Speaker Details
Dr. Muneera Bano
Career and research
Senior Lecturer, Software Engineering at Deakin University, Melbourne (Nov 2019 – July 2022).
Lecturer, Software Engineering at Swinburne University of Technology (Aug 2017 – Nov 2019).
Learning and Teaching Adjunct at University of Technology Sydney (Feb 2017 – July 2017).
Associate Lecturer at University of Technology Sydney (Mar 2014 – Jul 2017) and University of Sydney (Mar 2014 – Apr 2014).
Assistant Professor at International Islamic University Islamabad, Pakistan (Jul 2008 – Feb 2012).
Lecturer at International Islamic University Islamabad, Pakistan (Sep 2006 – Jun 2008).
Awards and honours
Throughout her career, Muneera has garnered numerous accolades for her work, including being a finalist for 'Google Australia’s prestigious Anita Borg Award for Women in Computer Science', Asia-Pacific 2015. She was also the recipient of Schlumberger’s esteemed Faculty For The Future (FFTF) Award for Women in STEM in 2014 and 2015. She earned the ‘Distinguished Research Paper Award’ at the International Requirements Engineering Conference in 2018 for her work in Educational Pedagogies for Requirement Engineering. In recognition of her contributions, Muneera was granted the Dr. John Yu Fellowship for ‘Cultural Diversity and Leadership’ at Sydney University in 2019, and the ‘Pathways to Politics’ leadership program by Melbourne University in 2021.
Muneera graduated with a PhD in Software Engineering from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) in 2015. Since then, she has held positions as a post-doctoral researcher and ‘Learning and Teaching Adjunct’ at UTS. Her focus is on the intersection of computers and humans, specifically exploring ways to engineer technology to better serve people's needs. Muneera has authored nearly 50 articles in prestigious international journals and conferences within the software engineering field. Her passion and interest in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Diversity and Inclusion guide her research in socio-technical domains of software engineering that focus on human-centered technologies. Currently, she serves as a Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO's Data61, focusing on projects related to responsible AI and promoting diversity and inclusion within the AI field.
Mr. Baber Majid Bhatti
Career and research
Telecom operations management, Project Management, IT Planning & Strategy development, IT Operations Management, Service Delivery, SLA & KPI management & monitoring, Continual Service Improvement and Optimization, Outsourcing & co-sourcing Professional experience summary:
Awards and honours
Provided strategic and technical consulting to the acquisition of a telecom service provider.
Conducted technical audit of a Data Centre in the Middle East and pointed out 17 critical areas of improvement
Conducted BPR (Business Process Re-Engineering) of an ICT organisation and discovered 52 anomalies in the BPM (Business Process Model)
Conceived and led feasibility studies for multiple technology transformation projects.
Strategised the strategic sourcing model for local manufacturing of smart lights in South Australia
Established GNOC (Global Network Operations Centre) & GSOC (Global Security Operations Centre) for providing managed services to global clients
Provided advice for mitigation of strategic risks to clients in the ICT & telecom industry.
Led a high-performing team on challenging projects and managed their levels of motivation during the transitions.
Dr. Shoab Khan
Career and research
Dr Shoab Khan received his PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology USA in 1995. Top Academician and Academic Leader: He is a celebrated academician who has taught in NUST and CASE for 24 years, led the Department of Computer Engineering of NUST as Head of the Department (HoD) and CASE as Chancellor, supervised/ co-supervised 30+ PhD theses and have 350+ international publications, and a world-class textbook published by John Wiley and Sons. He has been serving in the Senate and Board of Studies of Many universities. Inventor and Industrial Leader: He has 5 awarded US Patents. He has extensive industrial experience in USA in companies like Cisco System, Picture Tel, and Scientific Atlanta. In 1999, he co-founded a startup Communication Enabling Technologies and raised $17 million in venture funding. He then established the Center for Advanced Research in Engineering (CARE) and has led it to become one of the most profound engineering organizations in Pakistan.
Awards and honours
He has successfully completed many funded projects from Ignite, HEC and international funded agencies. Currently, he is leading numerous R&D projects on Blockchain technology and Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).In CARE he has been leading a team or around 250+ professionals to successfully deliver over a $100 million technology projects.
Industry & Academia Leadership Position Dr Shoab Khan is a member of three PM Task Forces as the focal person for developing mega PC-1s. He has been awarded NUST best teacher award, HEC best researcher and Tamga-e-Imtiaz Pakistan. He has led his team of CARE/CASE/NUST to win 11 Asia Pacific ICT Alliance awards for innovation and creativity.
