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Title: 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

3
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

6
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
8
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

15
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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