
Dr. Shoab A Khan
PIProfessor at College of E&ME, NUST.
PhD Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Signal & Image Processing, Networks, Digital System Design
Dr. Shoab has an extensive industrial experience of more than 22 years in USA & Pakistan. He’s authored more than 300 publications in his field of computer engineering and is an inventor of 5 awarded US patents. Dr. Shoab is also a recipient of several prestigious honours including Tamgha e Imtiaz (Civil), National Education Award, and NCR National Excellence Award in Engineering Education. He’s served as
- Chairman of Pakistan Association of Software Houses (P@SHA)
- Member board of governance of many entities in Ministry of IT & Commerce
- Member National Computing Council and National Curriculum Revision Committee
Presently, Dr. Shoab is member of PM Task force of Knowledge Economy and heads IT HRD task force. He has a keen interest in Industry 4.0

Dr. Syed Tahir Zaidi
Co-PIProfessor at College of E&ME, NUST.
PhD Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Dr. Tahir’s multidimensional expertise lie in range of disciplines including system development, networking, provisioning of IT services, and data processing, and he has authored more than 100 publications. He’s a part of multiple academic and technical committees at NUST and national level including National Curriculum Revision Committee. Dr. Tahir has served as Director ICT at College of E&ME and has been on the forefront for introduction of Cloud Computing Labs and Infrastructure at NUST. He has completed numerous projects involving distributed computing and understands the requirements, and implementation of a cloud setup. His interest lies in Internet of Things, Big Data & Cloud Computing.

Dr. Imran Akhtar
Co-PIProfessor at College of E&ME, NUST.
PhD Virginia Tech, USA
HPC & Nonlinear Systems and Control
Dr. Imran Akhtar is an expert in the field of computational mechanics, modelling and simulation. He has authored more than 120 publications with more than 1200 citation in the field. Dr. Imran has also developed software using MPI platform for fluid flows and is currently in the field of flow control in energy efficient building. Dr. Imran Akhtar was the Principal Investigator of the research project titled ‘High Performance & High Productivity Computing (HP2C) based Integration and Automation in Energy Efficiency Buildings” funded by COMSTECH-The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS).

Dr. Usman Qamar
Co-PIAsst. Professor at College of E&ME, NUST.
PhD Manchester University, UK
Data Engineering, Data Sciences, NLP
Dr. Usman has authored more than 150 publications and also published 2 books with Springer & Co. He has 2 patents applied with Intellectual Property Office, UK. He was awarded best researcher of Pakistan 2015-16 and received two best research paper awards at Outstanding Research awards by HEC. He’s an experts committee member of Engineering & Technology for the Evaluation of National Research Journal (HEC). Dr. Usman was also a visiting research fellow at Centre of Decision Research, University of Leeds (UK) and served as scientific doctor at Data & Text Mining Lab, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Zainab Gulzar
Business Development ManagerMS International Management, UK

Ibrar Hussain
Team LeadBS Electrical Engineering, GIKI

Ali Hasnain
Research AssociateBS Mechanical Engineering, NUST

Aneeq Rehman
Research AssociateComputer Engineering, CASE

Fahad Rafi Butt
Research AssociateCFD Application Engineer
MS Mechanical Engineering, NUST

Hafsa Khalid
Research AssociateBS Computer Sciences, PMAS-Arid

Jalal Mehmood
Research AssociateBS Computer Sciences, PMAS-Arid

Memoona Iftikhar
Research AssociateMS Computer Engineering, NUST

Muhammad Bilal
Research AssociateBS Mechanical Engineering, NUST

Muhammad Zain
Research AssociateBS Electrical Engineering, NUST

M Junaid Ali
Research AssociateBS Engineering, NUST

Salman Khan
Research AssociateCloud Engineer
MS Information Security, RIU

Shahzeb Javed
Research AssociateSoftware Engineering, UOW

Shumaila Qamar
Research AssociateMS Software Engineering, NUST

Usama Hussain
Research AssociateAutomation Engineer
BS Electrical Engineering, FUI

Zulfiqar Mukhtar
Research AssociateComputer Networking Engineer
MS Information Security, RIU

Abdul Wahab
Research AssociateBS Computer Science