He also served as Chairman PASHA and has been selected thrice to serve in its Central Executive Committee. He has also been serving in the Board of Directors of Shifa International Hospital. Experience as Regulator, Curriculum Development He has been serving as a member of NCEAC council and was its founding member. He also served the council as Deputy Chairman. He was also the coordinator in setting up the Curriculum of all computing programs and has also led the curriculum development for BS in Cyber Security.
Mr. Syed Ahmad
Career and research
Syed Ahmad is IT industry thought leader and seasoned entrepreneur. He started his award-winning company DPL, serving clients in USA, Europe and the Middle East. With a focus on "Innovation as a Service", DPL has helped various startups towards multi-million dollar exit and many Fortune 500 corporations in their Digital Transformation journey.
Syed is also advising the government as Chair of IT, Prime Minister's TaskForce on IT and Telecom. He has also served on the board of directors of various public sector companies like PRAL (FBR), KPITB (Govt of KPK) etc.
Awards and honours
His professional services include but are not limited to:
- CEO, DPL (Pvt) Ltd.
- Chair (IT Sub-Task-Force), Prime Minister’s Task-Force on IT & Telecom.
- Chair ICT Sub Committee, Planning Commission of Pakistan.
- Member, BoD, PRAL (FBR, Ministry of Finance).
- Adviser, Incubators (COMSATS Incubator 1-ne).
- Twice Ex-Chairman, (P@SHA),
Dr. Muazzam A. Khan Khattak
Career and research
Senior Member IEEE
Member Pakistan Academy of Sciences
Head Huawei Academy, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad
Director ICESCO Chair for Big Data Analytics and Edge Computing
Member Prime Minister Advisory Committee for Establishment of IT Center of Excellence in Pakistan
Senior Member National Computing Education Accreditation Council
Member Higher Education Commission, A&A Division for Computing Programs
Member Asian Council of Science Editors
Awards and honours
Reviewer of International Journal of Computer Science Issues (2012-13).
Reviewer of International Journal of Wireless Networks (WINET) by Springer (2012-13).
Reviewer of International Journal of Engineering & Computer Innovations (IJECI 2012-13).
Reviewer of IEEE International Conferences (ICCSIT 2012-13).
Research idea Presented & Accepted in IEEE International Symposium on Circuit and System, Washington USA, 4-6 Aug 2010.
Research Scholar at School of Computer and Engineering (SCEE) University of Missouri, Kansas City, United States (USA), Jan 2010- Sep 2010.
Participated in ICECE 2011: International Conference on Electrical and Communication Engineering, Paris, France, 24-26 Aug 2011.
Got Merit scholarship in SSC, HSSC, and All semester’s of BS (IT) And MS-PhD as Top Student Of the class.
Participation Award, in 11th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2010), Kansas City, Missouri, USA. From May 23rd to May 26th, 2010.
Best Presenter Award in International conference of World Academy of Science, Engineering & Technology Amsterdam Netherland 2009.
Participated in students/Teachers meeting with Prime Minister of Pakistan at Governor House Peshawar 2005.
Participated in Students Convention at Jinnah convention center Islamabad 2005.
Participated in parliamentary internship program in 2004 at Parliament House Islamabad.
2 Times champion of FBISE board Islamabad volleyball Tournament 2001.
Dr. Faisal Shafait
Career and research
Is currently working as a Professor at School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan. He was an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering at The University of Western Australia in Perth, Australia. Was also a Senior Researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) as well as an Adjunct Lecturer at Kaiserslautern University of Technology (TUKL), Germany.
Awards and honours
He received his PhD with the highest distinction in computer engineering from
TUKL in 2008. My research interests include machine learning and pattern recognition
with a special emphasis on applications in document image analysis. He has co-authored
over 100 publications in international peer-reviewed conferences and journals in this area.
His Google Scholar Profile shows over 5,500 citations of his papers.
Educated and trained in Germany with more than 12 years of industry and academic
experience of working for leading organizations and research centers including Google,
DFKI, and UWA in USA, Germany & Australia. Continually drive research and technology
innovation to develop cutting-edge algorithms and methods in the field of machine learning
with a special emphasis on designing deep learning architectures for solving various computer
vision problems in academia and industry. Active Advisory Board Member at several startups in
Silicon Valley and across the globe.