Usman Raza, who completed his MS majoring in Computer Science from the Lahore University of Management Sciences, with a National Management Foundation (NMF) Gold Medal, has been awarded the prestigious Mark Weiser Award for the best paper at the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom) 2012.
The annual award is named after Dr Mark D Weiser, the father of Ubiquitous computing, and is recognised as one of the highest honours in this domain.
The PerCom is consistently ranked as an A+ conference according to several ranking lists of computer science conferences.
This year, it attracted 150 submissions, out of which 16 papers were accepted for presentation as full papers.
Raza’s paper scooped up the Best Paper Award, at PerCom, which is considered one of the most selective conferences in computer science with an acceptance rate of only 11 percent.
The award has been conferred for his collaborative work with colleagues from the University of Trento and the Bruno Kessler Foundation, Italy, where he is currently pursuing his PhD.
Their paper discusses the system lifetime of a technology that monitors and adjusts the light levels in operational road tunnels.
The objective of such a system is to reduce the likelihood of road accidents and overall electricity consumption inside road tunnels.
