The Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology (Urdu: غلام اسحاق خان انسٹیٹیوٹ; Pashto: د غلام اسحاق خان د انجینرۍ علومو او ټکنالوژۍ انسټیټوټ; commonly referred as GIKI) is a private research university located in Topi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan.
The project was delegated to Pakistani scientist, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, who was one of the founding members of the institute and was once registered as an associate professor of physics.
[6] The genesis of the Institute can be traced back to the early 1950s when Ghulam Ishaq Khan became acutely aware of Pakistan's dependence on foreign expertise and imported technology.
The transformation of this idea into a practical proposition took place in December 1985 when the Benevolent Community Care and Infaq Foundation donated Rs.
Major founding donors include Nouman Benevolent Community Care, Infaq Foundation, Chiniot Anjuman-e-Islamia, Dawood Group of Industries, and the Government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa which has donated land at Topi.
The task of conceiving and formulating the basic form and features of the institute was entrusted to a group of eminent scientists and engineers.
[7] In March 1993, the Government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa established the institute under the umbrella of SOPREST, and the first batch of students was inducted the same year in October.
750 million from Infaq Foundation and land measuring 216 acres (87 ha) donated by the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
It offers four year BS degree program in Electrical Engineering with following specializations: Faculty Thrust Areas: The Faculty offers courses leading to Bachelor's (BS) in Computer Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Computer Science.
This Faculty offers 4 year BS Management Science degree with specialization in: The advisory board consists of scientists, engineers and academicians who are monitoring the institute's standard of education and research.
[citation needed] HPC platform has been donated to GIK Institute by the Directorate of Science and Technology (DoST) KPK Pakistan.
It is a compute-intensive platform and has the following hardware components:[19] GIK Institute established its own startup Incubator in 2014 with the aim to motivate entrepreneurial skills among the students.
[20] In 2015, GIK incubator received funding of 100 million PKR from the Directorate of Science and Technology, Ministry of ST & IT, Govt of Khyber Pakhtunkhuwa.