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Advisory Board
he LUMS SSE Advisory Board comprising of distinguished academic and corporate leaders has been established to serve as a link between the LUMS School of Science and Engineering (SSE) and its many constituencies by providing continuing counsel to the Board of Trustees, the Vice Chancellor, the Project Director, members of the VPDT, and the faculty pertaining to the academic and administrative matters of LUMS SSE. In addition, it serves to validate the value and feasibility of the short and long term vision of the school and recommend changes in approach based on progress. The Advisory Board has no direct management functions with respect to internal SSE decision-making, reinforces the closer role of the VPDT and acts as an advocate of LUMS SSE to the community at large.
Download: SSE Advisory Board Bylaws |
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| In addition to corporate leaders, the board has at most one distinguished faculty of international renown and substantial experience for each disciplinary area planned for the SSE. It currently consists of: |
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Hassan Ahmed
Hassan Ahmed is CEO and Chairman of Sonus Networks. As chief executive officer and chairman, Dr. Ahmed is responsible for the strategic direction and management of the company. Prior to joining Sonus as president and CEO in 1998, Dr. Ahmed was executive vice president and general manager of Ascend Communications' Core Systems Division, which grew under his direction to a $1 billion business. Before Ascend's acquisition of Cascade Communications, he served as Cascade's chief technology officer. Previously, Dr. Ahmed was president and founder of WaveAccess, a pioneer in high-speed wireless network products. Additionally, he has held the positions of product engineering manager, Analog Devices, and director, VSLI Systems, Motorola Codex. He was also an associate professor at the Graduate School of Management, Boston University. Dr. Ahmed holds a BSEE and MSAE from Carleton University and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
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Khalid Aziz
Khalid Aziz is the Otto N. Miller Professor of Earth Sciences and Professor of Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford University. Before coming to Stanford in 1982, he was a Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Calgary. At Stanford he has served as the Associate Dean for Research (School of Earth Sciences) and as Chair of the Petroleum Engineering Department. Professor Aziz studied engineering at the University of Michigan, University of Alberta and at Rice University. He has received several international awards including the highest award (Honorary Membership) of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. His publications include approximately 200 technical papers and 3 books. He is a frequent consultant to major oil and gas companies and government agencies throughout the world. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering of the U.S.A.
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Steve Berry
Steve Berry is the James Franck Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago. He received his A.B., A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, and has taught at the University of Michigan and Yale University in addition to the University of Chicago. His research has been both theoretical and applied and has led to fundamental contributions, for instance the Berry Pseudo Rotation in Physical Chemistry. At the University of Chicago, his early theoretical work focused on vibronic coupling, auto ionization and related processes, including molecular quantum beats. It later expanded to include many scattering phenomena, some of which are still in his current research. In the late 1960’s, he became interested in efficient use of energy, and began a method of empirical analysis of energy and materials use, now known as “lifetime analysis.” This very “applied” work stimulated a new direction of basic science that became the field of finite-time thermodynamics. More recently, he has studied electron correlation, atomic and molecular clusters, dynamics of proteins and complex energy landscapes. He has been honored for his research and service with several awards. He is a Member and former Home Secretary of the National Academy of Sciences, a MacArthur Fellow, a Fellow and former Vice-President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Foreign Honorary Member of the Danish Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Zia Chishti
Mr. Chishti is the founding Chairman and CEO of The Resource Group, the largest offshore-controlled business process outsourcing company in the world. With over $200 million in revenues and over 5000 employees, The Resource Group is Pakistan's most prominent growth company. At the Resource Group, Mr. Chishti has raised over $100 million in capital, including an initial public offering on the Karachi Stock Exchange. Prior to founding The Resource Group, Mr. Chishti was the founding Chairman and CEO of Align Technology, a silicon-valley based medical device company. Mr. Chishti led the development of Align Technology from a two-person startup to over $70 million in revenues, over 1000 employees, and a NASDAQ initial public offering that resulted in a market capitalization of over $1 billion. At Align Technology, Mr. Chishti raised over $250 million in capital and pioneered Align's process of locating its operations offshore, resulting in over 700 employees in Pakistan. Prior to founding Align Technology, Mr. Chishti worked at Morgan Stanley & Company in their investment banking division and McKinsey & Company as a consultant. Mr. Chishti is a graduate of Columbia University where he received his BA degree in Computer Science and Economics and of Stanford University, where he received his MBA degree.
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Hubertus von Dewitz
Hubertus von Dewitz was most recently Head of Siemens Corporate Technology (Central R&D), where he was responsible for co-ordination of Siemens global co-operation with Universities. He was involved in managing Center of Knowledge Interchanges with Universities, systems of international university ambassadors, and creating and planning interactive Siemens-University R&D activities. Dr. Dewitz has a PhD in Nuclear Physics from Garching, a diploma in quantum field theory from Munich, and a degree in Physics from Berlin University. Since 1993, he has been a Professor at the University of Duisburg in Microelectronics, and a Member of the Board of Fuzzy and Neural Network Initiative. Between 1994 and 1996 he was also involved in the R&D planning activities of the European Commission.
