Faculty of Computer Science

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FCS Historical Perspective

Center for Computer Studies (CCS) Established in 1983 1987: MBA(MIS) degree formally offered 1998/99: BCS, BBA(MIS) launched 2005: PhD in CS 2008:

– BS(CS) revamped– MS(CS) – Evening initiated

2009: FCS established 2010: Department of Mathematical Sciences established 2011: First BS(CS) batch at the Main Campus 2011: BS Economics & Maths Launched 2011: First PhD from IBA 2013: Expansion of FCS building

Departments

Faculty of Computer Science:Departments

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Department of Computer Science

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FCS Faculty

Total Fulltime Faculty members: 22 14 PhDs 3 pursuing PhD at IBA

Visiting faculty & PhD scholars as TAs

Total Alumni of FCS: Approx. 1000

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CS/Maths Faculty

Dr. Nasir Touheed• Professor & Coordinator Testing Services 

• Ph.D, University of Leeds, UK; M.Sc (Applied Maths), Univ. of Karachi; M.A (Maths) and MS (Operations Research), UCLA

• Teaching & Research Interests:Parallel Processing, Operations Research, Numerical Analysis, SAP/ABAP

• Joint appointment (Maths / CS)

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CS Faculty

Dr. Shakeel Khoja• Professor &

Coordinator E-Learning Systems

• Post-Doc Fellowship, Univ. of Southampton, U.K.Ph.D., University of Southampton, U.K.Bachelors of Engg., UET Mehran

• Teaching & Research Interests: Usage of Web Technologies in learning, Multimedia Systems, Digital Video/Image Processing and Storage

• Heading the Web Sciences Lab

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CS Faculty

Dr. Sayeed Ghani• Associate Dean FCS,

Associate Professor Chairman Academic Committee

• Ph.D (Electrical Engg./Telecomms) Columbia University, USAMS (Electrical Engg.) Columbia University, USAB.S (Electrical Engg), MIT, USA

• Teaching & Research Interests: Performance analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile networks, wireless sensor networks

• Heading the Telecomm. Research Lab (TRL)

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CS Faculty

Dr. Sajjad Haider• Associate Professor

• PhD (IT) George Mason University, USA M.S (IS) George Mason University, USA MSC Univ. of KarachiBSc (Hons) Univ. of Karachi

• Teaching & Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics & Bayesian Networks

• Heading Artificial Intelligence LabFounder of the Karachi Koalas, RoboCup Team

• Has a joint appointment with University of Technology Sydney

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CS Faculty

Dr. Zaheeruddin Asif

• Assistant ProfessorPh.D., Temple University, USAM.B.A., IBAPGD, IBA

• Teaching & Research Interests: Management Information Systems, Social Networking

• Program Director, FCS until 2012

• Presently on leave in Australia

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CS/Marketing Faculty

Dr. Amber Gul Rashid

• Assistant Professor and Director Quality Enhancement Cell (QEC)

• PhD (Business & Management), Univ. of Salford, UK MSc (Computation), UMIST, UK BA (Hons.) Business Studies, Univ. of Sheffield, UK International Baccalaureate, UWC of the Atlantic, Wales, UK

• Teaching & Research Interests: Marketing & IT; Offshore Outsourcing of IT Services

• Joint appointment: CS & Marketing departments

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CS Faculty

Dr. Quratulain Rajput

• Assistant Professor

• PhD (Computer Science), IBA, 2011MS (Computer Science), SZABIST

• Teaching & Research Interests: Semantic Web Technologies, Information Extraction, and Semantic Annotation

• Acting Patron Computer Science Society

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CS Faculty

Dr. S.M. Faisal Iradat

• Assistant Professor

• Ph.D. (CS), IBA, 2012M.S. (CS), SZABISTMCS, University of KarachiB.Sc., University of Karachi,

• Teaching & Research Interests:Performance Analysis of Wireless Networks

• Coordinator Final Year Projects

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CS Faculty

Dr. S. Irfan Nabi• Assistant Professor

• Ph.D. (MIS), IBA, 2012;M.S., George Washington University, USA;PGD, Technical Education, Islamic University of Technology, (OIC) Dhaka;B.Sc. (Engg.), University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar 

• Teaching & Research Interests:Management Information Systems

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CS Faculty

Imran Khan• Assistant Professor

• PhD Candidate at IBA

• MSCS (SZABIST)MCS (KU)OCA (USA)

• Teaching & Research Interests: System Architecture

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CS Faculty

Waseem Arain• Assistant Professor

• PhD Candidate at IBA

• M.S. (Information Technology), Hamdard UniversityB.A. (Hons), University of Karachi

• Teaching & Research Interests: Routing issues in Wireless Networks

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CS Faculty

Abdul Wajed• Assistant Professor &

Coordinator MBA Evening Program

• PhD Candidate at IBA

• MS (CS), National University (FAST), KarachiMAS, AERC, University of Karachi

• Teaching & Research Interests: Distributed Systems

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CS Faculty

Maheen Ghauri• Assistant Professor &

Director, IBA Summer School

• M.B.A., IBAB.C.S., FAST  

• Teaching & Research Interests: Management Information Systems and Entrepreneurship

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CS Faculty

Ameer Rizvi• Lecturer

• M.B.A. (General Management), University of the East Manila, Philippines 

• Teaching & Research Interests: Supply Chain Management

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Maths Faculty

Dr. M. Shahid Qureshi

• Professor &Chairperson Dept. of Mathematics 

• PhD (Space & Planetary Astrophysics - Mathematics), University of Karachi M. Phil (Mathematics), University of Karachi M.Sc. (Mathematics), University of Karachi

