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Khurram Afridi
Dr. Khurram Afridi is the Project Director of the LUMS School of Science and Engineering, on deputation from Techlogix - a 150 person information technology services company with operations in Hartford, Boston, Dubai, Karachi, Lahore and Beijing. He received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Caltech, and Masters of Science and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. Khurram is the first non-European to have won the BMW Scientific Award for his outstanding doctoral research. Prior to Techlogix, he has worked at Schlumberger, Philips Laboratories, Lutron, and JPL. At JPL he was part of the SURFSAT-1 design team - a NASA satellite that was launched into orbit in 1995. He has published numerous papers; holds one US and international patent; and is a contributing author of the Power Electronics Handbook. As the Chief Operating Officer at Techlogix, he was responsible for the strategic direction, business development, and management of Techlogix, and helped the company grow consistently at an annual rate of 50% since inception in 1996. He has also been actively involved with higher education reform issues in Pakistan over the last few years and the LUMS SSE initiative from the beginning.
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Fridoon Ahmad
Dr. Fridoon Ahmad received his Bachelor's degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison in Genetics. He continued his education at the same university and earned a PhD. in cellular and molecular biology. He later joined Northwestern University and then Drexel University. His research interests include stem cell based therapy to repair damaged organs, cell architecture and force generation. He has published several research papers in prominent research journals and co authored Encyclopedia of Life Science (Macmillan Publishers, London). Dr. Fridoon currently also holds a HEC Foreign Faculty Professor position at King Edward Medical College.
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Salman Ahsan
Dr. Salman Ahsan did his PhD and MA in Electronic Materials and Devices at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University and his BS in Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. His interests during graduate studies centered upon the study of surface and interface properties of compound semiconductors, particularly the ZnSe/GaAs interface due to its importance in the development of a blue laser. He built Princeton’s first scanning tunneling microscope, a new technique at the time, as the primary analysis tool for this work. At Princeton, he also acquired several semesters of teaching experience as a preceptor working with the Nobel laureate (in physics), Prof. Daniel C. Tsui. His work experience includes brief stints at Drexelbrook Engineering (as a summer intern), Philips Research Laboratories (part of doctoral dissertation), The Center for Sensor Technologies (as an NSF fellow) and Nova R&D, Inc. Predominantly though, he has been with Linear Technology Corporation, a semiconductor company specializing in analog integrated circuits, as a process development, device and integration engineer and more recently as a manager of yields and electrical test.
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Shahab Baqai
Shahab Baqai received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from College of Aeronautical Engineering (CAE) Pakistan, University of Southern California and Purdue University in 1985, 1994 and 1998, respectively. Currently he is an associate professor at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) Pakistan. Before that, from 1998 to 2003, he was General Manager Information Technology at Pakistan Aeronautical Complex. He had also been a visiting professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA and Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences & Technology Pakistan in addition to being an Adjunct Professor at Lahore University of Management Sciences Pakistan. His past experiences include consulting with Enabling Technologies Pakistan, lecturer in CAE and Engineering Officer in Pakistan Air Force. Dr. Baqai has a number of research publications and has also contributed to two books. He has served on the program committees of various IEEE and NSF funded conferences and has been the publication editor of numerous conference proceedings. His research interests include distributed multimedia systems, architecture and protocols for broadband multimedia networks, resilient transmission of multimedia data, multimedia information representation and information theory. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of Eta Kappa Nu, the Electrical Engineering Honor Society in USA.
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Adil Bashir
Adil Bashir received his PhD and MS in electrical engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from UET Lahore. He is currently a Research Associate at Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University in St. Louis. His research interests include NMR spectroscopy and imaging applications for functional studies, and musculoskeletal applications; as well as developing methods to understand the role of blood flow during functional activation and its influence on the brain temperature regulation and BOLD based fMRI signal. He has made important contributions to cartilage imaging, having pioneered methods for nondestructive measurements of cartilage composition in vivo and in vitro. He has worked at Techlogix Inc, Harvard Medical School, Center for Biomedical Engineering (MIT), and Radiology Research at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Some of his awards include: the Risa and Felix Fleischner Young Investigator Award (Harvard Medical School '98); the Morrison Research Award (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center '98); Biomedical Engineering Discovery Fellowship (Center for Engineering in Medicine '98); Poitras Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (Poitras Foundation '96); Quaid-e-Azam Scholarship (Pakistan Government '92-'96) and the University Medal for best overall performance (Engineering University Pakistan, Class of 1992).
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Irfan Essa
Irfan Essa earned his MS and PhD from the MIT Media Laboratory, where he also worked as a Research Scholar before joining the faculty at Georgia Institute of Technology (GeorgiaTech), Atlanta, Georgia. He is currently an Associate Professor in the College of Computing, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. At Georgia Tech, he is affiliated with the Future Computing Environments effort, the Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center, and the Intelligent Systems Group in the College of Computing. He has founded the Computational Perception Laboratory (CPL) at Georgia Tech, that aims to explore and develop the next generation of intelligent machines, interfaces, and environments that can perceive, recognize, anticipate, and interact with humans. CPL since 1996 has grown to include 4 other vision faculty and over 30 (undergrad/grad) students. He is also a founding member of the Aware Home Research Initiative at Georgia Tech. He helped establish a new undergraduate degree in Computational Media and is also affiliated with a new PhD degree in Human Centric Computing. He has received the prestigious awards of NSF CAREER Investigator, Imlay Fellowship, Edenfield Fellowship, and the College of Computing Research, Teaching, and Dean's Awards. His research is funded by NSF, DARPA, and various industrial research labs. He is well published in leading Journals and Conferences in areas related to Computer Science & Engineering.
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Tahir Ghani
Since joining Intel in 1994, Dr. Tahir Ghani has worked on transistor design and process integration on Intel’s 250, 180, 90 and 45 nm microprocessor technology nodes. Throughout his tenure at Intel, he has played a key role in developing transistors with industry leading performance, including his pioneering effort in leading strained-silicon transistor technology development with dramatic mobility enhancement using novel transistor structures. His seminal paper titled “A 90nm High Volume Manufacturing Logic Technology Featuring Novel 45nm Gate Length Strained Silicon CMOS Transistors”, published in 2003 International Electron Device Meeting has been one of the most cited papers in recent times in electron devices. Dr. Ghani has recently led the development of Intel’s 45nm logic technology generations and demonstrated industry-first fully functional SRAM with over one billion transistors. Dr. Ghani was promoted to the rank of Intel Fellow (Intel’s highest technical position) for his significant contributions to Intel’s logic technology research and development. As Director of Process Integration and Transistor Technology he is currently responsible for leading research and development of Intel’s 32nm logic node. Dr. Ghani has received two Intel Achievement Awards (Intel’s highest technical award). The first, awarded in 1996, was for his role in developing leading-edge 0.25um CMOS transistor technology. He received the second in 2003 for developing uniaxial strained silicon transistor technology for Intel’s 90nm logic technology node. Dr. Ghani received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore and his MSEE and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
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Rizwan Gul
Rizwan Gul did his PhD and MS from MIT in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and his BS with distinction from the NWFP University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, in Mechanical Engineering. He is currently Associate Professor at the University of Bahrain. He has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. He has taught at the NWFP University of Engineering and Technology, and at the GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology as Assistant and Associate Professor for a period of seven years before recently joining the University of Bahrain. His research interests lie in the field Polymers and Composites, and in structure-property relationship. His current work is in the fields of particulate composites, radiation cross-linking and total joint replacements. His Master's thesis was on fatigue and creep characterization of tough matrix composites through both fabrication and modeling. His Ph.D. work was on the use of high molecular weight polyethylene in total joint replacements; particularly on enhancing its wear properties and characterizing its microstructure, thermal properties and mechanical behavior to predict wear behavior.
