News and success stories
PhD completions, awards, international funding and exchange visits.
2024
PhD completion of Dr. Aqib Mumtaz PhD
Dr. Aqib Mumtaz completed his PhD, “Anomaly Detection for Autonomous Video Surveillance”, supervised by Dr. Zulfiqar Habib and co-supervised by Dr. Allah Bux Sargano. During his PhD he visited Japan for 2 weeks with the Sakura Science Exchange Program and the University of Bergen, Norway, twice for a total of 6 months with EU Commission funding.
Wiley reopens plagiarism case about dead researcher’s work Integrity
The full story is on Retraction Watch.
2023
3rd position in the AIEF 1st National AI Competition at LUMS Award
Computer Science students at CUI Lahore won 3rd position in the AIEF 1st National AI Championship, presented by Soliton Technologies and hosted at LUMS. Their final year project, “Forensic Face Matching at Airports During Passport Control”, stood out among 200 entries and won Rs. 100,000. Supervised by Prof. Dr. Zulfiqar Habib and co-supervised by Dr. Allah Bux Sargana and Mr. Mohsin.
International exchange visits in 2023 Exchange
Two PhD students and two faculty members were sponsored for 1.5-month secondments at the University of Bergen, Norway, under the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 project.
Dr. Zulfiqar Habib visits the University of Sevilla Exchange
Dr. Zulfiqar Habib visited the University of Sevilla, Spain, for one month as an invited guest researcher under the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 project.
2022
PhD completion of Dr. M. Nadeem Ashraf PhD
Dr. Nadeem Ashraf completed his PhD, “Automatic Screening of Diabetic Retinopathy at Early Stage using Colored Fundus Images”, supervised by Dr. Zulfiqar Habib and co-supervised by Dr. Muhammad Hussain, Professor at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.
International exchange visits in 2022 Exchange
Four PhD students and two faculty members were sponsored for 2 to 3-month secondments at the University of Bergen, Norway, under the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 project.
2021
PhD completion of Dr. Mubbashar Saddique PhD
Dr. Mubbashar Saddique completed his PhD, “Robust Video Forgery Detection and Localization using Artificial Intelligence Techniques”, supervised by Dr. Zulfiqar Habib and co-supervised by Dr. Usama Ijaz Bajwa, with special guidance from Dr. Muhammad Hussain, Professor at King Saud University. He visited Korea University for 6 months with HEC funding.
2019
PhD completion of Dr. Ghulam Gilanie PhD
Dr. Ghulam Gilanie completed his PhD, “Automated Detection and Classification of Brain Tumor from MRI Images using Machine Learning Methods”, supervised by Dr. Usama Ijaz Bajwa and co-supervised by Dr. Zulfiqar Habib.
International exchange visits in 2019 Exchange
Two PhD students (University of Bergen, Norway) and two faculty members (Bournemouth University, UK) were sponsored for secondments under the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 project. Prof. Dr. Zulfiqar Habib is the Coordinating Principal Investigator, country representative and PI at CUI (third country partner).
PhD completion of Dr. Khurshid Asghar PhD
Dr. Khurshid Asghar completed his PhD, “Robust Image Forgery Detection and Localization using Texture Information”, supervised by Dr. Zulfiqar Habib and co-supervised by Dr. Muhammad Hussain, Professor at King Saud University. He visited Cardiff University for 6 months with HEC funding.
2018
International exchange visits in 2018 Exchange
Two faculty members visited the University of Bradford, UK (one month) and Bournemouth University, UK (two months) under the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 project.
PhD completion of Dr. Amna Khan PhD
Dr. Amna Khan completed her PhD, “A Bezier Curve Based Coverage Path Planning of Non-holonomic Mobile Robots”, supervised by Dr. Zulfiqar Habib. She visited Korea University for 6 months. Her PhD was funded by HEC under an NRPU grant.
PhD completion of Dr. Iram Noreen PhD
Dr. Iram Noreen, the first PhD student of the CS Department, completed her PhD with excellent remarks from all examiners. Supervised by Dr. Zulfiqar Habib, her thesis “Motion planning of car-like mobile robots in cluttered environments” was completed in a record 3.5 years. She visited Korea University for 6 months; her PhD was funded by HEC under an NRPU grant.
2017
International funding through the EU’s H2020-MSCA-RISE Funding
The European Union’s Horizon 2020 MSCA-RISE (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Research and Innovation Staff Exchange) began funding the PDE-GIR project (Jan 2018 to Dec 2021, grant agreement No. 778035) with a kick-off meeting on 18 December 2017. The CS Department of CUI Lahore represents Pakistan through Dr. Zulfiqar Habib, in a consortium of eight partners including industry and universities from the UK, Spain, Norway, Lithuania, Pakistan and Malaysia. The project covers geometry modelling, image processing and shape reconstruction, and is open to graduate students and faculty of the VIG-Robotics group.
PhD completion of Dr. Allah Bux Sargano PhD
Dr. Allah Bux completed his PhD in Computer Science under the Faculty Development Program of CIIT Lahore and Lancaster University, UK, jointly supervised by Prof. Plamen Angelov (Lancaster University) and Dr. Zulfiqar Habib, in the minimum possible three years (2014-17).
Thesis: Vision-based Human Action Recognition using Machine Learning Techniques
Visit at Korea University Exchange
HEC awarded a travel grant for Mr. Mubashar to work at Korea University for 6 months under the supervision of Prof. Hyoung Joong Kim.
Visit at Cardiff University, UK Exchange
HEC awarded a travel grant for Dr. Zulfiqar Habib to visit Cardiff University, UK, for 3 weeks to collaborate with Dr. Xianfang Sun and Prof. Paul Rosin.
Visit at Cardiff University, UK Exchange
HEC awarded a travel grant for Mr. Khurshid Asghar to work at Cardiff University for 6 months under the supervision of Dr. Xianfang Sun and Prof. Paul Rosin.
Short visits to Japan under the JAPAN-ASIA Youth Exchange Program in Science Exchange
The center and the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) arranged visits to Kagoshima, Japan, on 17-26 February 2017 for MS students Mr. M. Awais Shoukat and Mr. Aqib Mumtaz.
2016
Visit at Korea University Exchange
Ms. Iram Noreen and Ms. Amna Khan were sponsored under NRPU to work at Korea University for 6 months under the supervision of Dr. Nakju Doh.