Dr. Zeeshan Usmani Books

Zeeshan-ul-hassan Usmani (Urdu: ذیشان الحسن عثمانی ‎ ‎) is a data scientist, writer, entrepreneur, and scholar in the field of computer science. He is a Fulbright grant recipient and holds multiple degrees in the field of computer science. Usmani has authored numerous books in the field of technology, politics, and international affairs, including one book documenting his journey and education as a Fulbright scholar.

Dr. Usmani is a Fulbright Scholar and Eisenhower Fellow. He holds a PhD and MS in Computer Science from the Florida Institute of Technology. As part of his Masters thesis, he developed a simulation of supermarkets to observe and quantify the effects of herd behavior on impulse shopping by customers. His PhD work focused on simulation and modeling of blast waves in open and confined spaces. His work has been mentioned in The Wall Street Journal, AOL News, Wired Magazine, NPR, MIT?s Technology Review, Florida Today, The Economist, Brown Journal of World Affairs, and the Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation. He has authored dozens of research papers, articles, and several books. His research strengths include real-world simulation, programming human emergent behaviors, and modeling of catastrophic events.  He was a Visiting Scholar at Brown University and an Industrial Professor at Coventry University. He has worked at Citi Bank New York, Discover Financial, State of Illinois, Fulbright Academy of Science and Technology in Maine, and Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute.