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PhD in Computing

Research focus: medical vision-language models, long-tailed learning, and interpretable AI, building on XAI in vision and NLP.

MSc in Cybersecurity

Thesis: Passive Liveness Detection using Depth and rPPG for Face Presentation Attack Detection.

Computing Graduate Research Fellow

• Cross-affiliation with the Faculty of Health Sciences (Prof. Zulkernine, Dr. Cofie): automated EPA evaluation from assessor notes.
• Cross-affiliation with the School of Rehabilitation Therapy (Prof. Zulkernine, Assoc. Prof. Fayed): domain-specific BERT literature filtration across 8,000 RCT articles, reported at 95% specificity.
• Contributed to grant preparation.

ML Research Intern · MITACS Accelerate

• Extracted, transformed, and analyzed unstructured EHRs using Pandas, MySQL, NumPy, scikit-learn, and seaborn to model Alzheimer's patient cohorts.
• Used k-means clustering and logistic regression for clinical-characteristics analysis.
• Contributed to a paper accepted in the Journal of Primary Care & Community Health (2025).

Associate Machine Learning Engineer · Intern

• Explored GEPA evolutionary prompt optimization as an alternative to manual prompt tuning.
• Built a firmwide relevance dataset with LLM-as-judge evaluation and monitored P@k, R@k, and NDCG@k.
• Implemented cross-encoder, listwise, and setwise reranking to improve retrieval metrics.

Front-end Developer

• Built visualization software for streaming PID-controller data using Python Socket.IO, HTML, CSS, and D3.
• Tool documented in a paper accepted to NFM 2025.

Machine Learning Engineer

• Built an internal HR data analytics tool based on BERT.
• Developed a stylometric authorship attribution algorithm.
• Worked on deep reinforcement-learning recommender systems and speech recognition for smart-home systems.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Marking, proctoring, lab sessions, and office hours across multiple computer-science courses.

Teaching experience →

COMPSA Liaison Officer

Vice President

Deep Learning Specialization

TensorFlow in Practice