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Wenhsiu Hassan
Wenhsiu Maryam Hassan has 4 years experience in molecular biology research, 7 years experience in space materials engineering and most recently, has become involved in software development. She holds a MS in Environmental Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, where she conducted research on Methylobacterium AM1, a methylotrophic bacteria capable of oxidizing methanol and co-metabolising trichloroethylene. Shortly thereafter, Wenhsiu spent a year in the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles Research Center performing research on retinoblastoma in transgenic mice using anti-b-galactosidase and anti-bromodeoxyuridine double antibody staining on retina tissue to look at cone cell and cone bipolar cell development. Prior to moving to Lahore, she spent 3 years at Boeing’s Space System Division heading the Atomic Absorption/Ion Chromatography Chemistry Laboratory and another 4 years there as a nonmetallics space shuttle materials engineer.
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Pervez Hoodbhoy
Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy is professor of physics at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad where has taught for over 30 years. He holds a Ph.D in nuclear physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is the recipient of several awards including the Abdus Salam Prize for Mathematics, the Baker Award for Electronics, and the UNESCO Kalinga Prize for the popularization of science. He is visiting professor at MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Maryland and often lectures at US and European universities and research laboratories.
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Salal Humair
Salal Humair currently works as a Principal Software Engineer at Optiant, Inc. (Boston, MA), a technology startup founded at MIT and focused on supply-chain design and optimization. He obtained his PhD and MS in Operations Research from MIT, an MS in Civil Engineering from MIT, and a BS in Civil Engineering from UET Lahore. His Master's research was on formulating conceptual design as a constraint satisfaction problem; doctoral research on yield management for telecommunications and his current work is in supply chain optimization. He has worked at CS First Boston, and interned at GTE Laboratories, IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, Schlumberger Austin Product Center, and Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories. He has also had significant teaching experience during graduate school as Head Teaching Assistant for a large undergraduate computing course at MIT.
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Tasneem Zehra Hussain
Tasneem Zehra Husain is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the High Energy Theory Group at Harvard. She has a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Stockholm University; an M.Sc. in Physics from Quaid-e-Azam University, and a B.Sc. from Kinnaird College, Lahore. She also spent a year at the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) before moving on to her Ph.D. She works in string theory, and her current area of interest is to use 11-dimensional supergravity to classify the geometries that arise when BPS M-branes wrap supersymmetric cycles. She has several publications in peer-reviewed journals. Her awards have included the Vice Chancellor's gold medal and the Phillip's gold medal at the Quaid-e-Azam university; the Boswell medal for the best graduating science student from Kinnaird College, and a couple of international awards for her writing. Her other interests are in education and science popularization in Pakistan. She taught at Kinnaird College, and has had an enduring engagement with the Alif Laila Book Bus Society (a non-profit educational institution catering primarily to under-privileged children). In an effort to popularise her subject, this past year Tasneem developed and delivered a series of animated presentations, introducing frontiers of contemporary Theoretical Physics to high-school students.
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Faheem Hussain
Dr. Faheem Hussain received his Ph.D. in 1966 in Theoretical Physics from Imperial College, London, working in Professor Abdus Salam’s group; he has undergraduate degrees in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Punjab and in Physics from the University of London. He was a Research associate at the Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago from 1966 to 1968; from 1968 he was on the faculty of the Department of Physics at Quaid-i-Azam University first as Associate Professor and then as Professor from 1985 till his departure from QAU in 1989; he was the Chairman of the Department of Physics from 1975 to 1977. He has also taught at the Garyounis University, Benghazi, Libya, and has been a visiting professor at the Johannes-Gutenberg University, in Mainz, Germany. From 1990 to 2004, he worked as a Senior Staff Scientist at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. There he was originally involved in developing the High Energy Physics Diploma program. This very successful program helps train young graduates from the developing countries to start research in physics. He was in charge of the Office of External Activities of the Centre for six years. This office is concerned with helping physicists and mathematicians in the developing countries; through financial assistance for equipment, student grants, visiting scholars and the organization of scientific meetings. His research interests in physics have always been in theoretical elementary particle physics. Presently he is working in superstring theory, the physics of extra dimensions and non-commutative geometry. Professor Hussain has published extensively in the field of theoretical elementary particle physics. He has also published articles on the problems of scientific and technological development of the poor countries.
