Syed Waqar ul Qounain Jaffry (Urdu: سید وقارالکونین جعفری; born 1978) is a Pakistani academic and researcher in the field of computer science and artificial intelligence.
Jaffry is currently serving as the Director of National Centre of Artificial Intelligence (NCAI), and Chairman of the Department of Information Technology, University of the Punjab, Lahore.
He served as Technical Co-Chair in IEEE International Conference on Advancement in Computational Sciences (ICACS).
In this event, besides software and programming competitions, he initiated and executed the first ever National Graduate Research Symposium.
In this committee, he designed a curriculum for the subject of Computer Science and Information Technology (ICT) at Grades VI-XII at the Punjab province.