Director KICS and CERAD UET Prof. Dr. Waqar Mahmood has been roped in to Prime Minister’s Task Force on Science and Technology. It is the biggest honor for both Al-Khawarazmi Institute of Computer Science and University of Engineering and Technology Lahore.

Dr. Waqar Mahmood is a driving force behind the giant success of KICS UET. With his whopping amount of experience in the field of computer science and technology and the expertise he possesses, he has been nominated as Member of PM’s Task Force on Science and Technology.

IEEE COMSOC Lahore Chapter in collaboration with Sultan Qaboos IT Chair and Al-Khawarazmi Institute of Computer Science (KICS) UET Lahore organized 5G and IoT Summit 2019 on 26^th February. It was held at the seminar hall of the institute in UET. 85 participants from various universities and industries such as UET Taxila, University of the Punjab, LUMS, UET Lahore and Power Soft attended this mega event where presentations on the most popular topic of today ‘5G and IoT ‘ were delivered apart from other interesting activities happened over there.

Kashif Bashir (HUTIC Manager and Chair IEEE COMSOC Lahore Chapter) delivered a welcome note. Usman Munawar (Senior Research Officer, KICS and General Secretary IEEE Lahore Section) talked on ‘Steer Your Career with IEEE) and elaborated the benefits and the functions of IEEE. Dr. Ghalib A Shah (Vice Chair, Sultan Qaboos IT) talked on the topic of ‘Communication in Internet of Things’. Prof. Tariq Jadoon (Chairman EE, LUMS) delivered his presentation on the subject of ‘5G: What Can We Learn from the Previous 4Gs). Following next was a talk on ‘Multimedia Streaming in Mobile Environment and IoT’ by Muhammad Saleem (Sr. Architect Power Soft). Last talk of the event was delivered by Fahmeed Akram from HUTIC on the subject of ‘IP Core Network in 5G Technology).

The event concluded with the presentation of shields to the honorable guests and the participants. The guests and the participants were then taken on a visit to Huawei UET Joint IT and Telecom Center (HUTIC).

A delegation from CERAD (Centre for Energy Research and Development), UET Lahore comprising of Prof. Dr. Waqar Mahmood (Director CERAD) and Imran Ali Shah (Manager CERAD) visited Universiti Kebangsan, Malaysia. Apart from visiting the university and its solar institute, the delegation also signed an MOU there. The agreement was signed among three parties – Solar Research Institute of Kebangsan University, CERAD UET Lahore and Shamsi Baba Electricity & Food Systems USA. It was signed last year in November 2018.

The main purpose of the MOU is to promote collaboration for R&D activities in relevant domains and particularly renewable energy projects. It was also decided that innovative ideas, development and exchange of information for better solutions shall be executed on mutual agreed terms. As per the agreement, it was also mutually agreed that the optimal solutions to bridge the gap in local market and industry will be targeted in terms of quality, cost and local production to build Pakistani and Malaysian Native Solar Industries.

KICS UET’s team including Kashif Bashir (Manager HUTIC and Chair IEEE COMSOC Lahore Section), Shahid Zulfiqar (Program Officer KICS) and Usman Munawar (Senior Research Officer KICS and Secretary IEEE Lahore Section) visited University of Engineering and Technology’s Narowal Branch on 18^th February 2019. The delegation from KICS was invited as Guest of Honor to attend the Mega Technical Meeting 2019 held at UET’s Narowal Branch.

The team got impressed with the way the teaching was being done there. They met with the students and liked the potential of the students and professionals in organizing technical activities at the campus.

Various research and developments’ future works in mutual collaborations were discussed at the meeting.

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An MOU signing ceremony between Delta Tech and KICS took place at the Director’s Office in Al-Khawarazmi Institute of Computer Science UET, Lahore on 18^th February 2019. Both the high officials from both sides – CEO Delta Tech Nihal Mehmood and Director KICS Prof. Dr. Waqar Mahmood signed the agreement in presence of other officials. Dr. Ghalib Asad Ullah Shah (Professor and Sultan Qaboos IT C-Chair) also attended the ceremony. The contract was inked for mutual projects in cyber security.

Both organizations appreciated that in the wake of recent cyber-attacks on Pakistan’s organizations and propelled by the recent NCCS initiative, the time is ripe for establishing a strong partnership resulting in mutually beneficial projects and synergies.

As per the agreement, both organizations agreed that collaboration will be fruitful resulting in:

• Improvement in Pakistan’s cyber security posture.
• Enrichment of the cyber security education, programs, and training being offered at UET-KICS.
• Creation of new value such as innovative products, research, training, forums, and other
• programs which would not have been possible without the collaboration
• Development and advancement of Pakistan’s cyber security eco-system
• Extending the successes of the collaboration to a national, regional, and international context thus ensuring that the outcomes are world-class and internationally competitive.

