Pakistani researcher Aidah secured second prize at SCO competition
Pakistani researcher Aidah secured second prize at SCO competition

The Pakistani researcher Aidah Abdul Wahid won second prize in the 4th SCO Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition held on the 9th of June.

Aidah is a doctoral student at China Ocean University and she showcased her team’s AI innovation, “Z-UP: The Foundational Infrastructure for AI-Internet and Agentic-Web,” to an audience of 300 people from eight member states.

With collaboration from MIT, UBC, USTC, and SJTU, Aidah’s team worked on a project aimed at solving issues pertaining to disjointed AI systems by integrating them into a single cohesive superintelligent system.

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Z-UP enables the development of a collaborative B2B ecosystem where computing resources can be leveraged for advanced productivity, including applications in AI and the metaverse.

Aidah presented on the Z-UPs breakthrough in virtualizing GPU infrastructure as a mechanism for shared high-performance computing. My education in China has opened a world of global innovation, Aidah stated, acknowledging that her team was built from previous teachers and researchers from AT&T Labs (previously Bell Labs).
The competition was part of the SCO Year of Sustainable Development and had more than 200 entries from the areas of AI, smart technologies and new materials and the 12 finalists were chosen. Chinas unmanned airport project won first place and 35 percent of the shortlisted innovations were the product of cross-border collaboration.
Results that demonstrated the SCOs mandate of international cooperation. Aidah dedicated her success to young Pakistani scientists, especially girls from Gwadar and other parts of Balochistan, pointing to the importance of representation in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
This platform demonstrates our ideas are important to the world, and I want the youth of Balochistan to see no boundaries in STEM, she said. The twoday event included tech leaders, entrepreneurs and advancement stakeholders from SCO member states including Pakistan, China, Russia, Turkey, India and Central Asia.