June 23, 2020
Dr. Aasim Ali has successfully defended his PhD dissertation held in FAST-NUCES, Lahore on June 22, 2020 and has qualified for the award of doctorate degree. He is the 7th PhD of Department of Computer Science, FAST-NUCES, Lahore.
He has completed his research titled “Improving Statistical Machine Translation for English-to-Urdu Pair using Morphological and Syntactic Information”, under the supervision of Dr. Usman Shahid and Dr. Kashif Zafar. The examiners included Dr. Rao Muhammad Adeel (Assitant Professor - COMSATS, Lahore), Dr. Asim Karim ( Professor - CS Dept - LUMS, Lahore) and Dr. Mirza Omer Baig (Assistant Professor - FAST-NUCES, Islamabad). The defense was held online because of COVID-19 and was well attended by a large number of faculty members and graduate students.