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Mir Imran
Mir Imran is recognized for his history as a scientist, inventor, entrepreneur and investor of medical technology companies. He is the founder and Chairman of InCube Laboratories, Inc. (http://www.in-cube.com), a business incubator for medical and technology companies. Through InCube, and prior to its establishment, he founded numerous medical and high technology companies. Mr. Imran currently serves as a Director for CardioVasc Inc., Zonare Inc., Intrapace Inc., Entrack Inc., SafeView Inc., Bodymedia Inc., EGeen Inc., Acumen Medical Inc., Python Medical Inc. and Neurolinks Inc. Mr. Imran is an active angel investor and a limited partner in several venture funds. In addition, he serves as an Advisor to Alley Ventures and is a Venture Partner and an Advisor of DFJ ePlanet Ventures, a $650 million global venture capital fund, based in Silicon Valley. Mr. Imran’s formal education consists of a B.S. in Electrical engineering and M.S. in Bioengineering from Rutgers University. After three years at the Rutgers Medical School, which included research in bioengineering, he pursued his subsequent interests in industry, which include the establishment of close to 200 patents in his name, and numerous scientific publications.
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Robert Jaffe
Robert Jaffe is the Jane and Otto Morningstar Professor of Physics at MIT, and the Director of the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics. Professor Jaffe received his A.B. in Physics, summa cum laude, from Princeton University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford in 1971 and 1972, respectively. At Stanford he founded the Stanford Workshops on Political and Social Issues. He has served on the program advisory committees of several national laboratories including the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and Brookhaven National Laboratory. For a decade he chaired the Advisory Council of the Physics Department of Princeton University. Since 1996, Jaffe has been an advisor to and Visiting Scientist at the RIKEN-Brookhaven Research Center. In February of 1998 Professor Jaffe was named Director of the Center for Theoretical Physics at MIT. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has been awarded the Science Council Prize for Excellence in Teaching Undergraduates (1983), the Graduate Student Council Teaching Award (1988), and the Physics Department's Buechner Teaching Prize (1997). In January 1998, Jaffe was named a Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow in recognition of his contributions to MIT's teaching program. In 2001 he was named the Otto and Jane Morningstar Professor in the School of Science at MIT.
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John G. Kassakian
John G. Kassakian is Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Director of the MIT Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems. His field of expertise is power electronics and automotive electrical systems. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from MIT, and prior to joining the MIT faculty, he served a two-year tour of duty in the US Navy. Dr. Kassakian was the Founding President of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Power Electronics Society, served as the US representative to the European Power Electronics Association, and is the recipient of the IEEE Centennial Medal, the IEEE William E. Newell Award, the IEEE Power Electronics Society's Distinguished Service Award, the IEEE Millennium Medal, the European Power Electronics Association Achievement Award, and the Kabakjian Science Award. In 1989 he was elected a Fellow of the IEEE and in 1993 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. In 1993 he was also awarded an IEEE Distinguished Lectureship through which he has lectured internationally. He has published extensively in the areas of power electronics, power systems, education and automotive electrical systems, is a member of the Boards of Directors of Ault, Inc., American Power Conversion Corp. (APC) and ISO New England Co. (the independent system operator of the New England electric utility system), and the Corporate Advisory Boards of Tyco Electronics and Lutron Electronics. He serves as a consultant to government and industry, and is a co-author of the textbook Principles of Power Electronics. Dr. Kassakian's interests include sailing, fishing, golf and gardening. He has two children and resides with his wife in Newton, Massachusetts.
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Richard Larson
Richard Larson is the Mitsui Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and in the Engineering Systems Division at MIT. He is currently President of INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences), a former President of ORSA (Operations Research Society of America 1993-94), an INFORMS Founding Fellow and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He was Co-Director of the MIT Operations Research Center for 15+ years, and from 1995-03, served as Director of MIT’s CAES (Center for Advanced Educational Services), bringing technology-enabled learning to students. Recently he has created LINC (Learning International Networks Consortium), an MIT-based international project that has held two international symposia and sponsored a number of initiatives in Africa, China and the Middle East. Dr. Larson's research on queues has been covered extensively in national media (e.g., ABC TV's 20/20, NPR, the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times). He has also consulted widely nationally and internationally for clients such as the World Bank, Coca-Cola, United Artists Cinemas, the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science, Hong Kong University and the U.S. Department of Justice, among several others. He serves on the board of several companies, and his awards include the Lanchester Prize of ORSA, the INFORMS President’s Award and the INFORMS Kimball Medal, among others.
