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Please welcome Zeeshan-us-hassan Usman (a Fulbright Scholar) as a voluntary consultant at http://www.pkstudent.com – He will be helping pakistani students with their career related questions in general and scholarship questions related to USA in particular. Here is a short bio of Zeeshan.

Zeeshan is a Fulbright Scholar. He holds a M.S. in Computer Science and is currently working towards his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Florida Institute of Technology. As part of his Master’s thesis, Zeeshan developed a simulation of supermarkets to observe and quantify the effects of herd behavior on impulse shopping by customers. His work has been mentioned in MIT’s Technology Review and The Economist. Zeeshan has authored dozens of articles and three books. He is the chief editor of the Fulbright book series. Zeeshan’s strengths include real-world simulation, programming, human emergent behaviors and modeling of catastrophic events.

For more information: http://my.fit.edu/~zusmani, http://research.fit.edu/blast

Zeeshan have also edited couple of books for Fulbright Scholars, for example, Ambassadors of Peace: Experiences of Pakistani and U.S. Exchange Scholars, is a collection of essays from Pakistani Fulbrighters who came  to America and US Fulbrighters who went to Pakistan.

Furthermore, one of Zeeshan’s books is published in urdu, easily available in Pakistan (mainly through Global Science) is an easy and informative read for Fulbrighters, the book name is “My Fulbright Experience – Sukkur Se Florida”. Here is the link http://my.fit.edu/~zusmani/pub.html

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