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Khurram Afridi
Project Director
As Project Director, Dr. Khurram
Afridi is responsible for all aspects
of the School of Science and Engineering
(SSE). He has joined LUMS SSE on
deputation from Techlogix - a 200
person information technology services
company with operations in Hartford,
Boston, Dubai, Karachi, Lahore and
Beijing. As its Chief Operating
Officer, he was responsible for
the strategic direction, business
development, and management of Techlogix,
and helped the company grow consistently
at an annual rate of 50% since inception
in 1996. Prior to Techlogix, he
has worked at Schlumberger, Philips
Laboratories, Lutron, and JPL. At
JPL he was part of the SURFSAT-1
design team - a NASA satellite that
was launched into orbit in 1995.
Khurram received his Bachelor of
Science in Electrical Engineering
from Caltech, and Masters of Science
and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science from MIT. He
is the first non-European to have
won the BMW Scientific Award for
his outstanding doctoral research.
He has published numerous papers;
holds one US and international patent;
and is a contributing author of
the Power Electronics Handbook.
He has been actively involved with
higher education reform issues in
Pakistan over the last few years
and the LUMS SSE initiative from
the beginning.
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Zakeesh I. Khan
Manager, Communications & Outreach
Zakeesh Iqbal Khan has done her
Masters in Mass Communication from
Kinnaird College, following which
she has been working as a Media
and Communications Executive in
Techlogix. She also has considerable
national and international experience
in the social sector-in a voluntary
capacity, specifically in terms
of advocacy and program design pertaining
to women empowerment, education,
skill-training and other development
initiatives targeted towards youth.
She is also Chairperson of the National
Technical Committee on Women, Youth
and Environment-FPAP. She is currently
assisting the LUMS SSE team in its
marketing and fundraising initiative.
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Sarah Mahmood
Manager, Development
Sarah did her Masters in Mass Communications
and Bachelors in Journalism and
Psychology, both from Kinnaird College.
She has worked at WWF (World Wide
Fund for Nature) and Asiatic. She
has also taught at the Lahore Grammar
School. She joined the LUMS Science
and Engineering Initiative Team
initially as the Assistant Project
Coordinator in 2004, but has since
been promoted to the new role of development manager.
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Hajira Kureshi
Manager, Admissions
Hajira Kureshi holds a BS and an
MS in Computer Sciences from the
Lahore University of Management
Sciences, and also a BA in English
Literature from Kinnaird College.
Since 1997 she has been involved
in various managerial and engineering
roles in the local technology sector.
She was the manager of the Quality
Assurance department at Techlogix
Ltd. till 2003, where she helped
to define and implement ISO quality
standards. Hajira has also been
involved in voluntary work at Stanford
University's Cantor Arts Museum,
the Stanford Hospital and the United
Nations' Association Film Festival.
Her most recent undertaking was
a compilation of the initial history
of LUMS. She has joined the LUMS
SSE team in the Admissions department.
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Kiran Anwar
Executive, HR
Kiran Anwar did her Masters in English
Literature from Kinnaird College
in 2005. Since then she has been
working in the area of Human Resource
management with a particular focus
on recruitment. Before joining the
LUMS SSE team, Kiran worked with
a recruitment firm, SKP Consulting,
where she assisted with servicing
clients like Netsol, Descon, ICC
Engineering and U-Fone. Kiran has
also completed a core course of
MBIT from the University of the
Punjab.
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Saima Ali
Executive, Media
Saima Ali graduated with merit
from the B.Sc. (Hons.) program at
LUMS, with a major in Computer Science
and a minor in Accounting & Finance.
She has also worked as a Web Developer
at Advanced Research Projects and
Technologies (Arpatech) Pvt. Ltd.
Prior experience includes serving
as the President of the I.T. Society
at her college and interning as
a Graphic Designer at Kraysis, a
private software house. Saima has
also been a Teaching Assistant for
several courses at LUMS, including
Software Engineering and Project
Management.
Graphic designing being her primary
passion, she also loves dance choreography,
music, gymming and fitness, glass painting
and jewelry making. She is an active
sportswoman, being the captain and
color-holder of Netball at LUMS.
Saima is also a Jiu Jitsu orange
belt holder.
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Zainab Siraj
Executive, Communications
Zainab Siraj did her Masters in
English Literature from Kinnaird
College, Lahore. Following the completion
of her degree she worked as Project
Coordinator in a non-governmental
organization, AGHS Legal Aid Cell.
During this time she also worked
in the capacity of Country Coordinator
for a sister organization South
Asians for Human Rights. She has
joined the LUMS SSE team as Communications
Executive.
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Neeka Babar
Executive, Admissions
Neeka did her Masters in Mass Communication
from Kinnaird College in 2004. Her
Bachelors was in Journalism and
English Literature, also from Kinnaird
College. She has worked at Mobilink,
where she was responsible for Internal
and External Marketing and Communications,
and at the Beaconhouse Head Office,
where she developed the English
Language curriculum. She has also
worked for Geo Television as a Production
Associate.
