Umar Saif

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Dr. Umar Saif was the first Pakistani to receive a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Cambridge, where he was admitted to the doctorate program when he was only 19 years old. Subsequently, Dr. Saif joined the Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he worked on the core technologies for project Oxygen -- a US$40 million project sponsored by the US Department of Defense and an industrial Alliance of world-class companies. While at MIT, Dr. Saif also managed the multi-million dollar collaboration on future computing technologies between University of Cambridge and MIT sponsored by the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) and a consortium of hightech companies.

Dr. Saif's research interests broadly span areas of pervasive computing, operating systems, mobile computing, home and office automation technologies, communication networks and highspeed routing architectures. Dr. Saif has authored several technical publications and is a fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust. He serves on the technical advisory board of several technology companies. He has recently joined Computer Science Department of Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore as an Associate Professor. Dr. Saif received his early education at Aitchison College and graduated from the instituition after completing Cambridge University's H.Sc in 1996. He then attended the Lahore University of Management Sciences and graduated in 1998 with a B.Sc.(Hons) in Computer Science.


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