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Amer Iqbal
Amer Iqbal is a theoretical physicist with a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Texas at Austin and at Harvard University. He is now on leave from Department of Mathematics at University of Washington (Seattle) and teaches at the School of Mathematical Sciences in Lahore. He completed high school and college studies at various army public schools and divisional public school. He is interested in exploring connections between string theory and complex geometry. For quite some time string theory has been the leading candidate for a unified description of gravity and other forces. Not only has string theory provided significant insight into the dynamics of supersymmetric quantum field theories, it also has had influence on developments in mathematics especially complex geometry of Calabi-Yau threefolds. He is also interested in application of ideas from physics to various problems in number theory, distribution of zeros of the Riemann zeta function and its relation with the theory of random matrices being an important example.
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Ebad Jahangir
Dr. Ebad Jahangir currently works in Pratt & Whitney (East Hartford, CT) where he manages the environmental regulatory affairs for aircraft engine noise. In this capacity, he is the P&W representative and liaison with national and international regulatory agencies dealing with aircraft noise. In addition, he supports the formulation of P&W product and technology strategies to ensure that environmental goals are met. He worked in Pakistan from 1990 through 1997 where his last assignment was as General Manager (Systems) in the Air Weapons Complex. Prior to that, he worked in the Pakistan Ordnance Factories and the Precision Engineering Complex. After Dr. Ebad Jahangir obtained his Intermediate Certificate from the Government College, Lahore, he proceeded to the US for higher studies. In the US, he completed a B.S from University of Maryland, College Park and an M.S. and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, all in aerospace engineering. He returned to education in MIT Sloan School of Management during 1998-99 to receive a Master's degree in Systems Design & Management. He has to his credit numerous engineering and technical strategy papers and presentations. He is also a member of several professional organizations in the general aerospace area and a member of several committees specifically addressing aviation environmental issues.
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Alauddin Javed
Dr. Alauddin Javed is the former Vice-President, Wireless Networks Technology, Nortel Networks. Dr. Alauddin Javed joined Nortel in 1977 as a member of the scientific staff in the system engineering division. Before joining Nortel, he served on the faculties of the University of Alberta and the University of Engineering and technology in Pakistan. Since joining Nortel, Dr. Javed has held a number of management positions in the areas of system design, systems planning, technology development, and product development. Since 1988, he has been leading wireless R&D activities in Nortel Networks. He has pioneered the development of a number of leading edge wireless products, including world’s high capacity trunking radio using 512 QAM modulation CT-2 based in-building wireless radio and triple mode software defined TDMA cellular access radio, which was Nortel’s first production in cellular arena and was highly successful commercially, leading to a 1B$ annual sale. He has been instrumental in developing and integrating leading edge technologies in Nortel’s Wireless Access portfolio, including ‘CDMA 2000 & UMTS systems’. He also pioneered Nortel’s recent Wireless Mesh Network product line. More recently, he has been responsible for developing next generation wireless technologies and product concepts, including MIMO & Antenna Array Processing and Mesh Networking. Dr. Javed recently retired from Nortel and is now president of his own company, Javed Wireless Technologies Inc. He has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Alberta, Canada.
