Professor Osman Hasan has a proven track record vis-a-vis academic leadership, teaching and research, industry outreach and commercialisation, and internationalisation. 

Prof. Hasan received his BEng (Hons) degree from the University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar Pakistan in 1997, and the MEng and PhD degrees from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada in 2001 and 2008, respectively. Having obtained his Postdoc from Concordia University, Canada, Prof. Hasan joined the NUST School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (SEECS) in 2009. In his continuing yet fulfilling career, he has held various key administrative and academic positions apart from his illustrious career in teaching and research. Prior to his current appointment as Pro-Rector (Academics) at NUST, Dr Hasan has rendered invaluable services to NUST as Principal & Dean SEECS, besides previously serving as HoD Research and Senior HoD Electrical Engineering at SEECS.  

A proud recipient of HEC’s “Best Teacher Award” in 2011 and the NUST “President’s Gold Medal for the Best Teacher” in 2015, Dr Hasan’s unique teaching methods and style have earned him prestige and honour from the academic circles within the country and abroad. Prof. Hasan has successfully supervised 4 PhD, 50 MS and over 70 UG thesis projects. Prof. Hasan has been able to acquire research grants worth over Rs.125M from various national and international agencies. Prof. Hasan’s research findings have been published in 6 books, 15 book chapters, and over 100 journal papers, and 150 conference papers at reputable venues. He has been awarded the HECs “Best Young Researcher Award” in 2012, the NUST Best Researcher of the University award in 2015 and 2019 and the HEC’s Best Researcher award in 2020. His services towards higher education and research have also been acknowledged at the national level by the President of Pakistan as he has been the proud recipient of the prestigious Tamgha-i-Imtiaz (Medal of Distinction) in 2022. 

Prof. Hasan has made key contributions in internationalization, including winning 2 major Erasmus Mundus mobility grants and collaborating with various institutes of America, Europe and Asia. The collaborations have resulted in numerous student exchanges, joint publications, student supervisions and grant submissions. Prof. Hasan has 4 years’ experience in the industry including 2-years at LSI Logic, Canada. This has allowed him to foster effective industrial collaborations both internationally and at the national level. Prof. Hasan is a senior member of IEEE, member of the ACM, Association for Automated Reasoning (AAR) and the Pakistan Engineering Council.