Syed Sohail Hussain Naqvi (Punjabi, Urdu: سید سہیل حسين نقوی) is the Rector of the University of Central Asia (UCA).

[1] Prior to joining UCA in August 2018, he was the fourth vice chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences.

[5] Naqvi earned his BSc, MSc and PhD degrees, in Electrical Engineering, from Purdue University, USA.

[4][2] Dr. Naqvi has a number of patents to his credit and has also worked with startups bringing high-tech inventions to the market place.

[6][7][8][9] Sohail Naqvi served as an Assistant and associate professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA, before returning to Pakistan in 1996 to join the Faculty of Electronics at the GIK Institute of Technology.