Dr. Ambreen Nazir

Dr. Ambreen Nazir

Assisstant Professor

Email: ambreen.nazir@giki.edu.pk

Education

  • Ph.D. in Software Engineering (2023)

Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China.

  • MPhil in Software Engineering (2014)

University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Taxila, Pakistan.

  • BS in Software Engineering (2012)

University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Taxila, Pakistan.

Research Interests

Agentic AI, Natural Language Processing, Large Language Modelling, Sentiment Analysis, Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Information Extraction, Sentiment Evolution

Professional Profile

Dr. Ambreen Nazir is a researcher and academic specializing in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, deep learning, and software engineering. Her research focuses on natural language processing, sentiment analysis, large language models (LLMs), agentic AI, and their applications in intelligent information processing.

During her master’s research, she investigated data mining and knowledge discovery techniques and developed a novel rule-based discretization method for handling continuous data. She subsequently joined academia as a lecturer, teaching software engineering and computing courses while supervising undergraduate research projects. During her PhD at Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China, she advanced her NLP and sentiment analysis research, focusing on aspect-based sentiment analysis and mining in social media text. Following her PhD, she served as a Senior Lecturer at Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University (STMU), Islamabad. She later joined Xi’an Jiaotong University as an Assistant Professor and postdoctoral researcher, where she expanded her work into AI, NLP, and large language models, contributing to international research collaborations and a funded research project on multimodal fake news detection. She is currently serving as an Assistant Professor at the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology (GIKI), Pakistan.

She has authored and co-authored research publications in internationally recognized journals and conferences, including IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, ACM Computing Surveys, SIGIR, ACL, EMNLP, and IJCAI.

Her academic achievements include receiving the Chinese Government Scholarship (CSC) for her doctoral studies and the Outstanding International Student Award at Xi’an Jiaotong University. She has also contributed to the research community through journal reviewing, conference program committees, postgraduate research supervision, and academic leadership.

 

Peer-Reviewed Journals

11

Peer-Reviewed Conferences

9

 

Selected Publications

  • 1. U. Azhar and A. Nazir. “Exploring the Natural Language Generation: Current Trends and Research Challenges.” International Conference on Engineering & Computing Technologies (ICECT), PP. 1-6, 2024.
  • 2. L. Sun, Y. Rao, L. Wu, X. Zhang, Y. Lan, and A. Nazir. “Fighting False Information from Propagation Process: A Survey”. ACM Computing Survey. V.55, No.10, PP. 1-38, 2023.
  • 3. L. Wu, Y. Rao, C. Zhang, Y. Zhao, and A. Nazir. “Category-controlled Encoder-Decoder for Fake News Detection.”, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, V.35, No.2, PP. 1242-1257, 2023.
  • 4. Nazir, Y. Rao, L. Wu, and L. Sun. “IAF-LG: An Interactive Attention Fusion Network with Local and Global Perspective for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis.” IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, V.13, No.4, PP. 1730-1742, 2022.
  • 5. Nazir, Y. Rao, L. Wu, and L. Sun. “Issues and Challenges of Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis: A Comprehensive Survey.” IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, V.13, No.2, PP. 845-863, 2022.
  • 6. Nazir and Y. Rao. “IAOTP: An Interactive End-to-End Solution for Aspect-Opinion Term Pairs Extraction.” ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR’22), PP.1588-1598, 2022.
  • 7. L. Wu, Y. Rao, X. Yang, W. Wang, A. Nazir. “Evidence-aware Hierarchical Interactive Attention Networks for Explainable Claim Verification.”, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-PRICAI), PP.1388-1394, 2021.
  • 8. L. Wu, Y. Rao, A. Nazir, and H. Jin. "Discovering Differential Features: Adversarial Learning for Information Credibility Evaluation." Information Sciences, V.516, No.1, PP.453-473, 2020.
  • 9. Cong Feng, Y. Rao, A. Nazir, L. Wu, and H. Long. “Pre-trained Language Embedding-based Contextual Summary and Multi-Scale Transmission Network for Aspect Extraction.” Procedia Computer Science, V/I.174, PP.40-49, 2020.