Tasneem Mohammad Shah | |
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Born | Islamabad, West Pakistan |
Residence | Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) |
Citizenship | Pakistan |
Nationality | Pakistani |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions |
Kahuta Research Laboratories (KRL) National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) Air University, Pakistan Air Force Bahria University (BU) Higher Education Commission (HEC) Karachi University (KU) |
Alma mater |
Quaid-i-Azam University Oxford University |
Doctoral advisor | Dr. Ronald K. Boldwin |
Doctoral students | Muhammad Yasir Sohail Sarwar. |
Known for |
Pakistan's nuclear deterrence program Chagai nuclear weapons testing Missile Integration Programme Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Applied Mathematics Monte Carlo methods |
Influences | John von Neumann |
Notable awards |
Sitara-i-Imtiaz (1998) Hilal-i-Imtiaz (1998) Tamgha-i-Imtiaz (1999) Chagai Medal (1998) |
Tasneem Mohammad Shah (Urdu: تسنیم محمد شاه), PhD, SI, TI, is a Pakistani scientist and a prominent mathematician who has made pioneering and instrumental research and contributions to the field of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) at Dr. A. Q. Khan Research Laboratories (KRL). Trained as an applied mathematician, his contributions include differential geometry, numerical analysis, information security, CFD-DEM model, hydrodynamics (of explosions), computer science, fluid mechanics, Vacuum Technology and CFD-DEM.
Tasneem Mohammad Shah was a pioneer and senior member of the Kahuta Project, and, along with Dr. G.D. Alam and Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, Dr. Tasneem Mohammad Shah have had worked out in the nuclear physics involved in gas centrifuge and the uranium based-device. As of today, he is a full professor and chairman of the Department of Mathematics at the Air University.