Reckoning Time for HEC Re: # 61 and may be this island turns the whole desert into flowery land. i only see the positive side , hope and bright side of a picture. Infact , this lesson is given to me by Respected Sabieh Anwar when i asked about the secret of his unbelieveable achievements, he replied only this, Positive Attitude and Never give up.Keep hope alive.

Reckoning Time for HEC Re: # 61 and may be this island turns the whole desert into flowery land. i only see the positive side , hope and bright side of a picture. Infact , this lesson is given to me by Respected Sabieh Anwar when i asked about the secret of his unbelieveable achievements, he replied only this, Positive Attitude and Never give up.Keep hope alive.

Reckoning Time for HEC MIT Tech Review ppublish Reserach of Dr. Umar Saif on 18 august,2008

Reckoning Time for HEC This is just of 10 months of 2008 , only of SSE , not of IT and Manegement , there are alot of papers there also


http://sse.lums.edu.pk/facultyresearch.htm

Reckoning Time for HEC This is just of 10 months of 2008


http://sse.lums.edu.pk/facultyresearch.htm

Reckoning Time for HEC BTW i dont belongs to LUMS

Reckoning Time for HEC Just want to tell that People who are devoted to pakistan , they work no matter what the conditions, hip hops, ups and downs in the way but Hoodbhoy typo just jump all around with criticizing , weeping like lil childs instead of doing anything positive or constructive. Thier sole purpose is to make Pakistan Secularize, make the borders irrelevant.

Reckoning Time for HEC Re: # 48 does not it relate the Higher education in Pakistan Hoodbhoy usual randi rona of bad manegement and HEC policies

Reckoning Time for HEC Is it our national character that we dont pay tribute ..acknowledge and even consider the 'Silent Heroes' for what they are doing for Pakistan and islamic world. We kept that Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan under seige who made aur defence unbeatable and gave us the most dangerous weapon of 1400 years.Media is so powerful today and 160 million people hear you daily.Why dont you not even mention this man who is the most genius man of the islamic world burning Cairo and Cordova flames after 1000 years...Your voice heard is whole Pakistan...not even a single column..not even a single news of this wonderful man what he is doing for Pakistan.He is so humble that he never show off for his work..but you people are the intellegencia..the intellectual core of Pakistan society...Your voice about him will be source of inspiration for thousands of curious science students of Pakistan.Look below what this man is doing for Pakistan and Ummah so silently !



Can anybody tell us.....

Whats in its body.....

blood...

or fire...

Bharkhti Aag nachhti hai is bandadai kee rago mai.....

in 2008...just in 7 months...this man...who is the General Secretary of Khwarzimic Science Society has arranged all this for students of Pakistan for Rs. 0.0

Apart from that ..he is one of the most genius man of the islamic world..as accepted by many people....a 26 year Doctrate from Oxford as Rhodes Scholar and Youngest PhD Advisor of Pakistan from HEC....,Pakistan leading Nanotechnologist and Quantum Computational expert.... the only Pakistani who got 779/850 in matriculation and just after that in just few months also gave O Level exams and got 9-A's, the Hall of Fame of Government College 78 years Debating History defeated the deabters of the whole world in an international debating contest...,worked on first Liquid State Quantum Computer of the World at Oxford,A former student of UET,Lahore,one and only Muhammad Sabieh Anwar



so anybody dares to compete him..and follow his footsteps...for what he is doing for Pakistan ..and islamic world.....


He is burning Cordova.. Cairo ,

Baghdad 's Flames after 1000 years...!


www.khwarzimic.org


Homepage of Sabieh Anwar Research Group:

http://ravi.lums.edu.pk/sabieh/




Abubakr Muhammad.....

His old time Crescent...Government College...UET..friend..Abubakr Muhammad...doing 3rd post doc at the age of 31 ...from McGIll...Abubakr..is also a visiting scientist ..of SSE,LUMS,Lahore....and Collaborator of Sabieh Anwar Research Group at SSE,LUMS,Lahore.He has completed 2 masters..1 PhD..2 Post Docs..in just 5 years..from Gerogia Tech..Pennsylvania...etc.....

http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~abubakar/index. html




MUHAMMAD SABIEH ANWAR

Look at this young man of "30" ..and see what he is doing for Pakistan !!

