B.S. (Mathematics)                Mass. Inst. of Technology  (1973)

B.S. (Electrical Engineering)                  Mass. Inst. of Technology (1973)

M.S. (Solid State Physics)                     Mass. Inst. of Technology (1973)

Ph.D (Nuclear Physics)             Mass. Inst. of Technology (1978)

Additional Work Experiences:

1. Technician, Particle Optics Laboratory, M.I.T (1971)
2. Electronics Design Engineer, General Radio Corporation, Massachusetts (1972).
3. Teaching Assistant, M.I.T (1975-1978).
4. Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Washington, Seattle (1981--1983).
5. Visiting Professor, Carnegie--Mellon University (1985--1986).
6. Guest Scientist, ICTP, Trieste (1986--present).
7. Visiting Scientist, M.I.T (1988--1996).
8. Visiting Professor, University of Maryland (1997--present).

1. Visiting Research Scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Maryland.
2. Chairman of Mashal, a non-profit organization for the publication of books on modern thought in the Urdu language.
3. Referee for Physical Review Letters and Physical Review D, publications of the American Physical Society.
4. Occasional consultant to the World Bank on secondary education reform in Pakistan.
5. Member of editorial board of INESAP (International Engineers and Scientists Against Nuclear Proliferation) Bulletin , published from Darmstadt, Germany.
6. Local organizer of regional summer school series on arms control, technology, and peace initiatives on the Indo-Pak subcontinent.
7. Initiator and co-director of World Laboratory Project on Cosmology and High Energy Physics in Pakistan, 1988-1990.
8. Member of Educational Advisory Board, Government of Pakistan, 1999-2000.
9. Chairman, Academic Council, Textile Institute of Pakistan.
10. Member of governing board, Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad.
11. Member of governing board, Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi.
12. Member of governing board, Development in Literacy, Islamabad.
13. Council of Sponsors, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Awards:

1. Baker Award for Electronics, British Association of Electronics and Radio Engineers (1968).
2. Student-of-the-Year, Pakistan Students Association of America (1972).
3. Rockefeller Mauze Fellowship for graduate studies (1973).
4. Abdus Salam Award for Mathematics (1984).
5. Associate of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (1986--1994).
6. Faiz Ahmed Faiz Award, awarded for contributions towards the cause of education in Pakistan (1990).
7. Recipient of “Book of the Year Award”, awarded by the National Book Council Of Pakistan in 1993.
8. Recipient of Fulbright Award (1997-1998) to support one year of research at the University of Maryland.
9. Recipient of the Selma V. Forkosch Award in 2003 from the Council for Secular Humanism

1. Islam & Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality, published by ZED Books, London, in 1991 with translations in Turkish, Malaysian, Indonesian, Arabic, and Urdu.
2. Proceedings of School on Fundamental Physics and Cosmology, co-edited with A.Ali, World Scientific, Singapore, 1991.
3. Education And The State – Fifty Years Of Pakistan, Oxford University Press, 1998.

1. Produced and anchored a 13-part television series, Rastay Ilm Kay, broadcast weekly in 1988 by Pakistan Television comprehensively reviewing the problems of education in Pakistan.
2. Produced and anchored a series of 6 popular programs, Bazm-e-Kainat, broadcast by Pakistan Television in 1994, which sought to demonstrate the power of scientific thinking and new scientific insights into nature.
3. Produced and anchored a series of 13 popular programs, Asrar-e-Jehan (Mysteries of the Universe) for Pakistan Television in 2001.
4. Produced and directed “Pakistan and India under the Nuclear Shadow”, an anti-nuclear 30 minute video.

Newspaper Articles On Social and Political Issues

1.  Centre for Theoretical Physics, Massachussetts Institute of Technology.

2. University of Maryland
3. Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York
4. Jefferson Laboratory, Virginia
5. Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico
6. Syracuse University
7. University of Rochester
8. University of Chicago
9. Bartol Research Institute, Delaware
10. Indiana University, Bloomington
11. Centre For European Nuclear Research (CERN, Geneva)
12. Davidson College, North Carolina
13. Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle.
14. American Physical Society, Washington DC.
15. DESY, Hamburg
16. International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste
17. Particles and Nuclei Conference (PANIC, Perugia)
18. The Free University (Amsterdam, Holland)
19. Osaka University, Japan
20. Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Bombay

Physics Research Publications:

