Fatima Rani

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Engr. Fatima Rani (M.Sc. SWE)

Smart Architectures Group

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Professur für Prozessleittechnik Arbeitsgruppe Systemverfahrenstechnik

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Barkhausenbau, BAR-E16, Helmholtzstraße 18

01069 Dresden

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Monday to Friday:: 08:00 - 17:00

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Smart Architecture

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Project Description

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Research Interests

Generative & Edge AI (Artificial Intelligence)
Edge AI prototype for Industrial Process
MLOps - Machine Learning in Operations
Data Engineering & Data Science
Model-Based Software Engineering
Smart Architectures
ecoKI - Industry Automation Usecase
Energy & Cost Efficient Solutions for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)

Curriculum Vitae

Timeline	Activities
Present - Dec. 2021	Research Associate Chair of Process Control Systems and Process Systems Engineering, Prof. Urbas, TU Dresden, Germany
Jan. 2021 -Sep. 2019	Researcher & Analyst UGROUND GLOBAL, S.L, Madrid, Spain
Jan. 2021 -Sep. 2019	Researcher Research Group: Modelling & Software Engineering Research Group Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Award & Honor: European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Aug. 2019 - Feb. 2019	Lecturer (Computer Sciences) Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Aug. 2019 - Feb. 2018	Lecturer (Computer Sciences & Software Engineering) Army Public College of Management & Sciences (APCOMS) Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Aug.2016 -Aug. 2012	Master's Degree in Software Engineering University of Engineering and Technology Taxila, Pakistan Dissertation: "Robust Real-Time Video Streaming Analysis Algorithm for Situation Awareness through Hand Gestures" Award & Honor: PEC M.Sc. Merit Scholarship, Laptop & cash prize
Nov.2017 -Dec. 2011	ICT Consultant Asif & Umar Associates. Pvt Limited, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Mar.2010-Jan. 2007	IT Engineer Defense Science and Technology Organization (DESTO), Chaklala Cantt, Rawalpindi, Pakistan Award & Honor: * Best Scientist of the Year (2008-2010) Cash prize *HONORARIUM (2009) Cash prize
Jul.2005-Jun. 2005	Lecturer – “ICS” Community Model Girls Higher Sec. School Rawalpindi, Pakistan Award & Honor: Volunteer work for young female students who want to study Computer Science
Jul.2004-Jun. 2004	Internship Fauji Foundation Head Office Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Jun.2006-Feb. 2002	Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering Fatima Jinnah Women University, The Mall, Rawalpindi, Pakistan Dissertation: "Video-Based Effective Density Measurement for Wireless Traffic Control Application" Award & Honor: * 3rd Prize (Cash Prize & Honorary Plaque) in the Category of Engineering/Interfacing, 5th All Pakistan Inter College/University Software Competition and Exhibition, COMPPEC EME- (NUST). * HEC overseas Ph.D. scholarships for females (Phase-II) in the 2009/2010 scheme. Got admission in Ph.D. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at The University of Western Ontario, Canada" under Dr. L.F. Capret (I didn't pursue it due to family obligations).

Publications

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Contributor

IEEE Advancing Technology for Humanity Member: Mar 2024 - Present
35th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE) Chair of conference session: June 2025 - Present
European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE) Reviewer: Dec 2023 - Present
Frontiers in Smart Manufacturing (FSM) Reviewer: Aug 2023 - Present
IEEE ITNAC 2023 TCP Member: May 2023 - Present
IFAC Affiliate: Mar 2023 - Present
IEEE Collabratec® Member: Nov 2022 - Present
IEEE SIGHT Member: Nov 2022 - Present

Presentations

Xinyu Wang, Fatima Rani, Zohra Charania, Lucas Vogt, and Prof. Leon Urbas. "Increasing energy efficiency for sustainable Development in production: The role of machine learning in the ecoKI project". 25. VDI-Kongress AUTOMATION 2024 AI beats Automation?, July 02-03, 2024, Baden Baden, Germany.

Fatima Rani, Xinyu Wang, Zohra Charania, Lucas Vogt, and Prof. Leon Urbas. "Scalable data pipeline: Ontology-based OPC UA data access for the industrial internet of things". 25. VDI-Kongress AUTOMATION 2024 AI beats Automation?, July 02-03, 2024, Baden Baden, Germany.

Fatima Rani, Dr. Valentin Khaydarov, and Prof. Leon Urbas. "Advancing with digitalization and AI for energy and cost efficiency for SMEs: ecoKI perspective". In the Annual Meeting of the ProcessNet specialist group “Process, Apparatus and Plant Technology” (PAAT), November 20-21, 2023, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Fatima Rani, Xinyu Wang, Ilhan Mutlu and Prof. Leon Urbas. "A Centralized MongoDB-Based Repository Design for IIoT Data: The ecoKI Project." The 22nd World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC World Congress 2023), July 8-14, 2023, Yokohama, Japan.

Fatima Rani, Dr. Valentin Khaydarov, Dennis Bode, Dr. Ilhan Mutlu and Prof. Leon Urbas. "MLOps practice: Overcoming the energy efficiency gap, empirical support through
ecoKI platform in the case of German SMEs." In Protection, Automation & Control, World Global Conference (PAC), June 26-29, 2023, Glasgow, Scotland.

Xinyu Wang, İlhan Mutlu, Fatima Rani, Lucas Drowatzky, and Prof. Leon Urbas. "A Comparative Study to Evaluate the Performance of Communication Protocols for Process Industry." In 32nd International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC), Nov 30- Dec 02, 2022, Wellington, New Zealand.

Fatima Rani, Pablo Diez, Enrique Chavarriaga, Esther Guerra, and Juan de Lara. "Automated migration of eugenia graphical editors to the web." In Proceedings of the 23rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems: Companion Proceedings (MODELS), October 16-23, 2020, Virtual Event, Montreal, Canada.

Invited Talks

A Comparative Analysis of Industrial MLOps prototype for ML Application Deployment at the edge devices 35th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE) , July 6 and July 9, 2025 at the Technology Campus Ghent, KU Leuven.
Demonstration of IIoT data pipeline on ecoKI Platform at Process Engineering and Materials Technology (PEMT), DECHEMA-Haus, Frankfurt am Main (Germany), 11 - 12 Nov 2024.
Demonstration of ecoKI Platform at VDI-Congress AUTOMATION, Congress House Baden-Baden (Germany), 02 - 03 July 2024.
Industrial Edge MLOps: Overview and Challenges at ESCAPE34 - PSE24, Villa Vittoria Firenze (Italy), 05 - 06 June 2024.
ecoKI: A Path Towards Sustainable Energy Efficiency Optimization
at ABB Energy Efficiency Symposium for Academia, Alte Schildkroetfabrik, Mannheim (Germany), 10 Oct 2023.
Introduction of ecoKI at EDGE ML series event, Munich Marriott Hotel (Germany), 05 - 06 July 2022.

Teaching

PLT1: Prozessleittechnik 1 Summersemester 2024 (Assist)
HS AMR: Hauptseminar Automatisierungs-, Mess- und Regelungstechnik Wintersemester 2023 (Lead HMI part)
CAE-PA: Computer Aided Engineering & Process Analysis Summersemester 2023 (Project 2 Lead)
HS AMR: Hauptseminar Automatisierungs-, Mess- und Regelungstechnik Wintersemester 2022 (Assist HMI)
Mikrorechentechnik 1 & 2 Summersemester 2022 (Assist)