The many faces of GESIS
Vita
Dr. Muhammad Asif Suryani is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences (KTS) department at GESIS and part of the FAIR Data team. He holds a Doctorate in Engineering, a Master’s in Computer Systems Engineering, and a Bachelor’s in Telecommunication Engineering. His current work focuses on two projects:
a) SmartER – harvesting and extracting affiliation data to enhance open repositories.
b) the National Research Data Infrastructure for Data Science (NFDI4DS) – aimed at modeling and profiling research artifacts.
Research
- Scholarly Information Extraction
- Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Heterogeneous Data Modelling
- Research Data Management
- Text Mining, Social Network Analysis
- Internet of Things (IoT) and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)
Publications
Journal article
Ijaz, Maria, Javed Ferzund, Muhammad Asif Suryani, and Anam Sardar. 2018. "Social network link prediction using semantics deep learning." International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications 1 (9, 2156-5570): 275-283. doi: https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090138.
Sardar, Anam, Javed Ferzund, Muhammad Asif Suryani, and Muhammad Shoaib. 2017. "Recommender system for journal articles using opinion mining and semantics." International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications 12 (08, 2156-5570): 213-220. doi: https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.081227.
Shahzadi, Raheela, Javed Ferzund, Muhammad Tausif, and Muhammad Asif Suryani. 2016. "Internet of things based expert system for smart agriculture." International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications 9 (7, 2156-5570): 341-350. doi: https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2016.070947.
Hussain, Syed Fawad, and Muhammad Asif Suryani. 2015. "On retrieving intelligently plagiarized documents using semantic similarity." Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (45): 246-258. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2015.07.011.
Khan, Rahim, Muhammad Asif Suryani, and Mushtaq Ahmad. 2014. "WSN's Based Noise Evading Decision Support System." American-Eurasian Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences 8 (14): 793-799.
Khan, Rahim, Ihsan Ali, Muhammad Asif Suryani, Mushtaq Ahmad, and Muhammad Zakarya. 2013. "Wireless Sensor Network Based Irrigation Management System for Container Grown Crops in Pakistan." World Applied Sciences Journal 24 (8): 1111-1118.
Chapter in an edited book
Suryani, Muhammad Asif, Ewa Burwicz-Galerne, Brigitte Mathiak, Klaus Wallmann, and Matthias Renz. 2025. "Extracting and Modeling Tabular Data from Marine Geology Publications into a Heterogeneous Information Network." ICPRAM, 2184-4313. Lisbon: INSTICC Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.5220/0013389900003905.
Suryani, Muhammad Asif, Saurav Karmakar, Brigitte Mathiak, and Philipp Mayr. 2025 (Forthcoming). "Model Card Metadata Collection from Hugging Face to Foster Multidisciplinary AI Research: A Dataset." In International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications (DATA), Lisbon: INSTICC Press.
Suryani, Muhammad Asif, Saurav Karmakar, and Brigitte Mathiak. 2024. "Exploration of Hugging Face Models by Heterogeneous Information Network and linking across Scholarly Repositories." In Social Networks Analysis and Mining: 16th International Conference, ASONAM 2024, Rende, Italy, September 2–5, 2024, Proceedings, Part IV, edited by Luca Maria Aiello, Tanmoy Chakraborty, and Sabrina Gaito, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 15214, XIII, 338. Cham: Springer. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78548-1_27.
Suryani, Muhammad Asif, Christian Beth, Klaus Wallmann, and Matthias Renz. 2024 (Forthcoming). "Oceanographic Information Extraction and Modelling of Scholarly Data from Marine Science." In Ocean Sciences Meeting-2024, New Orleans, USA: American Geophysical Union (AGU).
Suryani, Muhammad Asif, Christian Beth, Klaus Wallmann, and Matthias Renz. 2023. "A Framework to Transform Metadata and Document-level Tabular Spatial Information and Measurements to Marine Geology Gazetteer." In Information Management and Big Data. SIMBig 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer Cham. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63616-5_21.
Suryani, Muhammad Asif, Steffen Hahne, Christian Beth, Klaus Wallmann, and Matthias Renz. 2023. "DAF: Data Acquisition Framework to Support Information Extraction from Science Publications." In 15th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, SciTePress. doi: https://doi.org/10.5220/0012260300003598.
Suryani, Muhammad Asif, Christian Beth, Klaus Wallmann, and Matthias Renz. 2023. "GEOTEK: Extracting Marine Geological Data from Publications." In EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna: Copernicus. doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-16252.
Sharma, Deepak, Muhammad Asif Suryani, Steffen Strohm, and Matthias Renz. 2023. "Synergize Multidisciplinary Research via Research Data Management." In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE), Paris: IEEE. doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/WETICE57085.2023.10477804.
Suryani, Muhammad Asif, Yannick Wölker, Deepak Sharma, Christian Beth, Klaus Wallmann, and Matthias Renz. 2022. "A Framework for Extracting Scientific Measurements and Geo-Spatial Information from Scientific Literature." In 2022 IEEE 18th International Conference on e-Science (e-Science), Salt Lake City: IEEE. doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/eScience55777.2022.00037.
Petersen, Thorge, Muhammad Asif Suryani, Christian Beth, Hardik Patel, Klaus Wallmann, and Matthias Renz. 2021. "Geo-quantities: A Framework for Automatic Extraction of Measurements and Spatial Context from Scientific Documents." In SSTD '21: Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases , ACM. doi: https://doi.org/10.1145/3469830.3470911.
Arshad, Jehangir, Talha Younas, Li Jiandong, and Muhammad Asif Suryani. 2018. "Study on MU-MIMO systems in the Perspective of energy efficiency with linear processing." In 2018 10th International Conference on Communication Software and Networks (ICCSN), Chengdu: IEEE. doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCSN.2018.8488292.
Presentation at a conference
Suryani, Muhammad Asif, and Brigitte Mathiak. 2024. "SmartER: Synergizing Metadata from Scholarly Repositories to Support Research Data Management." Helmholtz Metadata Conference (HMC) 2024, 2024-04-11.