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Avais Kamal
After completing his bachelor’s in Physics from Ohio Wesleyan, Dr. Kamal obtained two master’s from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: one in nuclear science and one in electrical engineering. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Ann Arbor with a specialization in optical fiber communication. He has published over twenty research papers in renowned technical journals. Dr. Avais Kamal has worked at Air Weapons Complex where he has been responsible for indigenization of a number of military and commercial technologies. He has also served as Managing Director of LT Engineering and Trade Services (LTE). As MD LTE he conceived and implemented Pakistan’s first optical fiber and cable manufacturing facility. After leaving LTE in April 2001, Dr. Avais Kamal provided consultancy services to industries interested in optical fiber technology from the platform of Levington Technology Group. In 2002, he formed his own company by the name of Optiwave Technologies (PVT) Ltd. which is a company dedicated to the promotion of optical fiber technology. He has also been serving on the board of directors of PTCL since July 2000.
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Shahid Khan
Shahid Masihuddin Khan is currently a Senior Scientist at the Laboratory of Neurobiology, NIH, NINDS based at the Marine Biology Laboratory (Woods Hole, MA) and at the Molecular Biology Consortium (Chicago, IL), a non-profit research institute developing imaging technologies in structural cell and molecular biology. He has a Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics from Yale University; followed by postdoctoral training at Caltech. A major part of his research career was spent at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Bronx, NY) where he was Associate, then Full Professor of Physiology & Biophysics. He was a Kuffler fellow and has been an established NIH investigator for two decades. He has over 30 publications and several reviews / book chapters in leading international journals, and has served on several NIH and NSF review panels. He has visited Pakistan regularly the past few years as Higher Education Commission Foreign Faculty.
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Sohaib Khan
Sohaib Khan did his PhD in Computer Science from University of Central Florida and his BS in Electronic Engineering from GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi. He is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Lahore University of Management Sciences. His research interests lie in the fields of computer vision, image processing and pattern recognition. In particular he has done recent work on tracking and surveillance, video segmentation, face processing and video geo-registration. He has received more than Rs. 3.5 million as a research grant from a public sector organization for work on image registration. He is also providing consulting in the computer vision area to local public and private organizations. He has published more than ten journal and conference publications and has two book chapters to his credit. Dr. Khan was the recipient of Hillman Fellowship for excellence in graduate research, UCF (2001) and also received the merit-based Graduate Enhancement Fellowship, UCF (2000 and 2001).
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Sarfraz Khurshid
Sarfraz Khurshid recently completed his PhD in Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from Imperial College London, and read Part III of the Mathematical Tripos at Trinity College Cambridge. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of Texas at Austin, where he leads the Software Testing Group at the Center for Advanced Research in Software Engineering. His current research focuses on software testing, specification languages, code conformance, model checking, and applications of heuristics in program analysis.
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Asim Loan
Asim Loan received his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and B.Sc. (Honors) in Electrical Engineering from University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore. Currently he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Lahore University of Management Sciences. After completing his PhD Asim joined LinCom Corporation, Los Angeles, as a Senior Systems Engineer where he was responsible for developing receiver algorithms for baseband chipsets based on the IEEE WLAN 802.11 standards. At LinCom, he was also involved in system level design, interference modeling and link simulation of wireless communication systems, and characterization of various communication channels. Prior to going to USC for his graduate studies, he worked as a systems engineer at Carrier Telephone Industries, Islamabad. He has been on LUMS faculty since January 2003 and has been a member of the PTCL R&D Fund Committee since September 2003. His current research interests include exploring means to enhance the performance of various wireless communication systems, specifically wireless LANs, evaluation of existing and emerging wireless technologies in particular their application to the local loop.
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Umar Mahmood
Umar Mahmood is currently Associate Professor of Radiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. He received his BS degree in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology and his MD and PhD degrees from Cornell University. He did his doctoral and postdoctoral work in biophysics at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, focusing on tumor physiology studies using 31P NMR spectroscopy. He interned in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School and did his residency training in Radiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. His current research focuses on the area of molecular imaging.