..His age..only 30 years ..and he has completed his Post Doc from University of California ..Berkeley....under world greatest NMR/MRI scientist Professor Alex Pines ...completed his PhD at 26 from Oxford Universiy.....as a Rhodes Scholar from Pakistan......got his Electrical Engineering from UET , Lahore.and got first position.......( 87%) ....broke the 10 years record of Goverment College,Lahore ..in FSc..by getting 961/1100 and got first position and over all fourth in Matriculations from Crescent Model School , Lahore getting 779/850 and also passed O Level Exams ..in just few months ..and got 9 A's...!!!!




He can get 5 or 6 lakh Rs / month ...means 60K $ per annum...while researching in US or be a part of any prestigious universty faculty....but ...look...he is serving his mother land..due to which ..he is now ..at this position ...he is presently working as a Assistant Professor.....at LUMS....SSE... Lahore ..Pakisatn....


Look at Sabieh Anwar picture...at Oxford .....white colour face..here...


and look at his picture ..when he just arrived at Berkeley, California ....dark colour ..and weak face....


http://qwiki.stanford.edu/wiki/Image:Sabieh1.jpg




Do you know the reason.....?????



This is because..in hot summer ..and months in Pakistan ...in 2004...he used to go to Pakistan top most educational institutions to teach the science and engineering students ...totally free..about the latest research going on in the world....on his motor cycle...


On his bike...in 45 Celsius.....from Punjab University ..to Goverment Collge...from UET..to COMSAT..from LUMS..to Quada-i-Azam ,University, Islamabad ...

He used to go Islambad ..3 days in a week...on Niazi Bus Service.. ..from Lahore and back to Lahore ....where he was giving lectures in Punjab University..UET..and GC etc etc...He could earn 6 lakh Rs ..easily with any world top most University in US or UK ....

but he was riding his Honda 70 ...on Lahore Roads ..in 45 Celsius ..to give this nation..and ummah..all...which he gained at Oxford and Berkeley . !!!!!

1000 runners , greedy..hawis parast doctors ..and professionals...members of AAPNA which have run from Pakistan ...for money..can be sacrifised on the boot toe of such a patriot..dedicated..selfless..and one of the top most science scholar of islamic world....for what he did for Pakistan and Ummah.....and still is doing....!!!!




School of Scienece and Engineering , SSE,LUMS, Lahore .

MUHAMMAD SABIEH ANWAR


Muhammad Sabieh Anwar completed his D.Phil. from the Department of Physics, Oxford University (UK) in 2004, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar from Pakistan . His dissertation was titled, "Quantum Information Processing using Para-Hydrogen NMR" and revolved around the preparation of pure quantum states for quantum computing. This work also constituted the world first demonstration of quantum entanglement in the liquid state. Its the vbasic of world first liquid state quantum computer of the world.

His post-doctoral experience at the University of California , Berkeley ( USA ) involved the demonstration of hyperpolarized NMR using heterogeneous catalytic systems, microfluidic and "lab-on-a-chip" NMR, synthesis of precise magnetic fields for ex-situ NMR, algorithmic cooling, polarization lifetime studies and hypersensitive nanoparticle MRI. Prior to his doctoral studies Sabieh Anwar received his B.Sc. (Honours) degree in electrical engineering (electronics and communications) from the UET, Lahore .


Sabieh'scurrent research interests include quantum control, spin mechanisms in nanomagnetic materials and nanotechnology. His research has been published in the Physical Review Letters, A and B, Chemical Physics Letters, Analytical Chemistry, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie, Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, Daltons Transactions and Modern Physics Letters B.

He has also taught at the

* Punjab University,

* UET (Lahore),

* National Centre for Physics ,Quada-i-Azam University (Islamabad)

* COMSATS Department of Physics (Islamabad) and has been an active speaker at many national and international physics / chemistry forums.

Dr. Sabieh is also the Joint Secretary and one of the founders of the Khwarzimic Science Society

http://www.khwarzimic.org-

a non-profit organization aiming at developing a science culture in Lahore 's educational institutions. This Association has organized about 150 events of different kinds with the objective of strengthening the popular image of the scientific content and method.




AWARDS

Dr. Sabieh is recipient of several awards including the Rhodes Scholarship (Rhodes Trust), G.A. Paul Scholarship ( University College , Oxford ), Aizaz-e-Sabqat (Government of Pakistan), Nishan-e-Haider Scholarship (GOP), Roll-of-Honour ( Government College , Lahore ) and gold medals from the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education and Punjab Textbook Board.




