Sara Baber Sial
Associate Professor
- School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering
- 5190856072
Summary
Academic Background
PhD
(Robotics and HRI) NUST, Islamabad
September 17, 2017 - September 17, 2020
Honours and Awards
NUST high acheiver’s
NUST high acheiver’s award for academics, awarded throughout undergraduate studies, 2006-2010.
Editorial board member of American Journal of Science, Engineering and Technology- until Dec. 31, 2020.
FDP
Awarded Faculty Development Program scholarship from NUST (Pakistan) for higher studies in the year 2012.
COMPPEC
Member of team awarded 2nd position in a national level competition, Computer Project Exhibition and Competition (COMPPEC), NUST, 2010
ICHCI
Best paper award in International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (ICHCI), London, United Kingdom, 2018.
FICS
Judge of Finding Innovative & Creative Solutions for Society (FICS) at NUST in 2015.
AHFE
Member of Scientific Advisory Board 11th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2020) and the Affiliated Conferences
Reviewer (Journals and conferences) - International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, IEEE Access, Intelligent Service Robotics, iCreate.
Patent 20087-D
Brain Imaging Tool for Medical Diagnosis (Class-03)
September 23, 2019
Publications
A Scalable Deep Attention Mechanism of Instance Segmentation for the Investigation of Chromosome
June 03, 2026
SLAS Technology - Accepted
Fast Convergence Adaptive Approach for Real-Time Motion Planning
April 01, 2026
Robotics - Volume 15(4), Article Number 73
Design, development and evaluation of solar powered DC cold box for sustainable supply chain of food and medicine
February 04, 2026
International Journal of Sustainable Engineering - Volume:19, Issue:1, Article Number 2619276
PakSign: Advancing dynamic Pakistani Sign Language Recognition with a novel skeleton-based dataset and graph-enhanced architectures
October 01, 2025
Computer Vision and Image Understanding - Volume:260, Article Number 104458
MSE-GCN: A Multiscale Spatiotemporal Feature Aggregation Enhanced Efficient Graph Convolutional Network for Dynamic Sign Language Recognition
August 01, 2025
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence - Volume: 9, Issue: 4, Page(s):2979-2994
Hybrid control paradigm for exploring VR teleoperation and DRL-driven autonomy in mobile robotics
July 25, 2025
Multimedia Tools and Applications - Pages 1-30
Protocol for optimizing robot-assisted autism therapy sessions through gaze analysis: A pilot study investigating optimal trial count for children with comorbid autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability
January 03, 2025
Journal of Intellectual Disabilities - Journal of Intellectual Disabilities
Active interception of moving ball: a multi-player strategy for humanoid soccer robots
December 13, 2024
Multimedia Tools and Applications - Pages 1-17
A self-supervised deep-driven model for automatic weather classification from remote sensing images
December 06, 2024
International Journal of Remote Sensing - Pages 1-26
ALATT-network: automated LSTM-based framework for classification and monitoring of autism spectrum disorder therapy tasks
September 20, 2024
Signal, Image and Video Processing - Pages 1-17
A Comprehensive Multimodal Humanoid System for Personality Assessment Based on the Big Five Model
June 21, 2024
IEEE Access - Volume 12, Pages 84261-84272
RoboCA3T: A Robot-Inspired Computer-Assisted adaptive autism therapy for improving joint attention and imitation skills through learning and computing innovations
May 15, 2024
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning - Pages 1-18
