Abubakr Muhammad

Dr. Abubakr Muhammad is a professor of electrical engineering, the founding director of the Center for Water Informatics & Technology (WIT), and the lead for the NCRA Agricultural Robotics Lab at LUMS, Pakistan. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, and won an institute-wide best Ph.D. Dissertation Award. Following postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania and McGill University, he joined LUMS in 2008, where his group does research in agricultural robotics, human-water systems, and climate analytics. He has held visiting positions at other institutes, including the University of Oxford, ICTP, and KAUST. He serves on various advisory panels to government agencies and industry on the use of emerging digital technologies for tackling issues related to climate change, disaster management, water management, and food security.