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#44 Posted by dawa-i-dil on November 2, 2008 2:31:24 am
This is a strat of that school , i think from 6 October,2008 and first batch will be out in 2012. So at start less UG programs but as time pass , momentum will grow with hiring more faculty, more funds , more HEC support and new disciplines will be evident. It will be new blend, a new flavour something different from usual 4 years program courses offered by other universities. Something i found here
Recommended Curriculum for Eligibility to SSE
We believe that students who excel in a curriculum like the one listed below are well-suited for academic rigor of the programs offered at SSE:
4 years of Mathematics (including Calculus)
2 years of all basic sciences (Biology, Chemistry, Physics)
3 years of English (4 years recommended)
http://sse.lums.edu.pk/undergraduatemajors.htm
Curricul um of LUMS SSE
http://sse.lums.edu.pk/ourcurriculum.htm
Textbooks of SSE LUMS
http://sse.lums.edu.pk/ourtextbooks.htm
#43 Posted by dawa-i-dil on November 2, 2008 2:30:53 am
Fridoon Jawad Ahmad
Visiting Faculty, Biology
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
M.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison
B.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Research Interests
Stem Cells Biography
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.
Falak Sher
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Ph.D., University of Cambridge
M.Sc., University of the Punjab, Lahore
Research Interests
Synthesis and Properties of Electronic and Magnetic Transition Metal Oxides
Dr. Falak Sher is working as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the School of Science and Engineering (SSE), LUMS. Before this, he worked in the same capacity for three years at the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, PIEAS, Islamabad. He obtained his PhD degree in Chemistry from the University of Cambridge, UK. His research interests are in the field of synthesis and properties of interesting magnetic and electronic perovskite materials. He has a number of publications in the journals of international repute.
Faheem Hussain
Professor, Physics
Ph.D., Imperial College, London
M.Sc., Imperial College, London
B.Sc., University of London
Research Interests
Theoretical Physics
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.
Zartash Afzal Uzmi
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University
Research Interests
Restoration Routing and Traffic Engineering, Routing Protocols, Algorithms for Reliability in High Speed Communication Networks, Digital Switching and Transmission and Wireless Communication Systems
Zartash Uzmi received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford 2002. His graduate research is on Multi-user Detection for CDMA systems in which he devised schemes and algorithms for practica implementation of multi-user detectors. He has held positions at Nokia Research center, Bell Laboratories, and Hewlett Packard Company. He is on LUMS faculty since 2002. Dr Uzmi has several international publications, including papers in IEEE Globecom and ICC.
Visiting Faculty, Biology
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
M.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison
B.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Research Interests
Stem Cells Biography
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.
Falak Sher
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Ph.D., University of Cambridge
M.Sc., University of the Punjab, Lahore
Research Interests
Synthesis and Properties of Electronic and Magnetic Transition Metal Oxides
Dr. Falak Sher is working as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the School of Science and Engineering (SSE), LUMS. Before this, he worked in the same capacity for three years at the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, PIEAS, Islamabad. He obtained his PhD degree in Chemistry from the University of Cambridge, UK. His research interests are in the field of synthesis and properties of interesting magnetic and electronic perovskite materials. He has a number of publications in the journals of international repute.
Faheem Hussain
Professor, Physics
Ph.D., Imperial College, London
M.Sc., Imperial College, London
B.Sc., University of London
Research Interests
Theoretical Physics
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.
Zartash Afzal Uzmi
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University
Research Interests
Restoration Routing and Traffic Engineering, Routing Protocols, Algorithms for Reliability in High Speed Communication Networks, Digital Switching and Transmission and Wireless Communication Systems
Zartash Uzmi received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford 2002. His graduate research is on Multi-user Detection for CDMA systems in which he devised schemes and algorithms for practica implementation of multi-user detectors. He has held positions at Nokia Research center, Bell Laboratories, and Hewlett Packard Company. He is on LUMS faculty since 2002. Dr Uzmi has several international publications, including papers in IEEE Globecom and ICC.
