Imran Cheema

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• The BAP lab is picked up by a Forbes article, Engineers Are Unsung Heroes Of Global Health, for our efforts towards developing diagnostics for tuberculosis, May 2022.
  
  
• Imran Cheema is one of the winners of the Vice Chancellor Teaching Excellence Awards . Read his interview where he share his thoughts on winning this award, his diverse experiences in the classroom, and teachers who have inspired him, May 2022.
  
  
• The BAP lab receives funding from the Higher Education Pakistan (HEC-NRPU) to develop a fiber optical sensor for detecting milk contamination, Dec 2021.


• The BAP lab receives funding from CureMD to develop a fiber optical sensor for tuberculosis detection, Sep 2021.


• Congratulations to Ubaidullah, the group's first PhD student, on passing his final PhD defence, Feb 2021.


• The BAP lab receives funding from the LUMS faculty initiative fund (FIF) to develop optical sensors for pneumonia detection, Aug 2019.


• The BAP lab welcomes Javeria Ejaz as an RA, Jan 2019.


• Congratulations to Faiza, the group's second PhD student, on passing her qualifier in the first attempt, June 2018.


• The BAP lab receives funding from the LUMS faculty initiative fund (FIF) to develop free space milk contamination sensors, Feb 2018.


• The BAP lab welcomes Adee amjad as the Research Assistant, Jan 2018.


• The BAP lab welcomes Faiza Iftikhar as the group's second PhD student, Sep 2017.


• Congratulations to Ubaidullah, the group's first PhD student, on passing his qualifier in the first attempt, August 2017.


• Farhat Abbas joined the BAP lab as an RA, June 2017.


• The BAP lab gets funding from the ICT R&D fund, Pakistan for developing portable and rapid TB optical sensor, May 2017.


• The BAP lab gets funding from the Higher Education Pakistan (HEC) for developing water contamination optical sensor, May 2017.


• The BAP lab gets funding from the Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF) for developing milk contamination optical sensor, May 2017.


• Imran Cheema is invited for a panel disucssion on "New Opportunities for Water Informatics and Precision Agriculture in Industry and Governance" in the WIT summer school, May 2017.


• The BAP lab gets its first optical table. Thanks to all helping hands during the installation!, Feb 2017


• Imran Cheema gave a talk on "Is Photonics the Next Future?" to high schoolers in the National STEM School, Pakistan, Jan 2017.


• Taha Sajjad joined the BAP lab as an RA, Oct 2016.


• Our joint proposal (Co-PI: Prof. Sabieh Anwar ) for developing novel optical biosensors for point-of-care settings receives funding (Rs 1 million) from the LUMS faculty initiative fund (FIF), Oct 2016.
  
  
• Ubaid ullah joined the BAP lab as the first PhD student, Sep 2016


• Our proposal for developing novel optical sensors for detection of water contamnination receives funding (Rs 0.5 million) from the Centre for Water Informatics and Technology (WIT), LUMS, July 2016.


• Lab space for the BAP lab alocated, July 2016.


• Sabeeh Irfan joined the BAP lab as the first RA, June 2016.


• Imran Cheema gave a talk on cavity ring down spectroscopy based whispering gallery mode sensors in the COST MP1205 General Meeting and Conference , Istanbul, Turkey, April 2016.


• Imran Cheema joined the EE dept., LUMS Jan 2016.