Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering

The 5th Annual Workshop on Precision Agriculture and Forestry (WPAF) was held at the Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering on Friday, November 29, 2019. The workshop was organised by the recently-established National Center of Robotics and Automation’s (NCRA) Agricultural Robotics Lab in...

Huzaifa Rauf, a PhD candidate at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering (SBASSE), traveled to Brasov, Romania, to attend the International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications 2019. LUMS is a research intensive...

The Department of Electrical Engineering at the Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering (SBASSE) at LUMS held an informal conversation with Syed Babar Ali, LUMS Founding Pro Chancellor, on November 4, 2019. Syed Babar Ali’s conversation with female students, research assistants and the...

LUMS continues to be at the forefront of research and discovery. Tariq Lab at LUMS, a pioneering epigenetics lab in Pakistan and the only fruit fly lab in the country, has discovered over 200 new genes which are involved in the maintenance of cell identities. These results are reported in a...

Fake news or misinformation on social media platforms is a growing phenomenon in the world and can have a profound social, economic, and political impact on societies ranging from election interference, polarisation, and violence. This problem is particularly challenging in developing countries...

On October 1, 2019, Jam Kamal Khan, Chief Minister Balochistan, visited LUMS and participated in an interactive session about the province and the steps that can be taken to develop it further. The session was attended by LUMS faculty as well as students at the University who originally hail from...

A LUMS session on ‘Climate Change Challenges for Pakistan’, led by Malik Amin Aslam, advisor to the Prime Minister on Climate Change was held on September 24, 2019. The event, held to provide an overview of the threat of changing climate patterns, the challenges it involves, as well as possible...

The LUMS Physlab team, led by Dr. Mohammad Sabieh Anwar, Associate Professor at the Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering, has recently developed a single photon quantum mechanics laboratory. This lab is the first of its kind in Pakistan. This initiative was taken in an effort to...

Dr. Abubakr Muhammad has been appointed as the Department Chair of Electrical Engineering at the Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering (SBASSE) for a three-year term. He is presently the Director of the Centre for Water Informatics and Technology at LUMS, and Associate Professor at the...

The Centre for Advanced Studies in Mathematics (CASM) and the Department of Mathematics presented a conference on Applied Mathematics from August 19-20, 2019. The conference was held at the Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering at LUMS. It aimed to provide a platform for researchers,...

The student chapter of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) at LUMS, arranged an educational trip on July 4, 2019 to the National Museum of Science and Technology, Lahore, Masjid Wazir Khan and the Shahi Hammam. SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics,...

Faculty member at the Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering, LUMS, Dr. Rahman Shah Zaib Saleem, has been honoured with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) fellowship for Research Stays for University Academics and Scientists. This is a particularly noteworthy achievement, as this...

An annual spot on the LUMS calendar, the Summer Coaching Session organised by the National Outreach Programme Centre took place from July 15 to 29, 2019. This year’s coaching session was all about trying new things and creating new experiences for the candidates. The purpose of the session was...

The LUMS Biomechanics Lab, a centre to test bowling actions, set up in 2016 at the Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering (SBASSE), has now been accredited by the International Cricket Council (ICC), making it the fifth in the world to earn this accolade. With this prestigious...