2012 June FCS OpenHouse v4.2

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Introduction to theFaculty of computer science

June, 2012


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Overview

History & Vision

Departments and Degree Programs

Faculty

Highlights 2011-12

Admissions Details and Fees Structure

Facilities

Virtual Tour


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The IBA Heritage

Established in 1955

The first business school outside North America

Affiliated with Wharton and then USC until1960s

Received Charter degree awarding institutestatus in 1994


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FCS Vision

To become the most sought afterComputer Science program in the region

by providing visionary leaders

in the field of Computer Science andInformation Systems


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FCS Historical Perspective

Center for Computer Studies (CCS) Established in 1983

Initially provided diplomas in Computing related fields

1987: MBA(MIS) degree formally offered

1998: BCS

1999: BBA(MIS) 2002: 4-year BCS and BBA programs introduced

2005: PhD in CSE/ICT/MIS

2008: BS (CS)

MS (CS) - Evening

2009: FCS established

2010: Department of Mathematical Sciences established

2011: First BS(CS) batch at the Main Campus

2011: BS Economics & Maths Launched


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Degree Programs

Faculty of ComputerScience Programs

BS (Computer Science)

Ph.D. (CSE/ICT/AI/others)

MS (Computer Science) [Evening]

MIS specialization also offered

as part of BBA/MBA programs


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Departments

Faculty of Computer Science:Departments

Department of

Mathematical

Sciences

Department of

Computer Science &Management

Information

Systems (MIS)


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FCS Faculty

Total Faculty: 23 13 PhDs

5 pursuing PhD at IBA

Total Alumni of FCS: Approx. 1000


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CS/MIS Faculty (16)

PhD Faculty (8): Research Interests- Dr. Nasir Touheed Parallel Processing, Operations Research,

(Univ. of Leeds) Numerical Analysis, SAP/ABAP [Joint appointment]

- Dr. Sajjad Haider Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Bayesian Networks

(George Mason)

- Dr. Sayeed Ghani Performance analysis and simulation of

(MIT, Columbia) wireless, 4G and wireless sensor networks

- Dr. Shakeel Khoja Usage of Web Technologies into learning, Multimedia

(Univ. of Southampton) Systems, Digital Video/Image Processing and Storage

- Dr. Wasim Khan Operations Research, Virtual Manufacturing

(Univ. of Sheffield) and Education Management

- Dr. Zaheeruddin Asif Management Information Systems, Social Networking(IBA, Temple) (Program Director)

- Dr. Amber Gul Rashid Marketing & IT; Offshore Outsourcing of IT Services

(Univ. of Salford) [Joint appointment with Marketing Dept]

- Dr. Quratulain Rajput Semantic Web Technologies, Information Extraction, and

(IBA, Karachi) Semantic Annotation


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CS/MIS Faculty (Cont)

Faculty pursuing PhD Research Interests

at IBA (5):

Faisal Iradat Performance Analysis of Wireless Networks

Imran Khan System Architecture

Waseem Arain Routing issues in Wireless NetworksRaza. Abedi Wireless Sensor Networks

S. Irfan Nabi Management Information Systems

A. Wajed Distributed Systems

Teaching Faculty (3): Teaching Interests

Ameer Rizvi Supply Chain Management

(Univ, of the East Manila)

Maheen Ghauri Management Information Systems and Entrepreneurship

(IBA)


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Mathematical Sciences (8)

PhD Faculty (6): Research Interests- Dr. Ahmed Ali Shah Numerical Analysis, Numerical Computing,

(Univ. Of Kent) Cryptography

- Dr. Hisham bin Zubair Applied Mathematics; Scientific computing; multigrid

(Delft Univ. of Tech.) treatment of partial differential equations

- Dr. M. Shahid Qureshi Space & Planetary Astrophysics

(Univ. of Karachi) (Department Chairperson)- Dr. Nasir Touheed Parallel Processing, Operations Research,

(Univ. of Leeds) Numerical Analysis, SAP/ABAP

- Dr. Abdul Majid Functional Analysis, Applied and

(LUMS) Computational Mathematics

- Dr. Junaid A. Khan Commutative Algebra, Computer Algebra.

(GC Univ.)Teaching Faculty (2): Teaching Interests

- Ahmed Raza Mathematics, Physics, Numerical Analysis

(Cambridge Univ.)

-Yaseen Meenai Statistics, Statistical Inference

(Univ. of Karachi)


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Highlights 2011/2012 AI

2011 a watershed year: First ever PhD from IBA, in the area ofArtificial Intelligence.

International collaboration with the University of Technology, Sydney(UTS) in the area of Artificial Intelligence/Robotics: Karachi Koalas competed in both the IranOpen as well as the World RoboCup

competition held in Istanbul. Beat France and Japan and achieved 16th positionout of 28 teams that qualified world-wide.