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Arif Masud
Professor Arif Masud received Ph.D. in Computational Mechanics from Stanford University in April 1993. He is an Associate Professor of Mechanics and Structures in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Before joining UIUC in 2006, Dr. Masud held the appointment of Assistant Professor (1994-2000) and Associate Professor (2000-2006) in the Department of Civil and Materials Engineering (CME), and the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Dr. Masud’s research is focused on the development of multi-scale finite element methods for application in nonlinear solid and fluid mechanics, with a special emphasis on interdisciplinary and multi-physics problems. He has delivered several Keynote Lectures at International Conferences, organized more than ten International Symposia on Multiscale & Stabilized Finite Element Methods, and has served as Guest Editor for five International Journals. He is co-editor of the book The Finite Element Method: 1970s and Beyond that appeared in 2004. In 1999 he was awarded the Teaching Recognition Award by the Council for Excellence in Teaching at UIC, and in 2002 he was awarded the Faculty Distinguished Research Award by the College of Engineering at UIC. Dr. Masud serves on the Editorial Boards of Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, and Journal of Multiscale Computational Engineering. He is Chair of the Computational Mechanics Committee of ASCE, and Vice-Chair of the Fluid Mechanics Committee of ASME. Dr. Masud is an Associate Editor of the ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, and Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics. In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the International Association of Computational Mechanics (IACM).
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Bilal Mughal
Dr. Bilal Mughal advises senior executives on challenges in innovation strategy, operations and management who are members of the world's largest network of Chief R&D and Technology Officers at international corporations. Previously, he has consulted independently and with The Boston Consulting Group on issues of strategy for companies in financial services, pharmaceuticals, industrial and consumer goods and risk management. He has participated in the establishment of a higher-education institute in the government sector in Pakistan. Bilal has a Ph.D. and Masters from MIT in Aeronautics & Astronautics, where his research in Computational Aerodynamics was sponsored by NASA and Boeing, and a Bachelors in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Virginia.
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Mohammad Mujahid
Mohammad Mujahid received his PhD in Materials from the Department of Materials, University of Oxford, MS in Metallurgical Engineering from Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, and, a BS in Metallurgical Engineering from UET Lahore. He is currently a Professor of Engineering Materials at the Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Institute of Space Technology in Islamabad. His areas of specialization include electron microscopy, phase transformations and structure-property relationships in materials. His current research work involves projects like deposition of engineering thin films and hard coatings, synthesis and characterization of nano-porous and nano-composite materials for biomedical applications, high-temperature materials for jet turbine engines. He has over twelve years of teaching and research experience while working as faculty member at places such as School of Materials Engineering, (NTU, Singapore), Department of Mechanical Engineering, International Islamic University (Malaysia) and Faculty of Metallurgy & Materials Engineering (GIK Institute). He was also a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Materials (Oxford) working on the recrystallization behavior of ODS Superalloys under the European project COST-501.
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Asad Naqvi
Asad Naqvi is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam. He is a theoretical physicist with a PhD from MIT in theoretical particle physics (specializing in string theory); a BS with a double major in Physics and Electrical Engineering from MIT; and school degrees from Karachi. He spent three years as a post-doctoral researcher at University of Pennsylvania before moving to the University of Amsterdam.
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Raheel Qamar
Raheel Qamar obtained his Ph.D. from the University of North Texas in the field of Enzyme Kinetics. He returned to Pakistan after his doctoral studies and worked on Population and Disease Genetics of different Pakistani ethnic groups. He also worked at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford in the lab of Prof. E. M. Southern. He then joined Shifa College of Medicine, Islamabad, as Associate Professor of Biochemistry in addition to being the Research Director and Director of the PCR Labs. He is presently working at the COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, as a HEC Tenure Track Professor of Biosciences. He has published numerous papers in International and National peer reviewed Journals, and various book chapters. He has organized a number of workshops in his area of interest, and has delivered a several lectures at different International and National meetings. His research specialization includes Enzymology, Population & Molecular Genetics and Molecular Pathology. He is particularly interested in searching for the molecular basis of all forms of inherited diseases in the Pakistani populations and he is working on a number of different projects along these lines.
