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Bilal Zaka #

Bilal Zaka
Bilal Zaka, Ph.D. is a veteran IT professional with over 24 years of experience in industry and academia. After his M.Sc. in electronics he started his professional career as network administrator to get hands on experience of hybrid LAN/WAN technologies.

Bilal kept close association with a number of academic institutes/Universities working in permanent and visiting faculty capacity. His diverse professional affiliations not only gave him an opportunity to observe and work with latest technology, but being part of education and research environments allowed him to investigate and experiment with ICT aspects which otherwise is not possible in pure industrial setups.

Bilal managed an offshore consultancy venture with Eletel Inc. USA. He headed a team of developers in Pakistan who worked on Callex VoIP product range for mobile devices. Besides the regular offshore software development activity Bilal provided consultancy services to a number of ISPs.

Bilal seeing a challenging career joined COMSATS Institute in 2001. He worked at different teaching and administrative positions in CIIT. Bilal is among pioneer members of the institute (No COMSATS University) who established the communication infrastructure and MIS software / CUOnline for academic management.

Bilal earned HEC’s overseas scholarship for PhD studies in 2005 and proceeded for higher studies in Austria. Bilal joined Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media (IICM, later ISDS and Now HCC) at Graz University of Technology Austria. Bilal worked on a number of industrial projects working under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Hermann Maurer, and Prof. Dr. Frank Kappe. Bilal’s PhD thesis covers similarity checking techniques investigated and developed in various industrial projects. These industrial projects include Personalized Interactive Newscast (PINC), Collaborative Plagiarism Detection Network (CPDNet), Geographical information Systems. Bilal authored his research work in peer reviewed journals, edited books, and presented his work at several accredited international conferences.

Bilal rejoined CIIT Pakistan in 2009 after completion of his PhD degree in Informatics from TU Graz Austria. In his capacity as General Manager IT at CIIT (Now COMSATS University Islamabad CUI) he architected the central information management system (CUOnline) running at 8 campuses of the institute. Bilal proposed and launched the operational model of CIIT Virtual Campus in 2011 and launched an IT enabled distance education program from CIIT/CUI platform.

Bilal is currently heading (as on Sep. 2025) the Virtual Campus and In charge of CUOnline IT services unit at COMSATS University Islamabad. He is also providing support and consultancy services to Higher Education Commission of Pakistan as member of various Technical Committees. Bilal also remained active contributor in framing IT enabled distance education policies for HEC. He is also member of publishing committee at National Book Foundation of Pakistan.

Bilal received 12th TARADATA National IT Excellence Award on 18th of May 2014 for Excellence in IT Enabled Services.

He completed a WorldBank funded project (2017) of IT Systems and security auditing at National Testing Center Tajikistan.

Bilal restarted active collaboration with Prof. Maurer at HCC TU Graz in 2018 and is core member of his technical team running the Austria-Forum project. Bilal is regularly visiting Graz Austria since 2018 to take part in joint research and development activities around Austria-Forum and Net-Interactive Documents (NID) Library, a cutting edge AI based publishing platform.

Bilal is also leading a development team tasked with the digital transformation of the National University of Maldives.

Contributions to global-geography.org as member of its Consortium#

Bilal Zaka is essential in improving the technology of Austria-Forurm, particularly the Web-Books. He also contributes to information on Pakistan directly and indirectly, Indirectly by inviting H. Maurer for a keynote at the major yearly computer symposium in 2016 and by making it possible that the student Haris Naeem collected quite a few pictures and stories on Pakistan as follows:

Pictures#

Stories#