Information Technology University (ITU) is a public university in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. Founded in 2013, the university is founded and headed by Umar Saif and is modeled after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The university is located within the high-rise Arfa Software Technology Park, while its permanent 183 acre campus is under construction on Barki Road in eastern Lahore. The university has varying degrees of partnerships with the Harvard University and also publishes the MIT Technology Review, Pakistan edition. The university is home to several tenured academics, Pakistan's largest startup incubator and maintains partnerships with EdX, IBM and the US State Department. It hosted International Design Development Summit, organised by IDIN and USAID.
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Faculty
The university is led by Umar Saif (PhD, Cambridge) who has previously taught at the Cambridge-MIT Institute. It has two faculties:
- Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, headed by Akmal Hussain
- Faculty of Business and Management Sciences, headed by Bashir Ahmad Khan
ITU offers seven programs, all taught programs are based on five-month long semester system:
- BS (Computer Science)
- BS (Electrical Engineering)
- BS (Management and Technology)
- MS (Computer Science)
- MS (Data Science)
- MS (Development, Technology And Policy)
- Executive MBA in Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship (EMBITE)
- PhD (Computer Science)
- PhD (Electrical Engineering)
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Research
ITU is home to several research centers and labs:
- Center for Technology and Governance (CTG)
- Technology and Research in Emerging Networks and Distributed Systems (TRENDS)
- Neighborhood for Emerging World Technologies (NEWT)
- Abdus Salam International Center of Mathematics
- Center For Speech and Language Technologies
- National Centre For Academic Integrity
- Bio-Inspired Simulation & Modelling of Intelligent Life
- Embedded Computing Laboratory
- Scientometrics Lab
- Data Science Lab
- Business Analytics Lab
- Vision Processing Lab
- Innovations for Poverty Alleviation Lab (IPAL)
Between 2013 and 2016 the university has conducted PKR 700 million (approx. US$7 million) in research in STEM. It has received research funding from Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, Government of Punjab, GIZ, World Bank and Department for International Development.
History
ITU was established in 2012 by The Information Technology Universuty of the Punjab Act of the Punjab Government.
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