Tell something about yourself?

My name is Waqas Ahmad, from Islamabad, Pakistan. I received my Bachelor and Master degree in Electronic engineering from Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad campus in 2008 and 2012 respectively.

My research interest mainly lies in image processing and video coding. I have worked in projects on biometric based identification system and quality selective high efficiency video coding.

I like travelling, learning new languages and music. I also like to play cricket and football.

Why did you apply to ETN-FPI project?

The offered research project has combination of video coding and light field imaging system which have already gained significant attention in research and industrial communities. Moreover, training under reputed universities and industrial partners has also intrigued me to pursue my PhD research in such interesting and challenging topic under ETN-FPI project.

What kind of expectations do you have for your research project and network training?

I would like to advance my skills during the course of this project. Being the part of video compression team, I hope the results of my project will contribute in overall system, since the efficient compression will enable ways for real-time imaging and also it reduces the installation cost of archive systems. I expect the planned multidisciplinary training program will provide the early stage researchers every opportunity to achieve the best outcome from this project.

Waqas Ahmad is based in Mid Sweden University 2016-2019, and his research project “Computationally Efficient Lightfield Compression” is linked to Work package 2.