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Advisory Board
The LUMS SSE Advisory Board comprising of distinguished
academic and corporate leaders has been established to
serve as a link between the LUMS School of Science and
Engineering (SSE) and its many constituencies by providing
continuing counsel to the Board of Trustees, the Vice
Chancellor, the Project Director, members of the VPDT,
and the faculty pertaining to the academic and administrative
matters of LUMS SSE. In addition, it serves to validate
the value and feasibility of the short and long term vision
of the school and recommend changes in approach based
on progress. The Advisory Board has no direct management
functions with respect to internal SSE decision-making,
reinforces the closer role of the VPDT and acts as an
advocate of LUMS SSE to the community at large.
Download: SSE
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to corporate leaders, the board has at most
one distinguished faculty of international
renown and substantial experience for each
disciplinary area planned for the SSE. It
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Hassan
Ahmed
Hassan
Ahmed is CEO and Chairman of Sonus Networks. As
chief executive officer and chairman, Dr.
Ahmed is responsible for the strategic direction
and management of the company. Prior to joining
Sonus as president and CEO in 1998, Dr. Ahmed
was executive vice president and general manager
of Ascend Communications' Core Systems Division,
which grew under his direction to a $1 billion
business. Before Ascend's acquisition of Cascade
Communications, he served as Cascade's chief
technology officer. Previously, Dr. Ahmed
was president and founder of WaveAccess, a
pioneer in high-speed wireless network products.
Additionally, he has held the positions of
product engineering manager, Analog Devices,
and director, VSLI Systems, Motorola Codex.
He was also an associate professor at the
Graduate School of Management, Boston University.
Dr. Ahmed holds a BSEE and MSAE from Carleton
University and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering
from Stanford University.
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Khalid
Aziz
Khalid
Aziz is the Otto N. Miller Professor Emeritus
of Earth Sciences and Professor of Energy
Resources Engineering at Stanford University.
Before coming to Stanford in 1982, he was
a Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
at the University of Calgary. At Stanford
he has served as the Associate Dean for Research
(School of Earth Sciences) and as Chair of
the Petroleum Engineering Department. Professor
Aziz studied engineering at the University
of Michigan, University of Alberta and at
Rice University. He has received several international
awards including the highest award (Honorary
Membership) of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
His publications include approximately 200
technical papers and 3 books. He is a frequent
consultant to major oil and gas companies
and government agencies throughout the world.
He is a member of the National Academy of
Engineering of the U.S.A.
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Sally
M. Benson
Sally
M. Benson is the Director of the Global Climate
and Energy Project at Stanford University.
The Global Climate and Energy Project develops
innovative low carbon energy supplies to meet
global energy needs. She received her B.A.
from Barnard College in Geology and her M.S.
and Ph.D. from the University of California
in the Material Science and Mineral Engineering
Department. Prior to joining Stanford, Benson
worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
(LBNL), serving in a number of capacities,
including Division Director for Earth Sciences,
Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Sciences,
and Deputy Director for Operations. Also a
Professor (Research) in the Department of
Energy Resources Engineering, Benson works
on carbon dioxide capture and sequestration
in deep underground geological formations.
A ground water hydrologist and reservoir engineer,
Benson has conducted research to address a
range of issues related to energy and the
environment. For the past ten years she has
studied how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
by capturing carbon dioxide from power plants
and pumping it into deep underground formations
for permanent sequestration. Benson was a
coordinating lead author on the 2005 IPCC
Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and
Storage. She also serves on the Board of Directors
of the National Renewal Energy Laboratory
and Climate Central.
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Steve
Berry
Steve
Berry is the James Franck Distinguished Service
Professor Emeritus at the Department of Chemistry,
University of Chicago. He received his A.B.,
A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, and
has taught at the University of Michigan and
Yale University in addition to the University
of Chicago. His research has been both theoretical
and applied and has led to fundamental contributions,
for instance the Berry Pseudo Rotation in
Physical Chemistry. At the University of Chicago,
his early theoretical work focused on vibronic
coupling, auto ionization and related processes,
including molecular quantum beats. It later
expanded to include many scattering phenomena,
some of which are still in his current research. In
the late 1960’s, he became interested
in the efficient use of energy, and began
a method of empirical analysis of energy and
materials use, now known as “lifetime
analysis.” This very “applied”
work stimulated a new direction of basic science
that became the field of finite-time thermodynamics.
More recently, he has studied electron correlation,
atomic and molecular clusters, dynamics of
proteins and complex energy landscapes. He
has been honored for his research and service
with several awards. He is a Member and former
Home Secretary of the National Academy of
Sciences, a MacArthur Fellow, a Fellow and
former Vice-President of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences, and a Foreign Honorary
Member of the Danish Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Zia
Chishti
Mr.
