Saeed Boorboor is currently a Principal Research Scientist at the Center for Visual Computing at Stony Brook University, and is joining the University of Illinois Chicago as an Assistant Professor starting Fall 2025. He received my BS in Computer Science from the School of Science and Engineering, LUMS, Pakistan, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stony Brook University, NY. His research seeks to design, build, and evaluate visualization systems that empower domain scientists to explore, analyze, and interact with scientific data, using methods of human-centered design, image processing, computer graphics, and applied AI. He is also interested in investigating novel visualization and interaction methods across immersive technologies -- from hand-held and wearable devices to large display modalities.

Join us for an exclusive event featuring Prof. Michael Pecht, a distinguished academic and Professional Engineer with an illustrious educational background. Prof. Pecht holds a BS in Physics, MS in Electrical Engineering, and both a MS and PhD in Engineering Mechanics from the University of Wisconsin.With over 50,000 citations and an H-Index above 100, Prof. Pecht has earned recognition in his field. He is a Fellow of prestigious societies such as IEEE, ASME, SAE, and IMAPS. Additionally, he has contributed to three U.S. National Academy of Science studies and participated in two U.S. Congressional Investigations in automotive safety. Currently serving as the Director of CALCE and a Distinguished Professor at the University of Maryland, Prof. Pecht is known for his groundbreaking contributions in AI-based prognostics for electronics. His outstanding achievements have garnered him accolades such as the IEEE Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Taar Group consists of multiple companies across Lahore, Karachi and London specializing in areas of IT Strategy, Retail Systems and Textile Manufacturing Systems. As authorized business partners of Retail Pro International, USA and Industrial Automation Software, GmBH, Taar provides globally recognized industry specific software solutions to its customers worldwide.

The speaker Mr. Abdul Aziz, is CEO of LumenSoft Technologies Pvt. Ltd. LumenSoft is a product company provided Point-of-Sale products in the retail industry in the national as well as in the international markets. Mr. Aziz has more than 20 years of work experience in different management roles. He has abachelor’s in electrical engineering (Communications), Masters in Business Administration (Marketing), and MS degree in Computer Science. He will be presenting the software development processes his product company is utilising to develop a quality product for the national as well as international retail market.

A two-time Chair of the University of Texas Computer Science Department, Prof. Bruce Porter serves as the company’s Chief Science Officer, where he leads the company’s R&D initiatives. As a university professor, Prof. Porter's research focused on machine reading, a technology that holds tremendous potential for capturing knowledge for automated inference, question answering, explanation generation and other AI capabilities. Prof. Porter also directed UT’s Knowledge Systems Research Group, an AI organization with the goal to develop methods to build knowledgeable computers. He won the Best Paper Award at the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, the College of Natural Sciences Teaching Excellence Award, the National Science Foundation’s Presidential Young Investigator Award and the President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award.

Katharina Krombholz is currently a visiting faculty at LUMS. She is tenured faculty at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Saarbrücken (Germany) where she leads the Usable Security and Privacy Research Group (currently with 7 PhD students and 1 PostDoc). She obtained her PhD at the Technical University of Vienna in Austria.

Dr. Saad Nadeem is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Medical Physics and Pathology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC). He completed his PhD in Computer Science from Stony Brook University in 2017 and his postdoc from MSKCC in 2019 before transitioning to an Assistant Professor position. His lab develops advanced mathematical and machine learning techniques for analyzing patient data at multiple scales (macro: radiology/radiation oncology/surgery/endoscopy, meso: pathology, and micro: molecular - genomics / proteomics / transcriptomics / metabolomics) to improve patient outcomes. The lab is specifically focused on building user-friendly tools that seamlessly fit into the clinical workflows and facilitate accurate and timely diagnosis/prognosis/decision-making while aiding in novel biomarker discovery.

Dr. Maryam Abdul Ghafoor is an Assistant Professor at the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (FAST-NUCES). She completed her Ph.D. in Computer Sciences under the supervision of Dr. Junaid Haroon Siddique at the Lahore University of Management Sciences in the year 2020. She has previously taught at the Capital University of Science and Technology, IIMS, and the University of Punjab. Her research interests include program analysis, machine learning techniques, and digital health. She has published papers in ASE, ICST, FIT, CHI, and SQJ.

Dr. Naveed Anwar Bhatti is an Assistant Professor at Air University (Pakistan). He completed his Ph.D. from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in 2018. Later, he joined RI.SE (Sweden) as an ERCIM postdoctoral fellow for one and a half years. His research interests focus on modern networked embedded systems with a touch of cyber security. Out of this research, he managed to publish papers in SenSys, IPSN, EWSN, ICC, IEEE IoT, TECS and TOSN which are considered flagship events in the field of networked embedded systems. He also won the best Ph.D. presentation award at IPSN 2016. He has also served as a reviewer for ACM Computing Survey, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT) and IEEE Transactions on Very Large-Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI). He was also on the technical program committee (TPC) of ICPADS 2019, AlgoSensor 2019, ISIoT 2019 and IoTDI 2019. He has also received numerous grants worth Rs. 25 million in the areas of cyber security and the Internet of Things (IoT) from local and international funding agencies (Erasmus+).

Shahzeb is equipped with an engineering degree from FAST and an MBA degree from LUMS and is currently working at Grafana Labs as a Senior Cloud Integration Engineer. He has previously worked with big names in the technology space like Afiniti and Plumgrid.

Apart from his corporate career, he also has a very strong freelancing profile where he has built multiple technical solutions for his clients along with his team independently.

Workshop Agenda:

Please refer to the workshop datasheet here.

Prerequisites:

The prerequisites for this workshop include understanding fundamental programming concepts in Python 3, such as functions, loops, dictionaries, and arrays; familiarity with Pandas data structures; and understanding how to compute a regression line.

Suggested materials to satisfy prerequisites: Python Beginner’s Guide.

Questions?

Contact the instructor (Dr. Abdul Bais, abdul.bais@lums.edu.pk)

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Dr. Ali is an experienced researcher and engineer for manufacturing automation with a demonstrated history of working in higher education and manufacturing industry. His skills are in engineering system design, human-robot teaming, simulation modelling and industry 4.0 strategy development. Ali received his Ph.D. in Manufacturing Systems from the University of Southern Denmark, and has been working in Danfoss, LINAK, and Siemens Renewable Energy in Denmark. Recently, Ali has made a shift towards academia and is working as an assistant professor at Oakland University, in Michigan, United States. His work has been published in Science Robotics, Journal of Manufacturing Systems, World Economic Forum and other outlet.