Our Team
We are a collective of academic experts, engineers, climate scientists, public health specialists and economists.
Multidisciplinary
Collaborative
Teamwork
Meet our Directors
Dr. Momin Uppal
CEO, Founder
Dr. Zubair Khalid
Associate Professor
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Dr. Muhammad Tahir
 Associate Professor
Dr. Syed Muhammad Hasan
 Associate Professor
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Momin Uppal
Founder
Momin Uppal received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering with highest distinction from GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Pakistan, in 2002. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, in 2006 and 2010, respectively. He spent the summers of 2009 at NEC Labs of America, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey as a research assistant, and the summers of 2012 at Texas A&M University Qatar as a visiting researcher. He has been associated with the LUMS School of Science and Engineering since October 2010.
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Zubair Khalid
Director
Dr. Zubair is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan. He has been awarded the 2024 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling for his project “Boosting Earth System Model Outputs and Saving PetaBytes in Their Storage Using Exascale Climate Emulators.” The award, considered as Nobel of Supercomputing and announced at the Supercomputing Conference, recognizes innovative parallel computing contributions to addressing the global climate crisis. He was also a Visiting Professor at the Department of Statistics, at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) from Aug. 2023 to Aug. 2024. He is also the co-founder of Vending Central.
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Dr. Muhammad Tahir
Founder
Dr. Muhammad Tahir received the Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering in 2007 from University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore and the Master of Science in Electronic Engineering in 2009 from Politecnico di Torino, Italy. In April 2013, he obtained his Ph.D. degree also from Politecnico di Torino, Italy in the field of Electronics and Telecommunication. His research activity is focused on the development of novel algorithms for satellite navigation receiver technology. His research interests include receiver baseband signal processing algorithm design and development, Bayesian signal processing, detection and estimation theory, channel coding in communication networks, machine learning and sequential Monte Carlo methods.
OUR SPECIALISTS
Mina Rafael Arif
Program Manager
Asfra Rizwan Toor
Climate and Health Lead
Hajra Javed
Climate and Health Lead
Okasha Ahmed
Training Experience Lead
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Sana Riaz
Urban Mobility Lead
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Usman Nazir
Climate and Health Lead
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Our offices are based in the Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering
Our center allows a multidisciplinary environment a melding of minds of academia experts, health practitioners, tech experts, government stakeholders, and visionaries.
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At the nexus of academia, public and private partnerships, this interdisciplinary consortium of experts designs and integrates tech-driven solutions to enable climate resilient cities.
Events
AI Essentials Workshop with Tetrapak
An intensive one-day industry-agnostic AI course
26th November 2025
COP in my CITY
30th November 2025
CITYxCodeNinja: Women in AI
A collaborative Seminar with Codeninja on how women can lead AI.
24th October 2025
MoU Ceremony EPCCD and CITY
EPCCD and CITY sign and MoU for collaboration in designing sustainable futures.
20th October 2025