State-of-the-art humanoid Nao robot from UTS, worth 7500 Euro.

In 2012, the Karachi Koalas has again qualified for the World RoboCup Soccer tobe held in Mexico City during June.

In 2011, a PhD student at IBA, Saleha Raza, also earned scholarship to UTS for5 months

RA at the AI Lab gone to UTS for PhD on a fully-funded scholarship.


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First PhD from IBA


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NAO Robot @ IBA AI Lab

NAO Robot

World RoboCup
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Highlights 2011/2012 BS(CS)

Excellent Salary / market opportunities for our BS(CS) graduates

FCS undergraduates students awards:

PROCOM 2012, a prestigious event hosted by FAST-NU since 1998. Both

the teams representing FCS IBA: Softrack and Silver Sages won first

prizes in their categories Innovative Business Ideas Competition andGame Application Exhibition respectively.

Won first prize in the "Folio 3 Developers Day" at FAST-NU, Karachi. The

team named "IBA's Infinite Loop" achieved "1st Prize" in the "Demo your

project" category and were also awarded PKR 10,000 as prize money.

Connexions 2011 and 2012 both very successful events

High growth in BS(CS) program intake: 3 batches per year


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Connexions 2011


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Highlights 2011/2012 Research

Expanded / Renovated FCS Building:

Expanded Robotics/AI Lab

Expanded Hardware & Networking Lab

Expanded Computing Lab

New Web Sciences Lab New Telecom / Wireless Sensors Lab

Number of PhD students grown to 15

ICICT 2011 highly successful (Speakers from UK, USA, Canada,

Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and Denmark) FCS Contributed 7 out of the 9 ISI Indexed journal publications

MoU signed with Multimedia University in Malaysia


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Wireless & Sensor Networks Lab

Dr. Sayeed Ghani / 5 PhD Students

Wireless Sensor Lab: Crossbow

WiFi / WiMax / 4G LTE / Wireless Sensor Networks

Simulation tools: OPNET, QualNet, LabView, NS2

International Research Collaborations:

Tampere University of Technology, Finland

University of Illinois at Chicago

New Labs: Networking & Hardware Lab (upcoming)

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Wireless Sensor Network


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Wireless Sensor Equipment


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ICICT2005/2007/2009/2011International Conference on Information and

Communication Technologies


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Research Labs/Groups

AI / Robotics Lab

Wireless and Sensor Networks Lab

Digital Futures Lab

Distributed Computing Lab

Web Science Research Group


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Industry Interaction

CEO Forumhosted every year by FCS andattended by a large number of CEOs and CIOs

from the local industry.

Campus Conversationsheld between ITIndustry experts and FCS students

organized by CIO Pakistan.

Connextions: A yearly student organizedevent by the InfoSysand Websocietiesdisplaying Final Year Projects to the industry.


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Strategic Partnerships

SAP, February 2009

Microsoft, 2005Oracle, May 2009


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Eligibility Criteria

BS (CS) & BS (Math - Eco)

Intermediate (min of 60% marks), or

A Levels (min of1B, and 2Cs) three principal subjects

Mathematics required

American High School Diploma with min of 80% of InternationalBaccalaureate with at least 25 points out of 45

Grades of General and AS level courses are not accepted


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Eligibility CriteriaGraduate and Doctoral Programs

Graduate Programs: MS (CS)

Minimum 16 years of education out of which four years should have beenspent in an HEC recognized university.

Minimum 60% aggregate marks in Last degree or 2.50 GPA on scale of 4.0.

Doctoral Programs PhD (Computer Science)

Minimum 18 years of education out of which four years should have beenspent in an HEC recognized university.

Minimum 3.0 GPA on scale of 4.0.


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Admission Test Composition

English Composition (MCQs)

English Comprehension (Essay writing skills)Math (MCQs)

Difficulty level (MS & PhD) = GRE General

Difficulty level (BS) = SAT I / SAT II (Math)


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Exemption from Admission Test

Following are exempted from Appearing IBA Aptitude &

Admission Test

BS candidates having a minimum 1900 score inSAT-I & 650 score in SAT-II Mathematics Subject

MS / PhD (CS) candidates have a minimum 650score in quantitative section of GRE (International) or160 score in quantitative section of Revised GRE(International)

S h d l f Ad i i F ll 2012


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Schedule of Admissions Fall 2012

ActivityMBA BBA BS

(Computer Science /

Economics &

Mathematics)

MS & Ph.D(Computer Science /

Economics)

Open Houses Open houses will be held in various provinces during week January 22nd

and January 29th

2012.Open House at Karachi will be held on January 29 th 2012.

