Professional Experience

May 2026 – Present

AI Research Scientist (Director)

Cognizant AI Lab, San Francisco, CA

  • Advancing accuracy maintenance for long-horizon agentic tasks, where SOTA models such as GPT-5.5 fail beyond ~2,000 steps; targeting reliable accuracy up to one million steps via a theoretically and empirically validated multi-agent harness technique.
  • Evaluating the AI safety of multi-agent systems executing interdependent tasks, such as a worldwide agentic web.
  • Fine-tuning large language models with evolution strategies to enhance response diversity under an optimized Pass@k reward mechanism.
  • Developed multi-agent systems for real-world applications, including business profit maximization on CEO-Bench and a Mathematical Proof Writer that validates newly proposed mathematical lemmas and theorems.
April 2026 – Present

Founding Researcher/Engineer

Clinpax, (Remote) Melbourne, AUS

  • Researched and developed a multi-agent architecture for an AI Scribe that generates clinical notes, billing codes, and letters from patient–doctor consultations.
  • Benchmarked state-of-the-art open-source and commercial models and AI Scribes against Clinpax on clinically vetted evaluation matrices.
  • Implemented periodic learning strategies to improve note and billing-code generation through post-training and alignment strategies.
  • Developed a clinical Q&A co-pilot on the Vercel SDK using a hybrid strategy: hierarchical vector DB and evolving knowledge graphs of therapeutic guidelines, for high-accuracy, low-latency results.
July 2025 – April 2026

Research Scientist

Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, PK

  • Held a joint position on the Google-funded “SAFE ONLINE” project and a LUMS faculty AI venture (Clinpax), building a state-of-the-art ambient scribe tool powered by cutting-edge AI.
  • Led research and development: SAFE ONLINE focused on child safety in online content, while Plus1MD focused on the real-world impact of the 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.
  • Worked in a small but nimble team of engineers focused on researching and developing a mobile-based health monitoring system for elders.

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.