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The
NGDS Pilot Project URL: http://ngds-ku.org
The NGDS Pilot Project e-mail: info(at the rate of)ngds-ku.org
The NGDS Team
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Professor Dr. Syed
Arif Kamal, Founder, Project Director and Principal Investigator of the NGDS Pilot
Project (wearing cap) has a distinguished academic career
(throughout first class first position), with four gold medals awarded for
scholastic achievement. His academic achievements include breaking the record
of Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Hyderabad in HSC
Examination, and obtaining Quaid-é-Azam Scholarship for first position in MSc
Examination from University of Karachi (98.8% aggregate marks). He obtained graduate degrees from the
Johns Hopkins University (USA) and Indiana
University, Bloomington (USA). He held visiting positions at Malmö
General Hospital (Sweden) and the Albert
Einstein College of Medicine (New York). He holds a PhD in Mathematical Neuroscience. He developed models of
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(the
human brain, the
human heart and the
human spinal column). He has over 25-year experience
on the development of moiré techniques (an effective tool for the detection, the documentation, the follow up
and the quantification of curvatures
of spinal column, in particular, scoliosis). He
developed and implemented moiré systems at Malmö General Hospital, Malmö, Sweden and the James Whitecomb Riley
Hospital for Children, Indianapolis, USA. He lectured on moiré
techniques at the Harvard
Medical School (USA), the
Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (Italy), University of Karachi and the Aga
Khan University Medical College. He trained master anhropometists of TAWANA
PAKISTAN Project (2003), provided technical support to pediatricians at the
Nishtar Medical College, Multan (2004) and conducted training sessions for the
faculty and the students of Department of Special Education, University of
Karachi to obtain anthropometric measurements of special children (2006). He
has 95 research papers to his credit. Currently, he is Professor, Department
of Mathematics, University
of Karachi and Convener, National-Curriculum-Revision Committee (Mathematics), Higher Education
Commission. During 2003 – 2006, he served as Chairman of Department of Mathematics (full term of 3 years).
Syed Firdous, Senior Mathematician cum Statistician
(wearing blue shirt), was responsible for anthropometry and data analysis during 1998-2008. He
obtained his MSc from University of Sindh and worked as Associate
Professor and Head, Mathematics Department at Sindh Muslim Government Science College. He
was a member of Board of Studies, Department of Mathematics, University of
Karachi. He has co-authored 10 papers
with the Project Director. He remained active in the project till his death on June 21, 2008. To honor his contributions for the NGDS Pilot Project, Growth Laboratory at University of Karachi has been renamed as "The Syed Firdous Growth and Imaging Laboratory".
Shah Jamal Alam is to be remembered for developing the first-generation-growth software and constructing the NGDS website. He was associated with this project during 1998-2002.
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