Center for Advanced Studies in Pure and Applied Mathematics

Fiza Zafar completed her Bachelors with Physics, Mathematics majors and Masters in Applied Mathematics by securing Silver and Gold medals respectively from Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU), Multan, Pakistan. She received her PhD in Mathematics in 2010 from CASPAM, BZU for the dissertation “Some Generalizations of Ostrowski Inequalities and Their Applications to Numerical Integration and Special Means” and had been a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship under Schlumberger Foundation-Faculty for the Future Program at the Institute of Multidisciplinary Mathematics (IMM), Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), Spain during 2017-2018. During these years, she has worked in the fields of integral inequalities, numerical solution of non-linear equations, numerical integration and has 78 international publications with an impact factor of more than 60 with 21 publications in Q1 journals, 10 in Q2 journals.

She joined CASPAM, BZU in 2006 as a  lecturer and currently, she is working as Tenured Professor at CASPAM, BZU, Multan, Pakistan and has remained a Focal Person for Women in STEM at BZU during 2020-2023.  She has supervised 42 M.S./M.Phil. and 4 Ph.D. theses. Presently, she is supervising 1 PhD and 5 MPhil scholars in the areas of information-theoretic inequalities, matrix and tensor decompositions for data analysis, numerical optimization using metaheuristic algorithms and numerical solution and stability analysis of nonlinear algebraic equations. 

She was also listed as a Dynamic Woman Scientist of Pakistan in 2014 and Productive Young Scientist of Pakistan under 40 by Pakistan Council for Science and Technology in 2016. She is a Review Editor of Frontiers, Academic Editor of Machines and Algorithms, Knovell, a member of the Advisory Board of the journal Mathematical Sciences and Applications, The Women University, Multan, Pakistan and was also Guest Editor for a special issue of Algorithms (MDPI). She is an active reviewer for many renowned scientific publishers like Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Taylor & Francis and Hindawi Publishing Corporation, and had been a speaker at several national and international conferences. 

From the past many years, she is also an active participant of various national and international forums on Curriculum Design, Effective Teaching Methodologies, Science Diplomacy and Science Advocacy. She is also an active member of curriculum development and revision committee at CASPAM, BZU since 2014. Additionally, she is collaborating with other women scientists of Pakistan to work for the uplift of women in STEM in her region.