WONDERS...

Khawarzimic science Society is a wonderful organization..anyone from any field ..and from any part of the world..can be its member.... Pakistan uper brains are its members...it was strted by Dr Sabieh and his father Dr Siddiqui ..in 1997 ..with only 2 or 3 memebers..and alhumdullilah ..now .its the biggest non profit pakistani based society...

When he was studying his D Phil..in Oxford as Rhodes Scholar..in vacation when he used to vist Pakistan ...he used to give totally free lectures to pakistan top most educational institutions like ....

* Punjab University ... Lahore
*UET.. Lahore
*FAST.. Lahore
* Government College ..Lahore
*Quada-i-Azam University Islamabad
* COMSAT ...Islamabad

about all which he was studying at Oxford....to keep pakistani students up to date with latest developments nano technology..and quantum computing....

All lectures were free...and large amout of young students benifited from them....

The Khawrzimic society also invited great scholars like Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy..and many other to its totally free public lectures....about new developments in science and physics...

after completing his PhD...He was previously teching ...in

* Quada-i-Azam University ...NCP(Natinal Centre of Physics).. Islamabad

* UET .. Lahore

* COMSAT


officaly..and privately gave some lectures ..in

* Government College Chemistry Department

*CASP(Centre for Advandced Studies in Physics) , Goverment College Lahore ...

* FAST NUCES University ...

* LUMS...

then after 6 months he went for his post doctoral in Berkeley ..under world top NMR(Nuclear Magnetic Resonance..an advanced form of MRI..Magnetic Resonance Imaging used extensively in medical field) ...Professor Alex Pines..of PINES LABS...


He also worked in LAWRENCE BERKELEY LAB there..a lab ..which is under US energy department mostly..and very few blessed students get a chance to work there...



Here is the link of Pines Labs....Profesor Alex Pines and his achievements...his students are wordly known as PINEUTS ...I think he is the only Pakistani may be first Muslim ..to be PINENUT...Here is a link of Professor Alex Pines

www.waugh.cchem.berkeley.edu





Flight...

All those who want to know about

Sabieh flight of thoughts ..

his aims ..

his goals ..

and his spellbound English

and purpose of his wonderful ..rather Pakistan most famous non profit science organization..just click on that....


http://www.khwarzimic.org/frontline/perspectives.pdf


http://w ww.khwarzimic.org/frontline/profile.pdf






Previous assignments


Post-doctoral physicist at the Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley and the Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley (I am an old Pinenut - member of Alex Pines's research group.)

Visiting research Associate, National Centre for Physics, Quaid-e-Azam University , Islamabad , Pakistan .


Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad .


Previous courses taught


"Quantum Computing" at Al-Khawarizimi Institute, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore , Oct-Dec 2004.

"Quantum Computation and Information" at National Centre for Physics, Quaid-e-Azam University , Islamabad , Dec 2004.

"Modern Physics" (B.Sc.) at Department of Physics, Punjab University, Lahore 2004.

"Experimental quantum computing" at Department of Physics, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology , Islamabad .

"Photonics" (M.Sc.) at Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore 2004.



Active Research Themes:

algorithmic cooling of spin states and recyclable spin polarization

singlet lifetime enhancement

power of a single bit of quantum information in the context of NMR

efficient quantum state tomography with a given quorum of observables

geometric phases in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

quantum control using exponential product formulas

quantum computing with electron and nuclear spin states nanoparticle MRI

nanomagnetic spring exchange magnets




So who will follow him!!! Look below the wonders of Sabieh Anwar ,






Role of Nanomaterials in Drug delivery and Cancer at SSE, LUMS ,Lahore.
http://sse.lums.edu.pk/events_workshop_july28-29_2008.htm Seminar:


Seminar:
Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering
Speaker: Dr. Hassna R Ramay,, School of Science and Engineering, LUMS, Lahore
Venue: School of Biological Sciences, University of the Punjab, Lahore
Time and Date: 1/24/2008 (month/day/year)


Seminar:
New Directions for Climate Change and Development Policy
Speaker: Dr. John Gowdy, Department of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Venue: Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of the Punjab, Lahore
Time and Date: 3/18/2008 (month/day/year)



