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Wolfie (Usman)

Snr. Software Engineer

Putting tech in FinTech.

Developing microservices for financial processes using Java on AWS cloud infrastructure focusing on IaC and CI/CD.

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            <p class="lead">I graduated from <a href="http://www.unitn.it/">University</a> of <a
                    href="http://www.discovertrento.it/en/home">Trento</a> in Computer Sciences with specialization
                in <a href="http://db.disi.unitn.eu/">Data Management</a> and Information Processing.</p>
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            <p class="lead"><strong></strong> Do not be afraid of the developers — we generally don’t eat people, at
                least usually we don’t. ~__~ (Inspired from <a
                    href="http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-ppc64.xml?part=1&chap=1">Gentoo</a>)
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            <h1>My Research Publications</h1>
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        <p class="lead">My research interests include "<strong>Data Analytics</strong>", "<strong>Pattern
                Recognition</strong>", and "<strong>Operation Research</strong>".</p>
        <a href="http://scholar.google.com.pk/citations?hl=en&user=iOsMzacAAAAJ">Google Scholar Profile</a>
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            <h4>Book Chapter</h4>
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                <li>M. Arif, Fayyaz A. Afsar <strong>M.U. Akram</strong>, and A. Fida, <a
                        href="http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-01307-2_45?LI=true">Arif Index
                        for Predicting the Classification Accuracy of Features and its Application in Heart Beat
                        Classification Problem</a>, Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Ed. Thanaruk
                    Theeramunkong, Boonserm Kijsirkul, Tu-Bao Ho, PAKDD2009 Proceedings, LNAI 5476, pp. 491-498,
                    Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2009. (online</a>)
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            <h4>Journal Publications</h4>
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                <li><a
                        href="http://www.scirp.org/Journal/PaperDownload.aspx?paperID=1606&fileName=JBiSE20100400008_94593058.pdf">Pruned
                        fuzzy K-nearest neighbor classifier for beat classification</a>, Muhammad Arif,
                    <strong>Muhammad Usman Akram</strong>, Fayyaz-ul-Afsar Amir Minhas, pp.380-389, DOI:
                    10.4236/jbise.2010.34053, 2010.
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            <h4>Conference Papers</h4>
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                <li><a title="ftp://ftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/Patrick/socpar09/data/3879a037.pdf"
                        href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?isnumber=5368599&amp;arnumber=5368654&amp;count=148&amp;index=15"
                        target="_blank">Arrhythmia Beat Classification using Pruned Fuzzy K-Nearest Neighbor
                        Classifier</a>, M. Arif, <strong><em>M.U. Akram</em></strong>, Fayyaz A. Afsar, Proceedings
                    of International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition, SoCPaR, 2009</li>
                <li><a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?isnumber=4777689&amp;arnumber=4777725&amp;count=113&amp;index=29"
                        target="_blank">A Pruned Fuzzy k-Nearest Neighbor Classifier with Application to
                        Electrocardiogram Based Cardiac Arrhythmia Recognition</a>, F.A. Afsar, <strong><em>M.U.
                            Akram</em></strong>, M. Arif and J. Khurshid, Multitopic Conference, 2008. INMIC 2008.
                    IEEE International</li>
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            <h4>Research Reports and Theses</h4>
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                <li>Natural Language Processing & Information Retrieval (Report: <a
                        href="https://github.com/usmanakram232/QuestionClassificationNLP">Question
                        Classification</a>)</li>
                <li>Data & Information Integration (Report: <a href="assets/reports/superpages.pdf">Improving Rearch
                        Engine reults using Integration Techniques</a>)</li>
                <li>Machine Learning (Report: <a href="assets/reports/mllocalsvm.pdf">Arrhythmia Recognition using
                        Local SVM</a>)</li>
                <li>Mathematical Cryptography (Report: <a href="assets/reports/rng.pdf">Research Number
                        Generators</a>)</li>
                <li>Pervasive Computing (Report: <a href="assets/reports/resourcerecommendation.pdf">Resurce
                        Recommendation using CBR</a>)</li>
                <li>Thesis (Biomedical Signal Processing) - Automatic Detection of Cardiac Arrhythmias using ECG
                    Signal Processing (<a href="/assets/reports/summary.pdf">Summary</a>)</li>
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            <h2 class="featurette-heading">My Hobbies</h2>
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                Photography, Travelling, Trekking, and Reading.</p>
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