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Farhan Rana
Farhan Rana is currently Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Cornell University. He obtained his PhD, MS and BS from MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His research interests are in semiconductor optoelectronics and quantum optics, specifically physics and engineering challenges at the very small scales in both space (micro and nano optics) and time (ultrafast optics). He has over 25 journal and conference publications, and some of his awards include the National Science Foundation's Young Presidential Investigator award and the Sindh Government Gold Medal.
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Azhar Rizvi
Syed Azhar Abbas Rizvi is professor and chairman of the Department of Electronics at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad where he has been teaching for the past 17 years. He received his Bachelors degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Shiraz University and Masters and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Caltech.
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Ghazala Sadiq
Ghazala Sadiq is currently the Head of the Basic Sciences department at the Institute of Space Technology, Islamabad. She did her PhD and MS in Operations Research from MIT in network optimization, another MS in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT, and a Bachelor's in Physics from Punjab University. Ghazala spent most of her career in the US, returning to Pakistan in 2004 under the foreign faculty hiring program. She taught in the MBA program at Northeastern University, Boston and as a consultant, helped model the building of desalination plants and a water distribution network in Saudi Arabia. She then worked with AT&T Bell Laboratories and Alcatel for several years. She earned a gold medal from Punjab University during her Bachelors and a scholarship from MIT for her graduate studies. She also holds a patent for finding an efficient solution in switching networks. During her years in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ghazala was very involved in promoting goodwill and understanding between Muslims and non-Muslims. She served on the the board of The Interfaith Alliance of North Carolina. She used to play soccer in the US and is an avid and serious runner.
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Tauseef Saima
Tauseef Salma holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Rice University, Houston, Texas and B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from University of Engineering and Technology Lahore. She has been working at Baker Petrolite since 1997. She is responsible for the development of products and technology to mitigate issues related to bacterial control, hydrogen sulfide and iron sulfide in oilfield production and injection systems. Dr. Salma has authored and co-authored more than 15 technical papers and publications and holds 1 US Patent. She is a member of Society of Petroleum Engineers and American Institute of Chemical Engineers and honorary member of American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE).
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Ayman Shabra
Ayman Shabra has a PhD and an MS from MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. He is currently a Senior Design Engineer at Analog Devices, Boston, MA. His general research interests are in analog and mixed-signal signal processing circuits for wireless and hand-held applications, digitally and algorithmically assisted analog circuits, and integration issues for single chip systems.
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Hassan Syed
Hassan Syed graduated from California Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. He also has a Bachelor of Science degree from Ohio Wesleyan University in Physics. Concurrent with his studies at Caltech, Hassan worked on a student satellite at JPL as part of a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Afterwards, he continued working with JPL for a year on designing the solar cell power supply for student satellite as well as looking into the application of injection locking technique. Since then, Hassan has acquired 14 years of experience in the satellite communication industry working as a senior RF design engineer and as a Technical Director for the Asian region with STM Networks, a satellite communication company. He also designed CDMA modules to be used in WLL and other wireless networks for a start up company in China, AsiaTelco. He has been responsible for both board level RF designs, including frequency synthesizers, filters, oscillators, amplifiers etc. and system level RF designs for receivers, transmitters and modems.
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Zeeshan Syed
Zeeshan Syed received his S.B. and M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2003. He is currently at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, working towards a Ph.D. His research interests span the domain of using computers to improve contemporary healthcare, with a focus on low-cost software solutions for developing countries. He is actively involved in a number of projects in association with clinical experts from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, and holds a patent for his work in the area of automated auscultation and prototypical biological signal analysis. He is the recipient of the William A. Martin and Morris J. Levin awards in recognition of his research at MIT, and was featured in the 2003 MIT Technovators list of top innovators. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi and the International Society for Philosophical Enquiry. He is also on the panel of experts consulting the PSEB on bioinformatics outsourcing and occasionally contributes articles to newspapers on higher education initiatives.
