Mr. Aftab Alam completed his Alma matters from UET and LUMS in the area of Electronics and Computer Sciences. He is one of the most sought-after teacher in academia. He has more than 22 years of experience in academia at school likes FAST-NU and GIFT University and known for his sound grip on Programming, Digital Logic Design, Computer Architecture, Communications and Networks. His research interest lies in the domain of Computer Arithmetic and Dynamic Branch Prediction.

Dr. Junaid Qadir is a Professor at the Information Technology University (ITU) of Punjab in Lahore, Pakistan. He is the director of the IHSAN Lab. Before joining ITU in December 2015, he was associated with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS) of the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) for more than 7 years. He completed his Ph.D. from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, in 2008, and Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore, Pakistan. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles at various high-quality research venues including more than 50 impact-factor journal publications at top international research journals including IEEE Communication Magazine, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication (JSAC), IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (CST), and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). He was awarded the Higher Education Commission’s (HEC) Best University Teacher Award—the highest national teaching award in Pakistan—for the year 2012-2013. His research interests are in the areas of computer systems and networking; applied artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML); healthcare informatics; engineering education; ethics for technology; AI ethics; and using ICT for development (ICT4D). In 2020, his project proposal won an award from Facebook Research Ethics in AI Initiative for the Asia Pacific. He is a senior member of IEEE and ACM and has been appointed as an ACM Distinguished Speaker (2020 to 2022).

Dr. Muhammad Zubair is currently associated with the Department of Electrical Engineering at Information Technology University, Lahore as an Associate Professor. He also leads the Applied and Computational Electromagnetics Group of ITU MicroNano Lab. He has been a visiting faculty member at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), and the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia.

Before joining ITU, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at SUTD-MIT International Design Centre, Singapore. He received his PhD in Computational Electromagnetics (CEM) at Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy. His PhD research was carried out at Antenna and EMC Lab (LACE) of Istituto Superiore Mario Boella (ISMB) in Turin-Italy where he worked on computational EM projects funded by Army Research Lab (ARL) in collaboration with Boston University, USA. During his postdoc, he has been working on various research projects related to fractional methods in electromagnetics funded by Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)/ Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development (AOARD) and Singapore Temasek Laboratories (TL). He is the principal author of his book on Electromagnetic Fields and Waves in Fractional Dimensional Space published by Springer, NY. He has contributed over 50 scientific works in journals and conferences of international repute. He has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Access, and Editorial Board Member for the IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, PLOS One and International Journal of Antennas and Propagation. He continues to serve the scientific community as an invited book reviewer for Contemporary Physics (Taylor & Francis). He has been selected for the ‘URSI Young Scientist Award’ (YSA) in the URSI General Assembly (GASS), 2021; and has been awarded Punjab Innovation Research Challenge Award (PIRCA) 2021.

Dr. Zubair is a Senior Member IEEE, Member IET, Member SPIE, Member OSA, and has been Advisor ITU SPIE Chapter, Co-Advisor ITU OPTICA Chapter. He also served on the AdCom of the IEEE AP/MTT/EMC Joint Local (ISB) Chapter.

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Aqeel Rehman is currently pursuing his PhD in Electrical Engineering at the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad. He obtained his Masters in Electrical Engineering from NUST and his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore.

In 2024, he was awarded the prestigious TRIL Fellowship at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy. He has contributed as a Research Fellow in the NCRA-funded project at EME College, NUST, in collaboration with the Military Equipment Group (MEG), and has also worked on the HEC SRGP project in the High Voltage Laboratory at NUST. In recognition of his academic contributions, he received the NUST High Achiever Award in Electrical Engineering (2025).

Mr. Asif completed his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Information Technology University of Punjab, with Gold Medal. His expertise is in the domain of Power Electronics and Control Systems. He is currently working on Wireless Power Transfer for Electric Vehicles.

Ms. Sadia Noureen has completed her PhD from ITU Lahore and her Master’s in Electronic Engineering from the Islamia University Bahawalpur, and her Bachelor’s in Electronic Engineering from the Islamia University Bahawalpur.

Mr. Ammar Rafique has completed his Master’s in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences, Lahore, and his Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore. Currently, he is doing his Ph.D. from the ITU.