National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST) – Islamabad, Pakistan
Masters of Sciences in Software Engineering (Research Based); Cumulative GPA: 3.35/4.0
Research Fellow: Grant of 0.3 million Rupees & Publication of 5 research articles
Research Area: Natural Language Processing, Language Modelling, Ambiguity Analysis, Requirement Analysis.
Thesis Title: Automatic Detection of Ambiguous Software Requirements using Natural Language Processing.
Tools Developed: ASRA (Ambiguous Software Requirement Analyzer), Document Parser for Tense & Voice

University of Agriculture (UAF) – Faisalabad, Pakistan
Masters of Sciences in Computer Sciences (Non-Research Based); Cumulative GPA: 3.65/4.0
Recipient of Merit based Semester Scholarship, Recipient of Laptop Scholarship
Final Project: Android based Health & Fitness (H&F) Mobile Application using built-in sensors

Government College University (GCUF) – Faisalabad, Pakistan
Bachelors of Sciences (Majors: Computer Sciences, Statistics, Geography); Marks: 559/800
Academic distinction & First position for scoring highest marks in session 2012-2014.
Final Project: C# based Inventory Management system (IMS).

Emotion Detection of Contextual Text using Deep learning - 2020
U. Rashid, M. W. Iqbal, M. A. Skiandar, M. Q. Raiz, M. R. Naqvi and S. K. Shahzad, 4th International Symposium on Multidisciplinary Studies and Innovative Technologies (ISMSIT), Istanbul, Turkey
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9255279

Building a Biomedical Ontology for Respiratory Tract Infection - 2019
K. M. Sarmad, U. Qamar, K. Wahab, M. Q. Riaz, 7th International Conference on Computer and Communications Management (ICCCM), Bangkok, Thailand
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3348445.3348461
Automatic Detection of Ambiguous Software Requirements: An Insight - 2019
M. Q. Riaz, W. H Butt, S. Rehman, 5th International Conference on Information Management (ICIM), University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8714682

Scrum Software Maintenance Model: Efficient Software Maintenance in Agile Methodology - 2018
F. U. Rehman, B. Maqbool, M. Q. Riaz, U. Qamar and M. Abbas, 21st Saudi Computer Society National Computer Conference (NCC), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, pp. 1-5.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8593152

Customization of Requirement Engineering Best Practices for Pakistan Software Industry - 2018

M. Q. Riaz, F. Rehman, B. Maqbool, W. H Butt. International Conference on Computing, Mathematics and Engineering Technologies by IEEE, Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Pakistan
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8346347/

Evaluation of team expertise in software development Organizations - 2017
M. Q. Riaz, M. Abbas, S. Irshad., 15th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology by IEEE, Islamabad, Pakistan
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8261012/