COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
News & Events
Dr. Imran Usman (EE) will be heading the "Mobile Application Group" hosted by Centre for Advanced Studies in Telecommunication (CAST). The group is a joint consortium between CAST, Department of Electrical Engineering (EE), Department of Computer Science (CS) and Office of Research Innovation and Commercialization (ORIC). For details please visit the group page.  
We welcome respectable Dr. Mahmood Ashraf at CAST who has joined the office as Director CAST
We welcome respectable Dr. Raja Ali Riaz at CAST who has joined the office as Associate Director CAST
We welcome Mr. Anum Ali as Coordinator to CAST
We welcome Mr. Ghufran Shafiq as Coordinator to CAST
We welcome Mr. Muhammad Faisal Siddiqui as Academic Incharge to CAST
We welcome Mr. Saeed Ahmed as Research Incharge to CAST
We welcome Mr. Adeel Iqbal as Lab Incharge to CAST
Mr. Waqas Sultani has left CAST for higher studies in USA
Mr. Wajid Mumtaz has left CAST for higher studies in Malaysia
Certificate distribution ceremony for the courses "MATLAB for Bio, OPMOS, NS-2, FPGA and UML" is going to be held on Saturday April 14, 2011, 9:30 am.
We welcome Mr. Umair Ahmad Nasir (Research Associate) to CAST. He did his bachelors in Electrical/Electronics Engineering from University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (MUST).
We welcome Mr. Hasan Bilal Mirza at CAST. He did his Masters in Bioinformatics from King's College London.
One-day Short Course on Introduction to Optical Modelling and Simulation is offered to CIIT students on April 16, 2011. Since limited seats are available so an early registration is recommended. Check out the Course Brochure for further information.
Centre for Advanced Studies in Telecommunication (CAST) has organized a one day short course on "MATLAB for Bioinformatics and Biosciences" to be held on April 30, 2011. The course involves short training on how MATLAB can be utilized to solve a myriad of bioinformatics research problems, with particular emphasis on SIMBIOLOGY and BIOINFORMATICS Toolbox. The course is open to all students and faculty of CIIT with a minimal registration fee of Rs. 200/- The last date for registration is April 23, 2011.
Center for Advanced Studies in Telecommunication (CAST) is organizing one day short course "Introduction to The Network Simulator - ns-2", on 23 April 2010 at Department of CAST, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Chak Shahzad, Islamabad, Pakistan
Low Power Mobile Architecture and OS group at Center for Advanced Studies in Telecommunication (CAST) is organizing one-day Short Course on How to UML on April 9th, 2011. The course effectively combines introduction to the software development processes, object-oriented technologies and the Unified Modeling Language (UML). Check out the Course Brochure for further information.
We are offering one-day Short Course on Born to FPGA at Center for Advanced Studies in Telecommunication (CAST). Take advantage on an event dedicated to unleash the power of Spartan-3E FPGA Diligent Boards to enable you.
Mr.Imran Ali leaves for Ph.d to University of South Australia, Australia
Mr. Tayyab Rasul went to Mid Sweden University, Sweden for Masters Degree
Mr. Sohaib Ayaz Qazi leaves for his MS in Wireless Communication from Linkoping University, Sweden.
Furqan Hameed Khan went to Ajou University Korea for Master degree.
We welcome Mr. Taimur Shahzad (Lecturer) at CAST. He did his Master in Wireless Communication from LTH, Lund University, Sweden.
We welcome Mr. Waqas Sultani (Lecturer) at CAST. He did his Master in Image Processing from Seoul National University, Korea.
We welcome Mr. Ahmad Rauf Subhani as Research Associate at CAST from Air University Pakistan. He joins Design Methodology and Rapid Prototyping group.
We welcome Ms. Muneera Shiraz as Research Associate at CAST. She did her Bachelor in Mechatronics from NUST, Pakistan.
19 January 2010
Dr Naeem Azeemi became a member of Technical Advisor Committee for Universiti Teknologi Petronas in International Conference on Intelligent and Advanced Systems (ICIAS2010).
