Summary

Dr. Imran Ashraf has 15+ years of research and development experience working in leading national and international academia and industry. Imran has an accumulative 80+ impact factor and published 70+ research articles.

During his BS studies, Imran secured 2nd position in his batch at the university level and obtained a silver medal for his FYP. In 2009, Imran got a Top Talent scholarship from TU Delft (The Netherlands), for Master studies in Embedded Systems. After MSc, Imran joined the Computer Engineering Lab, TU Delft, to pursue his PhD funded by Euorpean Projects (SMECY, EMC2). This research focused on various aspects of HPC such as profiling, parallelization, and communication-driven application mapping on embedded and HPC platforms. He designed and developed a tool that was utilized to perform efficient application mapping on conventional accelerators (GPU and FPGA), as well as for the design flow of unconventional in-memory computation architectures.

As a post-doctoral researcher, Imran worked on an Intel-funded project in the team of Prof. Koen Bertels focusing on the definition of a scalable architecture for executing quantum circuits. He has worked on various aspects of software stack, especially, compilation and high-performance simulation of quantum circuits. Imran was leading the development team of the CE lab at QUTECH, TU Delft, for the development of various tools related to Quantum simulation and compilation. The developed compiler was used for two annual Intel demos to generate code for architecture targeting superconducting and spin qubits. After coming back to Pakistan in 2018, Imran has been serving in the academia where he was involved in the design and development of undergraduate and graduate courses, CPD trainings, teaching, research and various administrative tasks. Currently, Imran is working as an Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department, NUCES-FAST, Islamabad.