Saad Nizamani

About

An academically focused Instructor with 17 years of teaching, research, and professional experience in Higher Education. Extensive teaching expertise in web development, object-oriented programming, computer programming, software engineering, data structures and database systems. An author of research articles featured both nationally and internationally. Led as department chair for a decade, showcasing strong administrative skills and effective leadership. Expertise includes overseeing examinations, managing Learning Management Systems (LMS), and contributing to technical committees for procuring scientific resources and equipment.

Courses

• CS1114 Introduction to Software Design
• CS1054 Introduction to Programming in Java
• CS3704 Intermediate Software Design
• CS 3654 - Intro Data Analytics & Visual

Education

• 2023: Ph.d., information technology, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan
• 2013: M.S., computer science, Karachi Institute of Economics and Technology, Pakistan
• 2007: B.S., computer science, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan

Research Interests

• social media content analysis
• human-computer interaction
• computer science education

Publications

• (Accepted) Sehrish Nizamani, Saad Nizamani, Nazish Basir, Khalil Khoumbati, Sarwat Nizamani, Shahzad Memon. “Comparison of cultural preferences and cultural practices in website design in Pakistan”. Universal Access in the Information Society, Springer Nature. DOI: 10.1007/s10209-025-01248-w.
• Sehrish Nizamani, Saad Nizamani, Nazish Basir, Gulsher Laghari, Sarwat Nizamani, Khalil Khoumbati. “Heuristic Evaluation vs. Guideline Scoring – A Tale of Comparing Two Domain Usability Expert’s Evaluation Methods.” IEEE Transactions on Professional Communications, 65(4), 2022, 516-529, DOI: 10.1109/TPC.2022.3201732.
• Burhan Khan, Sehrish Nizamani, Nabeel Hussain Kazi, Saad Nizamani, Sarwat Nizamani. “A Prototype of Obstacle Avoidance for Autonomous Vehicle.” Iraqi Journal of Science, 2022, 63(5), 2203–2210. DOI: 10.24996/ijs.2022.63.5.33.
• Sehrish Nizamani, Khalil Khoumbati, Sarwat Nizamani, Shahzad Memon, Saad Nizamani, and Gulsher Laghari. "A methodology for domain and culture-oriented heuristics creation and validation." Behaviour & Information Technology, 2021, 1-27. DOI: 10.1080/0144929X.2021.1903080.
• Sehrish Nizamani, Saad Nizamani, Muhammad Memon, Sarwat Nizamani, Shahzad Memon. “Domain and culture- specific heuristic evaluation of the websites of universities of Pakistan.” University of Sindh Journal of Information and Communication Technology (USJICT), 5(1), 2021, 45-51.
• Khurram Farooque, Bilal Ahmed, Waqas Raza, Nabeel Hussain Kazi, Sehrish Nizamani, Mehjabeen Leghari, Saad Nizamani, and Sarwat Nizamani. "WaterO: A Smart Water Device." University of Sindh Journal of Information and Communication Technology (USJICT) 4(4), 2020, 217-220.
• Nouman Naseem, Azka Arif, Shahzaib Ahmed, Sarwat Nizamani, Salman Khawaja, Abdul Samad Jamali1, Saad Nizamani. “Electronic Toll Collection and Record Management System University of Sindh Journal of Information and Communication Technology (USJICT) 4(3), 2020, 129-133.
• Saad Nizamani, Khalil Khoumbati, Imdad Ali Ismaili. “Analysis of social media contents of the police department of Pakistan in the context of Good Governance”, Sindh University Research Journal (Science Series), 52(1), 1-8.
• Gulsher Laghari, Saad Nizamani, Sehrish Nizamani, Muniba Memon, Altaf Hussain Abro, Muhammad Yaqoob Koondhar. “Making the Software Architecture explicit in Java programs to enable dynamic evolution.”, Sindh University Research Journal-SURJ (Science Series), 51(03), 2019, 151-158.