Online forms availability starts on FridayJanuary 20, 2012

Friday

January 20, 2012

Friday

January 20, 2012

Friday

January 20, 2012

Submissions of forms deadline ThursdayMay 17, 2012

Thursday

June 14, 2012

Thursday

July 05, 2012

Thursday

July 05, 2012

Collection of Admit Cards May 15 - 17, 2012 June 09 - 14, 2012 July 03 - 05, 2012 July 03 - 05, 2012

Entry test date SundayMay 27, 2012

Sunday

June 24, 2012

Sunday

July 08, 2012

Sunday

July 08, 2012

Announcement of Aptitude test resultMonday

June 04, 2012

Wednesday

July 04, 2012

Monday

July 09, 2012

Saturday

July 21, 2012

Final result of successfulcandidates (after completion ofGroup discussion & Interview)

MondayJune 11, 2012 ThursdayJuly 19, 2012 WednesdayJuly 11, 2012 SaturdayJuly 28, 2012

Session Commencement Dates:- Wednesday, August 29, 2012 : Orientation Fall 2011 Entrants

- Thursday , August 30, 2012 : Subject Assessment Test (SAT)

- Friday, August 31, 2012 : Student Development Program (SDP)

- Saturday, September 1, 2012 : Fall 2012 Session Commences


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Existing Fee Structure(Excluding One time Admission Charges)

The Undergraduate & Graduate ProgramsParticulars BBA/MBA BS

Tuition Fee 109,200 67,200

Students Activity Charges 2,500 2,500

Lab Cum Library Charges 2, 500 2,500

Total Recurring Charges(Per Semester)

114,200 67,700

Evening StudentsParticulars

MS(Economics), MS(CS),

MBA - Evening,

Tuition Fee Pak Rupees.

One Course 18,200

Two Courses 36,400

Three Courses 54,600

Four Courses 72,800

* IBA reserves the right to amend/ change the above rates without notice


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Scholarship Fund

To provide financial aid to the students on the basis of their needsdetermined according to pre-specified criteria.

Scholarships, Student loans and Qarz-e-Hasna for meritorious-cum-needystudents

Full stipend covering tuition and other fees in 2012-13 will involve thefollowing amount per student:

Scholarships for Four Year BBA Programs Rs.10.2 M

Scholarships for Two Year MBA Program Rs.5.1M

In 2010-11 an amount of Rs. 43.9 million was disbursed among 320

students in form of scholarships, stipends, partial tuition waivers etc (July Dec 2011)

National Talent Hunt Program (NTHP) All expenses paid

Sindh Talent hunt Program (STHP) All expenses paid


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Students can choose from among 29 societies electedand managed by students for co-curricular, extra-curricular and service activities

The societies provide opportunities to students to:

nurture and display their real talent in various fields

such as sports, drama, music, art etc.

exercise leadership, management, social and

teamwork skills through event management activities

strike a healthy balance between career oriented

skills and personal effectiveness

Students involved in Community Services

Student Life & Societies


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Academic Facilities

IBA Intranet Portal

Access to 17,000 Online research journals

Access to 40,000 Online latest books

IBA Research Portal Automation of various aspects of IBA including

Student registration & records

Faculty evaluation

Fee management Online admissions

Online registration of courses

Online library books & journals


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Student Services

A faculty member is assigned to each incoming student as mentorfor the entire duration of stay at IBA. The student can discuss allissues of academic and personal nature with the mentor.

Placement services of IBA assist the students in obtaining

internships and project assignments with leading Pakistanicompanies

Recruiters from major employers visit IBA before the examinationsto inform, test and interview graduating students

Prominent alumni who occupy leadership positions in theirprofessions provide networking opportunities


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Virtual Tour of the IBA

Infrastructure


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AUDITORIUM (Main Campus)


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AUDITORIUM (Main Campus)

Academic Block


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Academic Block(City Campus)


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Classrooms


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Seminar Rooms


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Computer Laboratory


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Breakout Rooms


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Faculty Lounge


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Video Conferencing Room


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Students Cafeteria


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Students Lounge


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Boys Hostel Lounge


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Ongoing Developments

Over 20 ongoing projects at both campuses:


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Main Campus Master Plan


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Main Campus View Under ConstructionStudent Center, New Academic Block, CED, Prayer Hall

Lib (M i C )


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Library (Main Campus)Under Renovation

Ad i B ildi (M i C )


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Admin Building (Main Campus)Under Renovation

New Academic Block (Main Campus)


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New Academic Block (Main Campus)Under Construction

Student Center (Main Campus)


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Student Center (Main Campus)Under Construction

Student Center (Main Campus)


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Student Center (Main Campus)Under Construction

FCS Building (Cit C )


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FCS Building (City Campus)Under Renovation and Expansion


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Multistoried

Building at City

Campus(Under development)

Sponsored by

Aman Foundation


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THANK YOU!

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