#42 Posted by dawa-i-dil on November 2, 2008 2:30:17 am
Fatima Waqas Khwaja
Visiting Faculty, Biology
Ph.D., Emory University, Atlanta, USA
B.Sc., Emory University, Atlanta, USA
Research Interests"
Translational Cancer Research; Biomarker Discovery through
Proteomics, Molecular Biology
Fatima Waqas Khwaja is currently a Jr. Research Scientist in the
Basic Science Laboratory at Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital
and Research Center, a state of the art, non-profit, charity cancer
hospital in Pakistan. She received her Ph.D degree from Emory
University in 2006. She was a National Science Foundation fellow in
2003-2004 to develop problem-based curriculum in science for K-12
classrooms. She has special interest in teaching and has taught
undergraduat and graduate level courses at Emory University, Punjab
University and at LUMS.
Tasneem Zehra Hussain
Assistant Professor of Physics
School of Science and Engineering (SSE),
Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS),
Lahore
Tasneem Zehra Husain obtained a B.Sc from Kinnaird College, Lahore,
an M.Sc. in Physics from Quaid-e-Azam University and spent a year
doing post-graduate work in High Energy Physics at the Abdus Salam
International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) before going to
Stockholm University for her Ph.D. Tasneem then went on to join the
High Energy Theory Group at Harvard as a post-doctoral researcher.
She is currently interested in using methods of 11-dimensional
supergravity to arrive at a classification of the backgrounds that
arise when M-branes wrap supersymmetric cycles.
Tasneem has several publications in peer-reviewed journals and has
presented her work at several national and international
conferences. 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.Tasneem has represented Pakistan at the Meeting of Nobel Laureates
in Lindau, Germany and led the Pakistan team to the WYP Launch
Conference in Paris.
Tasneem is keenly interested in education and science
popularization. She designed Pakistan's logo for the World Year of
Physics (WYP) and was an active participant in the WYP Physics
Stories project, lead by Argonne National Laboratories.
In an effort to make contemporary theoretical physics accessible to
high-school students, Tasneem developed a series of animated
presentations which she then presented in front of several
audiences. She has taught at Kinnaird College, helped with training
Pakistan's team to the International Olympiads and is on the Board
of Directors of the Alif Laila Book Bus Society (a non-profit
educational institution catering primarily to under-privileged
children).
Hassna R. Ramay
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering , SSE,LUMS,Lahore
Ph.D., University of Washington
M.Sc., New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology
B.Sc., Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Sciences & Technology (GIKI)
Research Interests Tissue Engineering, Biomaterials,
Bionanotechnology and Cell Materials Interactions
Dr. Hassna Ramay received her Ph.D. in Biomaterials at the
Department of Materials Sciences and Engineering, University of
Washington in 2004. She did her masters in Materials Sciences and
Engineering from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and
her Bachelors in Materials and Metallurgical Engineering from Ghulam
Ishaq Khan Institute of Sciences and Technology. She worked as a
postdoctoral fellow at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute,
University of Delaware. Her research focuses on fabrication of
biomaterials for tissue engineering applications.
Hamid Zaman
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Enginnering,SSE,LUMS.
Jointly with UT at Austin.
Hamid Zaman is an Asst. Prof. in the Departments of Biomedical
Engineering and Cell and Molecular Biology and member of Institute
of Theoretical Chemistry as well as Institute for Computational
Engineering and Sciences and 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 protein
folding, dynamics and interactions. His current research focuses on
developing interdisciplinary tools to study interaction of cells
with extra-cellular matrices, particularly in cancer progression and
metastasis. He has developed new techniques, both theoretically and
experimentally to study this problem. Hamid has and continues to
publish extensively in highly prestigious international journals.
His research has been recognized broadly through various
international awards. In 2007, he was awarded the FEBS (Federation
of European Biochemical Societies) Young Investigator Award in
Matrix Biology, an award rarely given to anyone outside the European
Union. Recently, he was also named International Visiting Fellow at
the University of Sydney, Australia. His work on cell migration in
3D, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, was hailed world-wide as one of the major breakthroughs in
cancer in 2006. Prior to his position at UT Austin, Hamid was
Hermann and Margaret Sokol Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow at MIT
and was a Burroughs Wellcome Foundation Graduate Fellow at the
University of Chicago during his Ph.D. During his undergraduate,
Hamid was also the awarded Alfred Crabaugh Outstanding Senior Award,
given to the best undergraduate student at the entire University.
More information about Hamid's work at UT Austin is available at
Zaman's Lab
zlabs.bme.utexas.edu.