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Zartash Uzmi
Zartash did his Bachelors in 1992 and Masters and Ph.D. in 1996 and 2002, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. His graduate research is on Multi-user Detection for CDMA systems in which he devised schemes and algorithms for practical implementation of multi-user detectors. His current research interests are in traffic engineering and routing protocols for wired and wireless networks. He has held positions at Nokia research center, Bell Laboratories, and Hewlett Packard Company. He is on LUMS faculty since 2002.
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Tasneem Zahir
Dr. Zahir is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Schepen's Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School, USA. She did her B.Sc. from University College London (UCL), UK in Human Genetics. She received her Ph.D. degree from University of Cambridge, working with David Sargan on Developing Herpes Virus Amplicon Vectors for Retinal Gene Therapy. She then moved to Boston and joined the laboratory of Michael J. Young at Schepen's Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School where she is currently working in the field of retinal stem cell research. She has several publications and has also presented her work at various international conferences. She has received several awards including the Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration & Repair’s LDDN Postdoctoral Sabbatical Program in Drug Discovery Award; British Retinitis Pigmentosa Research Grant Award; Wellcome Student Summer Vacation Project Grant at the UCL; the very selective British Council Britannia Chevening Undergraduate Scholarship and the Britannia Premiere Scholarship awarded to one of the Chevening Scholars.
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Hamid Zaman
Hamid Zaman is an Asst. Prof. in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Cell and Molecular Biology and member of Institute of Theoretical Chemistry and also a member of Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology at UT Austin. He obtained his PhD from the Chemistry Department at the University of Chicago, focusing on the physical chemistry of biological systems, namely proteins. His BS is from Arkansas Tech University with a double major in Chemistry and Physics and a minor in Mathematics. His current work is on cancer related biophysical problems, specifically tumor cell migration in 3D environments. He has developed new techniques, both theoretically and experimentally to study this problem. Hamid has and continues to publish extensively. His research has been recognized broadly, appearing both in very competitive and high profile journals, as well as at prestigious conferences. His recent awards have included the Herman and Margaret Sokol Fellowship for cancer research ('04) and a nomination by MIT (from a pool of all Post-Docs at MIT from all engineering disciplines working on bio-related problems) for the Burroughs Wellcome Early Career Award. His awards during graduate school have included among others, the prestigious Burroughs Wellcome Graduate Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship ('01-'03), the Van Dyke Travel Grant, and induction into the Sigma Xi scientific Honor society ('03). His undergraduate awards have included among several others: Freeman Outstanding Chemistry Senior Award, Alfred Crabaugh Best Senior Award, President's scholarship for Junior and Senior year and Math Dept. Scholarship.
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Bilal Zuberi
Dr. Bilal Zuberi has received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Zuberi's thesis work, funded by NASA and AFSOR, was completed under the guidance of Prof. Mario J. Molina (1995 Nobel Laureate - Chemistry). His research focuses on the microphysics of aerosols, heterogeneous atmospheric chemistry in urban environments, and the fate of organic and inorganic particulate species in the atmosphere. Dr. Zuberi has worked at The Boston Consulting Group in the intellectual property strategy and industrial goods practice areas, and is a co-founder and Director of Technical Business Development at GEO2 Technologies, a technology startup developing advanced ceramic materials for emissions reduction from gasoline and diesel automobiles. Dr. Zuberi has several publications in peer-reviewed journals and has presented his work at conferences and invited talks. Dr. Zuberi has been involved in higher education issues for several years, co-authored a proposal for higher education reforms in Pakistan along with US expatriate academics and professionals, and has consulted to the Higher Education Commission in Pakistan.
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Arif Zaman
Dr Zaman was a member of the Statistics Department at Purdue University and later at Florida State University for 12 years before he joined LUMS in 1994. His current research has been in the field of pseudo-random number generation that is now widely used because of its suitability for modern computer needs. He has also published papers on generalisations of Markov chains, and on using computers to solve various theoretical problems in mathematics and statistics. His publications have been in various journals including: The Annals of Probability, Mathematics of Computation, Journal of Applied Probability, and Journal of Statistical Computation.
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