Biography:

Dr. Qazi Muhammad Zaigham Zia is a Tenured Associate Professor of Mathematics at COMSATS University Islamabad. He joined the CUI Islamabad campus in 2005 as a lecturer before leaving for Ph.D. studies in 2006. Dr. Zia completed his Ph.D. degree from Georg-August University Goettingen, Germany. His area of interest is inverse problems in Fluid dynamics. Inverse problems are those problems where we want to know the cause for a desired or an observed effect. They are nearly always given by applications and have been studied for nearly a century now. An important major problem both theoretically and numerically of inverse problems is their “ill-posedness", i.e., they do not fulfill Hadamard's classical requirements which means solutions of an inverse problem might not exist for all data, might not be unique, and might be unstable with respect to data perturbations. Usually, the direct problem is more classical or simpler than the inverse problem. His particular interests are in inverse fluid flow problems that have very significant applications in many applied areas ranging from industrial process monitoring to numerical weather prediction.