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.
Awards & Honors
Best Artifact Award
ACM CCS 2024
2024
For "Blocking Tracking JavaScript at the Function Granularity" - recognized for exceptional research artifact quality
Gold Medalist
FAST-NUCES
2018
Awarded for achieving the highest GPA in the Computer Science graduating class
Top Reviewer
AISec @ CCS 2025
2025
Recognized for exceptional review quality at the ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security
Dean's List
University of California, Davis
2021-2025
Recognized for academic excellence during Ph.D. studies
Research Areas
Technical Skills
Languages
ML & AI Frameworks
Cloud & Infrastructure
Web Scraping & Automation
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Dean's ListUniversity of California, Davis
B.S. in Computer Science
Gold MedalistFAST-NUCES
Career Timeline
Experience
AI Research Scientist (Intern)
IDPrivacy, Inc.
- ●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
University of California, Davis
- ●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.
- ●Built and maintained large-scale data collection pipelines using OpenWPM, Puppeteer, and Playwright to analyze web tracking at scale.
Research Assistant
Lahore University of Management Sciences
- ●Explored state-of-the-art Natural Language Generation and Understanding techniques.
- ●Developed automated methods to attribute synthetic text to its source language model.
- ●Collaborated on projects related to news event detection and Urdu language text corpus.
Software Engineer
NorthBay Solutions
- ●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
- ●Managed a writer panel of 15, spread across multiple cities.
- ●Improved editorial quality and trained new writers.
Associate Software Engineer
Systems Limited
- ●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
- ●Authored and published 450+ articles.
- ●Organized interviews for the TechJuice 25 under 25.