Dr. Usama Ijaz Bajwa
Tenured Professor, Department of Computer Science
COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Pakistan
Current Roles
Tenured Professor,
COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus
.
Head,
Machine Perception & Visual Intelligence Research Group (MPVIR)
.
Program Chair (
International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT)
, 2014 - 2024).
Director,
Artificial Intelligence Education Foundation (AIEF)
.
Past Roles
Tenured Associate Professor,
COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus
.
Head of Product and Engineering Manager (Machine Learning),
Persivia Inc.
/
Soliton Systems
.
Served as an Assistant Professor and Associate Head of Department (Aug 2017-Jan 2021) at
COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus
(2015).
Served as an Assistant Professor at
COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus
(2010).
Visiting researcher
at
Medical Imaging Research Group
,
University of South Wales
(2007).
Moderator/ Founder Member of
Vision and Pattern Recognition Systems Research Group (VisPRS)
(2008).
Team Lead in a research project "
Automatic Personal Identification Biometrics System (APIBS) for Large Scale Applications
" funded by
IGNITE (National Technology Fund)
formerly known as National ICT R&D Fund, Ministry of Information Technology, Pakistan (2008).
Co-Founded
Technology Nucleus (Pvt) Ltd. (TECHNUC)
(2008) and
AgriAsan
(2018).
Enrolled as a PhD student at
C@SE
Islamabad (2008).
Moderator/ Member of Machine Vision and Pattern Analysis (MVPA) Research Group at
C@SE
Islamabad (2005).
Enrolled as MS student at
C@SE
Islamabad (2005).
Served as a Lecturer and an Assistant System Analyst at COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus (2003).
Have also worked with EU election observer mission as a coordinator in the General Elections (2002).
Was awarded a scholarship from Ministry of Science & Technology (MoST) Pakistan and 8th in the test held for this scholarship (2000).
Research Interests
Biometrics
Video Analytics
Medical Image Processing
Natural Language Processing
Agri Informatics
Important Links
Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Google Scholar
LinkedIn
University Profile
Research Group (MPVIR)