​Dr. Hammad Naveed is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences, Pakistan. Previously he was a Research Assistant Professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, University of Chicago 2014-2017. Hammad Naveed received his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from University of Illinois at Chicago in 2012. He spent the following two and half years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the CAS-MPG Partner institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai China and the Computational Biology Research Centre at KAUST, Saudi Arabia. His research interests include algorithm development, genomics, characterization of protein-protein interactions, characterization of protein-drug interactions, pharmacovigilance, protein function prediction and disease identification using various imaging techniques.