Education:
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering (Major in Data Sciences) from Texas A& M University (TAMU), College Station, TX, 77840, USA.
- Postgraduate Diploma, Electrical Engineering, University of Engineering & Technology (UET), Lahore, Pakistan.
- B.Sc. (Hon’s), Electrical Engineering (Major in Computer Engineering), UET, Lahore, Pakistan.
Teaching Experience:
- Texas A&M International University, Laredo, TX, USA. Visiting Professor: Sep.’14 – May.’15
- DUKE University, Durham, NC, USA. Instructor: June.’13 – Jul.’13
- Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. Instructor: Jan.’13 – May.’13
Biography:
Dr. B. Wajid is an accomplished educator, researcher, and innovator specializing in Data sciences and Bioinformatics, while holding a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University, Texas, USA.
Dr. B. Wajid has significant experience in data science, applying engineering tools to disease biology, excellent programming (Java/C/C++/Python/Linux), research and communication skills. His research has been presented in 70+ publications (i.e., 1 invention, 1 book, 1 book chapter, 18 journals, 28 conferences, 10 abstracts, 7 workshops, and 10 invited talks) and he has obtained 5 research grants.
Publications
- Book: B. Wajid, H. Iqbal and M. Jamil. “Linux programming for the faint of heart,” Sabz Qalam, 2020 (ISBN Number: 978-969-7941-00-1).
- H. Nisar,B. Wajid, F. Anwar, A. Ahmad, A. Javaid, S. A. Attique, W. Nisar, A. Saeed, S. Shahid, S. Sadaf, “Bioinformatics and systems biology analysis revealed PMID26394986-Compound-10 as potential repurposable drug against Covid-19,” Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics (2023): 1-14.
- B. Wajid, F. Anwar, I. Wajid, H. Nisar, S. Meraj, A. Zafar, M. K. AlShawaqfeh, A. R. Ekti, A. Khatoon, J. S. Suchodolski, “Music of Metagenomics – a review of its applications, analysis pipeline and associated tools,” Functional and Integrative Genomics, (2021)
- M. Khalid, K. Iman, A. Ghafoor, M. Saboor, A. Ali, U. Muaz, A. Basharat, T. Tahir, M. Abubakar, M. Akhtar, W. Nabi, W. Vanderbauwhede, F. Ahmad, B. Wajid, S.U. Chaudhary, “PERCEPTRON – An Open-source GPU-Accelerated Proteoform Identification Pipeline for Top-Down Proteomics,” Nucleic Acids Research (2021).
- B. Wajid, H. Iqbal, M. Jamil, H. Rafique and F. Anwar, “MetumpX—a metabolomics support package for untargeted mass spectrometry,” Bioinformatics 36.5 (2020): 1647-1648.
- M. K. Alshawaqfeh, B. Wajid, Y. Minamoto, M. Markel, J. Lidbury, J. Steiner, E. Serpedin, J. Suchodolski, “A dysbiosis index to assess microbial changes in fecal samples of dogs with chronic inflammatory enteropathy,” FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 93, no. 11, (2017)
- B. Wajid and E. Serpedin, “Do it yourself guide to Genome Assembly,” Briefings in Functional Genomics (2014): elu042.
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