Visiting Faculty, Biology
Ph.D., Emory University, Atlanta, USA
B.Sc., Emory University, Atlanta, USA
Research Interests"
Translational Cancer Research; Biomarker Discovery through
Proteomics, Molecular Biology
Fatima Waqas Khwaja is currently a Jr. Research Scientist in the
Basic Science Laboratory at Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital
and Research Center, a state of the art, non-profit, charity cancer
hospital in Pakistan. She received her Ph.D degree from Emory
University in 2006. She was a National Science Foundation fellow in
2003-2004 to develop problem-based curriculum in science for K-12
classrooms. She has special interest in teaching and has taught
undergraduat and graduate level courses at Emory University, Punjab
University and at LUMS.
Tasneem Zehra Hussain
Assistant Professor of Physics
School of Science and Engineering (SSE),
Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS),
Lahore
Tasneem Zehra Husain obtained a B.Sc from Kinnaird College, Lahore,
an M.Sc. in Physics from Quaid-e-Azam University and spent a year
doing post-graduate work in High Energy Physics at the Abdus Salam
International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) before going to
Stockholm University for her Ph.D. Tasneem then went on to join the
High Energy Theory Group at Harvard as a post-doctoral researcher.
She is currently interested in using methods of 11-dimensional
supergravity to arrive at a classification of the backgrounds that
arise when M-branes wrap supersymmetric cycles.
Tasneem has several publications in peer-reviewed journals and has
presented her work at several national and international
conferences. 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.Tasneem has represented Pakistan at the Meeting of Nobel Laureates
in Lindau, Germany and led the Pakistan team to the WYP Launch
Conference in Paris.
Tasneem is keenly interested in education and science
popularization. She designed Pakistan's logo for the World Year of
Physics (WYP) and was an active participant in the WYP Physics
Stories project, lead by Argonne National Laboratories.
In an effort to make contemporary theoretical physics accessible to
high-school students, Tasneem developed a series of animated
presentations which she then presented in front of several
audiences. She has taught at Kinnaird College, helped with training
Pakistan's team to the International Olympiads and is on the Board
of Directors of the Alif Laila Book Bus Society (a non-profit
educational institution catering primarily to under-privileged
children).
Hassna R. Ramay
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering , SSE,LUMS,Lahore
Ph.D., University of Washington
M.Sc., New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology
B.Sc., Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Sciences & Technology (GIKI)
Research Interests Tissue Engineering, Biomaterials,
Bionanotechnology and Cell Materials Interactions
Dr. Hassna Ramay received her Ph.D. in Biomaterials at the
Department of Materials Sciences and Engineering, University of
Washington in 2004. She did her masters in Materials Sciences and
Engineering from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and
her Bachelors in Materials and Metallurgical Engineering from Ghulam
Ishaq Khan Institute of Sciences and Technology. She worked as a
postdoctoral fellow at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute,
University of Delaware. Her research focuses on fabrication of
biomaterials for tissue engineering applications.
Hamid Zaman
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Enginnering,SSE,LUMS.
Jointly with UT at Austin.
Hamid Zaman is an Asst. Prof. in the Departments of Biomedical
Engineering and Cell and Molecular Biology and member of Institute
of Theoretical Chemistry as well as Institute for Computational
Engineering and Sciences and 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 protein
folding, dynamics and interactions. His current research focuses on
developing interdisciplinary tools to study interaction of cells
with extra-cellular matrices, particularly in cancer progression and
metastasis. He has developed new techniques, both theoretically and
experimentally to study this problem. Hamid has and continues to
publish extensively in highly prestigious international journals.
His research has been recognized broadly through various
international awards. In 2007, he was awarded the FEBS (Federation
of European Biochemical Societies) Young Investigator Award in
Matrix Biology, an award rarely given to anyone outside the European
Union. Recently, he was also named International Visiting Fellow at
the University of Sydney, Australia. His work on cell migration in
3D, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, was hailed world-wide as one of the major breakthroughs in
cancer in 2006. Prior to his position at UT Austin, Hamid was
Hermann and Margaret Sokol Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow at MIT
and was a Burroughs Wellcome Foundation Graduate Fellow at the
University of Chicago during his Ph.D. During his undergraduate,
Hamid was also the awarded Alfred Crabaugh Outstanding Senior Award,
given to the best undergraduate student at the entire University.
More information about Hamid's work at UT Austin is available at
Zaman's Lab
zlabs.bme.utexas.edu.
