DR. HILAL AHMAD KHANDAY

Assistant Professor | MCA, NET, SET, GATE, JRF, Ph. D.
Data Science , Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmics

Department of Computer Sciences

Dr. Hilal Ahmad Khanday ( Hilal Hyder ) is a Senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Sciences, South Campus, University of Kashmir. With a Ph. D. in Computer Sciences, he specializes in Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Hyder has an extensive research portfolio, with numerous publications in reputed journals and conferences. His contributions to online social network analysis, sentiment analysis, and information diffusion are widely recognized. A recipient of multiple academic honors, he remains committed to advancing research and mentoring the next generation of scholars.


  • Aaquib Hussain Ganai, Rana Hashmy, Hilal Ahmad Khanday, “Finding Information Diffusion’s Seed Nodes in Online Social Networks Using a Special Degree Centrality” SN Computer Science, 5:333 (2024) 
  • Mudasir Mohd, Nowsheena , Mohsin Altaf Wani, Hilal Ahmad Khanday ∗, Umar Bashir Mir, Sheikh Nasrullah, Zahid Maqbool, Abid Hussain Wani, “Semantic-Summarizer: Semantics-based text summarizer for English language text”, Software Impacts 18 (2023)
  • Mudasir Mohd, Saheeba Javeed, Mohsin Altaf Wani, Hilal Ahmad Khanday*, Abid Hussain Wani, Umar Bashir Mir, Sheikh Nasrullah ”PoliWeet-Election prediction tool using tweets”, Software Impacts, 2023
  • Mudasir Mohd, Saheeba Javeed, Nowsheena, Mohsin Altaf Wani, Hilal Ahmad Khanday, “Sentiment analysis using lexico-semantic features”, Journal of Information Science, SAGE Publications, 2022
  • Hilal Ahmad Khanday, Rana Hashmy, “Finding Influential Users in Online Social Networks: A Treebased Approach”, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research & Advances, 5(3): 66–70p, 2018. 
  • Hilal Ahmad Khanday, Rana Hashmy, Zahid Hussain Wani, “Leveraging Fuzzy Logic for Finding Influential Users in Online Social Networks”, International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science Applications and Management Studies Volume 8, Issue 1 ISSN 2319 – 1953, January 2019. 
  • Mahwash Bukhari, Sheeba Farooq, Hilal Ahmad Khanday, Zahid Hussain Wani, “An Intelligent Fuzzy Based Framework for Prediction of Heart Diseases”, Journal of Advances in Shell Programming, 6(1): 1–7p. 2019. 
  • Hilal Ahmad Khanday, Rana Hashmy, "Exploring Different Aspects of Social Network Analysis Using Web Mining Techniques", International Journal of Emerging Trends & Technology in Computer Science (IJETTCS), Volume 4, Issue 2, pp. 121-125 , ISSN 2278-6856. March - April 2015 
  • Salma Farooq, Hilal Ahmad Khanday, ”Opinion Spam Detection: A Review”, International Journal of Engineering Research and Development, Volume 12, Issue 4, PP.01-08 , April 2016
  • Aaquib Hussain Ganai, Nowsheena Bhat, Rana Hashmy, Hilal Ahmad Khanday, Mudasir Mohd, Mohsin Altaf Wani, “Synergizing Information Diffusion: Exploring IoT and Blockchain Integration in Online Social Networks”, in: Blockchain-based Internet of Things Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions, Iraq Ahmad Reshi, Sahil Shora, Chapman and Hall/CRC, ISBN : 9781003407096, 2024 
  • Aaquib Hussain Ganai, Rana Hashmy, Hilal Ahmad Khanday, “Components of Information Diffusion and Its Models in Online Social Networks; a Comparative Study” in : Advances in Data Science and Computing Technologies: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE, volume 1056)Editors: Basabi Chakraborty, Arindam Biswas, Amlan Chakrabarti, Springer, Print ISBN: 978- 981-99-3655-7 Online ISBN: 978-981-99-3656-4, 2023.
  • Aaquib Hussain Ganai , Rana Hashmy, Hilal Ahmad Khanday, “Cascading Behavior Of Information Diffusion And Its Morphological Handlings In Online Social Networks; A Comparative Study”, The Global Knowledge Foundation, USA Inc, ISBN: 2769-5093, 2022. 
  • Mudasir Mohd, Muzafar Bashir, Umeer bashir, Hilal Ahmad Khanday, Abid Hussain Wani, Mohsin Altaf Wani and Dr. Rana Hashmy “Sumdoc: A Unified Approach for Automatic Text Summarization”, In: Pant M., Deep K., Bansal J., Nagar A., Das K. (eds) Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 436. Springer, Singapore, 2016.
  • Hilal Ahmad Khanday, Rana Hashmy ,Aaquib Hussain Ganai, “NPCCPM: An Improved Approach Towards Community Detection in Online Social Networks”, In: Deka G., Kaiwartya O., Vashisth P., Rathee P. (eds) Applications of Computing and Communication Technologies. ICACCT 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 899. Springer, Singapore, 2018.
  • Hilal Ahmad Khanday, Aaquib Hussain Ganai, Rana Hashmy, “A Comparative Analysis of Identifying Influential Users in Online Social Networks”, in International Conference on Softcomputing and Network Security (ICSNS), Coimbatore, Publisher: IEEE Explore , pp. 1-6, 2018.

1 . Warden 2 . Academic Coordinator

Discrete Mathematics   

Data Science with Python

Computer Algorithms                                                                 

Wireless & Mobile Communications

Data Mining 

Network Science

Scholar Name Programme Status
SABAHAT NAZIR Integrated Ph.D Registered
MR. IKHLAS AHMAD SHEIKH Integrated Ph.D Registered