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Dr Zubair Shaikh

• BBA
  
• BS (Accounting & Finance)
  
• BS (Civil Engineering)
  
• BS (Computer Science)
  
• BS (Electrical Engineering)
  
• MBA (1½-year)
  
• MBA (2½-year)
  
• MBA (3½-year)
  
• MS (Computer Networks)
  
• MS (Computer Science)
  
• MS (Mathematics)
  
• MS (Software Project Management)
  
• MS (Electrical Engineering)
  
• PhD (Computer Science)
  
• PhD (Electrical Engineering)
  
• PhD (Management Sciences)
  
• PhD (Mathematics)
  

• Computer graphics and data visualization: The group is exploring various theoretical and practical aspects of geometric modelling approaches to path planning algorithMs In addition to path planning they are also working actively in the area of reverse engineering where it is required to capture 2D objects, outline of planar images, or generation of 3D geometric models of existing objects for which no such models exist.
  
• Data mining and data warehousing: This research group is exploring state of the art techniques for storing, retrieving and analyzing data for developing business intelligence tools and systeMs It is also working in the area of Intelligent Information Retrieval and Text Mining from databases.
  
• Human computer interaction: The focus of research of this group is in the area of developing and designing intelligent user interfaces according to Cognitive Systems Engineering, Cognitive Psychology and behavioural aspects of different users.
  
• Image processing and computer vision: This group is actively developing different applications using latest techniques in Image Processing and Machine Vision. Recently, members of this group have gained nationwide recognition by winning various prizes in the software and programming competition at NaSCon.
  
• Machine learning: The machine learning group is exploring various theoretical techniques in supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithMs This research group is working in collaboration with top researchers from the Electrical Engineering Department of University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore.
  

• Surveillance Eye: The system provides the user with Automated Intelligent Surveillance in order to monitor malicious activities at entry points in various buildings.
  
• Needle 1.0: Construction of a 3D dynamic scene using the least number of cameras possible.
  
• The lounge: Creation of an effective and easy graphical interface for new users of the Windows XP operating system.
  
• MB 1.02: The system enables content based image and video re-ranking and prioritization capabilities using novel clustering techniques.
  
• AELTS: Adaptive English language teaching tool (proposal submitted for funding).
  
• Development of intelligent tutoring system using techniques in user and cognitive modelling.
  
• Mixture modelling for causal feature selection.
  
• Development of novel and improved algorithms for unsupervised clustering.
  
• Fair path planning using Pythagorean hodograph quintic spiral functions
  
• Energy efficient motion planning for nonholonomic (car like) mobile robots using cubic spirals
  
• An evolutionary fair path planning for mobile robots with obstacle avoiding.
  
• Capturing outlines of planar images.
  
• Surface reconstruction with spline functions using evolutionary heuristics
  
• Psyche Mining using automated psyche features extraction from text documents.
  
• DSD Studio: Construction of Database Schema Designer Studio using database design theory and methodology.
  

• Urdu Speech Recognition (funded by HEC-USAID grant). The centre is collaborating with Carnegie Mellon University in USA to develop speech recognition system for Urdu and to specialize it to assist health workers.
  
• Urdu Localization Project (funded by E-Government Directorate, Ministry of Information Technology (IT), Govt. of Pakistan The centre is developing Urdu Online Lexicon, English to Urdu Machine Translation and Urdu Text to Speech System. Initial releases are available from the centre’s website.
  
• PAN Localization Project (funded by International Research Development Centre (IDRC) Govt. of Canada; ссылка скрыта). CRULP leads the collaboration of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Laos, Nepal and Sri Lanka to develop local language computing across Asia. The collaboration has been extended to include Indonesia, Mongolia, Philippines and TAR, China.
  
• Sindhi Lexicon (funded by SALRC, Univ. of Chicago). The work is collaboration with University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to develop online Sindhi Dictionary (www.crulp.org/sed).
  
• Urdu Lexical Resources for Speech Applications (funded by Nokia Research). The work collected Urdu corpus and derived a hundred thousand word lexicon and annotated it with pronunciation.
  
• Localization of Microsoft Vista and Microsoft Office (funded by Microsoft USA). The centre is localizing Microsoft Vista and Office 2007 interface into Urdu for Microsoft.
  
• Nafees Font Family (funded by IDRC, APNIC UNDP; partially supported by Microsoft; ссылка скрыта). Fonts available at CRULP website.
  
• Urdu Spell Checker (funded by Microsoft USA; Completed). Incorporated in Microsoft Language Interface Pack for Microsoft Office 2003 released by Microsoft.
  

• Dynamic Scheduling and Call Admission Control for Quality of Service (QoS) Provision in Real-time Multimedia Application over IEEE 802.11e Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). This project is funded by PTCL R&D Fund for Thematic Research Grant.
  
• Currently, this group is developing efficient algorithms for multimedia communication over WLAN under PTCL R&D Grant. The goal of this research activity is to develop novel scheduling and call admission control (CAC) mechanisms for IEEE 802.11e WLANs along with a complete simulation model of the upcoming WLAN standard. The Scheduler would dynamically allocate transmission opportunities to different stations to cater for the variable input data rates of real time applications, variable transmission rate in the wireless medium and mobility. A scheduling mechanism provides timely transmission opportunities to mobile stations so that their QoS requirements can be fulfilled. A CAC mechanism restricts new flows from utilizing the network resources when the network is running under heavy load conditions in order to maximize network utilization. Four graduates and three under-graduates are being supported by this grant.
  

• MML is also developing a reference implementation of ITU-T H.323, the standard currently in force for multimedia communication. H.263 compliant software for video conferencing along with its optional modes has already been implemented and video has been transmitted over LAN (broadcast as well as multicast). The current direction of research is towards the implementation of H.323 and development of objective quality algorithmic measures for Wideband speech and audio (VoIP).
  
• Another area of research is design and analysis of congestion control algorithms for wireless networks (cellular, WLANs Wi-Fi and Wi-Max, and satellite networks). The goal is to develop unified mechanisms of congestion avoidance and congestion control for such diverse wireless networks.