Dr. Usama Ijaz Bajwa

Head of Product and Engineering Manager (Machine Learning), Persivia Inc. / Soliton Systems.
Served as an Assistant Professor and Associate Head of Department (Aug 2017-Jan 2021) at COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus (2015).
Served as an Assistant Professor at COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus (2010).
Visiting researcher at Medical Imaging Research Group, University of South Wales (2007).
Moderator/ Founder Member of Vision and Pattern Recognition Systems Research Group (VisPRS) (2008).
Team Lead in a research project "Automatic Personal Identification Biometrics System (APIBS) for Large Scale Applications" funded by IGNITE (National Technology Fund) formerly known as National ICT R&D Fund, Ministry of Information Technology, Pakistan (2008).
Co-Founded Technology Nucleus (Pvt) Ltd. (TECHNUC) (2008) and AgriAsan (2018).
Enrolled as a PhD student at C@SE Islamabad (2008).
Moderator/ Member of Machine Vision and Pattern Analysis (MVPA) Research Group at C@SE Islamabad (2005).
Enrolled as MS student at C@SE Islamabad (2005).
Served as a Lecturer and an Assistant System Analyst at COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus (2003).
Have also worked with EU election observer mission as a coordinator in the General Elections (2002).
Was awarded a scholarship from Ministry of Science & Technology (MoST) Pakistan and 8th in the test held for this scholarship (2000).

Tenured Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Pakistan