Swabi, December 05, 2022 (PPI-OT):The 17th edition of International Conferences on Emerging Technology (ICET 2022) successfully concluded on November 30, 2022 at the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology. Speakers in the concluding ceremony of the two-day international conference on Wednesday said that the emerging technologies can help in rapid solution of various problems confronting mankind in the present rapidly changing and complicated world.
The International Conference of Emerging Technologies was organized by the Computer Science Faculty of GIK Institute and scholars from across the country and abroad participated and expressed their views to tackle various complicated issues in a creative way.
Prof Dr Mohammad Mujahid, Rector Pak-Austria Fachhochschule Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology (PAF-IAST) was chief guest in the concluding ceremony. He spoke in detail about the emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, augmented reality, the internet of things, and quantum computing.
Activities like conferences/workshops are very important because this is how you learn to improve and develop your skills, applied research which could benefit the local community and resolve the problems like issues related to recent pandemic (COVID), energy, and climate change. Prof Mujahid, said that PAF-IAST Center for Mineral Resources and Technologies, Center for Railway Engineering and Center for Artificial Intelligence all are demand driven and aimed to solve local problems.
Prof Dr Sarfraz Khurshid Vice Chancellor of Information Technology University of Punjab said that there are plenty of research opportunities, you only need to get the right track and meeting with different researchers to get in-depth idea of innovation, their experience can help you excel a lot and the students should take research focus courses while knowing how they could achieve his objective.
Prof Dr Fazal Ahmad Khalid said that the emerging technologies can help companies to create power transformation to drive revenue in the present era of tough competition. Dr Masroor Hussain, coordinator of the conference said that a total of 45 research papers were accepted out of 170 research papers submitted from 31 countries including United States, China, Malaysia and Pakistan and every research paper was reviewed by at least two different reviewers.
Dean Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering Engr. Dr. Ahmar Rashid acknowledged the dedication and hard work of all the organizers of the ICET 17 on behalf of the steering committee, including GIK Administration, Rector, Pro-Rectors, Deans and Directors, Keynote Speakers, Chairs, Co-Chairs, Faculty Members, FCSE Staff, Students, Participants, and Conference Organizers particularly:
Conference Patron: Prof. Dr. Fazal Khalid, Sitar-e-Imtiaz
General Chairs:
Dr. Wasim Ahmed Khan
Sardar Aminullah Khan
Steering Committee Members:
Dr. Zucker
Dr. Tan Li
Dr. Aydin
Dr. Fahad Saeed
Dr. Waqar Mahmood
Dr. Sajjad A. Madani
Dr. Shahzad Sarfraz
Dr. Khurram Khurshid
Program Chairs
Dr. Masroor Hussain
Prof. Dr. Syed Fawad Hussain
Dr. Usman Habib
Local Organization and Registration Committee
Dr. Raja Hashim Ali
Dr. Usman Haider
Technical Program Committee:
Prof. Dr. Zahid Halim
Prof. Dr. Arshad Islam
Prof. Dr. Hafeez ur Rehman
Dr. Taj Muhammad Khan
Dr. Imran A. Siddiqui
Registration co-Chair
Mr. Sajid Ali
Online Management Committee
Engr. Badr e Munir
Ms. Beenish Urooj
Publication and Industrial Co-Chairs
Dr. Omar Osman Khan
Dr. Ghulam Abbas
Dr. Ali Zeeshan Ijaz
Dr. Muhammad Tariq Khan
Local Arrangements, Finance and Marketing
Engr. Muhammad Mohsin Zafar
Dr. Rashad Jillani
Engr. Dr. Muhammad Hanif
Engr. Ali Shaukat
ACM Society
IEEE Society
Graduate Student Society
For more information, contact:
Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology (GIKI)
Topi 23640, District Swabi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Tel: +92-938-281026
Fax: +92-938-281032, +92-938-281041
Website: https://www.giki.edu.pk/
