Peer-Reviewed Research
Publications
Research output across graph neural networks, deep reinforcement learning for health, large-language-model evaluation, and quantitative methods in finance. Two papers accepted at ICHR-26, with additional manuscripts in preparation.
Research Interests
Graph Neural Networks · Spatiotemporal Modelling · Transport Network Resilience · Deep Reinforcement Learning · LLM Evaluation & Reliability · Retrieval-Augmented Generation · Agentic AI Systems · Cascading Failure Analysis · Self-Supervised Learning · AI for Health.
Accepted & Presented
2026 · ICHR-26
1st · KMU 2026
ICHR-26
Climate-Driven Disease Surveillance via Spatiotemporal GNN with Causal Discovery
6th International Public Health Conference, KMU 2026 · ICHR-26
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. Awarded 1st Place with cash prize and Certificate of Excellence.
ICHR-26
Manuscript in Prep.
Closed-Loop AI Therapeutics: Deep RL for Autonomous Insulin Dosing
International Conference on Health Research, ICHR-26
Soft Actor-Critic agent within a digital-twin simulation for autonomous insulin delivery, optimised for Ramadan fasting and high-glycaemic South Asian diets. Reduced post-Iftar hyperglycaemia by 35 mg/dL; zero severe hypoglycaemia versus 4.5% in standard protocols; outperformed clinical sliding-scale protocols in 92% of simulated scenarios.
In Preparation
Manuscripts ongoing
Ongoing Research
Statistical Benchmarking of LLM Factuality and Reliability
Co-author · Research Assistantship, IM|Sciences
Multi-dimensional statistical evaluation framework for benchmarking large language model factuality, consistency, and reliability across model architectures. Designed evaluation methodology and ran model-benchmarking experiments. Manuscript in preparation.
Quantitative Finance
Basket Trading Optimisation via Bayesian Methods
Risk-adjusted asset allocation · Bayesian optimisation
Quantitative asset-allocation algorithm using Bayesian optimisation to maximise risk-adjusted returns. Demonstrates robust out-of-sample performance with reduced overfitting versus traditional statistical backtesting baselines.
Regime-Aware
Enhancing Cointegration-Based Basket Trading with Regime-Aware Multi-Asset Bayesian & Swarm Intelligence Optimisation
Hybrid optimisation · Multi-asset · Regime switching
Designing robust asset-allocation algorithms that address overfitting in traditional statistical tests through regime-switching models and hybrid Bayesian / swarm-intelligence optimisation techniques.
Awards & 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 · Provenance (Deepfake Detection)
Merit