Chishti is the founding Chairman and CEO of
The Resource Group, the largest offshore-controlled
business process outsourcing company in the
world. With over $200 million in revenues
and over 5000 employees, The Resource Group
is Pakistan's most prominent growth company.
At the Resource Group, Mr. Chishti has raised
over $100 million in capital, including an
initial public offering on the Karachi Stock
Exchange. Prior to founding The Resource
Group, Mr. Chishti was the founding Chairman
and CEO of Align Technology, a silicon-valley
based medical device company. Mr. Chishti
led the development of Align Technology from
a two-person startup to over $70 million in
revenues, over 1000 employees, and a NASDAQ
initial public offering that resulted in a
market capitalization of over $1 billion. At
Align Technology, Mr. Chishti raised over
$250 million in capital and pioneered Align's
process of locating its operations offshore,
resulting in over 700 employees in Pakistan. Prior
to founding Align Technology, Mr. Chishti
worked at Morgan Stanley & Company in
their investment banking division and McKinsey
& Company as a consultant. Mr. Chishti
is a graduate of Columbia University where
he received his BA degree in Computer Science
and Economics and of Stanford University,
where he received his MBA degree.
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Hubertus
von Dewitz
Hubertus
von Dewitz was most recently Head of Siemens
Corporate Technology (Central R&D), where
he was responsible for co-ordination of Siemens
global co-operation with Universities. He
was involved in managing Center of Knowledge
Interchanges with Universities, systems of
international university ambassadors, and
creating and planning interactive Siemens-University
R&D activities. Dr. Dewitz has a PhD in
Nuclear Physics from Garching, a diploma in
quantum field theory from Munich, and a degree
in Physics from Berlin University. Since 1993,
he has been a Professor at the University
of Duisburg in Microelectronics, and a Member
of the Board of Fuzzy and Neural Network Initiative.
Between 1994 and 1996 he was also involved
in the R&D planning activities of the
European Commission.
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Mir
Imran
Mir
Imran is recognized for his history as a scientist,
inventor, entrepreneur and investor of medical
technology companies. He is the founder and
Chairman of InCube Laboratories, Inc., a business
incubator for medical and technology companies.
Through InCube, and prior to its establishment,
he founded numerous medical and high technology
companies. Mr. Imran currently serves
as a Director for CardioVasc Inc., Zonare
Inc., Intrapace Inc., Entrack Inc., SafeView
Inc., Bodymedia Inc., EGeen Inc., Acumen Medical
Inc., Python Medical Inc. and Neurolinks Inc.
Mr. Imran is an active angel investor and
a limited partner in several venture funds. In
addition, he serves as an Advisor to Alley
Ventures and is a Venture Partner and an Advisor
of DFJ ePlanet Ventures, a $650 million global
venture capital fund, based in Silicon Valley. Mr.
Imran’s formal education consists of
a B.S. in Electrical engineering and M.S.
in Bioengineering from Rutgers University. After
three years at the Rutgers Medical School,
which included research in bioengineering,
he pursued his subsequent interests in industry,
which include the establishment of close to
200 patents in his name, and numerous scientific
publications.
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Robert
Jaffe
Robert
Jaffe is the Jane and Otto Morningstar Professor
of Physics at MIT, and the Director of the
MIT Center for Theoretical Physics. Professor
Jaffe received his A.B. in Physics, summa
cum laude, from Princeton University, and
his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford in
1971 and 1972, respectively. At Stanford he
founded the Stanford Workshops on Political
and Social Issues. He has served on the program
advisory committees of several national laboratories
including the Stanford Linear Accelerator
Center and Brookhaven National Laboratory.
For a decade he chaired the Advisory Council
of the Physics Department of Princeton University.
Since 1996, Jaffe has been an advisor to and
Visiting Scientist at the RIKEN-Brookhaven
Research Center. In February of 1998 Professor
Jaffe was named Director of the Center for
Theoretical Physics at MIT. He is a Fellow
of the American Physical Society and the American
Association for the Advancement of Science.
He has been awarded the Science Council Prize
for Excellence in Teaching Undergraduates
(1983), the Graduate Student Council Teaching
Award (1988), and the Physics Department's
Buechner Teaching Prize (1997). In January
1998, Jaffe was named a Margaret MacVicar
Faculty Fellow in recognition of his contributions
to MIT's teaching program. In 2001 he was
named the Otto and Jane Morningstar Professor
in the School of Science at MIT.
