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

Project Involvement

  • 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.

  • MRI Acceleration and Reconstruction Ongoing Research

    In collaboration with AiLive and NYU — diffusion models and multi-modal frameworks for faster, accurate clinical MRI diagnostics.

  • Video Quality Assessment for Streaming Media

    With KEI Media — perceptual video quality benchmarking and no-reference quality assessment metrics for streaming platforms.

  • Microscopic Malaria Detection Research

    Low-cost AI diagnostic system with Lahore General Hospital (CISS-Global) — virtual staining, image enhancement, and low-resource detection.

  • 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.

  • Track-following Robot (PID) 🏆 1st Place · AirTech 2017

    PID-controlled line-following robot on ATMEGA328P-PU. 1st place nationally at AirTech 2017.

  • 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.

  • 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