MIPA-ResGCN: a multi-input part attention enhanced residual graph convolutional framework for sign language recognition
December 01, 2023
Computers & Electrical Engineering - Volume 112, Article Number 109009
A hybrid framework for detection of autism using ConvNeXt-T and embedding clusters
November 13, 2023
The Journal of Supercomputing - Pages 1-23
Dynamic Goal Tracking for Differential Drive Robot Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
October 24, 2023
Neural Processing Letters - Pages 1-18
Mapping the service recovery research landscape: A bibliometric-based systematic review
July 11, 2023
Psychology and Marketing - Pages 1-28
Deep Transfer Learning Based Detection and Classification of Citrus Plant Diseases
June 08, 2023
Computers, Materials and Continua - Volume 76(1), Pages 895-914
Energy modeling and predictive control of environmental quality for building energy management using machine learning
May 11, 2023
Energy for Sustainable Development - Volume 74, Pages 381-395
Techno-Economic Analysis of Vacuum Membrane Distillation for Seawater Desalination
March 15, 2023
Membranes - Volume 13, Issue 3, Article Number 339
Signgraph: An Efficient and Accurate Pose-Based Graph Convolution Approach Toward Sign Language Recognition
February 28, 2023
IEEE Access - Volume 11, Pages 19135-19147
Assessment of solar load models for bifacial PV panels
November 14, 2022
Frontiers in Energy Research - Volume 10, Article Number 1019595
Introducing Therapeutic Robotics for Autism
November 08, 2022
Introducing Therapeutic Robotics for Autism - 1st Edition, Pages 1-81
Numerical analysis of permeate flux in reverse osmosis by varying strand geometry
October 05, 2022
Scientific Reports - Volume 12, Issue 1, Article Number 16636
Bearing-Based Distributed Formation Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarm by Quaternion-Based Attitude Synchronization in Three-Dimensional Space
August 30, 2022
Drones - Volume 6(9), Article Number 227
Experimental Study on Slosh Dynamics Estimation in a Partially Filled Liquid Container Using a Low-Cost Measurement System
August 15, 2022
IEEE Sensors Journal - Volume 22, Issue 16, Pages 16212-16222
An Experimental Trial: Multi-Robot Therapy for Categorization of Autism Level Using Hidden Markov Model
August 17, 2021
Journal of Educational Computing Research - Pages 1-20
Investigation of 9000 hours multi-stress aging effects on High-Temperature Vulcanized Silicone Rubber with silica (nano/micro) filler hybrid composite insulator
July 28, 2021
Plos One - Volume 16(7), Article Number e0253372
Sustainability of Project-Based Learning by Incorporating Transdisciplinary Design in Fabrication of Hydraulic Robot Arm
July 16, 2021
Sustainability - Volume 13(14), Article Number 7949
Attentional behavior of children with ASD in response to robotic agents
March 01, 2021
IEEE Access - Volume 9, Pages 31946-31955
Proximal Actuation of an Elastically Loaded Scissors Mechanism for the Leg Design of a Quadruped Robot
November 30, 2020
IEEE Access - Volume 8, Pages 208240-208252
A Preliminary Study on Effectiveness of a Standardized Multi-Robot Therapy for Improvement in Collaborative Multi-Human Interaction of Children With ASD
June 24, 2020
IEEE Access - Volume 8, Pages 109466-109474
Development and Testing of a Wearable Vibrotactile Haptic Feedback System for Proprioceptive Rehabilitation
February 28, 2020
IEEE Access - Volume 8, Pages 35172-35184
Comparing the Effectiveness of Different Reinforcement Stimuli in a Robotic Therapy for Children With ASD
January 22, 2020
IEEE Access - Volume 8, Pages 13128-13137
