Usman Mobin
Usman Mobin (also Usman Y. Mobin) is the Chief Technology Officer at the Government of Pakistan's National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA).[1] Mr. Usman Y. Mobin assumed the vital role of NADRA’s Chief Technology Officer in 2002. Educated at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), USA, he acquired Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. Mr. Mobin is bestowed with a wealth of knowledge coupled with strong technical expertise which he has successfully applied to bring about revolutionary changes in various legacy systems at national and international level; gaining positive repute as a pioneer for contributing innovative state-of-art technology solutions. He is also well respected as the architect of Pakistan Passport System enabling the development of world's first multi-biometric electronic passport. Apart from this, a few of his major achievements include invention of remarkably fast phonetics-based search technique operative on multilingual identity databases such as Pakistan's National Data Warehouse and invention of algorithmic technique for family tree linkage in National Database. Mr. Mobin received ID World - Special Award “ID Talent Award” in 2007 for his excellence in the field of Technology, Presidential Medal for “Persistence in Excellence” and "Tamgah-e-Imtiaz” in 2009 awarded for Public Service.
Education
Usman Mobin received his early education at Aitchison College, Lahore, Pakistan. Later he had completed a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering as well as a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts, United States of America. [2]
Career
He works at the Government of Pakistan's National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) and assumed the vital role of NADRA’s Chief Technology Officer in 2002. Later in 2015 Usman Mobin is Promoted to Chairman NADRA [3]
Tamgha-e-Imtiaz
He was awarded Tamgha-e-Imtiaz on 14 August 2008.