 01/2020 to date : Associate Professor,Department of Mathematics and Statistics, IIU, Islamabad, Pakistan  11/2017 to 01/2020: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, King Khalid University, KSA  08/2017 to 11/2017: Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, IIU, Islamabad, Pakistan  07/2010 to 08/2017: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, IIU, Islamabad, Pakistan  07/2007 to 06/2010 : Ph.D scholar , Chinese Academy of Sciences  09/2009 to 12/2009: Research Associate,Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.  04/2009 to 06/2009: Research Associate, City University of Hong Kong.  07/2006 to 06/2007, Lecturer , Federal Government Post Graduate College, H-8 Sector Islamabad, Pakistan  04/2005 to 07/2006, Lecturer, Government Degree College Renala Khurd , Okara, Pakistan

Statistics (Probability and Mathematical Statistics/Extreme Value Theory)

 Higher Education Commission Pakistan (NO: 20-3954R&D/HEC/305) Under NRPU Scheme. (2015) Title: Robust estimation in the presence of Extreme Observations. Project Funding: 0.9 Million PKR  HEC Start Up Research Grant Project Under Interim Placement of Fresh PhDs(IPFP)Project No: (PMIPFP/HRD/HEC/2011/2254)(2011-2012)[Completed] Title: Optimized Estimation Methodology for parametric Component in Partial Linear Models Project Funding: 0.5 Million PKR 7 CV of Dr. Ishfaq Ahmad  Higher Education Commission Pakistan (5790/Federal/NRPU/R&D/HEC/2016) Title: Artificial Neural Networks Modeling for Hydrological Data in Pakistan. Project Funding: 0.8 Million PKR Co-Principal Investigator  Higher Education Commission Pakistan(5769/Federal/NRPU/R&D/HEC/2016) Title: Bayesian Analysis of Money Demand Function of Pakistan Economy Project Funding: 0.92 Million PKR  King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia Statistical and Mathematical modeling of extreme events and Big Data (RGP1/50/39

RGP1/102/40

RGP1/103/40) Projects Funding: 18 Million PKR  King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia Statistical Analysis of extreme events (GRP/133/40

GRP/78/41

GRP/118/41

GRP/226/39 ) Project Funding: 4.00 Million PKR  King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia Statistical modeling of extreme events using robust estimation methods (RGP2/67/41

RGP2/68/41) Project Funding: 18 Million PKR

Some selected Papers  Muhammad Fawad, Ishfaq Ahmad, Falaq Ali Nadeem, Ting Yan, Aamar Abbas, Estimation of wind speed using regional frequency analysis based on linear-moments. International. Journal of Climatology: 38 (12): 4431-4444, 2018. (Impact Factor=3.609).  Khan MS, Hussain Z, Ahmad I. A Comparison of Quadratic Regression and Artificial Neural Networks forthe Estimation of Quantiles At Ungauged Sites In Regional Frequency Analysis. Applied Ecology and Environmental Research. 2019 Jan 1

17(3):6937-59.(Impact Factor=0.69).  Almanjahie IM, Ahmad I, Elmezouar ZC, Laksaci A. Soil quality analysis using modern statistics and NIR spectroscopy procedure. Polish Journal of Environmental Studies. 2019 Jan 1

28(5).(Impact Factor=1.21)  Ali Nasir, Ishfaq Ahmad, Muhammad Hanif, and Usman Shahzad. "Robust-regression-type estimators for improving mean estimation of sensitive variables by using auxiliary information." Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods (2019): 1-14.(Impact Factor=0.424).  A.Saghir, S. Chakraborti, Ishfaq Ahmad

On the Performance of Phase-I Bivariate Dispersion Charts to NonNormality

Quality and Reliability Engineering International

Online ISSN: 1099-1638

First published: 33(3),637-656 ,2017(Impact Factor=1.457).  Xu Liu, Ahmad Ishfaq. Distribution Estimation Using Smoothed Auxiliary Information, Acta Mathematica Applicate Sinica. 27(1), 167-176:2011. (Impact Factor=0.45).  Mubarik, S., Wang, F., Fawad, M., Wang, Y., Ahmad, I., & Yu, C. (2020). trends and projections in Breast cancer Mortality among four Asian countries (1990–2017): Evidence from five Stochastic Mortality Models. Scientific reports, 10(1), 1-12.(Impact Factor=4.01). 2020 1. Mubarik, S., Wang, F., Fawad, M., Wang, Y., Ahmad, I., & Yu, C. (2020). trends and projections in Breast cancer Mortality among four Asian countries (1990–2017): Evidence from five Stochastic Mortality Models. Scientific reports, 10(1), 1-12. 2019 2. Ishfaq Ahmad, Ibrahim Almanjahie, Muhammad Asgher, Haqul Ehtshaam: Probability Modeling and Estimation of Risk Measures for Fire Loss Severity in Pakistan: An Application of Extreme Value Theory. Economic Computation and Economic Cybernetics Studies and Research: 2019