Dominance in Visual Space of ASD Children Using Multi-Robot Joint Attention Integrated Distributed Imitation System
December 05, 2019
IEEE Access - Volume 7, Pages 168815-168827
An Adaptive Multi-Robot Therapy for Improving Joint Attention and Imitation of ASD Children
June 19, 2019
IEEE access - Volume 7
Use of Latest Robots for Autism Spectrum Disorder
October 03, 2018
Advances in Robotics & Mechanical Engineering - Volume 1, Issue 2, Pages 30-31
Robot Assisted Therapy for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder - A Survey
March 15, 2018
Robotics and Automation Engineering Journal - Volume 2(3), Article Number 555589
Interaction of robot with humans by communicating simulated emotional states through expressive movements
July 01, 2016
Intelligent Service Robotics - Volume 9, Pages 231-255
Conferences
A Multimodal Architecture for Real-Time Automated Attention Monitoring Using Computer Vision
April 07, 2026 - April 09, 2026
Kainat , Sara Baber Sial, Anum Jaffar, Khawaja Fahad Iqbal, Syed Hamza Gilani, Yasar Ayaz, Zaib Jahan,
2026 IEEE 15th International Conference on Communication Systems and Network Technologies (CSNT)
Optimizing Real-Time Visual Emotion Perception Using Influential Landmark-Based Spatial Feature Extraction for Edge Devices
April 07, 2026 - April 09, 2026
Muhammad faisal Zia, Sara Baber Sial, Syed Hamza Gilani, Khawaja Fahad Iqbal, Anum Jaffar, Yasar Ayaz, Zaib Jahan,
2026 IEEE 15th International Conference on Communication Systems and Network Technologies (CSNT)
Weakly-Supervised Chromosome Segmentation via SAM and Uncertainty-Guided Pseudo-Labeling
August 01, 2025 - August 03, 2025
Neelam Umbreen, Sara Baber Sial, Hasan Sajid, Khawaja Fahad Iqbal, Yasar Ayaz, Muhammad A. B. Fayyaz, Muhammad Baber Sial,
2025 10th International Conference on Biomedical Signal and Image Processing, ICBIP 2025
A MULTI-SCALE ATTENTION-BASED MASK R-CNN FOR CHROMOSOME INSTANCE SEGMENTATION
March 28, 2025 - March 29, 2025
Hasan Sajid, Sara Baber Sial, Yasar Ayaz, Neelam Umbreen,
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing
E-Gait: Enhanced Efficient Graph Convolution Network for Gait Recognition
October 10, 2024 - October 13, 2024
Neelma Naz, Saim Rasheed, Sara Baber Sial, Hasan Sajid,
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Socio-Cultural Factors of Industrial Workers in Low-Middle Income Countries (LMIC): Pilot Study
July 20, 2023 - July 24, 2023
Umer Asgher, Sara Ali, Yasar Ayaz, Sofia Scataglini, Salman Nazir, Usama Rashed, Ellie Abdi, Fahad Iqbal Khawaja, Redha Taiar, José Arzola-Ruiz,
14th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2023) and the Affiliated Conferences
Modeling and Control of Liquid Carrying Aerial Vehicle's Endurance and Performance Based on LQR And PID Control Strategies
May 10, 2023 - May 12, 2023
Syed Muhammad Nashit Arshad, Yasar Ayaz, Sara Ali, Khawaja Fahad Iqbal, Noman Naseer,
2023 7th International Multi-Topic ICT Conference (IMTIC)
Human Robot Interaction: Identifying Resembling Emotions Using Dynamic Body Gestures of Robot
February 22, 2023 - February 23, 2023
Sara Ali, Faisal Mehmood, Khawaja Fahad Iqbal , Yasar Ayaz, Muhammad Sajid, Muhammad Babar Sial, Muhammad Faiq Malik, Kashif Javed,
2023 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI)
A Chain-Driven Live Roller Mechanism for Loading and Unloading Packages on Autonomous Mobile Robots in Warehouses
July 24, 2022 - July 28, 2022
Muhamad Ammar, Muhammad Moeed Ahmed, Muhammad Abdullah Younas, Khezar Qayyum, Khawaja Fahad Iqbal , Sara Ali, Umer Asgher, Yasar Ayaz,
International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE) 2022