#41 Posted by dawa-i-dil on November 2, 2008 2:29:44 am
Few 'Hard-Core'Scholars from Pool of SSE,LUMS
Asad Abidi
Dean and Professor of Electrical Engineering
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
M.S., University of California, Berkeley
B.Sc., Imperial College, London
Asad A. Abidi received the B.Sc.(Hon.) degree from Imperial College,
London in 1976 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical
Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1978 and
1981. He was at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ from 1981 to 1984
as a Member of Technical Staff in the Advanced LSI Development
Laboratory. Since 1985, he has been at the Electrical Engineering
Department of the University of California, Los Angeles where he is
Professor. He was a Visiting Faculty Researcher at Hewlett Packard
Laboratories during 1989.
His research interests are in the design of CMOS RF integrated
circuits, high-speed analog circuits, and data converters.
Dr. Abidi served as the Program Secretary for the International
Solid-State Circuits Conference from 1984 to 1990 and as General
Chairman of the Symposium on VLSI Circuits in 1992. He was Secretary
of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Council from 1990 to 1991, and from
1992 to 1995 he was Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State
Circuits. He has received the 1988 TRW Award for Innovative Teaching
and the 1997 IEEE Donald G. Fink Award, and is co-recipient of the
Best Paper Award at the 1995 European Solid-State Circuits
Conference, the Jack Kilby Best Student Paper Award at the 1996
International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), the Jack
Raper Award for Outstanding Technology Directions Paper at the 1997
ISSCC, and the Design Contest Award at the 1998 Design Automation
Conference, and the 2001 ISLPED Low Power Design Contest Award. In
2007, the UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science recognized
him with the Lockheed-Martin Award for Excellence in Teaching.
He has received an IEEE Millennium Medal, is a Fellow of the IEEE,
and was named one of the top ten contributors to the ISSCC. He is
the recipient of the 2008 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-
State Circuits.
Dr. Abidi is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, only 2 Pakistanis yet have this position.
Asad Naqvi
Associate Professor, Physics
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Research Interests:
String Theory
Asad Naqvi is currently a lecturer (assistant professor) at the
University of Wales, Swansea. 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. After holding
post-doctoral positions at the University of Pennsylvania and the
University of Amsterdam, he joined the University of Wales, Swansea
in October 2005.
Salal Humair
Associate Professor, Engineering Systems & Operations Research
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
B.S., University of Engineering & Technology (UET)
Research Interests :Supply Chains and Engineering Systems
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
Salman Ahsan
Visiting Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering
Ph.D., Princeton University
M.A., Princeton University
B.S., University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Semiconductor Materials and Devices
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 Prof. Daniel C. Tsui (Nobel laureate Physics, 1998).
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. Prior to joining LUMS as the
Associate Project Director of the School of Science and Engineering,
he was with Linear Technology Corporation for ten years, a
semiconductor company specializing in analog integrated circuits, as
a process development, device and integration engineer and then as a
manager of yields and electrical test.
Asad Abidi
Dean and Professor of Electrical Engineering
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
M.S., University of California, Berkeley
B.Sc., Imperial College, London
Asad A. Abidi received the B.Sc.(Hon.) degree from Imperial College,
London in 1976 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical
Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1978 and
1981. He was at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ from 1981 to 1984
as a Member of Technical Staff in the Advanced LSI Development
Laboratory. Since 1985, he has been at the Electrical Engineering
Department of the University of California, Los Angeles where he is
Professor. He was a Visiting Faculty Researcher at Hewlett Packard
Laboratories during 1989.
His research interests are in the design of CMOS RF integrated
circuits, high-speed analog circuits, and data converters.
Dr. Abidi served as the Program Secretary for the International
Solid-State Circuits Conference from 1984 to 1990 and as General
Chairman of the Symposium on VLSI Circuits in 1992. He was Secretary
of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Council from 1990 to 1991, and from
1992 to 1995 he was Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State
Circuits. He has received the 1988 TRW Award for Innovative Teaching
and the 1997 IEEE Donald G. Fink Award, and is co-recipient of the
Best Paper Award at the 1995 European Solid-State Circuits
Conference, the Jack Kilby Best Student Paper Award at the 1996
International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), the Jack
Raper Award for Outstanding Technology Directions Paper at the 1997
ISSCC, and the Design Contest Award at the 1998 Design Automation
Conference, and the 2001 ISLPED Low Power Design Contest Award. In
2007, the UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science recognized
him with the Lockheed-Martin Award for Excellence in Teaching.
He has received an IEEE Millennium Medal, is a Fellow of the IEEE,
and was named one of the top ten contributors to the ISSCC. He is
the recipient of the 2008 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-
State Circuits.
