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Lahore, March 22, 2022 (PPI-OT):Dr. Iftakhar Yasin (Assistant Professor, Economics Department) has successfully passed two courses titled as “PH125.2x: Data Science: Visualization” and “PH125.1x: Data Science: R Basics”. The former course focused on Programming in R, Conditionals, Functions, and Loops, whereas the later was exclusively about Data Visualization principles and distributions.

These two courses of study were offered by HarvardX which is an online learning initiative of Harvard University. While sharing the outcomes of the courses, Dr. Yasin said that these advanced courses will help him to have hands-on practice in the powerful statistical tool R, which can be further helpful for Economics’ students at the UOL. He said, “These skills will help me to excel in the field of Economics by publishing in top-notch scientific journals incorporating the most recently developed data analysis techniques. Furthermore, I will also assist my students about these skills so that that they can become proficient in data science”.

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Lahore, March 22, 2022 (PPI-OT):The University of Lahore (UOL) is now ranked among the best 301-350 young universities of the world in recently released edition of Times Higher Education (THE) Young University Rankings 2022. The same edition places UOL among top 10 universities nationally, and among top 2 private sector universities of Pakistan.

THE Young University Rankings list the world’s best universities that are 50 years old or younger. The rankings use the same 13 performance indicators as the flagship THE World University Rankings. It judges institutions across all their core missions i.e. teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available.

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The University of Lahore
1 – KM Defence Road, Lahore, Pakistan
Tel: +92-42-111-865-865, +92-42-35322501 +92-42-35321761
Email: info@uol.edu.pk
Website: www.uol.edu.pk

Lahore, March 22, 2022 (PPI-OT):The National Assembly (NA) Speaker, Mr. Asad Qaiser, dubbed the students as blessed for getting education from the University of Lahore (UOL) during a seminar on “World of Opportunities” held at Defence Road Campus on February 10, 2022. “You are blessed to be here at UOL as students because the University has all what is required to realize your careers”, he said.

Mr. Qaiser further communicated that government is setting up a feasible environment for creating 10 million jobs to empower the youth. He further said that a broader sense of vision is still needed in order to achieve the desired goals and to bring prosperity in the country.

He advised the youth to set big goals if they wish to be like Prime Minister Imran Khan and late Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan (Pakistani Nuclear Physicist and Metallurgical Engineer). “All professions are equally important, therefore, our students should put in their best efforts to prove their mettle in the areas of their interest,” he maintained. Mr. Qaiser additionally guided the students to work hard in order to register positive results which will later open broad opportunities for them.

He also shared his personal experiences with the participants, saying, “I started my career as an educationist and worked for the students of a well-known school in my town. I have set a school chain in my native town, where more than 16,000 students are studying,” he explained.

Prior to Speaker’s address, Dr. Muhammad Ashraf (Rector, UOL) welcomed him and gave a brief introduction about the UOL and its working environment. He further highlighted the role of private institutions in education sector and emphasized on the establishment of more universities in Pakistan for the development of the country.

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The University of Lahore
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Tel: +92-42-111-865-865, +92-42-35322501 +92-42-35321761
Email: info@uol.edu.pk
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Lahore, March 22, 2022 (PPI-OT):On January 25, 2022, Dr. Rabia Akhtar (Director, Center for Security, Strategy and Policy Research (CSSPR), moderated a session on “Cyber Technologies, Artificial Intelligence and International Security.” It was jointly organized by the Arms Control and Disarmament Center (ACDC) and the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR).

The session was aimed at assessing the impact of emerging technologies on regional and international security environments. The panellists discussed how developments in the cyber domain and the advent of Artificial Intelligence have vitiated the security environment. They argued that such phenomena have challenged traditional providers of security, by opening up many a pathway to exact coercion.

Dr. Akhtar, in her remarks, said that one of the most subversive effects of emerging technologies is that it allows countries to achieve cross-domain coercion, and that too without attributability. She, however, said that the generation of mutual risks could also stabilize relationships but attenuate the prospect of substantive dialogues on arms control. The participants agreed that new approaches to arms control should be adopted to include those that are grounded in conflict resolution mechanisms.

For more information, contact:
The University of Lahore
1 – KM Defence Road, Lahore, Pakistan
Tel: +92-42-111-865-865, +92-42-35322501 +92-42-35321761
Email: info@uol.edu.pk
Website: www.uol.edu.pk