• Teaching & Research Interests:Space & Planetary Astrophysics

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Maths Faculty

Dr. Hisham bin Zubair

• Assistant Professor & Program Director, Dept of Computer Science

• Postdoc (Appl. Math), University of Antwerp, BelgiumPh.D. (Appl. Math), Delft University of Technology. Delft, The NetherlandsM.C.S., M.Sc. B.Sc. (HONS) (Applied Math), University of Karachi

• Teaching & Research Interests: Applied Mathematics; Scientific computing

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Maths Faculty

Dr. Ahmed Ali Shah

• Associate Professor & Chairperson Library Committee,

• Ph.D., University of Kent, Canterbury, England MSc (Applied Mathematics), University of Karachi 

• Teaching & Research Interests: Numerical Analysis, Numerical Computing, Cryptography

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Maths Faculty

Dr. Junaid Alam Khan• Assistant Professor &

Acting Chairman (Maths Dept)

• PhD (Mathematics), Abdus Salam School of Mathematical Science (ASSMS), GC University, LahoreM.Sc. (Mathematics), University of KarachiB.Sc. (Hons), Mathematics, University of Karachi

• Teaching & Research Interests: Commutative Algebra, Computer Algebra.

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Maths Faculty

Dr. Abdul Majid• Assistant Professor

• PhD (Mathematics), Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)MSc (Mathematics), University of Karachi BSc (Mathematics), University of Karachi

• Teaching & Research Interests: Functional Analysis, Applied and Computational Mathematics

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Maths Faculty

Ahmed Raza• Assistant Professor

• M.A. (Mathematics), Kings College, Cambridge University, England B.Sc. (Mathematics), University of Karachi

• Teaching & Research Interests: Mathematics, Physics, Numerical Analysis

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Maths Faculty

Yaseen Meenai• Lecturer

• M.Sc.(Statistics), KU, Pakistan 

• Teaching & Research Interests: Statistics, Statistical Inference

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Maths Faculty

Amir Bashir• Assistant Professor 

• MPhil (Statistics), Government College University, Lahore (First position)M.Sc. (Statistics), Baha-Ud-Din Zakariya University, Multan (Silver Medal)

• Teaching & Research Interests: Statistics

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CS/MIS Faculty (14)

PhD Faculty (9): Research Interests- Dr. Nasir Touheed Parallel Processing, Operations Research, (Univ. of Leeds) Numerical Analysis, SAP/ABAP [Joint appointment]

- Dr. Sajjad Haider Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Bayesian Networks (George Mason)

- Dr. Sayeed Ghani Performance analysis and simulation of (MIT, Columbia) wireless, 4G and wireless sensor networks

- Dr. Shakeel Khoja Usage of Web Technologies into learning, Multimedia (Univ. of Southampton) Systems, Digital Video/Image Processing and Storage

- Dr. Zaheeruddin Asif Management Information Systems, Social Networking (IBA, Temple) (On one year leave)

- Dr. Amber Gul Rashid Marketing & IT; Offshore Outsourcing of IT Services (Univ. of Salford) [Joint appointment with Marketing Dept]

IBA PhD:- Dr. Quratulain Rajput Semantic Web Technologies, Information Extraction, and

Semantic Annotation- Dr. Faisal Iradat Performance Analysis of Wireless Networks- Syed Irfan Nabi Management Information Systems

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CS/MIS Faculty (Cont)

Faculty pursuing PhD Research Interestsat IBA (3):

Imran Khan System Architecture

Waseem Arain Routing issues in Wireless Networks

A. Wajed Distributed Systems

Teaching Faculty (2): Teaching Interests

Ameer Rizvi Supply Chain Management(Univ, of the East Manila)

Maheen Ghauri Management Information Systems and Entrepreneurship(IBA)

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Mathematical Sciences (9)

PhD Faculty (6): Research Interests - Dr. Ahmed Ali Shah Numerical Analysis, Numerical Computing, (Univ. Of Kent) Cryptography- Dr. Hisham bin Zubair Applied Mathematics; Scientific computing (Delft Univ. of Tech.) (Program Director )- Dr. M. Shahid Qureshi Space & Planetary Astrophysics (Univ. of Karachi) (Department Chairperson)- Dr. Nasir Touheed Parallel Processing, Operations Research, (Univ. of Leeds) Numerical Analysis, SAP/ABAP - Dr. Abdul Majid Functional Analysis, Applied and (LUMS) Computational Mathematics- Dr. Junaid A. Khan Commutative Algebra, Computer Algebra. (GC Univ.)

Teaching Faculty (3): Teaching Interests- Ahmed Raza Mathematics, Physics, Numerical Analysis (Cambridge

Univ.)- Yaseen Meenai Statistics, Statistical Inference (Univ. of Karachi)- Amir Bashir Statistics, (GC Univ.).

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ICICT – 2005/2007/2009/2011/2013International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

ICICT2013 : December 14-15 IBA Main Campus

Connexions (2011/12/13)

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Campus Conversations

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CEO Forum (2010/11/12/13)

FCS Building (City Campus)Renovation and Expansion Completed

FCS Building:Expanded / Renovated

Expanded Robotics/AI Lab

Expanded Hardware

Expanded Networking Lab

New Telecom / Wireless Sensors Lab

New Web Sciences Lab

Karachi Koalas at World RoboCup

Robotics Lab resources

Hardware Laboratory FCS Building (City Campus)

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