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Career

· Federal Minister for Science & Technology and IT & Telecom, Government of Pakistan2023–
· Chairman, Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB)2011–
· Founding Vice Chancellor, Information Technology University (ITU) Pakistan2010–
· Research Scientist, MIT2002–
· PhD in Computer Science, University of Cambridge2001–
· BSc (Hons) in Computer Science, LUMS (Lahore University of Management Sciences)1998–
· Founder, SurveyAuto.com / aiSight.ai

Publications (49)

Service-Oriented Network Sockets
ACM SIGMOBILE International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services · 2003
143
cited
Medium access control issues in sensor networks
CCRV · 2006
131
cited
Job opportunities through entertainment: virally spread speech-based services for low-literate users
International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · 2013
76
cited
A Case for Goal-oriented Programming Semantics
2003
67
cited
Structured Decomposition of Adaptive Applications
Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications · 2008
59
cited
Viral entertainment as a vehicle for disseminating speech-based services to low-literate users
International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development · 2012
49
cited
Communication primitives for ubiquitous systems or RPC considered harmful
Proceedings 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops · 2001
47
cited
Internet Access to a Home Area Network
IEEE Internet Computing · 2001
44
cited
Baang: A Viral Speech-based Social Platform for Under-Connected Populations
International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · 2018
41
cited
Leveraging Deep Learning and SNA approaches for Smart City Policing in the Developing World
International Journal of Information Management · 2021
41
cited
Fine-grained dengue forecasting using telephone triage services
Science Advances · 2016
30
cited
Engaging Teachers with Technology Increased Achievement, Bypassing Teachers Did Not
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy · 2022
25
cited
Beyond the Basics: Improving Post-Primary Content Delivery through Classroom Technology
2019
22
cited
Deep Landscape Features for Improving Vector-borne Disease Prediction
CVPR Workshops · 2019
19
cited
Voice-Based Quizzes for Measuring Knowledge Retention in Under-Connected Populations
International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · 2019
16
cited
Internet for the developing world: Offline internet access at modem-speed dialup connections
International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development · 2007
15
cited
Poor man's broadband: peer-to-peer dialup networking
CCRV · 2007
14
cited
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development
2017
14
cited
Rapid Collection of Spontaneous Speech Corpora Using Telephonic Community Forums
Interspeech · 2018
13
cited
A dynamic platform for runtime adaptation
Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications · 2009
12
cited
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