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Lahore University of Management and Sciences. 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. LUMS Overview. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Lahore University of Management and
Sciences
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
LUMS Overview
Private university founded in 1985 Founded by corporate sector
(including Siemens) Modern 100 acre campus
Located in Lahore, the cultural capital of Pakistan
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
Undergraduate Programs
Broad based educationBSc (Honors) - 4 Years Degree
Computer ScienceComputer EngineeringMathematicsEconomicsSocial ScienceAccounting and FinanceLaw
Entry Requirements: 12 years of education, and SAT I & SAT II or LUMS Admission Test
Average SAT I score: 1300 / 1600
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
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
Graduate Placement
Selected Employers
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
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
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
Mechanical EngineeringMaterial ScienceBiological EngineeringChemical Engineering
Science & Engineering Plans
PhysicsChemistryBiologyElectrical EngineeringIndustrial Engineering
MathematicsComputer ScienceComputer Engineering
Produce graduates who are:
• Technically competent, creative & hands-on• Able to sell their ideas• Socially responsible
Science/Eng Advisory Committee • Robert Jaffe (MIT)• John Kassakian (MIT)• Richard Larson (MIT)• Khalid Aziz (Stanford)• Mir Imran (Incube)• Hubertus Von Dewitz (Siemens CT)• 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)
Vision
To become an internationally acclaimed research university that serves society through excellence
in education and research
Research Work in Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Lahore University of Management Sciences
Telecommunication and NetworksShahab Baqai, PhD Purdue Amjad Luna, PhD Georgia TechTariq Jadoon, PhD Strathclyde Zartash Uzmi, PhD Stanford
Umar Saif, PhD Cambridge
Video and Image Processing Nadeem A. Khan, PhD Eindhoven Shahid Masud, PhD Queen’s Belfast Sohaib A. Khan, PhD U of Central Florida
Artificial Intelligence and Pattern RecognitionMian M Awais, PhD Imperial College Asim Karim, PhD Ohio State
Electronics, Systems and ControlKhurram Afridi, PhD MIT Anwar Khurshid, PhD MichiganM Jahangir Ikram, PhD Manchester
Theoretical Computer Science and Software EngineeringM Ashraf Iqbal, PhD UET Shafay Shamail, PhD BathArif Zaman, PhD Stanford Nabil Mustafa, PhD DukeNaveed Arshad, PhD U of Colorado Hamid Abdul Basit, PhD National U of Singapore
Computer Science and Engineering
Faculty
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 Man’s 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
Research Areas and Funded Projects
Awarded BMW Scientific Award 1999
Video and Image ProcessingError Resilience of Multimedia Information
Efficient H.264/MPEG4 Video Encoding
Fast Correlation Methods for Image/Video Registration
Automatic Target Recognition
System Simulation and DesignPredictive Model Development for Industrial Distillation Column
Internet-based Environmental Watch System
Simulation of GELS-based Ethernet Networks
Automotive SystemsVision-based Smart Airbag
Advanced Electrical System Design (MAESTrO)
Research Areas and Funded Projects
Problem– Is it feasible to use GMPLS to
control Ethernet traffic instead of traditional (STP) control?
