JS IT Centre is established in fond memory of (Late) Professor Jamshed Siddiqui (24 April 1968-19 April 2021), one of the major donors and supporters of the MSUS.
He fought a five-year battle with Polycythemia Vera, a rare myeloproliferative neoplasm in his bone marrow. While meeting every step of his treatment in exemplary spirits of patience and forbearance, he suffered a massive brain hemorrhage on the evening of Friday Ramzaan 3, 1442 AH. He was declared dead three days later and was laid to rest in the University Graveyard.
Late Prof. Siddiqui came to the Aligarh Muslim University from his hometown, Deoria, in UP, as an undergrad student in 1986. He remained a boarder at the Viqarul Mulk Hall and completed his Master’s in Computer Application in 1991. After a brief stint at the NICNET Delhi, he began his career as a Systems Programmer at the Computer Centre, AMU.

Later, he was appointed as a lecturer in 1992 at the Department of Computer Science, where he went on to become Associate Professor, Professor, and Chairman. During his teaching career of three decades, he held several positions in the University, including warden of Halls of Residence, Proctor, Dean of Students Welfare, Officer on Special Duty (Development), and several other honorary charges.
He was also an active leader of the teaching community at AMU and represented them in various democratic bodies, such as elected members in the Executive Council, Academic Council, AMU Court, Secretary and Executive Member AMUTA, etc. He also taught at the Ibra Technical Industrial College, Sultanate of Oman, for three years and had performed Hajj at the age of 32, besides performing two Umrahs later on.

In his private life, he was given to ardent devotion to establishing prayer and regularly making charity purely for the good pleasure of the Almighty. Amongst his circle of friends and acquaintances, he is fondly remembered as a generous, helpful, and kind-hearted person with a profound nature. His refined demeanour and graceful presence are greatly missed at the AMU Staff Club in social events, games, and daily banters.
He is survived by his family members, who, in his memory, founded the Professor Jamshed Siddiqui IT Centre for Community Development at the MSUS in the Sultan Jahan Coaching Centre, Shamshad Market, Aligarh. May the Almighty accept it as a Sadqa-e-Jariah for him and register his name along with the blessed records of the righteous in the illiyeen.