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Shaukat Raza won Fellowships to Pursue PhD at UTS (December 2011)
Mr. Shaukat Raza, who has been working as an RA in the AI Lab for the past 15 months, has been awarded UTS Tuition Scholarship and a 3 year Australian Research Council stipend to undertake a PhD at the University of Technology, Sydney. This award would further stenthen the ongoing collaboration between the Innovation and Enterprise Research Lab at UTS and the Artificial Intelligence Lab at IBA.
Research Grant by ICT R&D Fund (November 2011)
AI Lab has won a research grant of Rs. 8.5 Millions from ICT R&D Fund of Pakistan to build an Anti-Money Laundering System. This is a joint project between the AI Lab and Credit-Chex, Inc. The grant would allow the lab to offer RA position to 2 MS Students and 1 PhD student for the duration of the project(18 months).
Ms. Saleha Raza visiting University of Technology Sydney (September 2011)
Ms. Saleha Raza is visiting the Center for Quantum Computation & Intelligent Systems (QCIS) at University of Technology Sydney for 5 months (September, 2011 - January, 2012). She is primarily working with the UTS RoboCup Soccer team - winner of 2004 and runner-up of 2008 RoboCup Soccer competitions in the Standard Platform League. The trip is sponsored by the Australian Govt. under Endeavour Postdoctoral Research Fellowship.
Ms. Saleha Raza is working on serveral research problems related to imitation-based learning, path planning optimization and RoboCup strategy modeling using First Order Bayesian Networks.Research Grant by HEC (August, 2011)
AI Lab has won a research grant of Rs. 2.5 Millions from Higher Education Commission of Pakistan. The grant would allow the lab to offer fully funded RA position to 3 MS Students (each year for the next 3 years). The grant would help in further strengthing the Karachi Koalas team.
AI Lab Got a Nao Robot (July 2011)
AI Lab has got a Nao Robot from University of Technology, Sydney. This autonmous robot is worth 7500 Euros and is an invaluable gift from UTS. Nao is a programmable and autonomous humanoid robot. It contains gyro, accelerometer, ultrsonic and sound sensors. In addition, it has two cameras and capability to recognize faces and shapes. The robot would immensely help the AI lab in continuing the collaboration with the Innovation and Enterprise Research Lab at UTS. The following video demonstrates some of the capabilities of the Nao robot:
Youtube LinkGuest Lecture by Dr. Faraz Zaidi (May 31, 2011)
Dr. Faraz Zaidi, Assistant Professor at PAF-KIET, was invited as a guest lecturer on 31st of May, 2011. Dr. Zaidi talked about his research work on image processing and data visualization. He also shared his PhD experience and offered invvaluable advice to students currently enrolled in the PhD program at IBA.
Guest Lecture by Dr. Tariq Mahmood (May 20, 2011)
Dr. Tariq Mahmood, Assistant Professor at FAST-NU, was invited as a guest lecturer on 20th of May, 2011. Dr. Mahmood explained his current research on the application of reinforcement learning in building an optimal recommender system. He also talked about his new project A-Eye which is a Computer Vision system designed to aid Cricket Umpires.
Guest Lecture by Dr. Zareen Saba Syed (May 18, 2011)
Dr. Zareen Syed, Assistant Professor at FAST-NU, was invited as a guest lecturer on 18th of May, 2011. Her talk focused on "Wikitology", the research project she was involved with during her PhD at University of Maryland. The Wikitology project aims to extract knowledge from Wikipedia articles with the help of ontologies. Dr. Zareen Syed also explained the software she has developed to support the Wikitology research.
Guest Lecture by Dr. Mashhood Ishaque (May 13, 2011)
Dr. Mashhood Ishaque, who recently finished his PhD from Tufts University (USA), was invited as a guest lecturer on 13th of May, 2011. Dr. Ishaque shared his research work on geometric data structures and its application in various disciplines including wireless sensor networks and path planning. He also discussed his PhD experience and offered invaluable advice to students currently enrolled in the PhD program at IBA.
Dr. Sajjad Haider visiting University of Technology Sydney (July, 2010)
Dr. Sajjad Haider is visiting the Center for Quantum Computation & Intelligent Systems (QCIS) at University of Technology Sydney for 5 months (July - Nov, 2010). He is primarily working with the UTS RoboCup Soccer team - winner of 2004 and runner-up of 2008 RoboCup Soccer competitions in the Standard Platform League. The trip is sponsored by the Australian Govt. under Endeavour Postdoctoral Research Fellowship.
In addition to getting exposure of Nao based humanoid robots, Dr. Haider is working on several research problems related to locomotion, localization, computer vision and team strategy building in RoboCup Soccer. His experience of working with a world class team would enable FCS, IBA to start similar activities in Pakistan and to prepare its students to participate in one of the most popular and exciting competitions of Computer Science. In addition to the RoboCup related activities, Dr. Haider is also making efforts to build long-term research collaboration between IBA's AI Lab and several research groups at UTS working on belief revision, machine learning, patent analysis and information/knowledge extraction.Mr. Syed Meesum Raza spoke to the students of Artificial Intelligence class (April 29, 2010)
Mr. Syed Meesurm Raza, Principal Software Engineer and SATMAP Data Architect at TRG, was invited as a guest lecturer in the Artificial Intelligence class on 29th of April, 2010. Mr. Raza gave an overview of the AI based projects currently under development at TRG. In particular, he talked at length about the SATMAP application which heavily uses Neural Networks. Mr. Raza compared the performance of backpropagation and resilient propagation algorithms. In addition to the AI based projects, Mr. Raza also briefed students about TRG mentorship program and the internship opportunities at TRG.
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Mr. Ali Zaidi spoke to the students of Game Programming & Robotics class (November 26, 2009)
Mr. Ali Zaidi, a senior scientist at NESCOM, was invited as a guest lecturer in the Game Programming & Robotics class on 26th of November, 2009. Mr. Zaidi gave a very interesting lecture which lasted more than 4 hours on Computer Vision. He talked about vision systems and issues related to low level computer vision. Detection of objects through edge based segmentation and region based segmentation (blob detection) were discussed in detail. Detection of known shapes was also explained briefly. A hands-on session with the OpenCV library was also conducted during the talk.
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Mr. Jawwad Farid spoke to the students of Artificial Intelligence class (March 16, 2009)
Mr. Jawwad Farid, CEO of Alchemy Technologies, was invited as a guest lecturer in the Artificial Intelligence class on March 16, 2009. The talk was attended by students of BS (VI), BS (VIII) and BBA-MIS (VI) classes. The title of his talk was "All models are wrong, some models are more useful than others." Mr. Farid talked about his experience of providing risk management services to banks, acturial firms and blue chip companies and the role different models play in support of this activity. The talk was followed by a question answer session.
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Mr. Nauman Sheikh spoke to the students of Artificial Intelligence class (March 2, 2009)
Mr. Nauman Sheikh, CTO of Credit-Chux, was invited as a guest lecturer in the Artificial Intelligence class on 2nd of March, 2009. The talk was attended by students of BS (VI), BS (VIII) and BBA-MIS (VI) classes. Mr. Sheikh talked about the career opportunities that exist for "data" people and how students should plan their career.The main focus of the talk was on the application of business intelligence and analytics in fields as diversed as logistic and supply chain, risk management in banks, insurance and telecommunications, fraud management, direct marketing, etc. The talk was followed by a question answer session.
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