Resume

Research Scientist / June 2026 - Present

Software Engineer Intern, ML / Summer 2024, Summer 2025

• Improved cold-start product delivery by introducing an item-to-item retrieval lever combining engagement-based and content-based features.
• A/B tests showed 1% gain in meaningful list interactions and 0.74% increase in click engagement for over-delivered products; 0.65% gain in meaningful interactions for cold-start listings.

Graduate Research Assistant / January 2025 - May 2026

• Developing real-time AI systems to assist human pilots in recovering from spatial disorientation in aerospace control tasks.
• Published 8 papers across embodiment, machine translation, low-resource NLP, and human-agent interaction (COLING, ACL, HCII, AAAI, HAI).
• Received Best Paper Nomination at Human-Agent Interaction 2024, Swansea, UK.

Graduate Teaching Assistant / January 2021 - December 2024

• Courses: CS314 Software Engineering, CS345 Machine Learning, CS455 Distributed Systems, CS514 Software Product and Process Evaluation.
• Held office hours and recitations; developed automated grading scripts for 140+ student courses.
• Maintained GitHub Actions runners and web servers for DevOps infrastructure of the Software Engineering course.

Self-employed / June 2020 - December 2020

• Developed full-stack mobile and web applications using react.js, node.js, and flutter for clients based on their requirements and use-cases.
• Led the development of a cross-platform mobile application for a food-delivery service; implemented real-time delivery tracking and performed a complete UI overhaul for the platform. The app, Dryvar Foods is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store and has more than 5,000+ downloads.

Data Scientist / August 2020 - November 2020

• Provided insights on behavioral patterns in television viewership and extrapolated demographic labels via a probabilistic model onto a 60% larger unlabelled dataset from Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd. (PTCL) for improved television viewership ratings.

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant / January 2019 - May 2020

• Courses: CS473 Networks Security, CS310 Algorithms, CS200 Intro to Programming.
• Created labs, programming, and written assignments and held regular office hours to assist students in understanding course content.
• Implemented automated grading scripts for all assignments for the Algorithms course to reduce checking time and maintain consistency.