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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.
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| In addition 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 currently consists of: |
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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 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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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 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.
(http://www.in-cube.com), 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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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 a 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
Research, Operations Management, 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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Amos Nur
Amos Nur received his BS in
Geology from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem
and his Ph.D. in Geophysics from MIT. He served
as chair of Stanford’s geophysics dept. from
1985 to 1991 and 1997 to 2000. He holds the
Wayne Loell professorship in earth sciences,
Stanford and is the current Burke family
director of Stanford’s Overseas Studies program.
He is an honorary member of the Soc. Of
Exploration Geophysicists, fellow of the
American Geophysical Union and the Geological
Society of America, and an elected member of the
National Academy of Engineering. His research is
in the area of rock physics--including problems
such as rock failure and earthquake prediction.
It is earthquake prediction that led him first
to search for time-space patterns of historical
earthquakes as described in historical-including
biblical- writings. This in turn led him to look
at and publish papers on the archaeological
record of destruction as it relates to
earthquakes. In 1991 he produced an
award-winning documentary - "The Walls Came
Tumbling Down" - on the history of earthquakes
in the holy land, including evidence from
archaeology, writings, and earth sciences. Amos
Nur has also served as founding director (in
1977) and PI of the Stanford Rock Physics
Project – a consortium of 25 oil and oil field
service companies. The project is focused on
developing methods for exploration and
production of hydrocarbons and a deeper
understanding of the value of these resources.
Since 1995 he has dedicated much effort to
elucidate the links between declining oil and
increasing global conflict including the role of
oil in the war in Iraq.
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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 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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Xiang-Sun Zhang
Xiang-Sun Zhang is a Full
Research Professor of the Academy of Mathematics
and Systems Sciences (AMSS) within the Chinese
Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, People's
Republic of China. He graduated from the Chinese
University of Science and Technology in 1965. He
was Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and
Full Research Professor in the Institute of
Applied Mathematics (IAM), CAS. Prof. Xiang-Sun
Zhang was also Director of the IAM from 1992 to
1998. He has served as Executive Vice President
of the Academy of Mathematics and System
Sciences (AMSS), CAS, from 1998 to 2003 and as
President of Operations Research Society of
China (ORSC) from 1996 to 2004. From 2002 he has
assumed the position of Director of the Research
Center of Bioinformatics, AMSS. His research and
consulting interests include Optimization Theory
and Application, Bioinformatics, Artificial
Neural Network (ANN)and Management Information
System (MIS) Theory and Application. Prof.
Xiang-Sun Zhang is the Honorary President of the
Operations Research Society of China. He has
also won first prize of the "OR in Development",
awarded by the International Federation of
Operations Research Societies (IFORS) at the
14th International Conference at Vancouver,
Canada, 1996.
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