National Center of Artificial

Intelligence (NCAI)

Dr. Yasar Ayaz

HoD Robotics & AI
SMME, NUST
&
Central Project Director
National Center of Artificial Intelligence (NCAI)

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Partner Universities
Capital Cost:
US $ 10 Million

Establishment Duration:
36 Months

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Structure of NCAI

Saturday, March 30,

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 Smart city lab
Neuro-Computation lab

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 NUST Intelligent Robotics Lab (IRL)
Goal: Application of AI to solve fundamental problems
in the field of robotics.
Scientific Objectives:
General policy learning for robotic tasks with focus on motion
planning
Generalization from less data
Potential Applications:
Autonomous surveying
Driverless vehicles
Fault detection in manufacturing industries for automatic QA
Crop Management and Estimation
Warehouse management
NUST Deep learning laboratory
• The Deep Learning Laboratory at the National Center for Artificial Intelligence
will serve as the Brain of the center.

Data Surveillance Aerial Surveillance Ground Surveillance

To overcome the
strategies that consume
huge amounts of data into
systems that are analyzed
to reveal information for
compromising Security,
Governance, & Marketing
To design airborne To design systems which
surveillance algorithms can perform surveillance
for early warnings, land on the ground by
and maritime security analyzing the traffic,
using drones and UAVs. including the detection,
classification, and
tracking of the targets.
 Intelligent Systems Design Lab (UETP)
This laboratory will be involved in intelligent system design in larger prospect, to
develop novel biologically-inspired electronic, computational and robotic
systems.

We work to characterize and understand biological systems, and exploit

evolutionary and developmental mechanisms in systems design and
optimization. The main theme is to have systems that are capable of learning for
itself.

Our work spans several areas, including the design of fault-tolerant hardware,
evolvable array-based architectures, many-core architectures, custom ASIC
solutions for intrinsic evolvable hardware, the use of computational
development within evolvable hardware, developing novel approaches to self-
healing systems and automatic design of next generation systems and Internet
of Things (IoT).
Intelligent Information Processing Lab (UETP)
To provide cutting edge research, development and
training framework by applying signal processing,
machine learning and pattern recognition theory and
methods to real-world multidisciplinary problems
faced by Pakistan.
The lab’s focus will mainly be in the following two main
domain areas:
1. AI in Mineral Resource Estimation and Mine Planning
2. AI in Healthcare
 NED (Karachi)
Smart City Lab
• Design of a traffic information acquisition system
• Traffic information filtering at server side and data
analytics
• Decision support system for Traffic management
• Living vehicle system design
• Crowd sensing and management system

Neurocomputation Lab

• Neuromorphic Hardware design and its applications

• Brain Machine Interface

 Intelligent criminology lab (UETL)
Crime Crime
Detection Prevention
• Video Surveillance • Crowd Analytics
& Retrieval • Social Media
• Gunshot Detection Analytics

Crime
Mitigation
• Forensic Animation
• Professional
Trainings
Agent based computational modelling (PU)

Design of an Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

for Vehicular Traffic Simulation Experiments

Development of In-lab Driver Training and Assessment

Device

Development of In-vehicle Driver Assessment and

Support Device

Design and Evaluation of Humanistic Driver Agent

Medical imaging and diagnosis laboratory (CIIT)

Focused research areas:

• Brain tumor detection

• Breast cancer detection

• Tuberculosis identification system