FAST Alumni Association US Board Members 2022-2023

Sarah Sikandar Piestrak

Lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan

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Sarah is a software Team Lead with several years of experience developing robust code for high-volume businesses. I have expertise in Microsoft technologies including but not limited to Xamarin, Angular, WCF Services, MVC, WebApi, REST API, MS Azure cloud services, SQL and more. My specialty is in creating end to end solutions from concept to delivery with an emphasis on the business value of building the solution.

Nauman Sheikh

1992-1994
Lives in Ellicott City, Maryland​

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​Nauman Sheikh worked on an AI project very early in his career back in 1996 when he built a rule-based Pilot Scheduling system for Northwest Airlines. He has been building and deploying predictive models in operational environments since 2008 when he built and sold Credit Risk Models to banks in 3 continents. In 2013 he undertook a 10+ million device project dealing with IoT, billions of records and Real-Time operational decisions using predictive models. He first used Neural Networks in 2009 to solve a Money Laundering problem which built on his earlier project he had undertaken for US Treasury on Anti-Money Laundering back in 2002. He is a hands-on practitioner and has written a book on implementing AI that covers problem definition, model building, model deployment and overall business adoption of AI. His recent work is focused on Text Mining, Human Machine interface and gaming.

Salman Zaidi

1992-1995 (BS) 
Lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia

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Salman is a computer science graduate and currently serves as an Investment Advisor based out of Virginia Beach, Virginia. ​

Sajid Masood

1990-1993
Lives in Centreville, Virginia
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Sajid is a computer science graduate and currently serves as a Senior IT Officer, Business Solutions at the World Bank. 

​Shayan is a Telecom Engineering graduate from Fast Khi campus. Currently he works for General Motors as Senior Antenna Design Release Engineer.  

He joined the board to help increase alumni’s engagement so that they can have stronger networking and support our alumni association vision for scholarship funds.  

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Shayan Khursheed

2005-2009
Lives in Canton, Michigan​

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