LAHORE: The Information Technology University’s two faculty members have received the competitive Google Research Scholar Award.

Dr Mohsen Ali (PI) and Dr Izza Aftab (co-PI) who are doing impactful research in fields relevant to Google and are intended to help to develop new collaborations and encourage long term relationships.

ITU Vice Chancellor Dr Sarfraz Khurshid said they were constantly focusing on solving real life problems and the project would give them accurate and cheap data to assess economic well-being in Pakistan, and also help us understand urbanization.

Published in Dawn, April 9th, 2021

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