1st November, 2019 Isfandiyar Shaheen is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur with a start-up by the name of NetEquity, which aims to make affordable internet accessibility for each person, across the globe, a reality. Mr. Shaheen is a graduate in Economics and Mathematics from Franklin and Marshall College. His career benchmarks include serving as Director on […]
Month: July 2020

THE NETWORKS FORMED ON THE FLY!
19th June, 2020 Dr. Aamir Hasan is Associate Professor and Associate Dean, UG Education & Accreditation at Dhanani School of Science and Engineering of Habib University. He acquired his Ph.D. in wireless communications from University of Texas at Austin. He further Mastered in War studies and Strategic studies from the PAF Air War College. Before joining […]

Smartphones for Clinical Diagnostics
21st February, 2020 Dr. Ahmad Usman is a faculty member of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Habib University. The recipient of US Fullbright Scholarship, Dr. Usman completed his Masters in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and Ph.D. in ECE through Georgia Institute of Technology. His doctoral work covers a variety of interdisciplinary fields including integration […]

The Novel Coronavirus Epidemic/Pandemic: Impact on Global Health, Mobility and Economy
10th February, 2020 The current crisis of Corona Virus dominating the global climate is a topic causing much apprehension and hence requiring immediate attention. A panel of notable pathologists and scientists gathered at Habib University to deliver key points regarding the epidemic, for the awareness of the Public Lecture audience. Professor Shahana Urooj Kazmi is […]

Hardware Accelerators for Reservoir Computing
23rd December, 2019 Syed Ali Hasnain is currently completing his PhD in computer engineering at Texas A&M University, USA. He holds a Bachelor’s in electrical engineering from the National University of Science and Technology in Pakistan. His areas of interest include Photonic Computing, Computer Architecture, Machine Learning and Reservoir Computing. He has gained experience, working […]

IS DNA PROGRAMMABLE? A JOURNEY FROM ELECTRONIC DESIGN AUTOMATION TO BIO DESIGN AUTOMATION
5th December 2019 Hasan Baig is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Habib University. He holds a PhD from the Denmark Technical University, where he worked on developing methods and tools for the analysis, verification and synthesis of genetic logic circuits. He has previously worked in various industries of […]

Inorganic Physiology Distribution and Speciation of Metal Ions in Biological Systems
27th November, 2019 James Penner-Hahn is the George A. Lindsay Collegiate Professor of Chemistry and Biophysics at the University of Michigan, where he is also senior advisor to the Dean for International Partnerships. He acquired his doctoral degree from Stanford in 1984 with a PhD dissertation titled, X-ray Absorption Studies of Metalloprotein Structure: Cytochrome P-450, Horseradish Peroxidase, Plastocyanin, […]

RADIO WAVELENGTH ASTRONOMY: HISTORY, TECHNIQUES AND OBSERVATIONS
21st November, 2019 Faculty member at Habib, Anna Ordog, an enthusiastic scholar of the stars and beyond, was present at Tariq Rafi Lecture Hall to share intriguing and mesmerising knowledge about radio astronomy. Ms. Ordog is a PhD candidate at University of Calgary, Canada studying Galactic magnetism by means of polarisation observations, using radio telescopes […]

DIGITIZE THE ANALOG AND ANALOG THE DIGITAL IN POST-MOORE ERA
14th November, 2019 Dr Saad bin Nasir is a senior power and mixed signal IC designer for Qualcomm Inc., USA. He completed his PhD from the Georgia University of Technology, USA in 2017. He has published 25 journal articles and refereed conference publications in areas of PMIC design, digital/mixed- signal circuits for reinforcement learning, secure […]

FRIENDS OR FOES? TRANSBOUNDARY FLOWS IN THE INDUS RIVER IS PAKISTAN HEADED FOR A NEW WATER CONFLICT WITH AFGHANISTAN?
5th November, 2019 In holding with Habib University’s core value of interdisciplinary discourse, the Public Lecture Series presented a talk on a topic of monumental significance in environmental and ecological terms, while also tackling political and socio-economic aspects. Interestingly, the level of balance required between engineering sciences and skills of critical thinking for innovating solutions […]