Sr. Research Associate (NEWT Lab)
School for Science & Engineering
Lahore University of Management Sciences

mpervaiz@lums.edu.pk
CV

My research interest is in bringing the benefits of technology, primarily, to the third world residents. As a result what ever has the potential to help the people in Pakistan and the south east asia, Africa, South America and the developing nations in the far east.

This is the area which brings challenges like illiteracy, severe power and network failure to the table. There is a lot of potential in this area, we can do a lot in the field of education, health care and even entertainment. Providing entertainment in the entertainment deprived developing world is in itself quite laudable. Moreover, it can be used to attract the masses to other technologies related to health care and education that we develop.

Due to my research interest, I have had the opportunity to work in diverse areas like Distance Education, Learning Problems, Disease Epidemiology and Speech applications with Umar Saif (LUMS), Ashraf Iqbal (LUMS), Richard Anderson (U of Washington, Seattle), Roni Rosenfeld (Carnegie Mellon U), John Guttag (MIT) and Zeeshan Syed (U of Michigan, Ann Arbor).

Viral Entertainment as a Vehicle for Disseminating Speech-Based Services to Low-Literate Users[pdf]

Agha Ali Raza, Mansoor Pervaiz, Samia Razaq, Christina Milo, Guy Alaster, Jahanzeb Sherwani, Umar Saif, Roni Rosenfeld In International conference on information and communication technologies and development (ICTD) , 2012

Collaborative Technologies in International Distance Education [pdf]

Richard Anderson, Ruth Anderson, Natalie Linnel, Mansoor Pervaiz, Umar Saif, Fred Videon, In Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Work in Design (CSCWD), 2009

Early Epidemic Detection from Google Flu Trends

Fahad Pervaiz, Mansoor Pervaiz, Zeeshan Syed, Umar Saif, In Submission

Ericsson-PTA Mobile Excellence Award 2011

Parho
This project is a news paper research for the illiterate and the disabled. It won the Ericsson-PTA Mobile Excellence Award 2011

Polly (click here)
This project is a voice based entertainment system for the low literate portions of the population of Pakistan. This project is in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University

iHealth (click here)
iHealth is a disease surveillance system, to detect outbreaks in the Muzzafergarh district of Punjab in Pakistan. This project is in collaboration with Global Viral Forecasting and University of Michigan.

FluBreaks (click here)
This is a Flu Outbreak system which provides outbreak information on flu through the US (140 cities, all US states and regions). We are collaborating with University of Michigan for this.

SMSall (previously known as Chopaal) (click here)
I was the Co-Founder of this service. We developed, Chopaal, as a social network over cell phones where people could send out a text message and multiple people of similar interests would receive it. With the initial motivation of disaster relief management, soon the endeavor was to provide similar social connectivity as facebook or orkut in a country where the Internet users are 10% of the total population and cellphone penetration is close to 70% of the total population. Chopaal has evolved into SMSall, a startup, which has sent over 4 billion text messages for 4 million users in Pakistan.

Teaching Assistant

TA for Graduate Operating Systems - at LUMS (Lahore University of Management Sciences) - (Fall Semester 2011)

TA for Graduate Computing for the Developing World at LUMS (Lahore University of Management Sciences) - (Spring 2008)
[This was three-way course on "Computing for the Developing-world" with University of Washington (CSEP 590B) and Microsoft Research was broadcast live between three sites.]

Head TA for PITB-LUMS Advanced IT Skills Development Course 2008 • Head TA for PITB-LUMS Advanced IT Skills Development Course 2007
[PITB-LUMS Advanced IT Skills Development Course was a 2 month (360 Hours) course structured around hands-on industry-style projects, involving teamwork and exposure to real development tools and development methodologies. This course was funded by PITB - Punjab IT Board and was held at LUMS - Lahore University of Management Sciences]

TA for Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - at LUMS (Lahore University of Management Sciences) - (Autumn Quarter 2008)

TA for Operating Systems - at LUMS (Lahore University of Management Sciences) - (Autumn Quarter 2007)

TA for Graduate Distributed Systems - at LUMS (Lahore University of Management Sciences) - (Winter Quarter 2006)

TA for Operating Systems - at LUMS (Lahore University of Management Sciences) - (Autumn Quarter 2006)

TA for Calculus I included teaching Matlab at NU-FAST (National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences - (Fall Semester 2006)

TA for Calculus II included teaching Matlab at NU-FAST (National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences - (Spring Semester 2005)

TA for Calculus I included teaching Matlab at NU-FAST (National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences - (Fall Semester 2005)

TA for Numerical Methods at NU-FAST (National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences) - (Spring Semester 2004)

Consultant

Deparment for International Development, UK

Software Development

Beon Media, Germany
SMC Technologies, USA
Strategic Systems Int. Lahore