Dr. Ahmad Mustafa

Assistant Professor

PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

  • ahmad.mustafa@itu.edu.pk

RESEARCH INTERESTS

neural networks, joint optimization, uncertainty quantification, domain adaptation, and spatiotemporal image analysis

Biography

Dr. Ahmad Mustafa obtained his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. Prior to joining ITU, he worked at Occidental Petroleum, leading the development of large-scale computational methods to streamline subsurface applications. His research interests lie in machine learning, weakly supervised learning, computational image interpretation, and domain adaptation. He was awarded the Roger P. Webb ECE GRA Excellence Award in recognition of his research contributions by Georgia Tech.

For his teaching services, he was awarded the Outstanding Online Head TA Award, the ECE GTA Excellence Award, and the ECE CREATION Award. His work has been featured in top-tier peer-reviewed academic journals, conference proceedings, and technical presentations, and is frequently cited by both academic and industry peers.

  1. Chowdhury, Prithwijit, et al. "A unified framework for evaluating the robustness of machine-learning interpretability for prospect risking." Geophysics90.3 (2025): IM103-IM118.
  2. Mustafa, Ahmad, et al. "Visual Attention-Guided Learning With Incomplete Labels for Seismic Fault Interpretation." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing62 (2024): 1-12.
  3. Mustafa, Ahmad, Klaas Koster, and Ghassan AlRegib. "Explainable machine learning for hydrocarbon prospect risking." Geophysics89.1 (2024): WA13-WA24.
  4. Mustafa, Ahmad, and Ghassan AlRegib. "Active learning with deep autoencoders for seismic facies interpretation." Geophysics88.4 (2023): IM77-IM86.

  • Awarded travel grant for SEG Annual Meeting 2019 covering travel and accommodation expenses ● Awarded travel grant for SEG Annual Meeting 2020 covering registration expenses ● Awarded ECE GTA excellence award in 2022 for teaching duties ● Awarded Outstanding Online Head TA award in 2022 for overseeing teaching and instruction online ● ECE CREATION Award, 2023, awarded for curriculum development to support graduate course instruction ● Recipient of the Roger P. Webb ECE GRA Excellence Award in 2023 recognition of research contributions. Awarded a prize check of $1000

  1. Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)
  2. IEEE