Join us for the upcoming FAANA Webinar session titled: Higher Studies in United States. This is going to be a live panel discussion comprising of various FAST alumni discussing their journey to U.S. They would also be sharing tips and tricks that would help streamline the admission procedure for upcoming students. 
 
This session is intended to help prospective students applying next year to put together a timeline for rest of their academic year. Don’t miss it!
 
Learn About:

• Standardized testing requirements ( GRE/GMAT)
• Researching and Selecting U.S Universities
• The University admission process
• Essays/personal statements (SOP).
• Letters of reference/recommendation
• Rankings systems
• Applying for Financial Aid
• How to choose the right location
• The different types of institutions/campus life in the United States

 
Tune in live at 12:00 PM (Noon) – 1:00 PM EDT (10pm-11pm Pakistan Standard Time) on Sunday, DECEMBER 15, 2019. Register Here
 
This free, online discussion is open to the public and will include a moderated conversation with additional questions submitted live from the online audience.
 
Moderator: Ahmad Uzair
 
Panelist: 
 
Sameen Reza: Sameen Reza is an alumni of FAST Lahore, batch 1993. Sameen worked for a software engineering firm for a year after doing her BCS. She then went to Dubai for a couple of years and worked for a networking solution provider company. After going back to Pakistan, she worked for 4 years with Beaconhouse Informatics as deputy manager academics.
In 2017, Sameen was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to pursue PhD in Educational Communication and technology from New York University. She came to US in Aug 2018 and have completed three semesters to date. Her research interests are learning analytics and how technology can be used to improve educational processes and outcomes. Sameen’s special passion is to teach and make programming easier and interesting for students. 
 
Nouman Shafqat : Having graduated from FAST Lahore in 2015, Nouman joined CureMD healthcare where he initially started working in the quality department but soon transferred to the product team as an analyst. CureMD had an EMR product for US based physicians. As a member of the team that guided the product’s vision and strategy, he was responsible for research and development of new features and certifications.
It was during his time at CureMD that Nouman realized the importance of data driven decision making and how the power of data can be leveraged in the healthcare industry to overcome its current problems and dependencies on humans. Nouman is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Computer Science with specialization in Data Science at Washington State University.
 
Ahmad Malik: As Senior Vice President of Information Technology at Learning Care Group, Ahmad Malik leads all aspects of technological development supporting the company’s innovative educational programs and customer solutions. His background includes more than 20+ years of wide-ranging leadership experience across all aspects of IT. Previously, he spent 12 years with Ciber (now HTC Global) in senior IT roles of steadily increasing responsibility, most recently as Director of Application Services. 
 
Ahmad holds an MS Information Systems degree from Lawrence Technology University and an MBA from University of Colorado at Denver. Ahmad graduated from FAST Institute of Computer Science Lahore in 1994.​
 
 
Rameez Ahmad: Rameez is from Batch 2005, FAST Lahore campus. Currently residing in Michigan. 

We would like to give you an update on our progress for this fiscal year against our original target of 52k and share the numbers that many of you have requested. 
With only 2 months left to go, we have so far collected $22k which leaves us with the delta of $30k to meet our goal. 

​Please register on the link below.
Registration HERE

Please join us at the sixth FAANA webinar on Sunday, November 3rd at 12 pm Eastern Time (10 pm Pakistan Time). Our guest speaker is Mohsin Hasan, a graduate of FAST Islamabad, 98 batch.

Overview:

Video games is a $120 Billion industry. What started as a small success with Asteroids in 1979 has now expanded to countless billion dollar franchises. A typical AAA goes through several stages of development from game concept, Art Direction, Game Design, Production, Development and Testing. Although the video game industry is changing rapidly with console, mobile, cloud and subscription based gaming services, the core game development model is more or less the same. 

In this session, speaker will talk about his personal journey from FAST Islamabad to EA Canada and the process it took to ship some of the biggest gaming franchises. He will also talk about some of the roles and their responsibilities that are involved in shipping a successful AAA title. 

Speaker Bio: 

Mohsin Hasan is FAST alumni from Batch 98 Islamabad. A video game development expert with 16+ years experience shipping AAA game titles. Cofounded a game development studio in Pakistan and have since worked at Electronic Arts shipping some of the biggest video game franchise including Need For Speed, Fifa, Skate and Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare. Have experience working in various capacities in the industry ranging from software engineer, Producer, Development Director and Technical director.

Please register on the link below.
Registration HERE

Please join us at the fifth FAANA webinar on Sunday, September 29th at 12 pm Eastern Time (9 pm Pakistan Time). Our guest speaker is Dr. Arish Qazi, a graduate of FAST Islamabad, 99 batch.

Medical imaging has revolutionized clinical decision making. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT), and other imaging modalities have enabled clinicians to non-invasively and reliably visualize internal organs, and provide important information about the physiological and pathophysiological changes. This has led to early diagnosis and monitoring, thus enabling a significant improvement in therapeutic output. The increasing amount of medical devices has led to dramatic increases in size and complexity of imaging data. Therefore, computer-aided analysis and processing of medical images has emerged as a vital component of bio-medical research and clinical practice.
This talk will give a brief introduction to the field of medical imaging, followed by examples of applications developed in both academic and industrial settings.​

About the speaker:
Dr. Arish Qazi has more than 15 years of industry experience performing medical image analysis and processing research and development both at private companies, as well as in hospital settings. He has conducted pioneering algorithm development work primarily in the context of image registration and image segmentation, and has experience with novel image-guided systems.
His experience includes working with different imaging modalities, such as magnetic resonance (MR), computed tomography (CT), and cone-beam CT imaging and is credited as inventor/co-inventor of 11 granted patents, and has authored over 25 peer reviewed publications.

Last year, FAANA community came together to raise funds to support  many deserving students at Lahore, Islamabad, Karachi, Peshawar and Faisalabad campuses by providing them financial aid. We were able to contribute $35k to the above campuses that had only been possible due to generous donations of the FAST Alumni residing in the US and Canada. We also collected and distributed $9k towards the innovation exhibitions supporting the students.
 
This year, we gave ourselves even higher challenge of $52k which is 24% increase from last year so we can support more students at the five campuses and engage in research and innovation activities such as sponsoring software exhibitions and providing mentorship to the young minds.
 
We are almost at the half mark for 2019, we are expecting $15k to come in through recurring donations that you have generously set up. That leaves us with the delta of $37k to meet our target. Like previous years, we aim to accelerate meeting our goal with your help and contribution. We encourage you to consider sponsoring
·         One semester for a student by donating $1200 or $100/month
·         One year (two semesters) by donating $2400 or $200/month
·         One exhibition by donating $1200 or $100/month
·         Or any amount on a monthly recurring basis. 
 
You can make your tax deductible donations through our website www.faana.org or through your company’s donation match program.
 
Thank you for your valuable support. Please remember no amount is small! Your donation makes a world of difference to someone’s future.