Associate Professor/ex-Director Projects SE
HEC Approved Supervisor / Chair Vision and Image Processing Research Group (VIP G)
School of System and Technology, Department of Software Engineering
University of Management & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
Telephone: +92 42 35212801-10, Ext. 3840
Email: farooq.ali@umt.edu.pk, farooq1us@gmail.com
Dr. Syed Farooq Ali has around 18+ years of teaching and research experience. His areas of specialization include Computer Vision, Digital Image Processing, Medical Imaging, and Image & Video Coding. He did his BS from NUCES- FAST, Lahore, and later earned an MS degree from LUMS with Dean’s Honor List and 4th position out of a batch of around 130 graduate students. During his stay in MS, he was on a LUMS fellowship. He also completed his MS from Ohio State University, (Col.), USA. Moreover, he passed the Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam (Qualifier Exam) from Ohio State University, Col. USA. Later, he transferred his Ph.D. from Ohio State University USA to UMT and completed it.
During his graduate studies at LUMS and Ohio State University, he studied a total of 34 courses. Out of these, he studied ten courses related to his depth area (area of interest) that included Computer Vision, Medical Imaging, Image and Video Coding, Digital Image Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Computer Graphics, Signals and Systems, and Data Mining.
Currently, he is Associate Professor and Chair Vision and Image Processing Research Group at UMT. He also served two times as a Director Projects. Dr. Ali has around 39 publications including 23 journals, a book chapter, and 15 international conference papers. Dr. Ali is also a reviewer of many international conferences and journals. He also won 8 Fundings from National Grassroots ICT Research Initiative (NGIRI) for Final Year Projects.
Computer Vision, Digital Image Processing
Image & Video Coding
Medical Imaging
PhD Computer Science, April 2019, Depth Area: Image Processing & Computer Vision
PhD Thesis Evaluator: Dr. Raghu Machiraju, Professor OSU, USA (https://cse.osu.edu/people/machiraju.1)
PhD (Qual. / Comp. Exam)
M.S. Computer Science, December 2011, Depth Area: Medical Imaging (Image Processing)
Thesis: "Comparative Studies of Contouring Algorithms for Cardiac Image Segmentation."
I did literature survey, analysis and implementation of different active contouring algorithms using MRI images. Also implemented few new ideas and got better results in terms of subjective quality, area similarity metric (ASM) and shape similarity metric (SSM).
Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Raghu Machiraju, Professor OSU, USA (https://cse.osu.edu/people/machiraju.1)
M.S. Computer Science, Dean Honor's List, March 2008, Depth Area: Image Processing & Computer Vision
B.S. Computer Science, May 2004
Assistant Professor (Feb. 2012 to Present)
Besides teaching courses, supervising around 10 final year research projects
Chair and Founding Member of Vision and Image Processing (VIP) research group (http://sst.umt.edu.pk/newsite/VIP/VIP.htm)
Graduate Research Associate/Graduate Teaching Associate (April 2011 to December 2011)
Thesis: "Comparative Studies of Contouring Algorithms for Cardiac Image Segmentation."
Instructed a course 'cse100 Intro to Computer Technology' for Spring Quarter 2012.
Graded a course 'cse100 Intro to Computer Technology' for approximately 80 students' assignments and quizzes for Summer Quarter 2011.
Research Associate (April 2008 to July 2009)
Worked as a Team Lead in a research and development of 'Wavelet Based Video Coder and Decoder' with a team size of 6 to 8 members. The project aimed to build a Video Conferencing System on the top of it. Project involved programming background in c/c++ language.
Research Assistant (September 2005 to March 2008)
Worked on '3-D Re-construction of buildings using Satellite Imagery'. I implemented this project in Matlab.
Teaching Assistant (June 2006 to June 2008)
TA for 2 courses: cs533 Pattern Recognition Course (Spring 2008) and cs311 Theory of Automata (Summer 2006). Responsible for grading approximately 40 students.
Teaching Assistant (September 2004 to December 2004)
TA for 2 courses: Data Structures and Intro to Programming. Responsible for grading approximately 60 students.