Ismat Beg, FPAS, FIMA, (Urdu: عصمت بیگ; born January 1951) is a Pakistani mathematician and researcher.

He has an enthusiastic and interactive teaching style and is famous for saying “please come on the board” when posed with a question in class.

[4][5] Ismat Beg was born in the small hilly village of Mohri Sharif, west of Kharian in 1951 to an immigrant Kashmiri family.

He started his PhD in fall of 1978 under the supervision of academician and famous mathematician Romulus Cristescu.

[8][9] Ismat Beg started teaching just after his PhD in 1982 and has taught at[1][2][10] He has published research papers in the fields of mathematics, computer science, economics, game theory, engineering, decision theory and social sciences that have been well cited by other researchers.