“We might not be able to fully get away with COVID restrictions very soon and the situation demands from educators to develop online content” says Vice Chancellor UET Lahore Prof. Dr. Syed Mansoor Sarwar while speaking at the IIOE training completion and certificate distribution ceremony.

Since its inception in the year 2020, IIOE has gradually developed into an educational platform that provides university staff with open and free ICT-related quality resources, and effective consultation and support to the academic crisis of HEIs caused by the global pandemic. UET Lahore, being chair, is trying to create content on IIOE related to teacher professional development in line with the local demand of the country. For that matter, UET is geared up in getting its faculty and teachers hands on to the IIOE platform for its effective usage. Besides working at an institutional level, expansion of IIOE partnership among HEIs, enterprises, organizations, and government bodies within their own network also promotion of IIOE adoption and influence at provisional and national levels is on cards.

With a mission to empower university educators and professionals with data literacy, IIOE multilevel training series (Big Data General Level) was kicked off on September 28,2020. Training completion certificates & Gifts distribution ceremony for UET participants was organized at Vice Chancellor’s conference room. Vice Chancellor and chair IIOE Prof. Dr. Syed Mansoor Sarwar, Director KICS Dr. Waqar Mahmood, Dean Faculty of Chemical Engineering Dr. Naveed Ramzan, Dean Faculty of Electrical Engineering Dr. Muhammad Kamran, Dean Faculty of Natural sciences, humanities and Islamic studies Dr. Shahid Rafique, Dean Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Dr. Nadeem Mufti, Dean Faculty of Earth Sciences & Engineering Dr. Zubair Abubakar, Dean Faculty of Architecture Dr. Rizwan Hameed, Dean Faculty of Civil Engineering Dr. Habib ul Rehman and Faculty members graced the occasion with their presence.

Director KICS, Dr. Waqar Mehmood briefed the participants with some thoughtful insights of IIOE-UET Lahore partnership and milestones that have been achieved under this collaboration. While speaking at the ceremony, Vice Chancellor UET Lahore and Chair IIOE Prof. Dr. Syed Mansoor Sarwar stressed the importance of active participation from faculty and asked deans to disseminate the message strongly among their faculty and research staff. We might not be able to fully get away with COVID restrictions very soon and the situation demands from educators to develop online content.

Dr. Mansoor while speaking as a chief guest of the ceremony expressed his greeting to the successful participants and specially thanked Dr. Waqar Mehmood and his team for putting in efforts to make it happen successfully.

At the end, certificates along with gifts from IIOE were distributed among participants and dignitaries. The ceremony was concluded with a group photo of participants with the distinguished guests.

Under the umbrella of the National Center of Artificial Intelligence (NCAI), Intelligent Criminology Research Lab (ICRL), based at the University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore is going to organize an online five days training for all enthusiasts in Advance Python, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science etc.

“Machine Learning with Python”
The training session will be live starting from 4th October to 8th October, 2021 from 09:00 am – 5:00 pm.
We are extending our invitation to everyone to join this interesting future-oriented training.

Let’s learn together:
• Introduction to Python Programming
• Machine Learning
• Applications of Machine Learning
• Data Collection and Generation Techniques
• Data Preprocessing and Analysis
• Data Augmentation
• Different Algorithms of Machine Learning
• Introduction to Tensor-flow, Keras
• Deep Neural Networks
• Convolutional Neural Networks
• Build and train your own Deep Learning Networks
• Object Detection and Classification
And much much more!

Click on the link below to get yourself registered. You will be notified prior to the commencement of training.

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We are excited to have you at the training!

“Centers of excellence are basically the brains of intellectual depth of any country, knowledge generates from these centers”, says Dr. Muhammad Iqbal Chaudhry, Director ICCBS, while speaking at the occasion of MOU signing ceremony between National Center of Artificial Intelligence (NCAI KICS-UET) and The International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), University of Karachi. Collaboration between the two reputed research centers of the country is critical in solving research problems especially in the field of genomics, proteomics, medical imaging, drug discovery Artificial intelligence and to name a few. This collaboration is set to bring collaborative efforts in computer science and software development, High-end training by NCAI in the domain of Artificial Intelligence, sharing of omics data for research and development purposes and along with joint research publications and articles, submission of research projects/proposals to national and international funding agencies.

National Center of Artificial Intelligence (NCAI KICS-UET) is designed to become the leading hub of innovation, scientific research, knowledge transfer to the local economy, and training in the area of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its closely affiliated fields. The central aim is to facilitate the researchers in the field of AI; help them establish and grow AI industry following international trends whereas, The ICCBS, a federally funded national research institute and national laboratory site managed by the University of Karachi, is known for its dedicated focus and research in primarily in organic chemistry and natural products but takes research in environmental cleanup and other fundamental branches of chemistry including the computational, green, medicinal, and protein chemistry.

Dr. Muhammad Iqbal Chaudhry, Director ICCBS coming all the way from COMSTECH secretariat Islamabad was given a very warm welcome by Dr. Waqar Mehmood, Director KICS, along with his team members at AL Khwarizmi Institute of Computer Science UET Lahore. He was a given a very quick briefing by Dr. Usman Ghani Khan, Director Intelligent Criminology research lab, on multifold aspects and outcomes of the center working under his supervision. While having a look at the progress of NCAI and talking to the researchers Dr. Iqbal expressed his keen interest in future collaborations and he was of the view that “Centers of excellence are basically the brains of intellectual depth of any country, knowledge generates from these centers. KICS is a very high-quality center which can develop capacity in the frontier areas despite that it has great impact in Muslim world as well. These centers are the blessings should be supported and provided with a sustainable system which further strengthens their capacities and link them to the rest of the world”. Followed by the briefing and an interactive session memorandum of understanding between the two parties was duly endorsed with the signatures of Director NCAI, Dr. Usman Ghani and Director ICCBS, Dr. Muhammad Iqbal Chaudhary.

At the end of the MOU Ceremony Dr. Waqar Mehmood, Director KICS, formally gave a thanking note and dedicated this collaboration as a beginning of a new journey that will open new avenues of innovative research in the field of AI as well as chemical and biological sciences. Giving away a souvenir to the distinguished guest the ceremony was concluded with a group photo.

KICS UET Lahore conducted Smart Classroom demonstration on July 14, 2021, in Weidong Smart Classroom located in Main Auditorium Complex at UET Lahore. Nominated Faculty members of the main campus from different departments attended this demo training session of the smart classroom. The demonstration was made live on zoom for faculty of other campuses as well. Faculty members actively interacted and shared their suggestions during this demo training. M. Tahir Naeem (POC IIOE & Smart Classroom) presented the demonstration and explained the different components and their functions during this demo. The faculty members also appreciated the efforts made by the IIOE team of UET Lahore especially Dr. Waqar Mahmood – Director KICS UET Lahore.