Dr. Ataullah Kalim, Director UIUC Program CIIT, briefed the faculty members from CAST about the immense scholarship opportunities at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on Tuesday, June 22, 2010 at 11:00 am
Dr. Ataullah Kalim, Director UIUC Program CIIT, presented the Certificates of Merit to the ushers for their valuable services during the Mobile Monday Pakistan Centennial Chapter Launch
CAST faculty members had a recreational trip to Nathia Gali on June 17, 2010. They did trekking, played cricket, had lunch and enjoyed lovely and pleasant weather with rain and hailstorm in the hot month of June.
Mr. Imran Ali’s journal paper "A Novel Subspace Tracking Algorithm and Its Application to Blind Multiuser Detection in Cellular CDMA Systems" by Imran Ali, Doug Nyun Kim, Yun-Jeon Song and Naeem Zafar Azeemi is published in Journal of Communications and Networks, Volume 12, Number 3, June 2010.
Mr. Imran Ali’s journal paper "Blind Multiuser Detection for MC-CDMA Systems Using Orthogonalized Subspace Tracking" by Imran Ali, Doug Nyun Kim and Jong Soo Lim is published in ETRI Journal, Volume 31, Number 2, April 2009.
Ms. Shama Noreen presented her conference paper “A Technique for Out-Of-Band Radiation Reduction in OFDM Based Cognitive Radio” at 17th International Conference on Telecommunication 2010 (ICT 2010) on 7th April 2010, Doha, Qatar.
We congratulate CIIT Medals for Innovation awardees Mr. Imran Ali (Lecturer CAST). CIMI are awarded to the researchers from all campuses of CIIT for their innovative contribution to the research and development.
We congratulate CIIT Medals for Innovation awardee Mr. Syed Abdul Mannan Kirmani (Lecturer CAST). CIMI are awarded to the researchers from all campuses of CIIT for their innovative contribution to the research and development.
 Mr. Wille Eerola, CEO Riddes Corporation inaugurated Best Mobile Innovation in Pakistan (BMIP) Award Program. The Best Mobile Innovation Pakistan (BMIP) Award is an annual competition to promote innovations, new entrepreneurship as well as increased implementation of wireless related technology in Pakistan and in the world.
Mr. Muhammad Azam Khan Swati, Federal Minister for Science and Technology and Chancellor CIIT awarded CIIT Medals for Innovation (CIMI) to following COMSATS faculty. CIIT Medals for Innovation (CIMI) Certificate of Merit and cash prizes are awarded to the researchers from all campuses of CIIT for their innovative contribution to the research and development.
Higher Education Commission (HEC) and British Council jointly initiated the Higher Education Partnerships Programme between Pakistan and United Kingdom to support and strengthen the national reforms process in higher education sector of Pakistan. Through this initiative CAST, CIIT established a research and development link with University of Essex UK. This link successfully operated till December 2009 and helped us in carrying out joint research and capacity building of our faculty members. To mark the success of this programme, British Council in collaboration with HEC organized a Final Dissemination Event on May 10, 2010 in Serena Hotel, Islamabad.
19 April 2010
MobileMonday has announced that it will launch its 100th chapter in Islamabad, Pakistan. MoMo will also open chapters in Palestine and Sri Lanka.

"Pakistan is a huge mobile market where there is much innovation the world should be aware of. MobileMonday is excited to invite Pakistan's mobile community to connect with peers globally," said Tammisto.
20 March 2010
A Crash Course on Essentials for FPGA Designers & Developers was conducted on 20 March 2010 at CAST. A Four-Track one day priceless hands on experience you can’t afford to miss if you are currently learning, designing or developing FPGA solution.
17 March 2010
Mr. Dr Shafat A. Khan distributed WiCAST certificates in a WiCAST course for beginners, launched at CAST Simulation and Modeling Lab. Attendees from different discipline participated to learn WiMAX.
16 March 2010
Mr. Folker Flasse, the president of 'Humanity Care Stiftung', Berlin Germany and Mr. Sadiq, a prominent Business, Berlin Germany visited CAST. Various R&D programs and potential industrial links between CAST, CIIT and Germany were discussed. WiCAST, RFID and Disaster Simulator were demonstrated to the visitors.
10 March 2010
Professor Dr. Nik Mohamed, from UN University Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, visited CAST on 10th March, 2010 on invitation of MoH and UNICEF, as Training Coordinator for their program on 'Open Source Software in Healthcare' to deliver a presentation on the subject during the workshop.
