PAKISTAN'S SHINING PROFESSORS

*LUMS professors win Google Faculty Research Award in the United States*. Google Faculty Research Awards are annual awards structured as unrestricted gifts to support the research of world class faculty members at top universities around the world.

LAHORE/ PAKISTAN : Lahore University Of  Management Sciences [LUMS] Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering Chairman & Computer Science Associate Professor Dr. Ihsan Ayub Qazi along with his-

Assistant Professor Zafar Ayub Qazi have won the  highly prestigious Award for their proposal on designing technologies for making the web faster for the next billion Internet users in developing countries.

As part of their project they will build technologies to improve web performance on slow devices  and networks, which are widely prevalent in developing countries.

The proposed research can have a long-term impact on how users in the developing world experience web.

Google Faculty Research Awards are annual structured as unrestricted gifts to support the research of World-class faculty members at top universities around the world pursuing cutting - edge research in areas of mutual interest.

In addition, the award provides both faculty and students the opportunity to work directly with Google researchers and engineers.

These awards are highly competitive only - 15 percent of applicants receive funding and each proposal goes through a rigorous Google-wide review process.

Last year, Google received 1,033 proposals covering 46 countries and over 360 universities.

After experts reviews and committee discussions, Google decided to fund only 152 projects.  Generally, less than 5 percent of funded proposals are from outside the United States.

It is a big honor for the two professors, LUMS and Pakistan to have received this award.