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Dr Tahir Farooq

About Me

Education

PhD (Computing)

School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK

Research Area: Semantic Metadata Protection & Sharing, Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELNs), Provenance, Distributed Systems

Research Topic: “Protection and Sharing of semantically-enabled ELN in a Co-Laboratory Research Environment focused on the EUROCHAMP-2 Community”
M.Sc (Computer Science)

University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan

Activites

Work
- Technical Operations Engineer – USA/UK/Europe
- DevOps Engineer – UK
- Technical Analyst – UK
- IT Technical Support Specialist – UK
- Scientific Research and Data Analysis – University of Leeds, UK
- Systems Administrator – UK
- Lecturer/AP – Lahore, Pakistan
Outside Work
- Hiking and Photography
- Sports
- Clay Pigeon Shootings

Professional Focus

I am a self-motivated and results-driven IT professional, working in multidisciplinary IT fields since 1999. I am confident and able to work under pressure in a responsible way whilst working as a part of team or alone.

Key Expertise

Technical Analysis, scenario caseses development, application performance and load testing.
Cloud Services and Virtualization: Microsoft Azure, Hyper-V, VMware, Citrix XenCenter.
Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows, Ubuntu, Web Servers, etc.
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)
Database Design and Administration: SQL Server, MYSQL, Oracle and Progress OpenEdge.
Scientific Research and Data Analysis: Semantic metadata and Provenance. Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELNs)
University Teaching, IT course designing and supervision of software projects.

My Research

This research was related to the protection and sharing of semantically-enabled electronic laboratory notebook (ELN, i.e. Semantic Metadata) in a distributed co-laboratory research environment. The ELN enables the modeller to record the provenance (metadata) electronically (in RDF Triples) from its creation to the final curation. I worked on a novel ELN DRBAC (Dynamic Role Based Access Control) mechanism that applied on different scenarios which were developed with the close co-ordination of the atmospheric chemistry community, working on the EUROCHAMP-2 project. This project involves fourteen environment chambers across the Europe. The scientific goal of this community is to better understand the chemical processes controlling air quality and climate through the use of an integrated network of atmospheric simulation chambers.

Research Focus

Critical Data Analysis (focusing at): Semantic metadata, provenance, electronic laboratory notebooks (ELNs), distributed environment, data protection and sharing, access control mechanisms, dynamic role based access control (DRBAC), cloud computing environment and EUROCHAMP-2 project.
Design and Development (of): Scenario cases and dynamic role based access control mechanism for protection and sharing of modelling process data (RDF Triples) in a distributed environment.
Proposed model of ELN in a service environment.
Implementation and Evaluation (qualitative and quantitative) of enhanced access control mechanism and analysis of end results.
Tools used: Oracle, MySQL, PhP, Java, SPARQL, Protégé (ontology editor)