1. ”Coordinate Space Solution of Hartree--Fock Equations for Axially Symmetric Nuclei'' (with J. W. Negele), Nucl. Phys. A288 , 23 (1977).
2. “Time-Dependent Coupled Cluster Approximation to Nuclear Dynamics I: Application to a Solvable Model'' (with J. W. Negele), Phys. Rev. C18 2380 (1978).
3. “Time-Dependent Coupled Cluster Approximation to Nuclear Dynamics II: General Formulation'' (with J. W. Negele), Phys. Rev. C19 1971 (1979).
4. “Many-Body Theory and the Lipkin Model,'' in Second Latin American Workshop on Self-Consistent Theories of Condensed Matter (ICTP, Trieste, October, 1978).
5. “Quantum Hydrodynamics Applied to Atomic Photoabsorption,'' Phys.Rev. A24 3136 (1981).
6. “Pion Scattering from Aligned Deformed Nuclei,'' Phys. Lett. 88B 27 (1979). >
7. “A Variational Approach to Dense Relativistic Matter Using Functional Techniques,'' Ann. Phys. 139 68 (1982).
8. “Renormalization Effects in a Field Theory of Finite Nuclei,'' Zeit. Physik 308 68 (1982).
9. “Mean Field Approximation for Chiral Bag Models,'' Phys. Rev. D26 3235 (1982).
10. “Pion-Nucleus Charge Exchange Reactions with Isobar Dynamics'' (with R. A. Freeman, G. A. Miller and E. M. Henley), Phys. Rev. C27 (1983).
11. “A Relation Between Coherent Photoproduction and Nucleus Elastic Scattering'' (with G. Miller), Phys. Rev. C28 848 (1983).
12. “QCD for Static Sources in the A^0=0 Gauge and Schrodinger Representation-Relation to the Classical Theory,'' Phys. Rev. D28 956 (1983).
13. “Spherical Nucleon Bag Deformations in the Two-Nucleon System,'' Phys. Rev. C28 1455 (1983).
14. “Parity Mixing of Elastic Scattering Resonances: General Theory and Application to $ ^14 $N'' (with E. G. Adelberger and B. A. Brown), Phys. Rev. C30 456 (1984).
15. “The He-3 Charge Form Factor in the Quark Hybrid Model'' (with L.S. Kisslinger), Phys. Lett. 146B 163 (1984).
16. “Threshold pi^0 Photoproduction from the Skyrmion,'' Phys.Lett. 173B 111 (1986).
17. “Reply to `Parity-Violating Asymmetries in the Scattering of Transversely Polarized Protons'' (with E. G. Adelberger and B. A. Brown), Phys. Rev. C33 1840 (1986).  
18. “Deep Inelastic Polarized Scattering from the Cloudy Bag Model --- A Failure,'' Phys. Lett. 182B 277 (1986).
19.  “Charge Form Factor of H-3 and He-3 in the Hybrid Quark Hadron Model'' (with L. S. Kisslinger and W.-h. Ma), Nucl. Phys. A459 645 (1986).
20.  “Quark Exchange Effects on H-3 and He-3 Charge Densities,'' Nucl. Phys. A465 637 (1987).
21.  “Quark Exchange Contributions in Nuclei and the EMC Effect'' (with R. L. Jaffe), Phys. Rev. D35 113 (1987).
22.  “Can the Quenching of Axial Coupling in Nuclei be Attributed to Excess Gluons?,'' J. Phys. G13 253 (1987).
23.  “Quark Exchange Contribution to the EMC Effect in Nuclear Matter'' (with Arifuzzaman and S. Hidayat Hasan), Phys. Rev. C38 498 (1988).
24.  “The Swelling of Nucleons and Quark Antisymmetrization'' (with Arifuzzaman and Sajjad Mahmood), Nucl. Phys. A480 469 (1988).
25.  “Quark Exchange and the Expansion of Length Scales Inside Nuclei,” Prog. Nucl. Part. Phys. V20 289 (1988).
26.  “Extended Length Scales in Nuclear Matter from Quark Antisymmetrization,'' in Physics and Astrophysics of Quark-Gluon Plasma (World Scientific, Singapore, 1988), p.539.
27.  “Quark Antisymmetrization as a Mechanism for Increased Length Scales in Nuclei,” in Proceedings of the Conference `Nuclear and Particle Physics on the Light Cone, Los Alamos National Laboratory (World Scientific, Singapore, 1988), p.111.
28. “Berry's Phase for Atomic Levels,'' Phys. Rev. A38 3766 (1988).
29. “Novel Effects in Deep Inelastic Scattering from Spin-One Hadrons,'' (with R. L. Jaffe and A. Manohar), Nucl. Phys. B312 571 (1989).
