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Arif Zaman

Professor (Joint appointment with Dept. of Mathematics)
Ph.D. Stanford University, 1988
Pseudo-random Number Generation
Email: arifz [at] lums dot edu pk
Extension: 4406

Bio-Sketch


Arif Zaman was a member of the Statistics Department at Purdue University and later at Florida State University for 12 years before he joined LUMS in 1994. He has also published papers on generalizations of Markov chains, and on using computers to solve various theoretical problems in mathematics and statistics. His publications have been in various journals including: The Annals of Probability, Mathematics of Computation, Journal of Applied Probability, and Journal of Statistical Computation.


Research Interests


His current research has been in the field of pseudo-random number generation that is now widely used because of its suitability for modern computer needs.


Lectures


“What if we had Negative Fingers”, Invited Talk, National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Islamabad; National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (NUCES), Lahore.

“Facing Qibla Around the World”, Invited Talk, Institute of Space Technology, Islamabad.

“Four ways to Take Apart a Tetrahedron”, Invited Talk, University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore.



Recent Publications of Arif Zaman

  • Gauss-Hermite Spectrogram

    Amir, K.M., Zaman, A., Maud, M.A., and Loan, A., In ICIC 2007, QingDao, China, August 2007.

  • Instantaneous Frequency Estimation using Aggregate Spectrogram

    Amir, K.M., Zaman, A., Maud, M.A., and Loan, A., In ICIC 2007, QingDao, China, August 2007.