Professional Experience

Research

  • Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, University Libraries, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA (Aug 2024 – Present)
    Categorization and summarization of ETDs using NLP and Language Models
  • Post-Graduate Researcher, Information Retrieval Group, School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK (Dec 2023 – Jul 2024)
    Summarization of crisis events from news and microblog posts using RAG

Teaching

  • Lecturer, National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Rawalpindi, Pakistan (Feb 2021 – May 2023)
    Courses Taught: Object Oriented Programming, Data Structures and Algorithms, Theory of Automata, Digital Information Processing, Introduction to AI
  • Lecturer, Capital University of Science and Technology (CUST), Islamabad, Pakistan (Feb 2017 – Feb 2020)
    Courses Taught: Introduction to Programming, Data Structures, Database Systems
  • Visiting Faculty, SEECS, National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan (Sep 2016 – Feb 2017)
    Courses Taught: Database Systems

Software Engineering

  • iOS App Developer, Agnitus Inc., Islamabad, Pakistan (May 2012 – March 2013)
    iOS app database design and maintenance, UI design, cloud data management

Professional Service

  • Program Committee Member: ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2027
  • Sub-Reviewer: Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2025, 2026 · AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2026 · ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2024, 2025, 2026

Professional Memberships

  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) — Member
  • Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM) Association — Member
  • The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi — Graduate Member (by invitation, 2026)

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science (In Progress), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA (2024 – Present)
    Research Areas: Information Retrieval, NLP, LLMs, Scholarly Big Data
    Advisors: Dr. Hoda Eldardiry, William A. Ingram CGPA: 4.00/4.00
  • M.Eng. in Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan (2016)
    Thesis: Sampling Quantities of Interest in Social Networks
    CGPA: 3.81/4.00
  • B.Eng. in Software Engineering, Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi, Pakistan