Background

About Me

I am currently pursuing my Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of California, Davis, under the guidance of Professor Zubair Shafiq. My research is focused on enhancing online privacy for users worldwide by employing advanced machine learning and data analytics techniques.

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Gold medalist

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Recognition

Awards & Honors

Research Recognition

2024

Best Artifact Award

ACM CCS 2024

For "Blocking Tracking JavaScript at the Function Granularity" - recognized for exceptional research artifact quality

2025

Top Reviewer

AISec @ CCS 2025

Recognized for exceptional review quality at the ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security

Academic Honors

2018

Gold Medalist

FAST-NUCES

2021-2025

Dean's List

University of California, Davis

Recognized for academic excellence during Ph.D. studies

Expertise

Research Areas

Online PrivacyMachine LearningWeb TrackingLarge Language ModelsBot Detection

Technical Skills

Languages

PythonSQLC++JavaJavaScript

ML & AI

PyTorchKerasScikit-LearnTensorFlowSciPyUnslothLangChain

Cloud

AWS (Athena, Glue)GCP (Cloud Run, Vertex AI)Databricks (DLTs, MLFlow, AgentBricks)

Web Scraping

SeleniumPlaywrightScrapyPuppeteerOpenWPM

Academic

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science

Dean's List

September 2021 – December 2025 (Expected)

University of California, Davis

Davis, CAGPA: 3.81/4.0Advisor: Prof. Zubair Shafiq

B.S. in Computer Science

Gold Medal

August 2014 – May 2018

FAST-NUCES

Lahore, PakistanGPA: 3.73/4.0

Career

Experience

ResearchIndustry

AI Research Scientist (Intern)

Current

IDPrivacy, Inc.

March 2024 – Present1 yr 9 mos

Remote

GCPTerraformDatabricksLLMRAGPython

●Led design and implementation of a self-serve agentic AI platform on GCP with end-to-end encryption, achieving 73% appointment booking rate and 70% conversion rate across 10,000+ customer interactions.
●Engineered RAG, TAG, and custom ETL pipelines using Terraform for large-scale data ingestion and secure AI agent deployment.
●Designed automated wholesale vehicle valuation system using LSTM + fine-tuned LLM on Databricks, achieving 98% accuracy across 50,000+ vehicle models.

Graduate Student Researcher

Current

University of California, Davis

September 2021 – Present4 yrs 3 mos

Davis, CAAdvisor: Prof. Zubair Shafiq

PythonPyTorchOpenWPMPuppeteerPlaywrightSQL

●Developed machine learning pipelines to detect misuse of first-party tracking cookies, link decorations, and intrusive JavaScript APIs with state-of-the-art accuracy.
●Designed experiments to detect evasive bots on the web and proposed algorithms to increase detection rates of commercial bot detection services.

Research Assistant

Lahore University of Management Sciences

November 2019 – August 20211 yr 9 mos

Lahore, PakistanAdvisor: Prof. Fareed Zaffar

PythonPyTorchNLPTransformers

●Explored state-of-the-art Natural Language Generation and Understanding techniques.
●Developed automated methods to attribute synthetic text to its source language model.

Software Engineer

NorthBay Solutions

April 2019 – November 20197 mos

Lahore, Pakistan

JavaAWSApache SparkNifi

●Worked on an internal Big Data Research Project with Kylo, Nifi, Apache Spark, and Amazon Web Services.
●Designed Java API endpoints for Data Lake management in Amazon Web Services.

Editor

TechJuice

October 2018 – April 20196 mos

Lahore, Pakistan

●Managed a writer panel of 15, spread across multiple cities.
●Improved editorial quality and trained new writers.

Associate Software Engineer

Systems Limited

July 2018 – September 20182 mos

Lahore, Pakistan

PythonScikit-LearnWord2VecNLP

●Worked on a Machine Learning and Data Science R&D project for an American bank using Random Forests, SVM, Word2Vec, and Doc2Vec.

Content Writer

TechJuice

November 2016 – April 20181 yr 5 mos

Lahore, Pakistan

●Authored and published 450+ articles.
●Organized interviews for the TechJuice 25 under 25.

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