Student IMS member Hamza Ali’s research paper, “AI Systems Engineering: A Systematic Review of Process Models, Architectural Patterns, and Emerging Challenges (2019–2025),” co-authored with Douglas Sales Alves Amante (Federal University of Lavras, Brazil, and University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy), Ubaid Ullah (Logiciel Services LLC, USA), and Imtiaz Husain (Sindh Madressatul Islam University [SMIU], Pakistan) received the Best Paper Award at the First International Conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Computing (ICAAIC-2025: https://grc.smiu.edu.pk/icaaic/), held during SMIU’s Third Global Research Congress. The conference featured participants from over 10 countries, with more than 400 submissions and 228 peer-reviewed papers presented.

Hamza Ali is a Master of Data Science student at the NED University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan. He is actively engaged in research at the intersection of AI, statistics, and systems engineering. Hamza wrote to share the news of this award, and commented, “The methodological rigor, analytical depth, and evidence-based approach emphasized in IMS publications and the broader statistical community strongly influenced my research mindset. As a member of an international society devoted to statistics and probability, I greatly value the standards and scholarly culture that IMS promotes across disciplines.”