Seminar:
Is reality really real?: From Albert Einstein to John Bell and beyond
Speaker: Dr. M. Suhail Zubairy, Institute for Quantum Studies, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA
Venue: University of the Punjab, Lahore
Time and Date: 5/5/2008 (month/day/year)
Seminar:


Seminar:
Quantum Computing: Myth or Reality?
Speaker: Dr. Muhammad Sabieh Anwar, School of Science and Engineering, LUMS, Lahore.
Venue: University of Management and Technology, 2S 43 South Block UMT, C-II Johar Town Lahore 54770
Time and Date: 7/15/2008 (month/day/year)
Seminar:



Seminar:
DNA Hybridization on Surfaces Seminar:
Understanding Cell Matrix Interactions: From Fundamental Thermodynamics to Applications in Tumor Metastasis
Speaker: Dr. Muhammad Hamid Zaman, The University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Venue: Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of the Punjab, Lahore.
Time and Date: 8/5/2008 (month/day/year)



Seminar:
DNA Hybridization on Surfaces
Speaker: Fouzia Bano, SISSA International School of Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy.
Venue: Centre for Solid State Physics, University of the Punjab, Lahore.
Time and Date: 7/28/2008 (month/day/year)





Events of 2007



Seminar:
Magnetic Resonance: From Brain Tissue to Chloroform Computers
Speaker: Dr. Sabieh Anwar, School of Science and Engineering, LUMS, Lahore
Venue: Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Punjab University, New (Quaid-e-Azam) Campus, PU, Lahore
Time and Date: 5/9/2007 (month/day/year)



Seminar:
From Galileo to Darwin: A Story of Science-Religion Interactions
Speaker: Dr. Salman Hameed, Assistant professor of Integrated Science & Humanities at Hampshire College, Massachussetts, United States
Venue: Aiwan-e-Iqbal, Egerton Road, Lahore
Time and Date: 7/14/2007 (month/day/year)



Workshop:
National Workshop on Crystal Structure Determination Using Powder X-ray Diffraction
Speaker: a) Dr. Falak Sher, Dr. N.M. Butt, c) Dr. Saadat A. Siddiqi, d) Dr. Sabieh Anwar, e) Dr. Arshad Bhatti, f) Dr. Umair Manzoor, g) Menges Goetz, Visit: http://www.khwarzimic.org/xrd for details and registration.
Venue: Centre for Solid State Physics, Punjab University, Quaid-e-Azam Campus, Lahore
Time and Date: 8/17/2007 (month/day/year




Symposium:
Science and Muslim Civilisation
Speaker: Prof. George Saliba (Columbia University), Prof. Noman-ul-Haque (LUMS) and Prof. Basit Bilal Koshul (LUMS),
Venue: Aiwan-e-Iqbal, Egerton Road, Lahore
Time and Date: 11/4/2007 (month/day/year)



Seminar:
The Shape of Space: M-Branes and 11-Dimensional Geometry
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Tasneem Zehra Husain, School of Science and Engineering, LUMS, Lahore
Venue: Department of Physics, Punjab University, Quaid-e-Azam (New) Campus, Lahore
Time and Date: 11/27/2007 (month/day/year)




And all is done by this man...of unbelieveable brain.... for his home country...Pakistan and Ummah... Muhammad Sabieh Anwar...

Reckoning Time for HEC fasten your belts, Village, Copper n Kettle , Arsenal, Chelsea and live hot political debates are no more !


hehe...i pray for poor chicks and guys


http://ravi.lums.edu.pk/physlab/docs/background.pdf


http://ravi.lums. edu.pk/physlab/photos.html#32


LUMS SSE | Course Websites

http://sse.lums.edu.pk/coursewebsites.htm


Physics Lab 1

http://ravi.lums.edu.pk/physlab/


Staff (Faculty Incharge Dr. Muhammad Sabieh Anwar)

http://ravi.lums.edu.pk/physlab/staff.html



List of Experiments

http://ravi.lums.edu.pk/physlab/experiments.html


Photos
htt p://ravi.lums.edu.pk/physlab/photos.html

Reckoning Time for HEC
LUMS VPDT

http://sse.lums.edu.pk/vpdt.htm

Reckoning Time for HEC
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

Reckoning Time for HEC 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.

Reckoning Time for HEC 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.

Reckoning Time for HEC 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.

Reckoning Time for HEC 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