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CAST participated in a UNICEF workshop on 'Cross Cutting Issues in Health' arranged by Federal Coordinating Unit, Ministry of Health at Islamabad.
6 March 2010
Federal Minister of Science and Technology Mr. Azam Khan Swati, Ambassador of Pakistan to Germany, Mr Shahid Kamal and Dr Wille Eerola, CEO Riddes Finland visited CAST. CAST products, WiCAST, Disaster Simulator, RAIDERS, and cast were introduced.
12 Dec 2009
Centre for Advanced Studies in Telecommunication (CAST) organized “One Day Hands on Workshop on WiMAX”, Held on 12 December 2009 at Department of CAST, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Chak Shahzad, Islamabad - Pakistan
11 Dec 2009
Mr. Shoaib Ayaz Qazi will present his work on “A Comparative Analysis of LDPC decoders for image transmission over AWGN channel” in Frontiers of International Technology (FIT 2009) Abbottabad, Pakistan on Dec 16, 2009.
11 Dec 2009
Mr. Muhammad Umer Farooq will present his work on “Optimal Adjustment parameters for EPC global RFID Anti Collision Q Algorithm in different Traffic Scenarios” in 13th international multi topic conference (INMIC 2009) Islamabad, Pakistan on Dec 14, 2009.
07 Dec 2009
CAST faculty members Mr. Abdul Mannan Kirmani and Ms. Amna Irum performed Hajj rituals.
16 Nov 2009
Centre for Advanced Studies in Telecommunication (CAST) organized “One Day Hands on Workshop on WiMAX”, Held on 16 November 2009 and also on 23 November 2009 at Department of CAST, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Chak Shahzad, Islamabad - Pakistan
11 Nov 2009
Centre for Advanced Studies in Telecommunication (CAST) organized Two day Workshop on “Foundation Verilog”, Held on 11~12 November 2009 at Department of CAST, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Chak Shahzad, Islamabad - Pakistan
19 Oct 2009
Mr. Muhammad Umer Farooq presented his work on “Enhancing Tag Identification in RFID Systems using Slatted Non-Persistent Protocol” in 5th international conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET 2009) Islamabad, Pakistan
19 Oct 2009
Ms. Samra Kahkashan presented her work on “Optimizing the performance of Turbo Codes HDL Model for rapid prototype” in 5th international conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET 2009) Islamabad, Pakistan
01 Oct 2009
CAST faculty members gathered at PC Bhorban Murree for Eid-ul-Fitr event.
28 Sept 2009
We welcome Mr. Umer Javid (Lecturer) in Wireless Sensor Network Group at CAST. He did his Master of Science (Technology) in Communications Engineering from Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.
25 Sept 2009
Mr. Sohaib Ayaz is promoted to the Research Associate in Design Methodology and Rapid Prototyping (DMRP) Group.
15 Sept 2009
Mr. Syed Yasir Imtiaz presented his work on “Multi-core technology: An Overview” in 1st international workshop on Distributed Computing in Ambient Environments (DicomAe) September 2009.
15 Sept 2009
Mr. Mohsin and Mr. Mudasir Shahzad left to University of Linkshoping, Sweden to pursue their MS in Wireless Communication.
18 Aug 2009
Ms. Rabia Badar completed her MS Thesis in “Performance Analysis of Turbo Code Techniques” under the supervision of Dr. Naeem Zafar Azeemi at CAST.
02 Aug 2009
Ms. Hina Khalid and Ms. Qurat-ul-Aain completed her BS project “Estimation of missing values in microarray gene expression datasets and its analysis” under the supervision of Dr. Naeem Zafar Azeemi at CAST. (Joint collaboration of International Islamic University Islamabad and Center for Advanced Studies in Telecommunication)
17 July 2009
Mr Attiq ur Rehman (Project Associate) from ALICE Project at CERN Geneva visited CAST on July 17, 2009 and delivered a seminar on Alice Project activities.
19 May 2009
Naeem Zafar Azeemi, Mr. Tayyab Rasul, Mr. Muhammad Umer and Miss. Asmara Khan are going to Essex, UK from 19 May 2009 – 20 June2009, for training with School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, United Kingdom.