• Sehrish Nizamani, Khalil Khoumbati, Sarwat Nizamani, Shahzad Memon, Saad Nizamani. “Usability Evaluation of the Top 10 Universities of Pakistan Through Guideline Scoring.”, Sindh University Research Journal-SURJ (Science Series), 51(01), 2019, 151-158.
• Gulsher Laghari, Kamran Dahri, Saad Nizamani, Yaqoob Koondhar, M Hyder, AH Abro, “Identifying Code Quality issues in Student Projects”, Sindh University Research Journal (Science Series), 51(2), 327-332.
• Kamran Dahri, Sander Ali Khowja, Gulsher Laghari, Saad Nizamani, Saddam Hussain Chandio. “Automated Extraction of Retinal Blood Vessels for Early Diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy Using Enhancement Filters and Adaboost”, Sindh University Research Journal (Science Series), 50(3), 2018, 371-379.
• Sarwat Nizamani, Nasrullah Memon, Sehrish Nizamani, Saad Nizamani. TDC: Typed Dependencies-Based Chunking Model. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 42(8), 2018, 3585-3595.
• Sehrish Nizamani, Khalil Khoumbati, Imdad Ali Ismaili, Saad Nizamani, Nazish Basir. “Testing and Validating the ERP Success Evaluation Model for Higher Education Institutes of Pakistan.”, Journal of Business and Information Systems. Vol. 25 (2), 2017, 165-191.
• Kamran Dahri, Sehrish Nizamani, Gulsher Laghari, Saad Nizamani, Sarwat Nizamani. “Towards Home Automation System Framework and Design.”, Sindh University Research Journal (Science Series), Vol. 48(4), 2016, 849-854.
• Sarwat Nizamani, Nasrullah Memon, Azhar Ali Shah, Saad Nizamani, Sehrish Nizmaani, Imdad Ali Ismaili. “Crime analysis using open-source information”, Sindh University Research Journal (Science Series), Vol 47(4), 2015, 677-681.
• Sehrish Nizamani, Khalil Khoumbati, Imdad Ali Ismaili, Saad Nizamani. “Influence of Top Management Support as an important factor for ERP Implementation in Higher Education Institutes of Pakistan.”, Sindh University Research Journal (Science Series), Vol. 47(2), 2015, 295-302.
• Saad Nizamani, Kamran Dahri, Sehrish Nizamani, Sarwat Nizamani, Gulsher Laghari. “An efficient partitioning clustering algorithm.”, Sindh University Research Journal (Science Series), Vol. 47(1), 2015, 171-174.
• Sarwat Nizamani, Saad Nizamani, Sehrish Nizamani, Imdad Ali Ismaili. “On the computational models for the analysis of illicit activities”, Sindh University Research Journal (Science Series), Vol. 46(4), 2014, 561-566.
• Sehrish Nizamani, Khalil Khoumbati, Imdad Ali Ismaili, Saad Nizamani. “A Conceptual Framework for ERP Evaluation in Higher Educational Institutes of Pakistan”, Sindh University Research Journal (Science Series), Vol. 45(3), 2013, 596- 607.
• Sehrish Nizamani, Khalil Khoumbati, Sarwat Nizamani, Shahzad Memon, Saad Nizamani, Nazish Basir. Exploring the Impact of Cultural Preferences in Website Design: A Controlled Experiment Based on Three University Websites of Pakistan. In 2018 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for the Muslim World (ICT4M) (pp. 329-334). IEEE.
• Saad Nizamani, Sehrish Nizamani, Khalil Khoumbati, Sarwat Nizamani, Shahzad Memon, Nazish Basir. Nizamani, S., Nizamani, S., Nizamani, S., Memon, S., & Basir, N. (2018, July). Cultural preferences of Pakistan for the university website design. In 2018 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for the Muslim World (ICT4M) (pp. 323-328). IEEE.
• Sehrish Nizamani, Saad Nizamani, Sarwat Nizamani, Nazish Basir, Khalil Khoumbati, Shahzad Memon. “Usability Evaluation of University Websites of Pakistan through User Testing. International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Electronics, Computing, and Communication.

Contact

Email: saadnizamani@vt.edu

Office: Torgersen Hall RM 3210B 620 Drillfield Dr. Blacksburg, VA 24061