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Dr. Ali Represented MERL-UITU in Pakistan’s First Semiconductor Summit 2024
Dr. Ali Ahmed, Team lead MERL attended the Pakistan Semiconductor Summit, sponsored by GSME He was part of the Panel: Building the Talent Pool, He shared his experience of how he managed to create talent pool in Karachi thorough Micro Electronics Research Lab at UIT University.
In Karachi, specifically two companies are doing really well Xcelerium, led by Raheel Khan and DreamBig Semiconductor Inc. led by Sohail Syed both have their presence in Karachi. Both are housed at NED University of Engineering and Technology and MERL alumnus are active part of both startups. He further stated that he is fortunate enough to have worked with both founders, for talent pool building, they are committed to excellence. He also mentioned Dr Arsalan, Semiconductor veteran at Habib University who is also doing great work in semiconductors.
He mentioned the role of Dr. Syed Roomi Naqvi, who is the director of MERL and really helped us in running the show through his leadership. He also mentioned the name of Engr Farhan Ahmed Karim, who led the team at MERL-UIT with him, without teamwork it is not possible to create an impact.
He further said that Internationally, our students who graduated from Micro Electronics Research Lab at UIT University are working full time at Imagination Technologies, onsemi, Semidynamics, Intensivate and Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Few are doing fully funded PhD. at University of California, Santa Cruz, University of Arkansas, Sungkyunkwan University.
He emphasized that a total 24 paid international scholarships had been won by our undergraduate students, this include Google Summer of Code and The Linux Foundation mentorship programs. MERL is also the host organization for Google Summer of Code and The Linux Foundation program for the last three years.
Dr. Ali Ahmed thanked all semiconductor fraternity working in Pakistan, they are doing great work, may Allah bless them.