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Pakistan Created: August 14th, 1947 Founded by: Mohammad Ali Jinnah Official Name: Islamic Republic of Pakistan Capital: Islamabad Area: Total 796,095 sq.km + Kashmir Population (Yr 2012): 187.4 Million Language: Urdu (National), English (Official) State: 6 th Nuclear State, with 7 th Largest Army KPK PUNJAB BALOCHISTAN SINDH Lahore Islamabad JAMMU & KASHMIR A R A B I A N S E A NORTHERN AREAS GILGIT BALTISTAN Quetta Peshawar C H I N A I R A N Karachi Karachi Karachi

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Pakistan

Created: August 14th, 1947Founded by: Mohammad Ali JinnahOfficial Name: Islamic Republic of PakistanCapital: IslamabadArea: Total 796,095 sq.km + KashmirPopulation (Yr 2012): 187.4 MillionLanguage: Urdu (National), English (Official)State: 6th Nuclear State, with 7th Largest Army

KPK

PUNJAB

BALOCHISTAN

SINDH

Lahore

Islamabad

JAMMU & KASHMIR

A R A B I A N S E A

NORTHERN AREAS

GILGIT BALTISTAN

Quetta

Peshawar

C H I N A

I R A N

Karachi

KarachiKarachi

The Land

Sports, Music, …

• Sports– Field Hockey, Cricket, Volley Ball, …

• Music– More than 600 musical instruments: sitaar, tabla, bansuri, rabaab, …

Provinces

www.jinnah.edu.pk

• Private sector university, established in 1998, with two campuses (Islamabad and Karachi)– Ranked by HEC in its highest category, and authorized to award 

degrees in all disciplines– Received large number of research grants (2nd in Pakistan from 

ICT R&D Fund, Govt of Pakistan)

• .

Faculties and Departments

• Faculty of Management & Social Sciences– Departments: Management Sciences, Finance 

& Economics and Social Sciences• Faculty of Computing

– Departments: Computer Science, Bio‐Informatics and Mathematics

• Faculty of Engineering– Departments: Electronic Engineering, 

Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering• Programs in Electronic, Computer, Mechanical and Civil Engineering and in Engineering Management

• Faculty of Medicine planned for 2015

Research Activities in Faculty of Engineering

• Strong emphasis on applied research– Eight (8) major research groups in the areas of 

Control Systems, Signal Processing, Computer Vision, Micro‐electronics, Wireless Comm., Networks, Software Radios and Microwave Antennas, etc.

• Large number of PhD students– In engineering, more than 105 research papers 

in last two years in ISI Indexed Journals• More than 17 major R&D projects in the 

last 4 years– funded by National and International funding 

agencies– Total funding worth more than Rs 240 Million

Research…

• Only in the Faculty of Engineering, Collective ISI Impact Factor of research publications is more than 170

• MAJU regularly organizes international conferences– 2006 IEEE International Multitopic Conference (INMIC 06)– 2006 IEEE International Conference on Engineering of 

Intelligent Systems (ICEIS 06)– 2009 IEEE International Multitopic Conference (INMIC 09)– National Workshop in Bio‐Informatics 2011– International Conference on Trends in Management (ICTM 

2012)– 2012 IEEE International Conference on Emerging 

Technologies (ICET 12)– National Workshop in Bio‐Informatics 2012– International Conference on Trends in Management (ICTM 

2013)– 2013 IEEE International Conference on Emerging 

Technologies (ICET 13)

International Collaborations• Membership of Commonwealth Universities 

Association• University of California Berkeley, USA

– MoU for faculty and student exchange• University of Leicester and University of 

Sterling, UK– International Strategic Partnerships in Research 

and Education• European Commissions Erasmus Mundus E‐

Link Program– 21 visits to European universities by BS, MS, PhD 

students and Post‐Doc researchers for 10 months, faculty for 2 months

• European Commissions Erasmus MundusCLink Program– 20 visits to European universities by BS, MS 

students and Post‐Doc researchers for 10 months, PhD for 2 years, faculty for 1 month

International Collaborations

• Staffordshire University, UK– MoU signed for placement of BS final year 

students for double degree in Electronic Engineering

• University of Lyon‐2, France– MoU signed for academic collaboration

• Institute Paris Tech, France– MoU signed for research collaboration, and for 

funded MS thesis after completing course work at MAJU

• ENS Lyon / INRIA Rones‐Alpes, France– Collaboration for double degree + joint PhD 

supervision• European Commissions Erasmus Mundus

FUSION Program

Local Coordinator: Amir Qayyum

• Professor and Dean, Faculty of Engineering, MAJU– Graduated from UET Lahore, PhD from 

University of Paris‐Sud, France– Research area: Networks (wired, wireless, 

mobile), supervisor of many PhD students• Director Center of Research in 

Networks and Telecom (CoReNeT) www.corenet.org.pk– Project Director of many funded projects 

in the area of Heterogeneous IP Networks, VANETs, IPTV / IMS, Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN), etc.

• Email: [email protected]

Email: [email protected]

Thank you