID data using regular expressions. Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. 1-4. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2996913.2996979
  • Baba, A.I., Jaeger, M., Lu, H., Pedersen, T.B., Ku, W., Xie, X. (2016). Learning-Based Cleansing for Indoor RFID Data. Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Management of Data. 925-936. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2882903.2882907
  • Sadasivam, S., Baba, A.I., Ku, W., Chen, H. (2015). A2N2: approximate aggregate nearest neighbor queries on road networks. Proceedings of the Fourth ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Mobile Geographic Information Systems. 13-22. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2834126.2834819
  • Baba, A.I., Lu, H., Pedersen, T.B., Xie, X. (2014). Handling False Negatives in Indoor RFID Data. 2014 IEEE 15th International Conference on Mobile Data Management. 117-126. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/mdm.2014.21
  • Baba, A.I., Lu, H., Pedersen, T.B., Xie, X. (2013). A graph model for false negative handling in indoor RFID tracking data. Proceedings of the 21st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. 464-467. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2525314.2525461
  • Baba, A.I., Lu, H., Xie, X., Pedersen, T.B. (2013). Spatiotemporal Data Cleansing for Indoor RFID Tracking Data. 2013 IEEE 14th International Conference on Mobile Data Management. 187-196. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/mdm.2013.68
  • Baba, A.I. (2011). Calibrating Time of Flight in Two Way Ranging. 2011 Seventh International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks. 393-397. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/msn.2011.23
  • Baba, A.I., Atia, M.M. (2011). Burst mode symmetric double sided two way ranging. 2011 IFIP Wireless Days (WD). 1-3. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/wd.2011.6098183

    • Journal Article

  • Khaliq, Z., Khan, D.A., Baba, A.I., Ali, S., Farooq, S.U. (2025). Model-based framework for exploiting sensors of IoT devices using a botnet: a case study with android. Other. 11 (1) 1-46. Informa UK Limited. https://doi.org/10.1080/23335777.2024.2350001
  • Baba, A.I. (2022). Detecting Covid-19 chaos driven phishing/malicious URL attacks by a fuzzy logic and data mining based intelligence system.
  • Baba, A.I. (2022). Blockchain Driven Access Control Mechanisms, Models and Frameworks: A Systematic Literature Review.
  • Baba, A.I., Neupane, S., Wu, F., Yaroh, F.F. (2021). Blockchain in accounting: challenges and future prospects. Other. 2 (1) 44. Inderscience Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijbc.2021.117810
  • Kabbaj, S., Rahman, A.U., Malik, A.W., Baba, A.I., Ravana, S.D. (2021). Time-bound single-path opportunistic forwarding in disconnected industrial environments. Other. 27 100302. Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vehcom.2020.100302
  • Baba, A.I., Wu, F., Ahmed, T. (2020). A naive time of flight ranging scheme for wireless sensor networks. Other. 25 (4) 347. Inderscience Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijcnds.2020.110522
  • Baba, A.I., Lu, H., Pedersen, T.B., Jaeger, M. (2017). Cleansing indoor RFID tracking data. SIGSPATIAL Special. 9 (1) 11-18. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3124104.3124108

Contracts, Grants, Sponsored Research

    Grant - Research

  • Huang, Y. (Principal), Li, X. (Co-Principal), Yang, Q. (Co-Principal), Fan, H. (Co-Principal), Qiu, C. (Co-Principal), Wei, Y. (Co-Principal), Baba, A.I. (Supporting), "Intelligent Distributed Sensing," sponsored by Army Research Lab/Northeastern University, Federal, $902266 Funded. (2024 - 2025).
  • Huang, Y. (Principal), Li, X. (Co-Principal), Yang, Q. (Co-Principal), Fan, H. (Co-Principal), Qiu, C. (Co-Principal), Wei, Y. (Co-Principal), Baba, A.I. (Supporting), "Learning Empowered Distributed Sensing," sponsored by Army Research Lab/Northeastern University, Federal, $2069324 Funded. (2023 - 2024).

Service

University Service

  • Member, Awards Comitee. (August 2025 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Adhoc Professional Promotion committee. (September 2024 - Present).
  • Co-Director, Computer Science Program. (September 2023 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Graduate Curriculum Committee. (September 2023 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Personnel Affairs Committee. (September 2023 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Professional Faculty Search Committee. (September 2021 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee. (August 2021 - July 2023).