02 May 2009
French Delegation Visited CAST
23 April 2009
CAST Internees attended three days Workshop from 23 April 2009 to 25 April 2009 on SPSS and got Certificates at COMSATS Institute of Information Technology H-8/1 campus Islamabad.
10 April 2009
We welcome Dr. Waqar Nabi as an Assistant Professor and he completed Engineering Doctorate in System Level Integration (System-on-chip) from University of Glasgow. He is leading the ‘Design Methodologies and Rapid Prototyping’ Group.
08 April 2009
 We congrats Mr. Muddasir Shahzad on getting Silver Campus and Bronze Institute Medals at CIIT Convocation Islamabad.
01 April 2009
A research paper of Mr. Imran Ali, titled “Blind Adaptive Multiuser Detection for the MC-CDMA Systems using Orthogonalized Subspace Tracking” has been published in April, 2009 issue of Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute (ETRI) journal (ISSN: 1225-6463), South Korea. ETRI journal is a well reputed International journal, published by Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute, Daejeon, South Korea.
26 March 2009

Members of DAAD Germany Visited CAST

17 March 2009
 A research paper of Mr. Imran Ali, titled “A new Subspace tracking algorithm using approximation of Gram-Schmidt Procedure” has been accepted in a “2009 World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering” (CSIE 2009), Los Angeles, USA, organized by World Research Institute and published by IEEE Computer Society. The conference shall be held on March 31 - April 2, 2009, in Los Angeles, USA.
26 Feb 2009
Minister Azam Swati visited CAST.
04 Feb 2009
We welcome Ms. Shama Noureen as a Lecturer from MYONGJI University Republic of Korea. Her research field is Wireless Communication and research interest includes interference mitigation in OFDM Systems.
02 Feb 2009
We welcome Ms. Amna Irum as a Lecturer from MYONGJI University Republic of Korea. Her research field is Wireless Sensor Network Protocols.
11 Jan 2009

We welcome Mr. Shafat Ali as a Senior Accountant from COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Islamabad. He joins us as Office Coordinator.

04 Jan 2009
Chairman COMSATS visited CAST
22 Jan 2009
Birthday Ceremony of Mr. Tayyab Rasul
18 Dec 2008
Miss. Asmara Khan presented a conference paper “Ultra Wide Band Radar Based Tamper-Resistant Clinical Asset Tracking System (ATS)”at CIBEC'08, was organized by Cairo University and co-sponsored technically by IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society and the Egypt Chapter of IEEE. December 18~20, 2008.
12 Dec 2008
 Dr. N. Zafar Azeemi’s paper titled: “Migration of Multimedia Legacy Applications to Battery-Conscious Mobile Architectures”, accepted in ICIAFS08 Conference organized by IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and technically supported by IEEE Sri Lanka Section, Colombo, Sri Lanka, December 12~14, 2008.
06 Dec 2008
Syed Abdul Mannan Kirmani and Dr. Naeem Zafar Azeemi published their research paper titled: “Performance Analysis of Metro WDM Star Network based on an Arrayed Waveguide Grating” in Journal of the Optical Society of Korea Vol. 12, No. 4, December 2008, pp. 346-350, ISSN: 1226-4776.
03 Dec 2008
Mr. Assad Saleem went Holland for his PhD.
01 Dec 2008
Naeem Zafar Azeemi, Mr. Mahmood Pervaiz and Mr. Syed Abdul Mannan Kirmani visited Essex, UK from December 1 – 13, 2008, for seeking potential collaboration opportunities with School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, United Kingdom.
01 Dec 2008
During a visit at the ESSEX University UK the members of the CAST had a meeting with the Dr. Dimitra.
12 Nov 2008
Chairman HEC Visited CAST.
12 Nov 2008
We welcome Mr. Imran Ali Pittafi as a Lecturer from MYONGJI University Republic of Korea. His research interest is Wireless Communication and he joins Next Generation Network Group.
11 Nov 2008
We welcome Mr. Syed Abdul Mannan Kirmani as a Lecturer from MYONGJI University Republic of Korea. His research field is Optical Communication and Optical Access Networks. He joins Optical Communication Group.