Novel Approach for Sensing the Humanoid Hand Finger Position Using Non-contact TMR Sensor
July 24, 2022 - July 28, 2022
Saeed Iqbal, Shahid Nawaz Khan, Muhammad Sajid, Sara Ali, Khawaja Fahad Iqbal , Umer Asgher, Yasar Ayaz,
International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE) 2022
Image Classification for Project-based Learning to Differentiate Diagrams and Figures
July 24, 2022 - July 28, 2022
Asmara Safdar, Sara Ali, Muhammad Sajid, Umer Asgher, Yasar Ayaz,
International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics and the Affiliated Conferences
Personality Prediction in Human-Robot-Interaction (HRI)
July 24, 2022 - July 28, 2022
Anum Jaffer, Sara Ali, Khawaja Fahad Iqbal , Yasar Ayaz, Muhammad Sajid, Umer Asgher,
International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE) 2022
A Review on Different Approaches for Assessing Student Attentiveness in Classroom using Behavioural Elements
March 30, 2022 - March 31, 2022
Kainat, Sara Ali, Khawaja Fahad Iqbal , Yasar Ayaz, Muhammad Sajid,
2022 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI)
Smooth Gait Generation for Quadrupedal Robots Based on Genetic Algorithm Optimization
March 30, 2022 - March 31, 2022
Zainullah Khan, Farhat Naseer, Khawaja Fahad Iqbal , Sara Ali, Yasar Ayaz, Muhammad Sajid,
2022 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI)
An Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System to Solve Perceptual Aliasing for Autonomous Mobile Robots
January 25, 2022 - January 27, 2022
Syed Madiha Qamar, Khawaja Fahad Iqbal, Sara Ali, Ahmed Hussain Qureshi, Yasar Ayaz, Muhammad Naveed, Abdul Ghafoor Abbasi,
27th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB 2022)
A Survey on EEG-fNIRS based Non-invasive hBCIs
April 05, 2021 - April 07, 2021
Muhammad Baber Sial, Shaoping Wang, Xingjian Wang, Justyna Wyrwa, Sara Ali,
2021 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI)
AdaDiffGrad: An Adaptive Batch Size Implementation Technique for DiffGrad Optimization Method
November 17, 2020 - November 18, 2020
Wajid Khan, Sara Ali, Muhammad Usman Shahid, Muhammad Jawad, Mazhar Ali, Raheel Nawaz,
2020 14th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT)
Multi-level Optimization of Reactive Power Compensation in Industrial Nets with Heuristic Modelling Techniques
July 16, 2020 - July 20, 2020
Yasar Ayaz, Muhammad Sajid, Sara Ali, Umer Asgher, Jose Arzola Ruiz, Khurram Khalil,
AHFE Virtual Conferences on Neuroergonomics and Cognitive Engineering, and Industrial Cognitive Ergonomics and Engineering Psychology, 2020
Effect of Paired Stimuli on Joint Attention of Children with ASD
July 16, 2020 - July 20, 2020
Sara Ali, Yasar Ayaz, Muhammad Jawad Khan, Faisal Mehmood, Umer Asgher,
International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics
Efficient Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) Based Algorithm for Electrocardiogram (ECG) Heartbeat Classification
July 16, 2020 - July 20, 2020
Khurram Khalid, Umer Asgher, Yasar Ayaz, Riaz Ahmad, Salman Nazir, Sara Babar, Sofia Scataglini, Noriyuki Oka ,
AHFE Virtual Conferences on Neuroergonomics and Cognitive Engineering, and Industrial Cognitive Ergonomics and Engineering Psychology, 2020
Mathematical Modeling and Optimization of Downdraft Gasifiers Using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and Stochastic Programming Techniques
July 16, 2020 - July 20, 2020
Umer Asgher, Jose Arzola Ruiz, E. R. Gutiérrez-Gualotuña, Yasar Ayaz, Muhammad Sajid, Khurram Khalil, Sara Babar,
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
A Methodology for Integrating Project Based Learning Outcomes and Attributes via Questionnaire