30. “Polarized Photoproduction from Nuclear Targets with Arbitrary Spin and Relation to Deep-Inelastic Scattering,'' Nucl.Phys. A507 698 (1990).
31. “Effect of Quark Antisymmetrization on the Binding Energy of Nuclear Matter'' (with M. Nzar), Phys. Rev. C42 483 (1990).
32. “Probing QCD Using Nuclear Targets, in Proceedings of the Fourth Regional Conference on Mathematical Physics 268, (1990).
33. “Spin Structure Functions of Nuclei in the QCD Parton Recombination Model,'' (with Rafia Ali), Phys. Rev. D43 715 (1991).
34. “Deep Inelastic Scattering from Spinning Nuclei,'' in Proceedings of the School on Fundamental Physics and Cosmology, A. Ali and P. Hoodbhoy, eds. (World Scientific, Singapore, 1991).
35. “Twist-Four Corrections to Deep Inelastic Lepton Scattering from a Polarized Spin-One Target,'' (with R. L. Jaffe and Eric Sather), Phys. Rev. 3071 (1991).
36. “A Convenient Parameterization of Deuteron Structure Functions,'' (with Hafsa Khan), Phys. Rev. C44 1219 (1991).
37. “On the Possible Measurement of Gluon Asymmetry in a Spinning Nucleus,'' (with M. A. Yusuf), J. Phys. G17 , 1637 (1991).
38. “Estimation of the Double Helicity Flip Deuteron Structure Function,'' (with M. Nzar), Phys. Rev. D45 2264 (1992).
39. “Isospin Violation of Quark Distributions in the Delta(1232),'' (with M. Ayyaz), J. Phys. G18 L167 (1992).
40. “Measuring Nuclear Gluon Shadowing through 3-Jet Production in Electron-Nucleus Collisions,'' (with M. Nzar) J. Phys. G18 1911 (1992).
41. “Gluonic Transverse Spin Structure Functions and Their Possible Measurement in chi _2 Production,'' (with Rafia Ali), Z.Phys C57 , 325 (1993).
42. “Shadowing of Deuteron Spin Structure Functions,'' (with Hafsa Khan), Phys.Lett B298 181 (1993).
43. “Multi-Parton Light-Cone Distributions in Transversely Polarized Protons'', Proceedings of Particles And Nuclei International Conference, PANIC 93, 535-537, (1993).
44. “Twist-Four Distributions in a Transversely Polarized Nucleon and the Drell-Yan Process,'' (with X.D.Ji), Phys.Rev. D50 4429 (1994).
45. “Quark Fragmentation Functions in a Diquark Model for Proton and Lambda Hyperon Production,'' (with M.Nzar), Phys.Rev. D51 32 (1995).
46. “Novel Approach to Decays, Gluon Distributions, and Fragmentation Functions of Heavy Quarkonia,'' (with R.Ali), Phys.Rev. D51 32, (1995).
47. “Systematic Gauge Invariant Approach to Heavy Quarkonium Decays,'' (with H.Khan), Phys.Rev. D53 2534 (1996).
48. “Relativistic and Binding Energy Corrections to Direct Photon Production in Upsilon Decay'', (with M.A.Yusuf) Phys.Rev. D54, 1 Sept.(1996).
49. “Spin Structure of the Nucleon in the Asymptotic Limit'', (with X.Ji and H.Tang), Phys.Rev.Lett. 76 740 (1996).
50. “Beyond the Colour-Singlet Model for Inelastic J-Psi Photoproduction'' (with H.Khan), Phys. Lett. B 382, 189, (1996).
51. “Wavefunction corrections and off-forward gluon distributions in diffractive J-Psi production”,  Phys.Rev.D56:388-393, (1997).
52. “ Helicity Flip Off Forward Parton Distributions Of The Nucleon.” (with X. Ji), Phys.Rev.D58:054006, (1998).
53. “Quark Orbital  Angular Momentum Distribution In The Nucleon.”, (with X.Ji and W.Lu) Phys.Rev.D59:014013, (1999).
54. “Implications Of Color Gauge Symmetry For Nucleon Spin Structure”, (with X.Ji and W.Lu), Phys.Rev.D59:074010, (1999).
55. “Nucleon Quarkonium Elastic Scattering And The Gluon Contribution To Nucleon Spin”, Phys.Rev.Lett.82:4985-4987, (1999).
56. “Does The Gluon Spin Contribute In A Gauge Invariant Way To Nucleon Spin?”, (with X.Ji) Phys.Rev.D60:114042,1999.
57. “Explicit Proof That Electroproduction Of Transversely Polarized Vector Mesons Vanishes In Perturbative QCD.”, hep-ph/0108214, Phys.Rev.D65:077501,2002.

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