Shahab Munir Baqai
Ph.D. Purdue University, 1998
Multimedia Communications
Networking, Video and Image Processing, Vision
Email: baqai [at] lums dot edu dot pk
Extension: 4423
Bio-Sketch
Dr. Baqai received his B.S., M.S and Ph.D degrees from College of Aeronautical Engineering (CAE) Pakistan, University of Southern California and Purdue University in 1985, 1994 and 1998, respectively. He joined LUMS in 2003. Before that, from 1998 to 2003, he was working as General Manager Information Technology at Pakistan Aeronautical Complex. He also was a Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA and Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology Pakistan, in addition to being an Adjunct Professor at LUMS. His past experience also includes Research Consultant in Enabling Technologies Pakistan and Awaz Networks Pakistan, Lecturer in CAE Pakistan and Engineering Officer in Pakistan Air Force. He has a number of publications in refered international journals and conferences. He has contributed to two books and also has served on the programme committees of various IEEE and NSF sponsored conferences.
Research Interests
His research interests include distributed multimedia systems, architecture and protocols for broadband multimedia networks, multimedia information representation and information theory.
- XML-Based Policy Engineering Framework for Heterogeneous Network Management
Samuel, A., Baqai, S.M., and Ghafoor, A., In the 10th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS 2007), Sapporo, Japan, October 10-12, 2007.
- Robust Digital Watermarking for Wavelet-based Compression
Baqai, S.M., and Jafri, A.R., In IEEE 2007 International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP-2007), Crete, Greece, October 1-3, 2007.
- A throughput-Efficient two level Access Control Scheme for Multimedia CDMA Networks
Chen, Z., Khokhar, A., and Baqai, S.M., In Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 2006. - Seamless Detection of Link and Node Failures in Label Switched Networks with Local Restoration
Raza, S., Aslam, F., Baqai, S.M., and Uzmi, Z.A., In Proceedings of the National Conference on Communication (NCC-2006), New Delhi, India, January 2006.
- A Restoration Routing Architecture for DiffServ Aware mpls Traffic Engineering
Uzmi, Z.A., Dogar, F.R., and Baqai, S., In Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Design of Reliable Communication Networks, Ischia (Naples), Italy, October 2005.
- Adaptive Multi-path on demand routing in mobile ad hoc networks
Mateen, W., Raza, S., Uzmi, Z.A., and Baqai, S., In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Object-Oriented Real-time Distributed Computing, Seattle, Washington, May 2005.
- Quality-based I/O Resource Management for Multimedia Document Database Servers
Khan, M.F., Ghafoor, H., and Baqai, S.,In ACM Journal of Multimedia Systems, 10(3): pp 199-219, March 2005.