Jahanghir Ikram received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Manchester, UK in March 1992. Before joining LUMS in 2000, Dr Ikram was a consultant in Asian Development Bank assisted Technical Education Project, developing curricula for Computer Technology and Information Technology. Dr Ikram has also taught in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore for several years where he was involved in many funded research projects by different organizations and companies, including a project by Philips TriMedia Division, USA, working on implementation of a Speech algorithm in their TrimEdia processor. In winter 2002, he visited University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) as Visiting Scholar to do research in Multimedia Communication Laboratory.