Mr. Hanif Ur Rahman defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled “Offshore
Outsourcing Decision of Application Maintenance: A Study from Client-Vendor
Perspective” on December 16, 2022 at Department of Computer Science, Abdul Wali
Khan University Mardan, Pakistan.
He conducted his research under the supervision of Assistant
Professor Dr. Mushtaq Raza and Dr. Palwasha Afsar. The thesis report was
evaluated from Spain, Poland and University of Peshawar by Prof. Dr. Iván
García-Magariño, Prof. Dr. Robertas Damaševičius and Prof. Dr. Sara Shahzad
respectively. While his external examiners were Prof. Dr. Zahoor Jan Department
of Computer Science, Islamia College Peshawar and Prof. Dr. Sara Shahzad Department
of Computer Science, University of Peshawar.
Dr. Hanif Ur Rahman published five articles in International
reputed journals having top ranking; W category in HJRS by HEC.