Dr. Qazi is a rising star in the world of research and academia for computer networks and distributed systems, with a special interest in ICT for developing regions. In 2018, he won the highly prestigious and competitive Google Faculty Research Award for a proposal on designing technologies for making the Web faster for the next billion Internet users in developing countries. Driven by the belief that this research can have a profound socio-economic impact on how users in the developing world experience the Web, Dr. Qazi has presented his work at multiple workshops and seminars around the world from MIT, Harvard, Stanford to Facebook, Google, and Microsoft Research.
“I have had a long relationship with LUMS, first as an undergraduate student and then as a faculty member. When I was a student, I loved the environment here and I think that has to do with its people. LUMS has this amazing environment where you have such a lot of diversity, not just in terms of students and faculty, but also diversity of ideas that are respected and nurtured. You experience this amazing freedom at LUMS, which I would argue is quite rare in a region like Pakistan, so it’s the essence of this culture here at LUMS that I love and that made me come back.”