A seminar on ‘Intelligence Transportation Systems (ITS)’was organized by National Center of Artificial Intelligence (NCAI), University of the Punjab’ in collaboration with IEEE Computer Society Lahore Section and Al-Khawarazmi Institute of Computer Science (KICS) UET Lahore. It was held on 15^th February 2019 at Allama Iqbal Campus in University of the Punjab, Lahore. A good attendance from researchers, students and officials was seen there. Post the welcome note delivered by Dr. Waqar ul Qounain (Director, NCAI and Assistant Professor Artificial Intelligence and Multidisciplinary Research Laboratory), A talk was presented on the topic of ‘Intelligent Transportation Systems – Introduction, Implementation and Integration (3I)’by Dr. Muhammad Alam, Assistant Professor CS and SE Xi’am Jiaotong Liverpool University (Suzhou, China). Where he discussed various issues related to ITS, Dr. Alam also talked about potential research directions. He explained Technology Choice, ITS and IoT relation, Realtime ITS, Autonomous Vehicles, Traffic and Travel Management, Smart City Integration and Smart City and ITS Integration. He briefed about all the above technologies in relation with ITS.

Dr. Muhammad Alam then discussed how in a smart city, ITS can be integrated intelligently? He told that with this technology, people and all activities happening in the city will be closely monitored and then the people would be informed if there are any kinds of dangers so that they can avoid them.

Next talk was on the topic of ‘Intelligent Driver Agent – A Way Forward for Intelligent Transportation Systems’ by Mian Muhammad Mubasher. He quite elaborately discussed the subjects linked to ITS such as socio-economic significance, transportation systems approach and intelligent transportation system. He then talked on road accidents which are witnessed quite in abundance in our daily routines. He told that the road accidents happen in plenty in the world and majority of them lead to deaths. He suggested that death toll had to be lesser or at least to 50 percent. The speaker then showed the figure of death toll happened in Pakistan last year and it was simply astonishing as the death toll reached to 36,000 in 2018. That was simply shocking. Further transportation system was discussed in which he made an equation ‘system = infrastructure + vehicles’. He then expressed the goals which had to be set to avoid these situations and hazards. They included ‘safety, mobility, capacity, productivity and environment’.

He then expressed that a focus had to be put on infrastructure and traffic. For infrastructure, maintenance development and travel demand management need to be done, explained by Mian Muhammad Mubasher. He suggested that for making traffic in order, a need to conduct training, do evaluation and spread awareness is required.

Further intelligence transportation systems, components of ITS, advanced traffic management systems, advanced public transport systems, automatic road enforcements, advanced vehicle control systems, significance of computational methods, simulation of traffic, decision modeling and intelligent driver modeling were discussed.

Attendees liked the seminar and took deep interest in all talks happened there.

Post the seminar, a technical meeting was organized at faculty room of PUCIT. The topic of the meeting was ‘Realization of Intelligent Transportation Systems in Pakistan’. Dr. Syed Waqar ul Qounain (Director NCAI, Punjab University) was the moderator. Dr. Alam exchanged his views on ITS and revealed that an interest had developed among the people for Intelligent Transportation System and now it had to raised further to get its advantages. He suggested that Bachelors and Masters level students should take on board for their research on ITS and relevant subjects. He also suggested conducting international level conferences on this subject to spread more awareness about it. The moderator and the guests (participants) of the meeting agreed on his suggestion. Dr. Waqar told that he had received grants to conduct research on ITS. He also mentioned that he could hire people and could also extend this grant from HEC. He gave reference of IEEE’s support in this regard. Muzammil Hassan, Senior Researcher and Assistant Manager at SSRL KICS, expressed about the grants KICS UET so far had received and discussed KICS ongoing projects which got attention among the public and private sectors. Other participants also mentioned their views on ITS.

The attendees of the seminar were conferred with the certificates by Dr. Alam and Dr. Waqar.

Hassan Adeel from International Center of Higher Education Innovation (ICHEI) under the Auspices of UNESCO, SUSTech, Shenzhen China paid a visit to Al-Khawarazmi Institute of Computer Science in UET Lahore on 12^th February 2019. He also visited the university and especially visisted Smart Classroom in the university which is a mutual project of UET Lahore and ICHEI UNESCO Shenzen along with Weidong Cloud Education. He showed his satisfaction and excitement by seeing the smart classroom. Post the visit, Mr. Hassan had a detailed meeting with Director KICS Prof. Dr. Waqar Mahmood and HUTIC team. The points which were discussed in the meetings included smart classroom equipment, training sessions to use smart classroom, generation of MOOCs on the topics like Networking, Telecom, Cyber Security and MOOCs certifications to be issued by UET and SusTech China.