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John
G. Kassakian
John G.
Kassakian is Professor of Electrical Engineering
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
and Director of the MIT Laboratory for Electromagnetic
and Electronic Systems. His field of expertise
is power electronics and automotive electrical
systems. He received his undergraduate and
graduate degrees from MIT, and prior to joining
the MIT faculty, he served a two-year tour
of duty in the US Navy. Dr. Kassakian was
the Founding President of the Institute of
Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
Power Electronics Society, served as the US
representative to the European Power Electronics
Association, and is the recipient of the IEEE
Centennial Medal, the IEEE William E. Newell
Award, the IEEE Power Electronics Society's
Distinguished Service Award, the IEEE Millennium
Medal, the European Power Electronics Association
Achievement Award, and the Kabakjian Science
Award. In 1989 he was elected a Fellow of
the IEEE and in 1993 he was elected to the
National Academy of Engineering. In 1993 he
was also awarded an IEEE Distinguished Lectureship
through which he has lectured internationally.
He has published extensively in the areas
of power electronics, power systems, education
and automotive electrical systems, is a member
of the Boards of Directors of Ault, Inc.,
American Power Conversion Corp. (APC) and
ISO New England Co. (the independent system
operator of the New England electric utility
system), and the Corporate Advisory Boards
of Tyco Electronics and Lutron Electronics.
He serves as a consultant to government and
industry, and is a co-author of the textbook
Principles of Power Electronics. Dr. Kassakian's
interests include sailing, fishing, golf and
gardening. He has two children and resides
with his wife in Newton, Massachusetts.
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Alvin
Kwiram
Alvin
Kwiram is Professor Emeritus at the Department
of Chemistry, University of Washington. He
received his BA in Physics and BS in Chemistry
from Walla Walla College in 1958, and completed
his doctoral work in Chemistry at the California
Institute of Technology in 1962. Dr. Kwiram
has published over 75 papers in the field
of physical chemistry emphasizing the development
of novel magnetic resonance and optical techniques
designed to probe the electronic structure
of molecular systems in the solid state. During
1962-63 he held the Alfred A. Noyes Instructorship
at Caltech. From 1964 to 1970 he was on the
faculty of Harvard University, before joining
the University of Washington (UW). At UW he
served as Chair of the Department of Chemistry
for a decade and later became Vice Provost
at the university. In 1990 he was appointed
the Vice Provost for the newly established
Office of Research, a position he held until
2002. Before he retired in 2007, he also served
for five years as the Executive Director of
the National Science and Technology Center
on Materials and Devices for Information Technology
Research funded by the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Kwiram
has been a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, an Alfred
P. Sloan Fellow and a John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation Fellow. He is also a
Fellow of the American Physical Society
and the American Association for the Advancement
of Science (AAAS). He served as Chair of
the Chemistry Section of the AAAS. He also
served as a member of the Executive Committee
of the Division of Physical Chemistry in
the American Chemical Society (ACS). He
served as the chair of the Graduate Education
Advisory Board for the ACS (2006-2008),
and as chair (2006-2008) of the Academic
Advisory Board of the Worldwide Universities
Network, a consortium of some 16 international
research universities. Dr. Kwiram has also
spent sabbaticals and visiting professorships
at the University of California, Berkley,
University of Stuttgart, Germany and Wolfson
College, Oxford University.
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Richard
Larson
Richard
Larson is the Mitsui Professor in the Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering and
in the Engineering Systems Division at MIT.
He is currently President of INFORMS (Institute
for Operations Research and the Management
Sciences), a former President of ORSA (Operations
Research Society of America 1993-94), an INFORMS
Founding Fellow and a member of the National
Academy of Engineering. He was Co-Director
of the MIT Operations Research Center for
15+ years, and from 1995-03, served as Director
of MIT’s CAES (Center for Advanced Educational
Services), bringing technology-enabled learning
to students. Recently he has created LINC
(Learning International Networks Consortium),
an MIT-based international project that has
held two international symposia and sponsored
a number of initiatives in Africa, China and
the Middle East. Dr. Larson's research on
queues has been covered extensively in national
media (e.g., ABC TV's 20/20, NPR, the Los
Angeles Times and the New York Times). He
has also consulted widely nationally and internationally
for clients such as the World Bank, Coca-Cola,
United Artists Cinemas, the Kuwait Foundation
for the Advancement of Science, Hong Kong
University and the U.S. Department of Justice,
among several others. He serves on the board
of several companies, and his awards include
the Lanchester Prize of ORSA, the INFORMS
President’s Award and the INFORMS Kimball
Medal, among others.