09 Nov 2008
We welcome Mr. Shaharyar Mehmood as a Lecturer from MYONGJI University Republic of Korea. His research field is Radio Frequency Identification (RFID).
06 Nov 2008
Mr. Jawad Mirza went UK for his MS in Communication System Engineering from Manchester University.
12 Oct 2008
We welcome Mr. Adnan Qureshi as a Research Associate from COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Islamabad. His research field is Low Power Mobile Architecture and MAC Layer of WiMAX
12 Oct 2008
We welcome Mr. Muddassir Asif as a Research Associate from COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Islamabad. He joins DSP Design Methodology Group.
11 Sep 2008
We welcome Mr. Syed Yasir Imtiaz as a Lecturer from LINKOPING University Sweden. His research field is Low Power Mobile Architecture and Operating Systems.
01 Sep 2008
We welcome Ms. Beenish Niaz as a Lecturer from International Islamic University. Her research field is Wireless Communication and she joins Next Generation Network Group
28 Aug 2008
We welcome Mr. Muhammad Umer Farooq as a Lab Engineer. He joins DSP Design Methodology Group.
16 Aug 2008
Mr. Jabran Khan Jadoon went France for MS Leading to PhD on HEC Scholarship.
15 Aug 2008
We welcome Ms. Nadia Bibi as an Internee from COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Abbottabad. Her research field is GSM.
02 July 2008
We welcome Ms. Ayesha Hammed as a Research Associate from COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Wahcantt. Her research field is microwave communication and ultra Wideband Technology and joins Bio-Inspired Advance IT group.
31 June  2008
Dr. Baber Minhas worked tirelessly for the progress of CAST for eight months, he left CAST. We appreciate his efforts.
15 June  2008
Dr. Ata ul Ikram worked tirelessly for the progress of CAST for seven months, he left CAST. We appreciate his dedications towards CAST.
01 May  2008
We welcome Mr. Wajid Mumtaz as a Lecturer from University of Engineering and Technology Taxila. His research field is Wireless Communication and he joins Next Generation Network Group. His specific areas are Multiple carrier modulation and multiple Input Multiple Output Systems.
01 April  2008
We welcome Dr. Naeem Zafar Azeemi as a Director CAST from COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Islamabad.
10 March  2008
We welcome Mr. Jawad Mirza as a Lecturer from COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Islamabad. His research field is Radio Frequency Identifier.
10 Feb  2008
We welcome Mr. Jabran Khan Jadoon as a Lecturer from COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Abbottabad. His research field is Optical Communication and Networks. He joins Optical Communication Group.
10 Feb  2008
We welcome Mr. Talha Faiz ur Rahman as a Lecturer from ITU Bangladesh. His research field is Wireless Networks and joins Next Generation Network Group.
24 Jan  2008
We welcome Mr. Tayyab Rasul as a Lecturer from COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Abbottabad. His research field is Optical Communication and Networks and joins Optical communication Group.
22 Jan  2008
We welcome Ms. Asmara Khan as a Lecturer from COMSATS Institute of Information Technology WahCantt. Her research field is microwave communication and ultra Wideband Technology and joins Bio-Inspired Advance IT group.
21 Jan  2008  We welcome Ms. Wajiha Mohsin as a Research Associate from COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Islamabad. She joins us as HR Manager.
01 Jan  2008
 We welcome Mr. Atif Jamil as a Lecturer from UTP Malaysia. His research field is Optical Communication and Networks.
28 Dec 2007
We welcome Mr. Assad Saleem as a Lecturer.
24 Dec 2007
We welcome Mr. Muhammad Tanveer as an Assistant Professor from KTH Sweden. His research field is Remote Sensing and joins Geographical Information System (GIS) group.
22 Dec 2007
We welcome Dr. Baber Minhaas as an Associate Professor.
14 Dec 2007
We welcome Dr. Ata ul Ikram as an Assistant Professor.
12 Dec 2007
 We welcome Mr. Naseem Khan as a Advisor from COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Islamabad.
12 Dec 2007
We welcome Mr. Siraj us Saqib as a Lecturer from Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC). He joins us as department coordinator.
12 Dec 2007
 Inauguration of Center for Advanced Studies in Telecommunication (CAST).
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