Sino-Pak Center for Artificial Intelligence (SPCAI) is an aspiring research facility actively promoting innovative AI-based solutions for complex day-to-day real-life problems. Our competence in application-oriented research and development lends our industrial partners a decisive competitive edge. Our organizational philosophy is to work with individual responsibility towards common sustainable development goals.

Research Labs

The Sino-Pak Center for Artificial Intelligence has ten labs divided into four departments, as shown in the following figure. Each lab belongs to a dedicated area of artificial intelligence, with the aim to develop AI-based products which could be introduced to Pakistani industries. The details of these labs are given in the lab sections..

PAF-IAST  had got approval for establishing the Sino-Pak Center of Artificial Intelligence from Public Sector Development funds. The core objective of the center to build national capacity to carry out R&D in the emerging field of artificial intelligence by producing expertise through MS/PhD programs in collaboration with Chinese and Austrian universities. To solve local problems using AI and market them through the technology park. Provide high-value shared services to industrial partners. Develop an advanced workforce in AI and Data Science through training and applied work. Help in creating ecosystem for startups and spin-off companies to make Islamabad an IT hub for software companies/businesses. To lead other Pakistani universities, institutes, and industries into the era of artificial intelligence by managing and sharing the infrastructure and trained human resource.

Objectives:

The Center aspires following scientific objectives:

Capacity Building

  • Build national capacity to carry out R&D in the emerging field of artificial intelligence by producing expertise through MS/PhD programs in collaboration with Chinese and Austrian universities.  

Problem Solving 

  • To solve local problems using AI and market them through the technology park.
  • Local problems are eradicated through technology-based solutions, while commercialization will spur new employment opportunities. 

Shared Services

  • Provide high-value shared services to industrial partners.
  • Develop an advanced workforce in AI and Data Science through training and applied work.

Pakistan’s social and Economic fabric

  • To engage faculty and students in applied research to fulfill the industrial requirement by providing innovative solutions, especially focusing on Pakistan’s social and economic fabric.

Partnership

  • To establish partnership with international research centers and leverage their rich experience to develop Center for Artificial Intelligence as an internationally renowned center in AI, attracting international projects and customers.
  • Help in creating ecosystem for startups and spin-off companies to make Islamabad an IT hub for software companies/businesses.
  • To lead other Pakistani universities, institutes and industry into the era of artificial intelligence by managing and sharing the infrastructure and trained human resource with them.
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SPCAI Contact

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask us. Please also call us or email us before visiting to make sure that you will be served with our best services.

+92-995-645112/18
info@spcai.paf-iast.edu.pk