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Ashok
Mittal
Dr.
Ashok Mittal is currently Professor of Industrial
and Management Engineering at the Indian Institute
of Technology (IIT) Kanpur. He was educated
in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur
and did his graduate studies in Operations
Research from Case Western Reserve University.
In addition to being on the faculty at Kanpur
since 1984, he has been visiting faculty at
the Kellogg School of Management in Northwestern
University, Asian Institute of Technology
in Bangkok, and MUST in Babol, Iran. He has
served as Head of the Industrial and Management
Engineering Department, Dean of Planning and
Resource Generation, and Dean of Research
and Development at IIT Kanpur. His other administrative
experience at IIT Kanpur has included tenures
as Chairman Space Planning and Allocation
Committee, Chairman Office Automation Committee
and Convener Senate Education Policy Committee,
among several others. His research interests
are in Operations Management, Operations Research,
and Intellectual Property Rights. He is a
fellow of the Institution of Engineers in
India, member of the Operations Research Society
of USA, a Senior Member of the Operational
Research Society of India. He
is also President of Operational Society of
India and Vice President of Quality Circle
Forum of India for the years 2007-2008.
His administrative roles in professional societies
have included among others, being an Executive
Committee Member of ORSI India, Director of
the Board of Quality Circle Forum in India,
and Member of the Board of several Institutes
in India.
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Obaid
Siddiqi
Obaid
Siddiqi completed his M.Sc. from Aligarh Muslim
University in 1953 and his Ph.D. from Glasgow
University in 1961. His research interests
include Molecular Biology, Behaviour Genetics
and Neurobiology. Siddiqi and Garen discovered
the suppressors of "nonsense" mutations.
Their work stimulated research on conditional
mutations of bacteria and viruses and directly
led to the discovery of "nonsense"
codonons, the stop signals in the genetic
code. Professor Siddiqi joined the Tata Institute
of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in 1962 to
set up the Molecular Biology Group. At TIFR
Prof. Siddiqi continued his work on molecular
mechanisms of genetic recombination and gene
regulation. He and his associates were able
to show that DNA transfer can be dissociated
from replication and recombinant DNA molecules,
can arise from conserved unreplicated DNA.
He was awarded the Bhatnagar Prize for this
work. Professor Siddiqi and his associates
have carried out pioneering work on neurogenetics
of the chemical senses of Drosophila.
They have identified a series of genes whose
mutations block olfactory or gustatory responses.
Some of these mutations affect peripheral
transduction processes, specifically blocking
the electrical activity of chemoreceptors;
other mutations interfere with normal development
of the chemosensory network or cause lesions
in the central nervous system. This work has
opened up the prospect of an integrated genetic
and neurobiological investigation of chemosensory
perception. His work has led to an improved
understanding of how olfactory information
is encoded in the brain of the fruit fly.
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James
Wescoat
James Wescoat earned a Bachelor of Landscape
Architecture degree from Louisiana State University
and practiced with engineering firms in the
U.S. and Middle East before returning to graduate
study in Geography at the University of Chicago
with an emphasis on Water Resources. Before
joining MIT, he taught courses on water resources,
environmental geography, and landscape theory
at the University of Chicago, University of
Colorado at Boulder, and the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was
also a member of centers for South Asian,
Middle Eastern, Natural Hazards, and Public
Policy studies.
His research has concentrated on water
systems in South Asia and the US from the
site to river basin scales. He led the Smithsonian
Institution's project titled, "Garden,
City, and Empire: The Historical Geography
of Mughal Lahore," which resulted in
a co-edited volume on "Mughal Gardens:
Sources, Places, Representations, Prospects",
and "The Mughal Garden: Interpretation,
Conservation, and Implications" with
colleagues from the University of Engineering
and Technology-Lahore. These and related
books have won awards from the Government
of Pakistan and Punjab Government.
At the larger scale, Professor Wescoat
has conducted water policy research in the
Colorado, Indus, Ganges, and Great Lakes
basins, including the history of multilateral
water agreements. He led a USEPA-funded
study of potential climate impacts in the
Indus River Basin in Pakistan with the Water
and Power Development Authority (WAPDA).
More recently, he led an NSF-funded project
on "Water and Poverty in Colorado."
He is currently conducting comparative research
on international water problems. In 2003,
he published "Water for Life: Water
Management and Environmental Policy"
with geographer Gilbert F. White (Cambridge
University Press); and in 2007 he co-edited
"Political Economies of Landscape Change:
Places of Integrative Power" (Springer
Publishing) for LAF Landscape Futures Initiative.
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