Updates
| 2026: | Will be attending ICML 2026, Seoul, South Korea. |
| 2026: | Gave an invited talk at Salim Habib University, Karachi, at the invitation of Dr. Rizwan Qureshi. |
| 2026: | Presented I-INR at AAAI 2026, Singapore. |
| 2025: | I-INR accepted at AAAI 2026. Congratulations to the co-authors. |
| 2025: | Submitted 2 papers to top AI conferences. |
| 2025: | I-INR preprint available on arXiv. |
| 2024: | Attended NeurIPS 2024, Vancouver. |
| 2024: | Presented Descanning at AAAI 2024, Vancouver. |
| 2024: | AAAI paper accepted: Descanning: From scanned to the original images with a color correction diffusion model. |
| 2022: | Joined MLVC Lab, Kyung Hee University as a Ph.D. student. |
| 2021: | First-author paper published in Infrared Physics & Technology. |
| 2019: | Joined CISS-Global, ITU Lahore as a Research Assistant. |
Selected Publications
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I-INR: Iterative Implicit Neural Representations
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2026 · Singapore
In collaboration with LTCI, Télécom Paris & Adobe Research
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Descanning: From Scanned to the Original Images with a Color Correction Diffusion Model
AAAI, Vol. 38 No. 2, 2024
In collaboration with Adobe Research
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Journal · Infrared Physics & Technology
Human Detection in Aerial Thermal Imaging using a Fully Convolutional Regression Network
Infrared Physics & Technology 116 (2021) · Impact Factor: 3.4
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KMBE 2024
Improving Implicit Neural Representations with Robust Loss Function
Korea Broadcasting Media Engineering Conference, 2024: 998–1001
Project Involvement
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Vision-Language Navigation for Autonomous Systems Ongoing Research
Developing a vision-language grounded navigation system for autonomous embodied agents, enabling natural language-guided spatial and semantic reasoning with lightweight VLMs.
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MRI Acceleration and Reconstruction Ongoing Research
In collaboration with AiLive and NYU — diffusion models and multi-modal frameworks for faster, accurate clinical MRI diagnostics.
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Video Quality Assessment for Streaming Media
With KEI Media — perceptual video quality benchmarking and no-reference quality assessment metrics for streaming platforms.
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Microscopic Malaria Detection Research
Low-cost AI diagnostic system with Lahore General Hospital (CISS-Global) — virtual staining, image enhancement, and low-resource detection.
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AI-based Sports Card Grading Acquired by Beckett Media
Algorithm lead at Due Dilly — automated PSA/Beckett-standard grading via large-scale data curation and visual centering networks. Startup acquired by Beckett Media.
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Track-following Robot (PID) 🏆 1st Place · AirTech 2017
PID-controlled line-following robot on ATMEGA328P-PU. 1st place nationally at AirTech 2017.
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Embedded Vehicular Security System 🏆 2nd Prize · DICE-IET 2019
Face recognition with liveness detection on a low-cost SoC. 2nd Prize at All Pakistan DICE-IET 2019.
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Real-time Traffic Light Control System
NIE Islamabad internship — inductive loop sensors with adaptive signal control based on vehicle speed and time-of-day.
Honors & Awards
- Presidential Scholarship — Kyung Hee University
- 2nd Prize — All Pakistan DICE-IET Competition 2019
- 1st Position — National Robotics Competition, AirTech 2017
- Top Semester Positions — UET Taxila (Merit Scholarships)
- Winner — Circuit Mania, ElectroMinds Gala Expo 2016
- Recipient — Prime Minister's Laptop Scheme
Languages
- English — Fluent IELTS 7.5
- Urdu — Native
Certifications
- Deep Neural Networks with PyTorch — IBM / Coursera
- Machine Learning Specialization — Coursera
- Generative Adversarial Networks — DeepLearning.AI
- Data Science Fundamentals — IBM
- Neural Networks & Deep Learning — DeepLearning.AI
- TensorFlow Developer Certificate