Lahore University of Management and Sciences

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Lahore University of Management and Sciences
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Founding Vision

• To be a pre-eminent academic
• institution, serving as a catalyst
• for economic prosperity and
• social development
• Focus on development of world-class
• management talent

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LUMS Overview

• Private university founded in 1985
• Founded by corporate sector (including Siemens)
• 2200 student body
• 1700 undergrad 500 graduate students
• 35 women
• 120 faculty members
• PhDs from Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Oxford
• Over 60 international publications in 2006

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Undergraduate Programs

• Broad based education
• BSc (Honors) - 4 Years Degree
• Computer Science
• Computer Engineering
• Mathematics
• Economics
• Social Science
• Accounting and Finance
• Law
• Entry Requirements 12 years of education,
• and SAT I SAT II or LUMS Admission Test
• Average SAT I score 1300 / 1600

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MS/PhD Programs

• Graduate programs in
• Computer Science (MS/PhD)
• Computer Engineering (MS/PhD)
• Mathematics (PhD)
• Business Studies (PhD)
• Economics (MS)
• Develop professionals with sound
• technical and management skills
• Produce highly qualified teachers
• Inculcate research culture

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Quality Focus

• Best students inducted because of need blind
  admission policy
• Over Rs.40 million disbursed as financial aid in
  2005
• Excellent Graduate Placement Record
• 8 Rhodes Scholars in last 12 years
• 10 Fulbright Scholars in 2005
• Over 2500 alumni studying at top universities or
  employed in the top multinationals, local
  corporates, NGOs, Multilateral agencies,
  Government

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Graduate Placement
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Selected Employers
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International Linkages Collaborations

• Student Exchange Programs
• Copenhagen Business School
• FH Joanneum Institute of Management
• Asian Institute of Technology
• University Utara Malaysia
• Indian School of Business
• Stockholm School of Business
• Linkages
• McGill University (CIDA)
• University of Essex
• Harvard
• MIT
• University of Chicago
• University of Sussex

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Going Forward

• Refocusing of existing Schools
• School of Arts Sciences
• Suleman Dawood School of Business
• Two new schools and expansion of teaching
  programs
• School of Law and Policy
• School of Science and Engineering
• Doubling of student body to 4000
• 2400 undergraduate
• 1600 graduate
• Tripling of faculty strength to 360

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Science Engineering Plans
Mathematics Computer Science Computer Engineering

• Modeled after US Research Universities
• 30 million already raised
• First batch of students enrolled by 2008
• By 2020 have 1200 undergrads, 800 grad
  students and 200 faculty

Physics Chemistry Biology Electrical
Engineering Industrial Engineering
Mechanical Engineering Material
Science Biological Engineering Chemical
Engineering

• Produce graduates who are
• Technically competent,
• creative hands-on
• Able to sell their ideas
• Socially responsible

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Science/Eng Advisory Committee

• Robert Jaffe (MIT)
• John Kassakian (MIT)
• Richard Larson (MIT)
• Khalid Aziz (Stanford)
• Mir Imran (Incube)
• Hubertus Von Dewitz (Siemens)
• Obaid Siddiqi (TATA Inst. of Fundamental
  Research)
• Xiang-Sun Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
• Ashok Mittal (IIT Kanpur)
• Amos Nur (Stanford)
• Stephen Berry (Univ of Chicago)
• Hassan Ahmed (Sonus Networks)
• Zia Chishti (The Resource Group)

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Vision

• To become an internationally
• acclaimed research university that
• serves society through excellence in
• education and research

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Research Work in Department of Computer Science
and Engineering

• Lahore University of Management Sciences

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Computer Science and Engineering Faculty

• Telecommunication and Networks
• Shahab Baqai, PhD Purdue Amjad Luna, PhD
  Georgia Tech
• Tariq Jadoon, PhD Strathclyde Zartash Uzmi, PhD
  Stanford
• Umar Saif, PhD Cambridge
• Video and Image Processing
• Nadeem A. Khan, PhD Eindhoven Shahid Masud,
  PhD Queens Belfast
• Sohaib A. Khan, PhD U of Central Florida
• Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition
• Mian M Awais, PhD Imperial College Asim Karim,
  PhD Ohio State
• Electronics, Systems and Control
• Khurram Afridi, PhD MIT Anwar Khurshid, PhD
  Michigan
• M Jahangir Ikram, PhD Manchester
• Theoretical Computer Science and Software
  Engineering
• M Ashraf Iqbal, PhD UET Shafay Shamail, PhD
  Bath
• Arif Zaman, PhD Stanford Nabil Mustafa, PhD
  Duke

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Research Areas and Funded Projects

• Artificial Intelligence, Pattern Recognition and
  Computer Vision
• Multi-Camera Multiple-Person Tracking and
  Surveillance
• 3D Reconstruction from Video (Non Rigid Structure
  from Motion)
• Freeway Incident Detection
• Automatic Multiple Party Lecture and Speech
  Summarization
• Analysis of Satellite Imagery for Rural
  Applications
• Telecommunication and Networks
• Restoration Routing in MPLS Networks (Funded by
  Cisco)
• Poor Mans Broad-band (Funded by Microsoft
  Research)
• Resource Management for Multimedia Services
• Fault Tolerant TCP Stack for Reliable Routing
• GMPLS Control for Ethernet (In collaboration with
  Siemens)
• Benchmarking of Pakistan Internet Backbone for
  VOIP
• Optical Network Management using GIS-based
  Information

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Research Areas and Funded Projects

• Video and Image Processing
• Error Resilience of Multimedia Information
• Efficient H.264/MPEG4 Video Encoding
• Fast Correlation Methods for Image/Video
  Registration
• Automatic Target Recognition
• System Simulation and Design
• Predictive Model Development for Industrial
  Distillation Column
• Internet-based Environmental Watch System
• Simulation of GELS-based Ethernet Networks
• Automotive Systems
• Vision-based Smart Airbag
• Advanced Electrical System Design (MAESTrO)

Awarded BMW Scientific Award 1999
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Previous Collaboration with Siemens

• Study and Evaluation of GELS
• A new control for Ethernet-based networks
• Project span one year (01/2006-12/2006)
• Research output
• Simulation software and tools
• Research paper at IEEE ICC 2007 (Glasgow)
• Research report (paper at IEEE Globecom)
• People involved
• Siemens
• Herbertus Dewitz (Liaison and advisory role)
• Johannes Riedl, Martin Nathensen, Kulkarni
• LUMS
• Zartash Afzal Uzmi (Technical and Supervisory
  role)
• One research associate, two research assistants

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Thank You