Rate My Professor Muhammad Shahid Farid

Muhammad Shahid Farid is an Associate Professor and Chairman of the Department of Computer Science at the Punjab University College of Information Technology (PUCIT), University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan, a position he has held since December 2024 as Chairman and May 2024 as Associate Professor. He obtained his B.S. (2003, Gold Medal), M.Sc. (2006, Silver Medal), and M.Phil. (2009) degrees in Computer Science from the University of the Punjab, Lahore, and his Ph.D. (2015) from the Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy, where he researched 3D television technologies, focusing on multiview video coding, novel view synthesis, and 3D video quality assessment. Farid began his academic career at PUCIT as a Lecturer in 2008, progressing to Assistant Professor, and served as a postdoctoral researcher at Qatar University, Doha, in 2017. He briefly worked as a Software Engineer at Masood Textile Mills before academia.

His research spans image and video processing, including image segmentation, fusion, gait biometrics, object detection, medical image analysis, remote sensing, human activity recognition, and 3D video technologies. With over 75 publications—48 in journals and 24 at conferences—he has garnered 1,350 citations and an h-index of 23. Key publications include “Deep Malaria Parasite Detection in Thin Blood Smear Microscopic Images” (2021, 149 citations), “Multi-focus Image Fusion Using Content Adaptive Blurring” (2018, 125 citations), and recent works on human activity recognition using wearable sensors published in Expert Systems with Applications (2025). Farid holds two international patents granted in 2018: US Patent No. 10,049,502 B2 for edge enhancement in 3D video rendering and European Patent EP3018626B1 for image segmentation. He has won prestigious grants, such as a 14 million PKR PARB project on crop nitrogen management (2022, Team Leader), HEC NRPU grants for human activity analysis (11.32 million PKR) and 3D video coding (3.1 million PKR), and several university grants. Additionally, he contributes editorially as Area Editor for PLOS One and Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Associate Editor for the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence, and serves on program committees for ACM conferences.