Dr. Yasar Ayaz

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Prof. Dr. Yasar Ayaz, Ph.D. (JAPAN)
(Pride of Performance)

Prof Dr Yasar Ayaz graduated with a PhD specializing in Robotics and Machine Intelligence from Tohoku University, Japan. He is the Founding Chairman and Central Project Director of Pakistan's National Center of Artificial Intelligence (NCAI) headquartered at National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) in Islamabad. He also founded Pakistan's first Department of Robotics & Artificial Intelligence at NUST in 2010 which he headed from June 2010 to August 2020 and where he is also currently a full Professor. He also holds the prestigious title of Specially-Appointed Professor title at Tohoku University, Japan and has been assisting the university in various roles especially for selection of new international students from Pakistan since 2015. He is also the Vice President of Monbukagakusho Alumni Association of Pakistan (MAAP).

Prof Yasar is the author of over 160 international publications and has won international best paper awards in London, UK and Sydney, Australia in 2018 and 2013 respectively. He also has 3 product design patents registered in his name with several more under review. He has delivered more than 60 invited and keynote talks at prominent venues including USA, Japan, UK, South Korea, China, Italy, Belarus, Norway etc and has won and developed projects of well over Two Billion Pakistan Rupees including international grants and national consortium based projects. In addition to winning President's Gold Medal, University Best Teacher Award, SMME Best Researcher Award and University Top Performer award at Pakistan’s top university: NUST, Prof Yasar has also been awarded the prestigious Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) Engineers' Excellence Award and Gold Medal in 2020. He has been awarded Lifetime Achievement Award by IEEE Islamabad Section and is also a recipient of President's Award for Pride of Performance which is one of the highest Civil Awards of Pakistan conferred by the Honorable President of Pakistan himself in 2021 and conferred with BRAIN Award 2022-23 for NUST Top Performer 2022 by Rector NUST in 2024.

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