Team Urban Tech Pakistan and Team atomcamp held a meeting on 8th November, 2022 at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. The research team at Urban Tech Pakistan briefed Atomcamp about their research threads and recent developments. Team Urban Tech has about 20 ongoing research threads. Both teams explored possibilities for collaboration in various research areas such as …
A lot of our work uses satellite images that need to go through a series of processes before they can be in a shape that can be further analyzed to create urban data. In this case, we use a deep-unfolded method to remove clouds and their shadow obstructions from the images. Clouds, together with their shadows, …
TransKarachi – a public sector company established and owned by the Government of Sindh to carry out the project implementation of the $504 million Karachi Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Red Line – has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Team UrbanTech Pakistan at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). Following the collaboration, TransKarachi and LUMS will take initiatives to become true …
We are excited to have formalized our engagement with Punjab Safe Cities Authority (PSCA). Under the agreement signed with PSCA, we plan on developing AI-driven solutions for traffic modeling and analytics. We look forward to a fruitful and impactful collaboration.
We are (GCF) and Open Data Pakistan hosted a 2-day hackathon on 23-24 September under the initiative of Urraan – Women in Urban Mobility.The hackathon was aimed at students from different universities across Pakistan who came together to propose creative technological solutions for issues of women’s mobility in Pakistan. The female mobility-centric topics the hackathon attempted to tackle were: …
We are recently visited the Rescue 1122 Headquarters in Lahore to present their findings and recommendations as part of the Grand Challenge Fund project. The team, led by the PI, Dr. Momin Uppal, has been working on optimized ambulance allocation and mitigating road traffic crash (RTC) hotspots in Lahore, in collaboration with Rescue 1122. Some …
The project PI, Dr. Momin Uppal was recently invited by The Management and Professional Development Department (MPDD), Government of the Punjab to conduct a training on the “Role of new technologies in management and governance”. Dr. Uppal spoke about how digital transformation along with associated technologies could be used in Pakistan’s public sector to increase …
We are pleased to announce the first “Saving our cities: Hackathon”. It will be a parallel event with the second chapter of our flagship “Saving our cities: Looming challenges and data-driven policy making” event. It is also an attempt to bring the students onboard in tackling the urban challenges. There will be a generous cash …
We are pleased to announce a 2 day conference Saving Our Cities Chapter 2: Looming Challenges and Data-Driven Policy Making to be organized on 17-18 June 2022. The participation in this 2-day event is by invitation ONLY. If you are interested in attending, please send an email to sdsa@lums.edu.pk
The first in a series of “Saving our Cities” event was organized by Team UrbanTech on March 31, 2022 at LUMS. The event not only aimed at bringing together public, private, and academic stakeholders for discussion and dialogue but also to disseminate Team UrbanTech’s recent work.We are grateful to Dr. Rizwan Naseer (DG Punjab Emergency Service …