Approach─ Consider different networks
and place random traffic on each of those networks
─ Consider the normal as well as failed network conditions
─ Compare amount of traffic placed in normal state and recovery time after a failure
Solution– Software tools for simulation
of traditional Ethernet control and newly proposed control
Future Directions– Evaluate different mechanisms for replacing
the traditional STP-based control with the new GMPLS-based control (GELS)
Collaboration with Siemens
Possible Publication in Globecom ‘07
Dr. Zartash A Uzmi
Evaluation of GELS ArchitectureEvaluation of GELS ArchitectureEvaluation of GELS Architecture
Project span: one year (01/2006-12/2006)
People involved:Siemens: Herbertus Dewitz (Liaison and advisory role); Johannes Riedl, Martin Nathensen, Kulkarni
LUMS: Zartash Afzal Uzmi (Technical and Supervisory role), three other researchers
Poor Man’s Broadband: Peer-to-Peer Dialup Poor Man’s Broadband: Peer-to-Peer Dialup NetworkingNetworkingProblem
– Provide better dialup internet access to rural areas than what is currently available
Approach– The bottleneck in internet
access is not the ‘last mile’ in developing countries; rather, internet access is often much slower than the bandwidth of a modem
– Allow multiple users download internet content collaboratively, and use remaining bandwidth of their modem for sharing
Solution– Internet dialup and ‘dialup
underlay’ connections are interleaved to optimize available bandwidth
– Implementation is named ‘Dittorrent’, motivated by Bit-torrent
Dr. Umar Saif
Funded by Microsoft Research
Published in ACM SIGCOMM CCR 2007
Poor Man’s Dialup: Peer to Peer Dialup Networking
Future Directions– Developing a comprehensive security
architecture for this application– Extend implementation to high-
bandwidth WLL and WiMAX
Problem– Develop framework to
accommodate maximum restorable traffic in an MPLS ISP network
Approach― Allow maximum sharing of
backup paths― Identify optimal information to
be propagated― Identify optimal set of nodes to
compute backup paths
Solution– A restoration routing scheme
able to accommodate 10% more traffic over an MPLS network compared to best known methodologies
Future Directions– Create MPLS Traffic Engineering test
bed with 26 nodes for experimentation
Primary Path
Backup Path
Single Failure Assumption allows these backup paths to share bandwidth
Funded by CISCO
Published in ICC ’05 and ICC ‘07
Dr. Zartash A Uzmi
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Restoration Routing in MPLS NetworksRestoration Routing in MPLS NetworksRestoration Routing in MPLS Networks
Problem– Transport of multimedia over a
network for play-out within user specified quality constraints
Approach– Formulate resource allocation
as optimization problem with constraints and fairness
– Exploit tradeoff between available resources and minimum required play-out quality. Use fairness condition to spread any degradation evenly across active objects
Solution– Heuristic based dynamic
resource allocation solution able to transmit better quality video over limited resources versus static assignment
Future Directions– Extension to resource reservation
by intermediate nodes for end-to-end quality
Time process for I/O or Network channel assignment
Dynamic channel allocation for above process
Dr Shahab Baqai
Published in ACM Multimedia Systems Journal
Resource Management in Multimedia Services
Error Resilience of Multimedia InformationError Resilience of Multimedia Information
The Problem– Incorporate error resilience in
coding of multimedia information against correlated network losses.
Approach– Joint source and channel coding– Interleaving in compressed bit-
stream to preserve compression– Compliance with standards
– Minimum change in encoding
– Decoding using standard decoder
Solution– Split and interleave related
information in the frequency domain so that partial information is retrievable even under correlated network losses
– Different schemes for standard JPEG, JPEG 2000 and MPEG standards optimized for application scenarios.
Applications– Wireless multimedia applications– Layered coding for progressive decoding &
display of multimedia data– Graceful degradation of quality with
increasing resource constraints
Future Directions– Error resilience and subsequent concealment
of different video and audio coding standards– Modeling of loss in different networks
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Dr Shahab Baqai
Published in J. of Image Representation & Video Coding
Error Resilience of Multimedia Information
Error Resilience of Multimedia InformationError Resilience of Multimedia Information
Observation– Developing countries are offering
the fastest growth in mobile technology
– Largest WiMax deployment is being done in Pakistan (Motorola/Wateen)
Research Strategy– Address the networking issues for
the 4th generation multi-hop broadband wireless networks
– Emphasize the components in the 802.16J architecture
– Work with the industry to translate the research into technology
Icebreaking with 802.16J– Relay functionality – Access network frequency
management– Admission control– Local and network mobility
management– QoS enhancements via relays– Broadband multimedia services
Future Plan– Address ALL relevant research areas– Physical Layer (Collaborative MIMO and
OFDMA, ST diversity, Cognitive radio)– RF Hardware (High efficiency linear power
amps, tunable receivers, antenna arrays)– MAC (opportunistic scheduling with fairness)– Networking (Mobility management, handoff
and roaming, Ambient networking)– Services (VoIP, Mobile TV, High Res Games)
Various faculty members
Wireless Network Research Initiative
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