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Few 'Hard-Core'Scholars from Pool of SSE,LUMS



Asad Abidi
Dean and Professor of Electrical Engineering
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
M.S., University of California, Berkeley
B.Sc., Imperial College, London

Asad A. Abidi received the B.Sc.(Hon.) degree from Imperial College,
London in 1976 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical
Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1978 and
1981. He was at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ from 1981 to 1984
as a Member of Technical Staff in the Advanced LSI Development
Laboratory. Since 1985, he has been at the Electrical Engineering
Department of the University of California, Los Angeles where he is
Professor. He was a Visiting Faculty Researcher at Hewlett Packard
Laboratories during 1989.

His research interests are in the design of CMOS RF integrated
circuits, high-speed analog circuits, and data converters.

Dr. Abidi served as the Program Secretary for the International
Solid-State Circuits Conference from 1984 to 1990 and as General
Chairman of the Symposium on VLSI Circuits in 1992. He was Secretary
of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Council from 1990 to 1991, and from
1992 to 1995 he was Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State
Circuits. He has received the 1988 TRW Award for Innovative Teaching
and the 1997 IEEE Donald G. Fink Award, and is co-recipient of the
Best Paper Award at the 1995 European Solid-State Circuits
Conference, the Jack Kilby Best Student Paper Award at the 1996
International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), the Jack
Raper Award for Outstanding Technology Directions Paper at the 1997
ISSCC, and the Design Contest Award at the 1998 Design Automation
Conference, and the 2001 ISLPED Low Power Design Contest Award. In
2007, the UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science recognized
him with the Lockheed-Martin Award for Excellence in Teaching.

He has received an IEEE Millennium Medal, is a Fellow of the IEEE,
and was named one of the top ten contributors to the ISSCC. He is
the recipient of the 2008 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-
State Circuits.

Dr. Abidi is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, only 2 Pakistanis yet have this position.





Asad Naqvi
Associate Professor, Physics
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Research Interests:
String Theory

Asad Naqvi is currently a lecturer (assistant professor) at the
University of Wales, Swansea. He is a theoretical physicist with a
PhD from MIT in theoretical particle physics (specializing in string
theory); a BS with a double major in Physics and Electrical
Engineering from MIT; and school degrees from Karachi. After holding
post-doctoral positions at the University of Pennsylvania and the
University of Amsterdam, he joined the University of Wales, Swansea
in October 2005.



Salal Humair
Associate Professor, Engineering Systems & Operations Research
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
B.S., University of Engineering & Technology (UET)

Research Interests :Supply Chains and Engineering Systems

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




Salman Ahsan
Visiting Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering
Ph.D., Princeton University
M.A., Princeton University
B.S., University of Pennsylvania

Research Interests: Semiconductor Materials and Devices

Dr. Salman Ahsan did his PhD and MA in Electronic Materials and
Devices at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton
University and his BS in Electrical Engineering at the University of
Pennsylvania. His interests during graduate studies centered upon
the study of surface and interface properties of compound
semiconductors, particularly the ZnSe/GaAs interface due to its
importance in the development of a blue laser. He built Princeton's
first scanning tunneling microscope, a new technique at the time, as
the primary analysis tool for this work. At Princeton, he also
acquired several semesters of teaching experience as a preceptor
working with Prof. Daniel C. Tsui (Nobel laureate Physics, 1998).
His work experience includes brief stints at Drexelbrook Engineering
(as a summer intern), Philips Research Laboratories (part of
doctoral dissertation), the Center for Sensor Technologies (as an
NSF fellow) and Nova R&D, Inc. Prior to joining LUMS as the
Associate Project Director of the School of Science and Engineering,
he was with Linear Technology Corporation for ten years, a
semiconductor company specializing in analog integrated circuits, as
a process development, device and integration engineer and then as a
manager of yields and electrical test.