Umar Saif is a Pakistani computer scientist and academic known for his contributions to Pakistan's technology ecosystem. He earned his doctorate from the University of Cambridge at 22 and did postdoctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before returning to Pakistan in 2005 to teach computer science at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. He founded Pakistan's first technology incubator, Plan9, served as founding vice-chancellor of the Information Technology University from 2013 to 2018, and later served as Pakistan's interim federal minister for science and technology and minister of IT between August 2023 and March 2024.
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born 1979) is a Pakistani computer scientist and academic.
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