Dr. Alizai is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at LUMS. He brings years of experience as a faculty, researcher, software engineer, and technical lead both in industrial and academic settings. He has authored a book and book-chapters, and published more than 60 scientific papers while abroad and indigenously from Pakistan, several of them in top-flight ACM/IEEE journals and conferences (CoNEXT, SenSys, IPSN, BuildSys, LCTES, EWSN, TOSN, TECS, CCR). He regularly serves on the organizing and program committees of leading CS conferences such as MobiSys, SenSys, IPSN, BuildSys, SECON, IMWUT, and PerCom. He is a certified trainer for Instruction Skills Workshop and regularly conducts pedagogical workshops for faculty at LUMS. 

Some of his recent awards/achievements include:

• Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence, 2022
• Georg Forster Research Fellowship Award 2021-22
• Best paper award candidate at ACM EWSN 2020
• Best paper award candidate at ACM SenSys 2019
• Audience Choice Best Paper Award at ACM BuildSys 2017
• Summa cum laude (highest distinction) for Ph.D. thesis
• Best abstract award at ACM SenSys 2010
• Research grants as PI/CoPI totaling > $0.8+ mln
• Siemens AG scholarship for post-grad studies

For more information about his teaching and research, please visit his personal webpage