Dr.Umar Saif, Associate Professor at LUMS has won the Google Faculty research award and become the first Pakistani to win this prestigious award. The purpose of this program is to facilitate more interaction between Google and universities.The intent of the awards program is to support academic research aimed at improving information access.
Dr Umer Saif worked at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) for four years, where he was part of the core team which developed system technologies for project Oxygen- a US$40 million project sponsored by the US Department of Defense and an industrial Alliance of world-class companies. Dr Saif also managed the multi-million dollar collaboration on future computing technologies between University of Cambridge
