WIT WELCOMES FACULTY MEMBERS: DR. TALHA MANZOOR

Dr. Talha Manzoor graduated in 2010 with a BS in Mechatronics Engineering from National University of Science and Technology, Islamabad and subsequently joined LUMS, Lahore, where he completed his MS in Computer Engineering in 2013 and PhD in Electrical Engineering in 2017. He was part of a team that won first place in the National Instruments (NI) Mine Detection Robot Design Competition held in Beirut, Lebanon in 2011 and was awarded the gold medal in academics for both his BS and MS degrees. During his PhD he spent time as a visiting researcher at the Advanced Systems Analysis program of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria and the Robotics Research Lab at TU Kaiserslautern, Germany. After his PhD, he served for a couple of years as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Namal Institute, Mianwali where he was also the Controller of Examination.

Talha is generally interested in the modelling, control and estimation of complex dynamical systems. In his research, he works with such systems in the form of complex networks of human agents as consumers of natural resources, as opposed to the conventional treatment of human behavior as disturbances, exogenous inputs or uncertainties. He employs research from social-psychology to form mathematical models of consumer behaviour. For analysing these models, he frequently applies tools from Optimal Control, Game theory and Network Science to help pin down the characteristics of sustainable societies. He has also worked on control and estimation problems in robotics. This includes both theoretical and development work in Robotic Vision, SLAM and State Estimation

Currently he is serving as an Assistant Professor of Research at the LUMS Center for Water Informatics & Technology (WIT) and teaches in the Department of Electrical Engineering at LUMS.