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Saadiya Waheed Raza
Senior Executive, Admissions
Also an Alumna of LUMS, Saadiya has been primarily associated with academia in research and
technical capacities. Her interest lies in Open Source technologies for information management,
particularly in the development and education sector. At SSE, her role is to provide momentum
to the customization and deployment of core academic technologies required for all patrons of
the School of Science and Engineering.
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Nida Khalid
Executive, Event Management
Nida did her Masters in Mass Communications and Bachelors in Journalism and Psychology, both from Kinnaird College. She has worked at Evernew Concepts, AGHS Legal Aid Cell and South Asia Partnership. She has also taught at the Lahore Grammar School. She has joined the LUMS Science and Engineering Team as an Event Management Executive.
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Durdana Bint-e-Ghazi
Executive, Student Services
Durdana did her Masters in Economics from the University of the Punjab. She has been associated with LUMS for the last seven years. She has also worked at Tarror Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd. and Alipine International Pvt. Ltd. prior to joining LUMS.
She has been managing the office of the Vice Chancellor, LUMS, planning and coordination, maintaining records, organizing board meetings and other university events. Planning and problem solving are her strengths.
Though she has a Masters degree, the process of learning has not stopped and she continues to think of herself as a student. Durdana has joined the LUMS Science and Engineering Team as a Student Services Executive.
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Amara Bashir
Junior Executive, Admissions
Amara Bashir did her MBA from University
of South Asia, Lahore with a specialization
in Human Resource. She completed
her Bachelor's degree in Computer
Sciences and Geography from Garrison
College, Lahore. She has worked
as a Marketing Executive in the
Government Agricultural Marketing
Department. She has also been involved
in research projects such as examining
the necessity for mobile phones
in our daily routine. Currently
she is working at the LUMS School of Science & Engineering as a Junior Admissions Executive.
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Madiha Qayyum
Junior Executive, Admissions
Madiha Qayyum did her Masters in
Political Science and International
Relations from Government College
University, Lahore. She completed
her Bachelor's degree in Political
Science and Psychology from Gulberg
College, Lahore. During her academic
years, she was involved in various
research projects. She investigated
the area of conflicts and corporation
in the city government of Lahore.
She also researched the necessity
of dowry in our prevailing society.
Currently
she is working at the LUMS School of Science & Engineering as a Junior Admissions Executive.
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Annemieke W. Veenenbos
Senior Executive, Development
Annemieke Veenenbos did her Masters and Bachelors degree in Civil law both from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. Before starting her studies at the University of Utrecht in 2000, she succesfully completed a one year program in English Literature from the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.
In the Netherlands, Annemieke worked as a Senior Relationship Manager at Fortis Intertrust (Netherlands) NV, a large international financial and corporate service provider. She was involved in the set up, and the management of securitisation structures alongside commercial activities and relationship management. Since arrival in Pakistan in October 2007, Annemieke has for some time been working as a staff writer for NGO World and as a fundraising consultant.
Annemieke has joined the LUMS School of Science and Engineering as a Senior Development Executive.
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Zara Fateh Qizilbash
Manager, Undergraduate Education
Zara Fateh Qizilbash received her
Bachelors and Masters degrees in
Physics from the University of Oxford,
specializing in Condensed Matter
Physics and Atomic Physics. As the
Manager of Undergraduate Education for LUMS SSE,
she is responsible for the development
of the physics curriculum and its
integration with other disciplines
in the SSE's core program of study.
She is also engaged in designing
the physics lab and developing lab
experiments and coursework. Prior
to joining SSE, Zara directed a
turnkey project to establish a Greenfield
fiberboard manufacturing plant and
served as Project Manager responsible
for developing a middle-income housing
scheme. Zara is on the Board of
Governors of Roedean School, Brighton.
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Sohaib Shamim
Development Engineer
Sohaib received his Bachelors and
Masters degrees in Physics from
University of Oxford. As a Development
Engineer, Sohaib is responsible
for designing and developing physics
undergraduate labs. Prior to LUMS,
Sohaib has worked with Atmospheric
Physics Department at Oxford and
Plasma Antennas Ltd, a UK based
high tech 'start-up' with a mandate
to research and develop solid state
antennas for civil and defence applications.
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Volunteers |
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Bilal Musharraf
Bilal Musharraf completed his B.S.
in Actuarial Science from University
of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
in 1994. After graduation, he worked
five years as an actuarial analyst
for AIB in Boston, pricing and reserving
automobile insurance (1994-1999).
In 2000 he joined Watson Wyatt Worldwide
(NYSE: WW) in Boston as an actuarial
consultant, providing liability
valuation analysis of employee benefit
plans (Medical, Pension, Options)
to the Fortune 1000 companies. He
is currently a 2007 dual degree
MBA/MA(Education) candidate at the
Stanford Graduate School of Business
and the Stanford University School
of Education.
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Mavra Mushtaq Ahmad
Mavra Mushtaq Ahmad is currently
doing her B.Sc. (Hons) at LUMS,
working on a major in Accounting
and Finance and a minor in Mathematics.
