Usman Iqbal

PhD student since March 2005
Phone: +61 2 9385 4185
Fax: +61 2 9313 7493
Room Number: EE Building 402B
Email: m.Iqbal@student.unsw.edu.au

B.S. (Computer Science), University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan, 2001.

M.Eng.Sc. (Computer Science & Engineering), The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2004.

Research Project:

Currently working on an industrial project sponsored by OMNILINK Pty. Ltd related to GIS Metadata. I am also looking at location based services (LBS) and hoping to formulate a problem involving LBS and ITS for my PhD thesis.

Research Interests:

• GIS metadata.
• Location based services.
• Intelligent Transport Services.
• Transport Telematics.

Professional Experience:

• Worked for ITIM Associates (Pvt) Ltd, as a Software Engineer from Feb 2001- Feb 2003.
• Worked as a Teaching Assistant for Usman Institute of Technology, Hamdard University, Pakistan from Jun-Sep 2000.

Computing Expertise:

• Programming in Java, C++, Visual Basic.
• Web based design and development.
• Database modelling and development.

Memberships:

• Associate Member ACS, Australian Computer Society.
• Member IEEE (MIEEE), IEEE Computer Society.
• Member ACM (MACM), Association for Computing Machinery.

Interests:

Cooking, Travelling, Reading, Cinema.