Finally I find some free time !!!!

Hi everyone , its Usman.....

Well well, it seems every one likes to travel…. It would be wrong if I said I don’t like traveling but my travels have been more unplanned (sometimes even forced). I was born in Lahore, Pakistan which is a nice cultural / tourist city. But when I was only a couple of months old I was forced to move to the deserts of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. After that my whole life was spent moving, I studied at various schools but the few important (where I spent the most time) were in Lahore, Jeddah and New Jersey. I got an engineering degree form GIK Institute, Pakistan. Then due to the fact that my travels had left me without any experience of Europe I decided to come to France and what better place than the French Riviera. I got a masters degree in Image Processing and Geometry from University of Nice and started my PhD at Eurecom. During this period I traveled extensively in France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Netherland and Belgium. On the research side I have mostly worked on image processing of the face, sometimes working on extracting local facial features for recognition or studying the relationship between the motion of lips and speech, etc. but I won’t go into the details here if you are interested you can get more info on my webpage.

http://www.eurecom.fr/people/saeed.en.htm

for the photos here are some from my travels

http://www.gikialumni.org/doc/portal/gallery/view_pictures.jsp?galleryId=57&galleryCategoryId=14&pageNo=1

and some with friends

http://www.gikialumni.org/doc/portal/gallery/view_pictures.jsp?galleryId=61&galleryCategoryId=1&pageNo=1

See u in Istanbul
Usman