She completed her O' levels from
Beaconhouse School System in 2004
and sat for her intermediate board
examinations in 2006. At LUMS, she
was placed on the Dean's Honors
List for the year 2006-2007. She
also won the fastest fingers competition
with the batch of 2010, in the year
2006. She is a member of the organizing
team of the LUMS Model United Nations.
Mavra enjoys social work and has
visited the SOS Children's Hostel
a number of times. Among her other
interests are music, shopping, TV
shows and movies. At LUMS SSE, she
is working as a student volunteer
since September 2007.
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Mohammad Ali Raja
Ali received his Bachelor's in Civil
Engineering from UET Lahore, a Master's
in Computer Science from LUMS and
has substantial experience in designing,
managing and delivering on complex
construction projects. His company's
designs were selected for the Zero-Point
Monument of the Lahore Islamabad
Motorway Project and the stainless
steel monument on GT Road in Shadra.
As a construction management expert,
he has delivered on-time and on-budget,
among others: the NHA Building at
Queen's Road, the Lahore Mall Road
Underpass Project, and establishment
of one of Pakistan's largest rock
quarries. He is currently managing
his own construction company in
London, and helping the LUMS SSE
build its infrastructure.
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Salal Humair
Salal Humair currently works as
a Principal Software Engineer at
Optiant, Inc. (Boston, MA), a technology
startup founded at MIT and focused
on supply-chain design and optimization.
He obtained his PhD and MS in Operations
Research from MIT, an MS in Civil
Engineering from MIT, and a BS in
Civil Engineering from UET Lahore.
His Master's research was on formulating
conceptual design as a constraint
satisfaction problem; doctoral research
on yield management for telecommunications
and his current work is in supply
chain optimization. He has worked
at CS First Boston, and interned
at GTE Laboratories, IBM's T.J.
Watson Research Center, Schlumberger
Austin Product Center, and Lucent
Technologies, Bell Laboratories.
He has also had significant teaching
experience during graduate school
as Head Teaching Assistant for a
large undergraduate computing course
at MIT.
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Sohaib Khan
Sohaib Khan did his PhD in Computer
Science from University of Central
Florida and his BS in Electronic
Engineering from GIK Institute of
Engineering Sciences and Technology,
Topi. He is currently Assistant
Professor at the Department of Computer
Science, Lahore University of Management
Sciences. His research interests
lie in the fields of computer vision,
image processing and pattern recognition.
In particular he has done recent
work on tracking and surveillance,
video segmentation, face processing
and video geo-registration. He has
received more than Rs. 3.5 million
as a research grant from a public
sector organization for work on
image registration. He is also providing
consulting in the computer vision
area to local public and private
organizations. He has published
more than ten journal and conference
publications and has two book chapters
to his credit. Dr. Khan was the
recipient of Hillman Fellowship
for excellence in graduate research,
UCF (2001) and also received the
merit-based Graduate Enhancement
Fellowship, UCF (2000 and 2001).
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Syed Talha Imam
Syed Talha Imam completed his B.Sc. (Hons) from LUMS in June 2008, with a major in Accounting and Finance and a minor in Economics.
He did his A' levels from Saint Patrick's High School, Karachi. At LUMS, he was placed on the Dean's Honors List and graduated with
distinction. Talha enjoys sports and was part of the school's basketball and volleyball team. At college, he was part of the
Debating and Dramatics Society. He actively participates in social work and was part of the Care 'n' Share society at his college.
He is currently working at Unilever Pakistan Limited, at a position of a Management Trainee as an Assistant Manager Customer
Development. His previous experiences include internships at Ford Rhodes Sidat Hyder & Co. (partners of Ernst and Young Global)
under Audit and at Telenet under customer service. Talha was serving as a student volunteer, helping in several activities
associated with the SSE. He intends to continue his participation as a volunteer for SSE.
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Zeeshan Syed
Zeeshan Syed received his S.B. and
M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science from MIT in
2003. He is currently at the MIT
Computer Science and Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory, working
towards a Ph.D. His research interests
span the domain of using computers
to improve contemporary healthcare,
with a focus on low-cost software
solutions for developing countries.
He is actively involved in a number
of projects in association with
clinical experts from Harvard Medical
School and Massachusetts General
Hospital, and holds a patent for
his work in the area of automated
auscultation and prototypical biological
signal analysis. He is the recipient
of the William A. Martin and Morris
J. Levin awards in recognition of
his research at MIT, and was featured
in the 2003 MIT Technovators list
of top innovators. He is a member
of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma
Xi and the International Society
for Philosophical Enquiry. He is
also on the panel of experts consulting
the PSEB on bioinformatics outsourcing
and occasionally contributes articles
to newspapers on higher education
initiatives.
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Shoa Malik
Consultant, Graphic Design
Shoa Malik, currently providing
consultancy services in graphic
design under the name SHOAWORKS,
is an NCA (National College of Arts)
graduate with graphic designing
and photography as major and minor
subjects respectively. She has been
a Scholarship holder throughout
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