Professional Experience

July 2025 – Present

Research Scientist

Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, PK

  • A joint position on “SAFE ONLINE” Google Funded Project and LUMS faculty’s AI venture (Plus1MD) on the creation of the State-of-the-Art Ambient Scribe powered by cutting-edge AI solution.
  • Lead both the research and development aspects of the two projects: SAFE ONLINE focuses primarily on child safety in online content, while Plus1MD concentrates on the real-world impact of AI Scribe.
September 2023 – July 2025

Postdoctoral Research Associate

AI4STEM Education Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

  • Lead researcher on NSF-funded projects using LLMs (e.g., GPT-3.5/4) for automated scoring and rubric generation in STEM education.
  • Supervise a team of graduate and undergraduate students in AI tool development, model deployment, and education platform prototyping.
  • Conducted workshops and surveys for schools to gather real-world feedback and evaluate ML system.
January 2021 – July 2023

Graduate Research Assistant

School of Computing and College of Education, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

  • Held two mutually exclusive research assistantships with the School of Computing, focused on multi-agentic/robotic research, and the College of Education, focused on the development of an AI software solution for automatic scoring.
  • Served as a project leader and software developer by delegating development tasks and conducting discussion sessions.
  • Participated in interdisciplinary research on the application of artificial intelligence in education and trained machine learning models for natural language-based science assessments.
Jan 2019 – Dec 2020

Research Associate

Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, PK

  • Served as an Android application developer for a mobile web optimization project at first, and was then prompted to lead the project to enhance the low-end mobile web experience.
  • Collaborated with the Google Chromium team to analyze mobile web behavior under high memory and processing pressure.
Aug 2018 – Jan 2019

Software Engineer

Strategic Systems International, Lahore, PK

  • Researched building synchronization framework code items, materials, and similar building plans for heterogeneous systems.
  • Implemented a framework to synchronize data from multiple sources.
  • Collaborated with five software engineers focused on researching and developing a healthcare system.

Teaching Experience

Spring 2024

Co-Instructor

College of Education, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

  • Course: ESCI 6250E, Social Scientific Issues in Science Education
  • Co-instructed with Dr. Xiaoming Zhai
  • Designed and graded formative/creative assessment tasks
  • Conducted book clubs and one-on-one sessions with students
Fall 2016 & Spring 2017

Teaching Assistant

School of Computing, NUCES, Lahore, PK

  • Course: Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing
  • Designed assignments and quizzes; evaluated projects
  • Mentored students in research and coding projects

Key Responsibilities & Achievements

Leadership

Led research teams and projects, managing technical and administrative aspects and mentoring junior researchers and students.

AI Research

Innovated in AI, machine learning, robotics, and educational technology, producing multiple high-impact publications.

Software Development

Designed and implemented AI-powered applications, ML models, and research frameworks using modern technologies.

Collaboration

Worked effectively across research domains, collaborating with educators, engineers, scientists, and industry partners.