Dr. Abidi is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, only 2 Pakistanis yet have this position.
Asad Naqvi
Associate Professor, Physics
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Research Interests:
String Theory
Asad Naqvi is currently a lecturer (assistant professor) at the
University of Wales, Swansea. 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. After holding
post-doctoral positions at the University of Pennsylvania and the
University of Amsterdam, he joined the University of Wales, Swansea
in October 2005.
Salal Humair
Associate Professor, Engineering Systems & Operations Research
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
B.S., University of Engineering & Technology (UET)
Research Interests :Supply Chains and Engineering Systems
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
Salman Ahsan
Visiting Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering
Ph.D., Princeton University
M.A., Princeton University
B.S., University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Semiconductor Materials and Devices
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 Prof. Daniel C. Tsui (Nobel laureate Physics, 1998).
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. Prior to joining LUMS as the
Associate Project Director of the School of Science and Engineering,
he was with Linear Technology Corporation for ten years, a
semiconductor company specializing in analog integrated circuits, as
a process development, device and integration engineer and then as a
manager of yields and electrical test.
#40 Posted by dawa-i-dil on November 2, 2008 2:29:18 am
The Lahore University of Management Sciences( LUMS) established by industrialists and people belonging to Pakistan's leading private and public sector corporations, with the goal of developing an institution that would not only provide rigorous academic and intellectual training to Pakistani students and scholars, but also make available state-of-the-art research facilities, which would be comparable to leading universities around the world. According to the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan LUMS is one of the most highly ranked Pakistani universities amongst institutions that offer degrees in Business Management and Information Technology.
In just few years LUMS gained the status as as Pakistan top notch bussiness school with its hundreds of students around the world in top ranked universities and bussiness companies.LUMS to meet the needs of cutting edge technology in the world started a school of Science and Engineering which is the LUMS SSE is the first research-based private university in Pakistan.
LUMS SSE: Taking University Education in Science and Engineering to new heights in Pakistan
Research will play a defining role in its culture. The focus is to bring in research-active faculty from all over the world who can contribute to the advancement of knowledge through our PhD programs. This faculty will be pivotal in producing PhDs who are globally competitive in terms of their impact, and whose work spins off into knowledge-based companies in Pakistan and brings the hi-tech era to our economy. Research is so important that it will even permeate our undergraduate education and make it an inquiry based education, instead of one where facts are memorized out of text books.
Furthermore LUMS SSE is different from other science and engineering universities because it will concentrate initially only on a few key science and engineering disciplines at whose intersection most new discoveries and powerful new products will emerge. We have decided to start with Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics. Additional strategic disciplines may be added later. Therefore we are building this university from the ground up to teach the fundamentals of these key disciplines to all our undergraduates, and to promote inter-disciplinary research amongst our graduate students. There will be no boundaries within the institution; there will simply be clusters of people united by common interests. Today somebody who belongs to the physics cluster may decide tomorrow to move to an electrical engineering cluster. This will make it not only a unique university in Pakistan but probably in the world.
Once we have located the best minds for LUMS SSE and if we determine that they cannot afford our education, the trustees of LUMS and the management committee have given us the go ahead to pay for their education in varying degrees. In the extreme case we will pay for everything and even give the student money to live on the campus. However they must first pass our very high bar for admissions.
It is important to tell your readers that a science-based curriculum in the modern sense is very expensive, far more expensive than the curricula offered in the existing schools of LUMS. That is because from their very first year, our undergraduates will be using state-of-the art labs, and they will continue to have a quality lab experience through all their years. To keep these labs operational and updated requires a very large and continuous flow of funds. Therefore we will ask those who can afford to pay, to pay a fee that reflects the real cost. Those who cannot pay, we will find ways to bring them here; that is our responsibility.
At LUMS SSE, we have already formed a critical mass of some of the best Pakistani scientists, at various levels of their careers, whom we identified at some of the world’s great institutes. Even at this early stage in SSE’s development our faculty covers all the six key disciplines which I have described earlier. They are defining the curriculum and building up our research programs. However we are still small in numbers.
