Mirza Zaeem Baig
Biography:
Mirza Zaeem Baig has an MSc and BSc in Computer Science.
He is currently a Sessional Faculty member at University Canada West in the MBA Department of Marketing, Strategy and Entrepreneurship.
Experience and Expertise
Mirza brings with him eight years of academic and five years of professional experience at multiple roles.
Before joining UCW, he worked at various universities in Pakistan, UAE and Australia. He has also served in the software industry at various technical roles. Mirza was involved in establishing the NVIDIA Research Center (the very first in Pakistan) and also received independent research grants from NVIDIA Corporation, USA.
He was previously involved with Emirates Aviation University (the education arm of the Emirates Group) where he worked on multiple data science projects and introduced multiple undergraduate level programs. He also taught multiple courses at the Dubai Campus of Curtin University, Australia for the Business and Computer Science programs.
He has also been involved at multiple technical roles in the IT industry during the previous years where he has executed multiple projects with multifunctional teams.
Publications and Scholarly Activity
He is actively involved in research and has multiple publications in his research area.
Publications:
- Paper Publication “Safety Incident Classification using Machine Learning Techniques in Airline Industry” published November 2022, in the proceeding of “4th International Aviation Management Conference, IAMC – 2022”, UAE.
- Book Chapter “Theoretical Foundations for Recommender Systems” in “Big Data Recommender Systems: Algorithms, Architectures, Big Data, Security and Trust” published July 2019 by IET (Institution of Engineering & Technology), UK.
- Paper Publication “Smart Scheduler for CUDA Programming in Heterogeneous CPU/GPU Environment" published January 2019, in the proceedings of “ICCMS 2019”, Australia.
- Paper Publication “Bridging Industry – Academia Collaboration Gap: A focus towards Final Year Projects" published March 2018, in the proceedings of “HP3C 2018”, Hong Kong.
- Poster Publication “EA Poster: Teaching High Performance Computing with a Practical Approach” published May 2015, at “5th CDER/TCPP Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education (EduPar – 15)”, India.
Workshops and Panel Discussions
Panelist:
- Discussion on “Learning Loss During COVID – 19 and the Strategies to Compensate” conducted in Dubai, UAE on February 13th, 2022.
- Discussion on “School Education in English vis-à-vis Mother Tongue: Challenges & Opportunities” conducted in Dubai, UAE on January 29th, 2022.
Conducted:
- Workshop on “Microsoft Office” at Pakistan Islamia Higher Secondary School, Sharjah, UAE from July 15 – 31st, 2018.
Awards
- Appreciation Award for valuable contribution and support toward Mathematics, Statistics, and Computing School at Emirates Aviation University, Dubai. Awarded in August 2019
- NVIDIA Hardware Grant of a Titan Xp GPU (Worth: 1,200 $), Awarded May 2018
- NVIDIA Hardware Grant of a Tesla K40 GPU (Worth: 3,200 $), Awarded May 2015
- NVIDIA Research Center Grant of a Tesla K40 GPU (Worth: 3200 $) as part of establishing NVIDIA Research Center at FAST
Mirza is passionate about photography, travelling, cricket and entrepreneurship.