July 16, 2020 - July 20, 2020
Sara Babar, Muhammad Sajid, Yasar Ayaz, Umer Asgher,
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Cognitive Computing for Human-Machine Interaction: An IBM Watson Implementation
July 16, 2020 - July 20, 2020
Yasar Ayaz, Sara Ali, Muhammad Sajid, Khurram Khalil, Umer Asgher, Riaz Ahmad, Jose Arzola Ruiz, Noriyuki Oka,
International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics
Comparing Effect of Active vs. Passive Robotic Interaction on Joint Attention of Children with ASD
July 16, 2020 - July 20, 2020
Sara Ali, Yasar Ayaz, Muhammad Jawad Khan, Faisal Mehmood, Umer Asgher,
International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics
Hand Gesture Based Control of NAO Robot Using Myo Armband
July 24, 2019 - July 28, 2019
Sara Ali, Yasar Ayaz, Muhammad Jawad Khan, Mohammad Samad, Faisal Mehmood, Wajahat Mehmood Qazi, Umer Asgher,
International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics
Modeling and Multi-objective Optimization of Insulating Lining Using Heuristic Technique “Exploration of Variable Codes (EVC)”
July 24, 2019 - July 28, 2019
Yasar Ayaz, Sara Ali, Umer Asgher, José Arzola-Ruiz, Riaz Ahmad, Osmel Martínez-Valdés,
International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics
Effect of Different Visual Stimuli on Joint attention of ASD Children Using NAO Robot
July 24, 2019 - July 28, 2019
Sara Ali, Yasar Ayaz, Muhammad Jawad Khan, Faisal Mehmood, Umer Asgher,
International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics
Therapy for Autsim Using Robots as Virtual Agents
November 09, 2018 - November 11, 2018
Sara Ali, Yasar Ayaz, Muhammad Jawad Khan, Faisal Mehmood,
International Conference on Virtual Reality Technology
Cognitive assessment for autistic children using robotic therapy: an fNIRS study
October 05, 2018 - October 08, 2018
Sara Ali, Faisal Mehmood, Yasar Ayaz, Noman Naseer, Umer Asgher, Muhammad Jahangeer Qureshi, M. Jawad Khan,
The Society for Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy FNIRS 2018
Enhanced classification accuracy using deep learning for mental math: an fNIRS study
October 05, 2018 - October 08, 2018
Sara Ali, M. Jawad Khan, Yasar Ayaz, Faisal Mehmood, Noman Naseer, Umer Asgher, Muhammad Jahangeer Qureshi,
The Society for Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy FNIRS 2018
Oizzu: A Bipedal Humanoid Robot Development Kit
February 24, 2017 - February 26, 2017
Sara Baber Sial, Husnain Ahmad, Osama Farooq, Muhammad Naveed, Yasar Ayaz,
International Conference on Innovation in Artificial Intelligenceheld from 24-26 Feb 2017 in Singapore
Interactive therapy approach through collaborative physical play between a socially assistive humanoid robot and children with autism spectrum disorder
November 01, 2016 - November 03, 2016
Sara Baber , Saima Tariq, Asbah Ashfaq, Yasar Ayaz, Muhammad Naveed, saba Mohsin,
8th International Conference on Social Robotics
Communicating Simulated Emotional States of Robots by Expressive Movements
October 27, 2013 - October 29, 2013
Sara Baber Sial, Aleksandar Zivanovic ,
5th International Conference on Social Robotics
Generic Vision Based Algorithm for Driving Space Detection in Diverse Indoor and Outdoor Environments
August 04, 2010 - August 07, 2010
Umer Rasheed, Maryam Ahmad, Sara Ali, Kunwar Faraz, Javed Afrid,
IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation
Assistant Professor
SMME-NUST
June 18, 2016 - February 24, 2022
Lecturer
NUST
January 31, 2014 - June 18, 2016
Instructor
Middlesex University
December 03, 2012 - March 29, 2013
Lab Engineer/Research Asistant
LUMS
September 28, 2010 - August 30, 2011