Here we are faced with the problem that Pakistan has produced very few world class, hard-core scholars who are research active in modern science and engineering and who aspire to faculty positions. That total pool is tiny. We have spent the last two years searching the world over through our networks, on the Internet and through a variety of other means, to locate these people, approach them and devise a means to bring them back here. To these people we will offer, also for the first time in Pakistan, the very privileged position of a faculty appointment on the tenure track. What that means is, to faculty members who, after working here for a few years or elsewhere, prove that they are exceptional teachers and world-class researchers who publish in the leading journals, we will offer lifetime contracts. Faculty on the tenure track will be assisted by other excellent individuals whose main contribution to LUMS SSE will be through teaching. In time we hope to increase this pool of high caliber individuals from our own students.
Read complete interview of Dr. Asad Abidi, Dean SSE here:
http://sse.lums.edu.pk/interview_deanabidi.htm
In just few years LUMS gained the status as as Pakistan top notch bussiness school with its hundreds of students around the world in top ranked universities and bussiness companies.LUMS to meet the needs of cutting edge technology in the world started a school of Science and Engineering which is the LUMS SSE is the first research-based private university in Pakistan.
LUMS SSE: Taking University Education in Science and Engineering to new heights in Pakistan
Research will play a defining role in its culture. The focus is to bring in research-active faculty from all over the world who can contribute to the advancement of knowledge through our PhD programs. This faculty will be pivotal in producing PhDs who are globally competitive in terms of their impact, and whose work spins off into knowledge-based companies in Pakistan and brings the hi-tech era to our economy. Research is so important that it will even permeate our undergraduate education and make it an inquiry based education, instead of one where facts are memorized out of text books.
Furthermore LUMS SSE is different from other science and engineering universities because it will concentrate initially only on a few key science and engineering disciplines at whose intersection most new discoveries and powerful new products will emerge. We have decided to start with Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics. Additional strategic disciplines may be added later. Therefore we are building this university from the ground up to teach the fundamentals of these key disciplines to all our undergraduates, and to promote inter-disciplinary research amongst our graduate students. There will be no boundaries within the institution; there will simply be clusters of people united by common interests. Today somebody who belongs to the physics cluster may decide tomorrow to move to an electrical engineering cluster. This will make it not only a unique university in Pakistan but probably in the world.
Once we have located the best minds for LUMS SSE and if we determine that they cannot afford our education, the trustees of LUMS and the management committee have given us the go ahead to pay for their education in varying degrees. In the extreme case we will pay for everything and even give the student money to live on the campus. However they must first pass our very high bar for admissions.
It is important to tell your readers that a science-based curriculum in the modern sense is very expensive, far more expensive than the curricula offered in the existing schools of LUMS. That is because from their very first year, our undergraduates will be using state-of-the art labs, and they will continue to have a quality lab experience through all their years. To keep these labs operational and updated requires a very large and continuous flow of funds. Therefore we will ask those who can afford to pay, to pay a fee that reflects the real cost. Those who cannot pay, we will find ways to bring them here; that is our responsibility.
At LUMS SSE, we have already formed a critical mass of some of the best Pakistani scientists, at various levels of their careers, whom we identified at some of the world’s great institutes. Even at this early stage in SSE’s development our faculty covers all the six key disciplines which I have described earlier. They are defining the curriculum and building up our research programs. However we are still small in numbers.
Here we are faced with the problem that Pakistan has produced very few world class, hard-core scholars who are research active in modern science and engineering and who aspire to faculty positions. That total pool is tiny. We have spent the last two years searching the world over through our networks, on the Internet and through a variety of other means, to locate these people, approach them and devise a means to bring them back here. To these people we will offer, also for the first time in Pakistan, the very privileged position of a faculty appointment on the tenure track. What that means is, to faculty members who, after working here for a few years or elsewhere, prove that they are exceptional teachers and world-class researchers who publish in the leading journals, we will offer lifetime contracts. Faculty on the tenure track will be assisted by other excellent individuals whose main contribution to LUMS SSE will be through teaching. In time we hope to increase this pool of high caliber individuals from our own students.
Read complete interview of Dr. Asad Abidi, Dean SSE here:
http://sse.lums.edu.pk/interview_deanabidi.htm
#39 Posted by dawa-i-dil on November 2, 2008 2:25:39 am
I do not know why Hoodbhoy always criticize HEC. Just because Musharraf never looked upon him to be chairman in 2002 , its jealosuy nothing more.
