M. Jaffar-ur-Rehman

M. Jaffar-ur-Rehman (died October 8, 2005) was a Pakistani computer scientist. He was a professor and the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Sciences at Mohammad Ali Jinnah University (Islamabad campus) in Pakistan.
Education and career
He topped Quaid-i-Azam University by setting an all-time Computer Science Department record of a cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 4.9 on a scale of 5.0. As a result result, he was awarded the Quaid-e-Azam Scholarship for higher studies abroad, which he used to receive his Master of Science (M.Sc) degree and his Ph.D. degree in computer science in the United States. He completed his M.Sc. in just one year at the University of Pennsylvania by securing a CGPA of 3.9 on a scale of 4.0. He taught in Australia for around three years during his Ph.D. He came back to Pakistan after completing his Ph.D. degree. Then he taught at Quaid-e-Azam University, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), and then Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad. The next year, he was the General Chair at the IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Intelligent Systems (ICEIS).
Death
On 8 October 2005, Jaffar-ur-Rehman and his family died in the 2005 Kashmir earthquake along with his wife and four daughters. The building they were staying in Islamabad, Margalla Towers, collapsed in the earthquake.

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