Dr. Waqar Ali
Dr. Waqar Ali
ZHAW
School of Engineering
Machine Perception & Cognition Group
Technikumstrasse 71
8400 Winterthur
Work at ZHAW
Position
Research Associate/Postdoc
Focus
Teaching
Experience
- Guest Researcher
University of Alicante, Spain
05 / 2024 - 08 / 2024 - Computer Science Lecturer
Department of Computer Science, Lahore Garrison University, Lahore, (Pakistan)
03 / 2021 - 10 / 2021 - COMPUTER SCIENCE LECTURER
ABASYN UNIVERSITY ISLAMABAD
02 / 2019 - 02 / 2021
Education and Continuing education
Continuing Education
- PhD in Computer Science
Ca Foscari University of Venice, Italy
03 / 2025 - MASTER OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
Comsats University Islamabad
01 / 2019 - BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
Comsats University Vehari Campus, Islamabad
06 / 2016
Network
ORCID digital identifier
Awards
- Shahbaz Sharif Merit Scholarships (SSMS)
Federal Govt., Pakistan
02 / 2017 - Bachelor Fellowship
Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan
03 / 2012
Social media
Projects
Publications
Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed
- Ali, W., Vascon, S., Stadelmann, T., & Pelillo, M. (2026). Multi-view graph pooling via dominant sets for graph classification. Pattern Recognition, 172, Part D(112786). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2025.112786
- Ali, W., Vascon, S., Stadelmann, T., & Pelillo, M. (2024). Hierarchical glocal attention pooling for graph classification. Pattern Recognition Letters, 186, 71–77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2024.09.009
Books, peer-reviewed
Ali, W. (2025). Advanced representation learning techniques for graph neural networks [Doctoral dissertation, Ca’ Foscari University]. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-32794
Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed
- Ali, W., Stämpfli, S., Stadelmann, T., Aschkenasy, S., & Abdulkadir, A. (2026, April 8). Automated, vendor-agnostic measurement of myocardial tissue velocities in echocardiography. 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), London, United Kingdom, 8-11 April 2026. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-35211
- Ali, W., Vascon, S., Stadelmann, T., & Pelillo, M. (2026). Topology-aware node dropping augmentation for graph classification [Conference paper]. 2026 6th International Conference on Neural Networks, Information and Communication Engineering (NNICE), 589–594. https://doi.org/10.1109/NNICE68970.2026.11465527
- Begga, A., Ali, W., Niculescu, G., Escolano, F., Stadelmann, T., & Pelillo, M. (2025). Community-hop : enhancing node classification through community preference [Conference paper]. In A. Torsello, L. Rossi, L. Cosmo, & G. Minello (Eds.), Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition (pp. 21–30). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-80507-3_3
Publications before appointment at the ZHAW
A hybrid CNN-LSTM model for improving accuracy of movie reviews sentiment analysis