Biography

Saad Qaisar received his Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University, USA in 2005 and 2009, respectively, under supervision of Dr. Hayder Radha (Fellow, IEEE). He is currently serving as an Assistant Professor at School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (SEECS), National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST), Pakistan. He is the lead researcher and founding director of CoNNekT Lab: Research Laboratory of Communications, Networks and Multimedia at National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST), Pakistan. He has over 30 Ph.D., M.S. and undergraduate researchers with Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Computer Science and Computer Engineering backgrounds working on a range of topics in computer science, electrical engineering and their applications. As of September 2011, he is the Principal Investigator or Joint Principal Investigator of seven research projects in amount exceeding 1.4 million USD over next two-three years spanning cyber physical systems, applications of wireless sensor networks, network virtualization, communication and network protocol design, wireless and video communication, multimedia coding and communication. He has published over 20 papers at reputed international venues with a vast amount of work in pipeline.He is also serving as the chair for Mobile-Computing, Sensing and Actuation for Cyber Physical Systems (MSA4CPS) workshop in conjunction with International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA).