Faisal Hakimi

AI & Machine Learning Developer and Researcher · Peshawar, Pakistan

Currently AI Lead at Vertexons · Lead Researcher at Digging Deeper Insight UK

A computer scientist working at the intersection of applied machine learning, graph-based modelling, and quantitative research. I build production AI systems and publish peer-reviewed work that bridges rigorous theory with measurable real-world outcomes.

Featured in ICHR-26 KMU 2026 · 1st Place ESoC 2026 NIC Incubation UNESCO Hackathon
Faisal Hakimi
Faisal Hakimi BS Computer Science · IM|Sciences · 2026
1st Place
KMU 2026 · Public Health Conf.
ICHR-26
Two papers accepted & presented
1,200+
Users on UniSchedule
ESoC 2026
Open source · sktime-mcp
3.76 / 4.00
GPA · IM|Sciences

About

I currently serve as AI Lead at Vertexons, where I architect production LLM pipelines and MLOps infrastructure, and as Lead Researcher at Digging Deeper Insight UK Ltd, delivering AI-driven analytical work for a UK research organisation. In parallel, I develop a production-grade MetaTrader 5 Expert Advisor as an independent quantitative developer.

My research spans three converging frontiers: spatiotemporal Graph Neural Networks for climate-driven disease surveillance (1st Place, KMU 2026); deep reinforcement learning for closed-loop AI therapeutics, where a Soft Actor-Critic agent achieved zero severe hypoglycaemia versus a 4.5% failure rate in standard insulin protocols; and statistical evaluation frameworks for large language model factuality and reliability.

I am preparing graduate study in artificial intelligence and autonomous systems, with the long-term ambition of leading a research-driven technology company at the intersection of quantitative finance, AI safety, and graph-based reasoning.

Experience

Jan 2026 — Present Remote · UK

Lead Researcher

Active

Digging Deeper Insight UK Ltd

Conducting applied, policy-relevant research for a UK-based professional research organisation. Apply AI and data science methodologies to questions across policy, social, and economic domains; author structured deliverables (reports, evidence frameworks, analytical briefs) within professional project timelines.

Dec 2025 — Present Peshawar

AI Lead

Active

Vertexons

Lead backend development and deployment of production ML systems across cloud environments. Design scalable FastAPI endpoints integrating LLM services for low-latency inference, and establish system standards across observability, MLOps, CI/CD, and human-in-the-loop feedback.

FastAPILLMAWSMLOps
Jan — Apr 2026 Remote

Algorithmic Trading · Quantitative Developer

Self-Employed · MT5 Expert Advisor

Built a production-grade MetaTrader 5 Expert Advisor in MQL5 with statistical feature engineering, regime-aware signal integration, basket take-profit logic, trailing-stop mechanisms, and configurable risk controls. Validated robustness via Bayesian methods and the MT5 Strategy Tester across multiple market regimes.

MQL5PythonQuant
Oct 2025 — Feb 2026 IM|Sciences

Developer · UniSchedule

1,200+ users

AI-Powered Timetable System, IM|Sciences

Engineered a full-stack AI timetable platform serving 1,200+ students with intelligent routing between static schedule data and LLM-based responses. Built FastAPI REST services, a serverless backend proxy for API security, model failover, and streaming, plus an admin analytics dashboard and offline-capable PWA.

FastAPILLMRAGPWA
Sep 2025 — Feb 2026 Peshawar

Co-Founder · Stumbnail

NIC Incubated

AI Thumbnail Generator

Co-founded an AI-powered thumbnail-generation platform selected for incubation at the National Incubation Center. Built the FastAPI backend for a generative AI service with third-party API integration, rate limiting, and serverless deployment.

Feb — Apr 2025 Peshawar

Research Assistant

Institute of Management Sciences (IM|Sciences)

Designed a multi-dimensional statistical framework for benchmarking LLM factuality, consistency, and reliability. Conducted model-benchmarking experiments; co-authored research methodology with manuscript in preparation for journal submission.

LLM EvalNLP
Jun — Aug 2025 Islamabad · Remote

Technology Intern · ML Intern

PTCL Group · withML

Optimised data-processing workflows for technical reporting systems across large-scale telecom infrastructure datasets at PTCL Group. Contributed to applied ML tasks at withML — data preprocessing, model experimentation, and evaluation workflows.

Jun — Jul 2024 Remote · UK

Product Development Manager (Intern)

Bright Network · IEUK

Architected a 6-month product roadmap for the RunWize fitness platform, driving a 20% user-engagement increase. Synthesised behavioural insights from 3,900+ users to prioritise features and propose gamification initiatives.

Selected Work

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1st · KMU 2026 ICHR-26

Climate-Driven Disease Surveillance via Spatiotemporal GNN with Causal Discovery

PyTorch · ST-GNN · Causal Discovery

Interpretable spatiotemporal Graph Neural Network with integrated causal discovery, modelling relationships between climate variables and regional disease outbreak patterns across Pakistan. Validated against epidemiological ground truth.

ICHR-26 Accepted

Closed-Loop AI Therapeutics · Deep RL for Autonomous Insulin Dosing

Soft Actor-Critic · Digital Twin Simulation

Reduced post-Iftar hyperglycaemia by 35 mg/dL; achieved zero severe hypoglycaemia versus 4.5% in standard protocols; outperformed clinical sliding-scale protocols in 92% of simulated scenarios.

QuantAWS

Algorithmic Trading System · MetaTrader 5 EA

Python · MQL5 · AWS · Docker

Production-grade MT5 trading system with real-time market-data pipelines, statistical feature engineering, basket take-profit logic, regime-aware signal integration, and Dockerised CI/CD on AWS.

1,200+ users

UniSchedule · AI-Powered University Timetable

FastAPI · RAG · LLM · Serverless

Full-stack platform with intelligent routing between static timetable data and LLM-based responses. Serverless backend proxy for API security, model failover, streaming; admin analytics dashboard; offline-capable PWA.

In Preparation

LLM Hallucination Benchmarking Framework

NLP · Statistical Analysis · LLM Evaluation

Statistical evaluation framework for benchmarking large-language-model factuality and reliability across multiple dimensions. Research Assistantship, IM|Sciences. Co-author.

Manuscript

Bayesian Optimisation for Basket Trading

Python · NumPy · SciPy · Bayesian Methods

Quantitative asset-allocation algorithm using Bayesian optimisation to maximise risk-adjusted returns, with acquisition functions (EI, UCB) for efficient hyperparameter search. Robust out-of-sample performance vs baseline.

Honours & Recognition

2026 1st Place · Abstract Competition6th International Public Health Conference, KMU Cash Prize
2026 1st Place · Climate-Disease Surveillance TrackICHR-26, International Conference on Health Research Cash Award
2026 Open Source Contributor · sktime-mcpEuropean Summer of Code 2026 · Issue #259 · PR #260 Merit
2024 Technical Innovation RecognitionUNESCO Hackathon · Deepfake Detection System Merit

Technical Skills

ML & AI
Graph Neural Networks (GAT, GCN, ST-GNN), Deep RL (SAC), PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, NLP, RAG, LangChain, HuggingFace, Self-Supervised Learning, Time-Series Analysis
Languages
Python, SQL, TypeScript, Node.js, MQL5, R
Backend
FastAPI, Django, REST, Serverless, MLOps, Microservices, JWT, RBAC
Cloud & DevOps
AWS, Azure, Docker, CI/CD, Cloud ML Infrastructure, Vercel, Git
Data
Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, PySpark, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Vector Search
Viz
Streamlit, Plotly, Power BI, Matplotlib, Seaborn

Education

2022 — 2026 Peshawar

BS, Computer Science

Institute of Management Sciences (IM|Sciences)

GPA: 3.76 / 4.00 · Medium of instruction: English. Coursework: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Algorithms & Data Structures, Software Engineering, Database Systems, Probability & Statistics.

Jan — Jul 2024 Islamabad

AI & Data Science · Professional Certification

AtomCamp

Intensive training in statistical modelling, ML deployment, computer vision, NLP, and LLM fine-tuning.