CYPHYNETS

Welcome to the research group of Dr Abubakr Muhammad. CYPHYNETS is based at the LUMS School of Science & Engineering SSE. We do research in systems engineering, applied mathematics and robotics. Our main focus is the development of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) for welfare, infrastructure, environment, natural resources and sustainable development in the context of Pakistan and the developing world. Our motto is Basic research for basic problems!.

• Dr Abubakr is a panelist at an event launching the SarSabz LUMS initiative. (April 2012)

• New openings for lab engineers, software developers, numerical analysts, lab technicians and student assistantships in new water projects. (April 2012)

• We have won funding from Punjab Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to build a data assimilation system for monitoring surface and ground water contamination. (March 2012)

• We have won funding from International Water Management Institute (IWMI) to build smart water meters to study water distribution efficiency in canal networks. (March 2012)

• Dr Abubakr gives an SSE seminar series talk on building a smart water grid for Pakistan. (March 2012)

• A paper discussing distributed algorithms for homological networks has been accepted to MTNS 2012. (March 2012)

• Lab veteran Mhequb Hayat joins CASE, Islamabad as director of robotics group. (Feb 2012)

• Paper with Georgia Tech Embedded Systems Lab on domain specific languages for irrigation networks accepted to ICCPS 2012. (Jan 2012)

• Two papers on our NI landmine robotics effort accepted for publication to Robotik 2012. (Jan 2012)

• Dr Abubakr gives a talk on compressive sensing at the CIMPA-KAUST workshop on Uncertainty Quantification. (Jan 2012)

• Dr Abubakr and Hasan Nasir visit KAUST, Saudia Arabia for collaboration. (Jan 2012)

• LUMS grants us another competitive FIF grant to build a smart water grid test bed. This makes it two in a row. Only nine grants awarded from entire LUMS. (Jan 2012)

• Talha Manzoor and Syed Muhammad Abbas spend two months at TU-Kaiserslautern as part of DAAD exchange for project ALVeDA. (Dec 2011)

• Dr Karsten Berns, Daniel Schmidt and Syed Atif Mehdi visit CYPHYNETS from TU-Kaiserslautern for 3 weeks. (Nov 2011)

• We have won the NI mine-detection robotics competition in Lebanon, spanning two years and 16 international competing teams. (Oct 2011)

• We are co-organizing a workshop on field robotics at LUMS. (Oct 2011)

• We have won a funding from DAAD (German Academic Exchange) to develop agricultural robots with TU Kaiserslautern. (Aug 2011)

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