( universities were about to start but present government due of lack of funds just postponed it. but CM Punjab Mr Shahbaz Sharif protested a lot on this delay and asked the PM to take action. Soon they will be started, inshallah
( universities were about to start but present government due of lack of funds just postponed it. but CM Punjab Mr Shahbaz Sharif protested a lot on this delay and asked the PM to take action. Soon they will be started, inshallah
#38 Posted by _arjun37 on November 1, 2008 11:00:48 pm
#16 Posted by masadi on November 1, 2008 6:54:31 pm
none of you IIT giants can hold a candle to anyone of my arguments, not to mention this sorry rebuttal, is masterpiece enough for me.
You should turn your chowk posts into a book and publish that on lulu.com...you know..like your other books...
none of you IIT giants can hold a candle to anyone of my arguments, not to mention this sorry rebuttal, is masterpiece enough for me.
You should turn your chowk posts into a book and publish that on lulu.com...you know..like your other books...
#37 Posted by peonofthewest on November 1, 2008 10:58:03 pm
madsadi saab is complete loony toony saab. he writes the same thing he has written for years all over saab. he has nothing to add saab to an one's knowledge saab
#36 Posted by CoolAL on November 1, 2008 10:54:37 pm
So far I see 30 posts of which 13 are from Masadi. I have no problem with those, I skip them routinely.
I see three posts that have nothing to do with Masadi. Incidentally, that is what I come to read so I am fine with those. My only complaint is that it is only 3/30. I want it to be significantly more.
The reamining 14 are "responses" mostly -- 8/14 -- from Anil. Now this really bothers me because I thought he should have figured out the solution by now. Anyway, if he does not "Get it" soon, then I will have to start skipping over all his posts too and that would be a pity.
Anil, can you please explain why you are "engaging" with this guy? Honestly, what is in it for you? Are you trying to "save his soul" by "educating" him? If so, you are failing miserably. Just so that you know.
On the other hand, if you are trying to "learn" from him, you should be listening a lot more and not speaking so much.
Either way, not responding to the dude makes you a winner. Please consider this as "Constructive Feedback".
I see three posts that have nothing to do with Masadi. Incidentally, that is what I come to read so I am fine with those. My only complaint is that it is only 3/30. I want it to be significantly more.
The reamining 14 are "responses" mostly -- 8/14 -- from Anil. Now this really bothers me because I thought he should have figured out the solution by now. Anyway, if he does not "Get it" soon, then I will have to start skipping over all his posts too and that would be a pity.
Anil, can you please explain why you are "engaging" with this guy? Honestly, what is in it for you? Are you trying to "save his soul" by "educating" him? If so, you are failing miserably. Just so that you know.
On the other hand, if you are trying to "learn" from him, you should be listening a lot more and not speaking so much.
Either way, not responding to the dude makes you a winner. Please consider this as "Constructive Feedback".
#35 Posted by ahmedmadani on November 1, 2008 10:54:05 pm
IIT engineers are building bridges in India and why they are coming down fast within year?
Here also it happened in Karachi after it was opened with great fanfare.
Now beitish engineers built 100 of thousands of bridges for railways and all are still strong.
Those engineers were not trained in IIT but they were not trained at all but hands on education . They built bridges made up of steel. All bridges built here and there came down are all concrete bridges. Now if you want bridges built of steel not concrete as they put mitti 10% instead of cement and engineers approves bill and bribe is part of bridge instead of cment. Engineer Babu can not steel so steel bridge is best preference for india/ Pakistan , may be white west less corrouption sono substituting cement with mitti.
Here also it happened in Karachi after it was opened with great fanfare.
Now beitish engineers built 100 of thousands of bridges for railways and all are still strong.
Those engineers were not trained in IIT but they were not trained at all but hands on education . They built bridges made up of steel. All bridges built here and there came down are all concrete bridges. Now if you want bridges built of steel not concrete as they put mitti 10% instead of cement and engineers approves bill and bribe is part of bridge instead of cment. Engineer Babu can not steel so steel bridge is best preference for india/ Pakistan , may be white west less corrouption sono substituting cement with mitti.
#34 Posted by ahmedmadani on November 1, 2008 10:44:57 pm
Re: # 14 Anil , arjun and other distractors...... Kindly please do not write about things you do not know. Both of you are no student of social science or social scientist. No persons opinions are good when they criticise some body without reading his books. Kindly could you sware you have read book ? Answer is no so please shut up.
