Faculty Profiles

Dr Zaffar Iqbal

Designation : Assistant Professor (Tenured )
Specialization : Mathematics

Email : [email protected]


Zaffar Iqbal completed hid MSc and MPhil from QAU and Ph.D degree from Abdus Salam School of Mathematical Sciences, GCU Lahore in 2009. Dr Zaffar Iqbal done post-doc from France in 2013-14. He joined University of Gujrat as an Assistant Professor in 2009. He has supervised 30 MPhil students. One PhD student is doing his research work under his supervision. He has given talks in conferences in Poland, Italy and Greece. His area of research is algebraic topology and in particular theory of braids.

  • I am working in the field of algebraic topology, in particular the theory of braids

  • Post-doc, Other
  • PhD,Goverment College University , Lahore
  • MPhil,Quaid-I-Azam University
  • Msc,Quaid-I-Azam University
  • BSc,University of Punjab
  • FA,Rawalpindi Board of Intermedia
  • Conference   Greece in 2016
  • Post-doc   Post-doc in 2013-14
  • Conference   Poland in 2010
  • member DRRC   taking academic decisions regarding MPhil and PhD students
  • Incharge examinations in the department   without financial benefits
Student Name DegreeTitle Status / Completed Year
Faiza Azam MS Growth series of the star network topology  In this work we study star topology Sn and find a recurrence relation and the Hilbert series of the associated right-angled monoid M(Sn ). We also compute the growth rate of the monoid M(Sn ) and observe that it is unbounded. 2016
Shamaila Yousaf MS Hilbert series of braid monoid MB_4 in Birman-Ko-Lee generators  L. A. Bokut gave a Grobner Shirshov basis of the braid group Bn in band generators. Using this presentation and solving all the ambiguities we construct a linear system for irreducible words and compute the Hilbert series of the braid monoid MB4 . 2012
  • Incharge examinations in the department
  • Teaching + research supervision
  • 1. Abdul Rauf Nizami, Mobeen Munir, Zaffar Iqbal, Huma Saeed “Metric dimension of the Mobius ladder” Ars Combinatoria, October 2017  DOI:
  • 2. Zaffar Iqbal “Hilbert series of the finite dimensional generalized Hecke algebras” Turkish Journal Of Mathematics, May 2015  DOI:
  • 3. Zaffar Iqbal, Barbu Berceanu “Universal upper bound for the growth of Artin monoids” Communications In Algebra, February 2015  DOI:
  • 4. Zaffar Iqbal, Shamaila Yousaf “Hilbert series of braid monoid MB4 in band generators” Turkish Journal Of Mathematics, October 2014  DOI:
  • 5. Usman Ali, Shaheen Nazir, Zaffar Iqbal “Canonical forms and infimums of positive braids” Algebra Colloquium, December 2011  DOI:
  • 6. Zaffar Iqbal “Hilbert series of positive braids” Algebra Colloquium, December 2011  DOI:
Date TitleAgency/Organization Amount Status
2013-06-28Post-docHEC1300000
2010-08-16Hilbert series of Artin monoid M(I2(p)) Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center70000Completed