Research Impact

Creating value through research, innovation, and collaboration. 

Student project wins

• ARIA won first position at the 2nd International AI Championship among more than 200 projects, and was the winner at the Information Technology Symposium 2024. Two group projects came first in the final year evaluation at COMSATS Lahore, and Spectre came first among more than 130 projects.

Doctoral graduates and journal papers

• Doctoral graduates include Dr. Rafaqat Alam Khan, Dr. Yasar Mehmood and Dr. Gulshan Saleem. The group has published 60 journal papers.

Partnerships

• Memoranda of Understanding with Xidian University and Suqian University support research collaboration. The group also works with Zhejiang University and Hive Alpha Tech Pvt. Ltd., and it has a funded Video Analytics Lab at the National Centre in Big Data and Cloud Computing.

Funded research

• The group has received three funded awards. These are 43.284 million Pakistani rupees for the Video Analytics Lab at the National Centre in Big Data and Cloud Computing in 2018, 6 million Pakistani rupees from the Higher Education Commission for the multi biometric access control project in 2022, and an NVIDIA hardware grant worth 2400 US dollars in February 2022. Final year projects were also funded under the NGIRI programme of IGNITE in 2018 and 2020.

National competition wins

• Pakistan’s Hall of Fame won the All Pakistan DICE Competition 2020. HUBZUH won the Web Development Category at Visio Spark 2019.

Distinguished final year projects

• Wheat Guard and Semantic Labelling of HSR Images were named Distinguished Final Year Projects in Fall 2018.

From project to venture

• Wheat Guard was incubated in the Launchpad 13 Challenge of Plan9 and in Plan X as Agriasan.