Other thing is as Masadi said before several months presently it all just memorizing. Honestly Arjun or Anil both do not appaer to be from IIT college as it does not reflect in your attitude or any hint of scholorship in your writing. Just for remindindin you Masadi wrote paper/ important statement about education and that was praised and accepted at this countries high education officers. Why you people do not even mentioned. Basically masadi does not value cramming and remembering stuff on brain harddrive but he values and want more importance on thinking, analysing and then arriving at conclusions with out predisposed answer or apriory conclusions. IIT is just bunch of remembering and getting degree and running away to USA and white countries and they have bad attitude towards their own countrymen as they feel this stupid awam pays taxes to produce the technical manpower for white elites. Best Indians will never go for such silly entrance which just measures how much you remember. Also IIT college has elite attitude as they do not teach any religion or moral science so they are producing monsters who are ripping poor people of india and luaghing and lining their pockets and becoming slaves of America. Now Jay said he was from IIT college and Ranjit is gentle man and he is I think from real IIT college as he appears intelligent kind. He does not have time to waste his time and he is gentleman and send me good music. Some how I doubt both of you belong to iit college as you both have no class and you behave as new rich uncultured people.
I hope you both think about that leave my friend and do not start character assissinations, and defame. Good day.
Other thing is as Masadi said before several months presently it all just memorizing. Honestly Arjun or Anil both do not appaer to be from IIT college as it does not reflect in your attitude or any hint of scholorship in your writing. Just for remindindin you Masadi wrote paper/ important statement about education and that was praised and accepted at this countries high education officers. Why you people do not even mentioned. Basically masadi does not value cramming and remembering stuff on brain harddrive but he values and want more importance on thinking, analysing and then arriving at conclusions with out predisposed answer or apriory conclusions. IIT is just bunch of remembering and getting degree and running away to USA and white countries and they have bad attitude towards their own countrymen as they feel this stupid awam pays taxes to produce the technical manpower for white elites. Best Indians will never go for such silly entrance which just measures how much you remember. Also IIT college has elite attitude as they do not teach any religion or moral science so they are producing monsters who are ripping poor people of india and luaghing and lining their pockets and becoming slaves of America. Now Jay said he was from IIT college and Ranjit is gentle man and he is I think from real IIT college as he appears intelligent kind. He does not have time to waste his time and he is gentleman and send me good music. Some how I doubt both of you belong to iit college as you both have no class and you behave as new rich uncultured people.
I hope you both think about that leave my friend and do not start character assissinations, and defame. Good day.
#33 Posted by Sanatani on November 1, 2008 10:36:09 pm
Re: # 16
Aap kisi baat ka jawab to dete nahin phir masterpiece ki baat karte hain.
Pls reply if partition had not taken place what would have happened.
Sanatani
Aap kisi baat ka jawab to dete nahin phir masterpiece ki baat karte hain.
Pls reply if partition had not taken place what would have happened.
Sanatani
#32 Posted by Sanatani on November 1, 2008 10:29:10 pm
Vaise this applies mostly to Hindu Poonzabis the Sardars equal hustlers at least are hard working and brave except this Durbari Gndu Manu Singh.
#31 Posted by Sanatani on November 1, 2008 10:27:10 pm
I mailed this article to a JS in the ministry of HRD who comes from a family of scientests. He says at 1 level I am distressed there is no debate in India on the neglect of Pure, Life, Applied and Social sciences but the positive is that the Dakshin Bhartiyas and Marathis, Oriyas Banglas are still caring for it so the neglect is not apparent. Problem will come when they become Punajabised.
Indeed the country's biggest problem is Punjabification where only the end counts and prostitute your mother to reach the same.
I pity pakistan which has 55% of its population as Panjabi.
When I look at my relatives and in-laws I am struck maybe all Sharanarthis coming from the West Punjab should have been shot at the border Bharat Mata would be better without these vermin of which I am one.
Sanatani
Indeed the country's biggest problem is Punjabification where only the end counts and prostitute your mother to reach the same.
I pity pakistan which has 55% of its population as Panjabi.
When I look at my relatives and in-laws I am struck maybe all Sharanarthis coming from the West Punjab should have been shot at the border Bharat Mata would be better without these vermin of which I am one.
Sanatani
#30 Posted by anil on November 1, 2008 10:12:50 pm
Re: # 29
Masadi sahib:
Please read a lesson on the other board. Aren't you lucky that you have a chaprase who can show you the mirror and show you how ugly you look.
Masadi sahib:
Please read a lesson on the other board. Aren't you lucky that you have a chaprase who can show you the mirror and show you how ugly you look.
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