Akhtar Jamil

Akhtar Jamil was born in Hassanabad, Hunza, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. He received the B.S. degree in computer science from the University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan, in 2008, and the M.S. degree in computer software engineering from the National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan, in 2011. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in GIS and remote sensing from the Department of Geomatics Engineering, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey. From 2009 to 2010, he served as a Research Assistant in the Department of Computer Software Engineering, Military College of Signals, Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Then, he moved to COMSATS Institute of Information Technology from 2011–2014 as Lecturer. His research interests include pattern recognition, machine learning, and remote sensing.