Dr. Ahmad Mustafa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Information Technology University (ITU) and Director of the CIVIL Lab. He earned his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, in 2023. His research focuses on AI and Deep Learning for computational image understanding, weakly supervised learning, computer vision, and foundation models for perception in scientific imaging domains. His work has over 280 citations and an h-index of 8. He has published five journal papers in top-tier venues such as Geophysics (IF 3.2) and IEEE TGRS (IF 8.6), with another under review in IEEE Access (IF 3.6), along with nine conference papers presented at leading forums like IEEE ICIP and SEG IMAGE. He also holds a U.S. patent on trustworthy, multimodal active learning for clinical AI applications.

Dr. Mustafa is a reviewer for several international journals and conferences and a member of IEEE and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), USA. His research excellence earned him the 2023 Roger P. Webb ECE GRA Excellence Award from Georgia Tech, two IMAGE travel grants (2019, 2020), and multiple teaching honors, including the Outstanding Online Head TA Award 2022, ECE GTA Excellence Award 2022, and the ECE CREATION Award 2023.

After graduation, he joined Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) as an AI Research Scientist, where he led AI and cloud-based solutions to optimize subsurface operations in the Gulf of Mexico under Oxy’s USD 100 million Subsurface Innovation Lab (SIL) initiative. He is a member of the IEEE as well the SEG. He has delivered invited talks at Georgia Tech’s CSIP, the ML4Seismic Consortium, UET’s SPE Student Chapter, and OGTI for OGDCL, Pakistan.