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

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

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