53(4): pp

275-282. 3. Ahmad I, Waqas M, Almanjahie IM, Saghir A, Haq EU. Regional Flood Frequency Analysis using Linear Moments and Partial Linear Moments: A Case Study. Applied Ecology and Environmental Research. 2019 Jan 1

17(2):3819-36. 4. Zulfiqar Ali

Ijaz Hussain

Muhammad Faisal, Alla Mohamd Shoukry

Showkat Gani &Ishfaq Ahmad. A framework to identify homogeneous drought characterization regions. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 2019 pp:1-12. 5. Ahmad I, Almanjahie I M, Hameedullah–Chikr-Elmezouar Z, Laksaci A. Artificial Neural Network Modeling For Annual Peak Flows: A Case Study. Applied Ecology and Environmental Research. 2019 Jan 1

17(3):6917-35. 6. Ishfaq Ahmad, Didar Ali Khan, Aamar Saghir, “At-Site Rainfall Frequency Analysis of Partial duration series and Annual Maximum series using L-moments in Rawalpindi city of Pakistan" Applied Ecology and Environmental Research 2019,17(2). 7. Khan MS, Hussain Z, Ahmad I.A Comparison of Quadratic Regression and Artificial Neural Networks For The Estimation of Quantiles At Ungauged Sites In Regional Frequency Analysis. Applied Ecology and Environmental Research. 2019 Jan 1

17(3):6937-59. 3 CV of Dr. Ishfaq Ahmad 8. Ali Z, Hussain I, Faisal M, Almanjahie IM, Ahmad I, Khan DM, Grzegorczyk M, Qamar S. A Probabilistic Weighted Joint Aggregative Drought Index (PWJADI) criterion for drought monitoring systems. Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 2019 Mar 16:1-21. 9. Ali N, Ahmad I, Hanif M, Shahzad U. Robust-regression-type estimators for improving mean estimation of sensitive variables by using auxiliary information. Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods. 2019 Jul 31:1-4. 10. Hasan D, Mahmood I, Ahmad I, Aziz F, Ahmad I. Development of an HPLC Method for Formic Acid Analysis through Peak Exclusion Approach. Sains Malaysiana. 2019 May 1

48(5):1011-8. 11. Nazir HM, Hussain I, Ahmad I, Faisal M, Almanjahie IM. An improved framework to predict river flow time series data. PeerJ. 2019 Jul 1

7:7183. 12. Almanjahie IM, Ahmad I, Elmezouar ZC, Laksaci A. Soil quality analysis using modern statistics and NIR spectroscopy procedure. Polish Journal of Environmental Studies. 2019 Jan 1

28(5). 13. Zulfiqar Ali, Ijaz Hussain, Muhammad Faisal, Marco Andreas, Ibrahim Almanjahie, Amna Nazir, Ishfaq Ahmad Characterization of regional hydrological drought using improved precipitation records under multi-auxiliary Information. Theoretical and Applied Climatology https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-019-03070 14. Ishfaq Ahmad, Touqeer Ahmad, Ibrahim Almanjahie: Modelling Of Extreme Rainfall In Punjab, Pakistan Using Bayesian And Frequentist Approach. Applied Ecology and Environmental Research 2019, 17(06), 13729-13748. 15. Ehtshaam ul Haq, Ishfaq Ahmad, Abid Ali, Zahid Ali, Ibrahim Almanjahie, Performance evaluation of novel selection Processes through hybridization of k- means clustering and genetic algorithm: Applied Ecology And Environmental Research 17(6):14159-14177:2019 16. Almanjahie, M. I. Ahmad, I., Chikr Elmezouar, Z. Laksaci, A Modern Statistical Analysis of Forage Quality Assessment With NIR Spectroscopy. Applied Ecology and Environmental Research 2019, 17(06). 14333- 14346. 17. Ehtshaam UL Haq, Ishfaq Ahmad, Abid Hussain and Ibrahim Almanjahie. A novel selection approach for genetic algorithms for global optimization of multimodal continuous functions. Computational Intelligence and NeuroscienceVolume 2019, Issue Pages 1-14 Online. 18. Ehtshaam UL Haq, Ishfaq Ahmad, Abid Hussain , Development a New Crossover Scheme for Traveling Salesman Problem by aid of Genetic Algorithm: I.J. Intelligent Systems and Applications, 2019, 12, 46-52