Dr. Akber Gardezi is based at Department of Computer Science , COMSATS University, Islamabad (CUI). He obtained his PhD and Master’s Degrees from University of Sussex, UK in the area of AI based correlation pattern recognition, related towards implementation of advanced computer vision technologies for detection and tracking. He has presented at numerous defense and security forums as an invited speaker and has published a book with colleagues from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratories on advances in pattern recognition research. In the domain of research and development he has published nearly 30 articles in the areas of deep learning models for handling advanced data segmentation problems in the medical, transport and defense sectors. His services are routinely engaged by United Nation departments for mapping the impact of technologies on marginalized communities. His work on mapping mobile devices usage to sexual harassment in Pakistan using advanced statistical modeling approaches to predict the trends for gender based societal implications was well appreciated by UNESCO.
He is an affiliated member of UNESCO Chair in ICTs for Development now rebranded as ICT4D Collective, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP).
Dr. Gardezi is also closely involved with projects relating towards ICTs for Development hence utilizing his network of peers in terms of launching advocacy and awareness initiatives for the marginalized communities including Persons with Disability, Rural Communities and Persecuted Minorities. Dr. Gardezi is an ardent advocate of the philosophy that technologies can be a vehicle of change and betterment for the most marginalized globally.