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May 2007 | CS Undergrads Win Microsoft Pakistan’s Imagine Cup
Ahmad Humayun, Ozair Moazzam, Yahya Cheema and Tayyab Javed, senior year CS students advised by Dr Sohaib Khan and Dr Umar Saif win Microsoft’s Imagine Cup, Pakistan

May 2007 | ‘MagicWand’ project wins 2nd position at Softec 2007
CS undergraduate students, Rehan Rauf, Muhammad Bilal Shaikh, Aisha Sadiqa Azim and Ailia Fatima Gardezi, advised by Dr Umar Saif, win $700 prize at SOFTEC 2007 for their senior design project titled MagicWand

Mar 2007 | CS PhD Student’s Paper Short Listed for ‘Best Student Paper Award’ at ICASSP 2007
A paper by Hafiz Faheem Hussain, PhD student in the CS Dept., and Dr Shahid Masud is shortlisted for Best Student paper award at ICASSP, a prestigious signal processing conference.
Dec 2006 | First two LUMS PhD graduates get their degrees at the Convocation
Tauqeer Huassain and Onaiza Maqbool, PhD students in the CS Department since 2001, created history by becoming first PhD graduates from LUMS
June 2006 | LUMS Graduate Students Win Award For Best SPAM Filter at Discovery Challenge
A team of CS graduate students, Khurram Nazir Junejo and Mirza Muhammad Yousaf, supervised by Dr Asim Karim, won 1st position for SPAM Filtering Performance Award at the Discovery Challenge, organized by 17th European Conference on Machine Learning.
Mar 2006 | CS Professor Awarded US Patent
Dr Amjad Luna was awarded US Patent 7,020,279 for "Method and system for filtering a signal and for providing echo cancellation".
April 2006 | CS Professor Wins Grant From Microsoft Research
Dr Umar Saif’s proposal, “Poor Man’s Broadband: Peer-to-peer Dialup Networking” is one of the 17 proposals funded by MSR from more than 160 proposals submitted from 34 countries.

Mar 2005 | CS Senior Year Students Win First Position at SOFTEC 2005
Talha Zaman, Haris Hameed, Moazzam Ahmad and Salman Shaukat, CS undergraduates, advised by Dr Sohaib Khan, win 1st position in SOFTEC’s software competition

Dec 2004 | LUMS Students win 1st Position at Electronic Design Competition
Students working under the supervision of Dr Jahangir Ikram win 1st position at Student Design Competition held in conjunction with International Conference on Microelectronics, Morocco

Aug 2004 | LUMS Team Finishes in CSIDC Top Ten 2nd Year in a Row
Tashfeen Suleman, Zaheer ul Qamar Khan, Muhammad Afzal Khan and Ahsan Akhlaq Mughal, CS undergraduate students, made it to IEEE Computer Society’s International Design Competition (CSIDC) world finals held in Washington DC, where only 10 teams out of more than 180 were invited. The team was advised by Dr Zartash Uzmi

Oct 2003 | CS Professor Wins Grant from CISCO
Dr Zartash Uzmi wins $41,000 unrestricted grant from CISCO to conduct research in the area of MPLS

July 2003 | LUMS Team Amongst Top Ten at CSIDC
ShopEasy, a project by CS undergraduate students advised by Dr Zartash Uzmi, won honorable mention at IEEE Computer Society’s International Design Competition (CSIDC), by securing a place amongst the top 10 projects.