Sunday, May 1, 2011

Back to Research Work

I had started my professional career with the research streak. My project supervisor fetched a Research Officer confirmation letter for me down from Islamabad. The best computational linguistics scholar in Pakistan, Dr. Sarmad Hussain invited me to be a lab instructor at my own university after graduation. But still, I had left for some bitter exposure of industry. After much ado, I only became more mature for coming back to pavilion. I have rejoined my research work with the old project supervisor, Liaquat Majeed Sheikh, who has contacted Sarmad Hussain for me.

We are going to lay our hands at developing a suggestive model for cohesive essay writing in our English Language Lab. This is a hot topic of research in US nowadays. SAT's use manual cohesive and coherrence checks at essays and we are set up for automating cohesion. Thats something worth the ado.

My professional career had stared with academic research in the field of data mining. When I returned to Text Mining Research at FAST-NU, it was taken with mixed feelings of protest and excitement. My mentors protested on my early leaving the university for industry when they had convinced the higher echelon of the university for a good research officer post for me. But once I convinced them that I needed one thump of exposure for maturity in development from industry, they were satisfied. More than that, they assured me of quite a few options available for working and studying at FAST-NU. I could work as a research officer for the English language training lab, as a lab instructor for English Language and Computer Science and as a Masters student. I was to have Masters free if I be a lab instructor. This is the best I could have.


Recently, one of my friend I had met at hospital returned from Korea. He showed me the option of studying abroad. My mentors were happy to refer me and leave me for higher studies abroad, but I later found my offer at FAST as better than any in Korea. Even Korean students I recently saw studying at FAST-NU. And one of them was of the opinion that FAST was more suited to him than any university at his own country. Now that Ms Sumaira Sarfraz and Liaquat Majeed Sheikh are promising me income with free Masters education, I have all the reasons to join FAST once again as a student and as faculty.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Coming into the market

After two years of experience in the "Job" patience industry, some sublime feelings are that one's own work is better grounded and more prosperous way of leading a safe and healthy life. After I was laid off from my Software Quality Assurance job, the Human Resource Officer admitted my unearned credits in the company but they should go without saying now that I was out of work. With promises of recommendations and affirmations, some more interviews couldn't open my eyes into the real world of business. I needed to get ill again and become as patient as Job.

In the hospital I could contemplate what was going wrong, where should I head to now and what are my strengths and weaknesses that go along with wherever I go. I started marketing my own created art masterpieces and while in the market, I came across this office for online marketing. It started my new reason for hard work with excitement and happiness. I am now in the world of trade, commerce and fine arts.

See these links for my new pursuits:
http://tinyurl.com/securebusiness
http://acsmagazine.tripod.com/allah