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Ashok Mittal
Dr. Ashok Mittal is currently a Professor of Industrial and Management Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur. He was educated in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur and did his graduate studies in Operations Research from Case Western Reserve University. In addition to being on the faculty at Kanpur since 1984, he has been visiting faculty at the Kellogg School of Management in Northwestern University, Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok, and MUST in Babol, Iran. He has served as Head of the Industrial and Management Engineering Department, Dean of Planning and Resource Generation, and Dean of Research and Development at IIT Kanpur. His other administrative experience at IIT Kanpur has included tenures as Chairman Space Planning and Allocation Committee, Chairman Office automation Committee and Convener Senate Education Policy Committee, among several others. His research interests are in Operations Research, Operations Management, and Intellectual Property Rights. He is a fellow of the Institution of Engineers in India, member of the Operations Research Society of USA, a Senior Member of the Operational Research Society of India. He is also President of Operational Society of India and Vice President of Quality Circle Forum of India for the years 2007-2008. His administrative roles in professional societies have included among others, being an Executive Committee Member of ORSI India, Director of the Board of Quality Circle Forum in India, and Member of the Board of several Institutes in India.
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Amos Nur
Amos Nur received his BS in Geology from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and his Ph.D. in Geophysics from MIT. He served as chair of Stanford’s geophysics dept. from 1985 to 1991 and 1997 to 2000. He holds the Wayne Loell professorship in earth sciences, Stanford and is the current Burke family director of Stanford’s Overseas Studies program. He is an honorary member of the Soc. Of Exploration Geophysicists, fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the Geological Society of America, and an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering. His research is in the area of rock physics--including problems such as rock failure and earthquake prediction. It is earthquake prediction that led him first to search for time-space patterns of historical earthquakes as described in historical-including biblical- writings. This in turn led him to look at and publish papers on the archaeological record of destruction as it relates to earthquakes. In 1991 he produced an award-winning documentary - "The Walls Came Tumbling Down" - on the history of earthquakes in the holy land, including evidence from archaeology, writings, and earth sciences. Amos Nur has also served as founding director (in 1977) and PI of the Stanford Rock Physics Project – a consortium of 25 oil and oil field service companies. The project is focused on developing methods for exploration and production of hydrocarbons and a deeper understanding of the value of these resources. Since 1995 he has dedicated much effort to elucidate the links between declining oil and increasing global conflict including the role of oil in the war in Iraq.
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Obaid Siddiqi
Obaid Siddiqi completed his M.Sc. from Aligarh Muslim University in 1953 and his Ph.D. from Glasgow University in 1961. His research interests include Molecular Biology, Behaviour Genetics and Neurobiology. Siddiqi and Garen discovered the suppressors of "nonsense" mutations. Their work stimulated research on conditional mutations of bacteria and viruses and directly led to the discovery of "nonsense" codonons, the stop signals in the genetic code. Professor Siddiqi joined the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in 1962 to set up the Molecular Biology Group. At TIFR Prof. Siddiqi continued his work on molecular mechanisms of genetic recombination and gene regulation. He and his associates were able to show that DNA transfer can be dissociated from replication and recombinant DNA molecules, can arise from conserved unreplicated DNA. He was awarded the Bhatnagar Prize for this work. Professor Siddiqi and his associates have carried out pioneering work on neurogenetics of the chemical senses of Drosophila. They have identified a series of genes whose mutations block olfactory or gustatory responses. Some of these mutations affect peripheral transduction processes, specifically blocking the electrical activity of chemoreceptors; other mutations interfere with normal development of the chemosensory network or cause lesions in the central nervous system. This work has opened up the prospect of an integrated genetic and neurobiological investigation of chemosensory perception. His work has led to an improved understanding of how olfactory information is encoded in the brain of the fruit fly.
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Xiang-Sun Zhang
Xiang-Sun Zhang is a Full Research Professor of the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Sciences (AMSS) within the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, People's Republic of China. He graduated from the Chinese University of Science and Technology in 1965. He was Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Full Research Professor in the Institute of Applied Mathematics (IAM), CAS. Prof. Xiang-Sun Zhang was also Director of the IAM from 1992 to 1998. He has served as Executive Vice President of the Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences (AMSS), CAS, from 1998 to 2003 and as President of Operations Research Society of China (ORSC) from 1996 to 2004. From 2002 he has assumed the position of Director of the Research Center of Bioinformatics, AMSS. His research and consulting interests include Optimization Theory and Application, Bioinformatics, Artificial Neural Network (ANN)and Management Information System (MIS) Theory and Application. Prof. Xiang-Sun Zhang is the Honorary President of the Operations Research Society of China. He has also won first prize of the "OR in Development", awarded by the International Federation of Operations Research Societies (IFORS) at the 14th International Conference at Vancouver, Canada, 1996.
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