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½ About the NGDS
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The
NGDS Pilot Project URL: http://ngds-ku.org
The NGDS Pilot Project e-mail: info(at the
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The
NGDS Team
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Professor Dr. Syed Arif Kamal, Founder, Project Director and Principal Investigator of the NGDS Pilot
Project (wearing cap) has a distinguished academic career
(throughout first class first position), with four gold medals awarded for
scholastic achievement. His academic achievements include breaking the record
of Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Hyderabad in HSC
Examination and obtaining Quaid-é-Azam Scholarship for first position (in the entire university) in MSc
Examination from University of Karachi (98.8% aggregate marks). He obtained graduate degrees from the
Johns Hopkins University (USA) and Indiana
University, Bloomington (USA). He held visiting positions at Malmö
General Hospital (Sweden) and the Albert
Einstein College of Medicine (New York). He holds a PhD in Mathematical Neuroscience. He developed models of
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human brain, the
human heart and the human spinal column). He has over 29-year experience on the development of moiré techniques (an effective tool for the detection, the documentation, the follow up
and the quantification of curvatures
of spinal column, in particular, scoliosis). He
developed and implemented moiré systems at Malmö General Hospital, Malmö, Sweden and the James Whitecomb Riley
Hospital for Children, Indianapolis, USA. He lectured on moiré
techniques at the Harvard
Medical School (USA), the
Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (Italy), University of Karachi and the Aga
Khan University Medical College. He trained master anhropometists of
TAWANA PAKISTAN Project (2003), provided technical support to pediatricians at
the Nishtar Medical College, Multan (2004) and conducted training sessions for
the faculty and the students of Department of Special Education, University of
Karachi to obtain anthropometric measurements of special children (2006). He
has 116 research papers (104 as solo/first/corresponding
author) to his credit. He is a referee of Clinical Biomechanics and Optics and Laser Technology, both published by Elsavier. Currently, he is
Professor, Department of Mathematics and Head, Mathematical Biology Group, University of Karachi as well as Convener, National-Curriculum-Revision Committee (Mathematics), Higher Education
Commission and Convener, Subject Committee
(Mathematics), National Testing Service. He, also, served as Chairman of Department
of Mathematics (2003-6, full term of 3 years). During his professional
career, spanning over almost three decades, he had an opportunity to demonstrate his
leadership potential in 15 different capacities. Since 2002, he has been grooming future leaders through the Early Talent Research Participation Program.
Syed Firdous, Senior Mathematician cum Statistician
(wearing blue shirt in the photograph above), was responsible for anthropometry
and data analysis during 1998-2008. He obtained his MSc from University of
Sindh and worked as Associate Professor and Head, Mathematics Department at
Sindh Muslim Government Science College. He was a member of Board of Studies,
Department of Mathematics, University of Karachi. He has co-authored 10 papers with the Project Director. He
remained active in the project till his death on June 21, 2008. To honor his
contributions for the NGDS Pilot Project, the Project Director delivered the Syed Firdous Memorial Lecture on Mathematics in the Life Sciences on March 22, 2010 and renamed Growth and Imaging Laboratory at
University of Karachi as the Syed Firdous Growth and Imaging Laboratory.
Dr. Shah Jamal Alam is to be remembered for developing the first-generation-growth software
and constructing the NGDS website. He had been associated with this project
during 1998-2002. Currently, he is working as a
postdoctoral fellow in USA.
Shahid
Ali Khan is assisting us in data collection.
Munir
Hussain is providing IT support to the project.
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Updated: December 1, 2011 (0000h GMT)
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