Vice-Chair IEEE Finland
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Eastern Finland and Tampere University, Finland. I have research interest in machine learning, subspace learning, anomaly detection, pattern recognition, and related areas.
EDUCATION
PhD, Machine Learning & Signal Processing, Aug. 2018 – Jun. 2022
Tampere University, Finland
MS, Electronics Engineering, Aug. 2013 – Dec. 2015
Sabanci University Istanbul, Turkey (1st year)
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands (2nd year)
BS, Telecom Engineering (cum laude graduate), Aug. 2008 – Aug. 2012
FAST-National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences Pakistan
Professional Teacher Education (Pedagogical Qualification) , May 2026 – May 2027 (expected)
Haaga-Helia School of Professional Teacher Education, Helsinki, Finland
Selected as 1 of 20 students from 293 applicants (English-language programme); qualification confers formal teaching competence (60 ECTS).
HONORS and AWARDS
Participated and presented our research as State Guest, International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and Technology (IBCAST), Pakistan, 2025.
ECIU Mobility Fund 2025 award/grant recipient, Prize €3,000.
IEEE R8 2025 Entrepreneurship Competition Finalist.
IEEE Research and Technologies for Society and Industry, NextGen Startup for Impact competition Finalist.
AI Cybersecurity Deep Hack 2025 Winner (Multimodal AI solution for identifying deception patterns to protect autonomous systems).
Tampere City Challenge Hackathon 2024 Winner.
Honorable mention at the 2023 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS) for a co-authored paper titled "Improved Active Fire Detection using Operational U-Nets".
Honorable mention from the City of Tampere for Technical Creativity of the Year 2022 for developing a framework for early heart attack detection using multi-view echocardiography.
Post Docs in Companies program (PoDoCo) 2023 award/grant recipient for “Brain neural-like analysis of multimodal data via groundbreaking Machine Learning and AI solutions” at Haltian (Funded by: Foundation for Economic Education).
Finnish Foundation for Technology Promotion (2022) award/grant recipient (Theme: Disruptive technologies and technologies for smarter everyday life).
Nokia Foundation 2020 award/grant recipient.
Fully funded scholarship recipient for MS electronics engineering.
Selected by Sabanci University to study 2nd year of masters at Delft University of Technology Netherlands under the scope of Socrates Erasmus.
Best teaching assistant incentive award (Sabanci University Istanbul, fall 2013).
Cum laude Graduate of FAST NUCES (above 3.5/4 Cumulative GPA in BS).
Three silver medals during BS at FAST NUCES (2nd position in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd semester).
6 certificates of Dean’s Honor List for scoring Semester GPA above 3.5/4 at FAST NUCES during BS degree.
Chosen by the Ministry of Science & Technology, Pakistan, as the country's inaugural delegate to the 54th London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF) in 2012. Participated in seminars and workshops at Imperial College London, University of Oxford, and University of Cambridge, as part of LIYSF.
Merit scholarship recipient at high school for being the top student of the batch.
Invited Talks
Delivered a Tech Talk titled “Detecting Rare and Abnormal Patterns: One-Class Classification with Subspace Learning” at the University of Stavanger, Norway, March 2026.
Delivered an invited talk titled “Computational Modelling of High-Dimensional Multimodal Biomedical Data” at the Nordic Computational Biology (NCB) Conference 2025, Tallinn University, Estonia.
Delivered a technical talk titled “Addressing Data Scarcity in Anomaly Detection: One-Class Classification Methods” at the IEEE CASS Finland Chapter April 2025.
Delivered a talk on “Career Building, Networking, and Cultural Adaptation for International Researchers in Finland” at University of Jyväskylä in December 2024.
Delivered a talk on “The Use of AI and Sensor Technologies in Future Healthcare” at the Seminar on the Future of AI and Sensor Technologies in Public Health, organized by Norwegian Embassy in Singapore in November 2024.
Presented “Addressing Data Scarcity in Medical Diagnosis” at the Transformative Impact of Applied AI on Health Outcomes workshop, hosted by Informatics Research Institute, Tulane University, and Louisiana State University at Ochsner Health Center for Academic Excellence New Orleans, in April 2024.
Presented "Subspace Learning for One-Class Classification" at the University of Florida in November 2022 and at the School of Computing and Informatics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette in March 2023.
Leadership, Service & Outreach
Panel Moderator: "From Good Research to Research Leadership," ReDS Day 2026 - Data Science PhD & Postdoc Research Day, Tampere University, May 2026.
Vice Chair: IEEE Finland, Feb. 2026–present.
Founding Member: SEFI Special Interest Group (SIG) on Entrepreneurship in Engineering Education, European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI), 2025.
Coordinator: Summer School on Trustworthy AI 2023, Tampere University.
Participant (Mentor): International Talents' Mentoring Programme 2024 & 2025, Tampere University.
General Secretary: "NUTEC 10" All Pakistan Technology Competition, FAST NUCES, 2011–2012.
Social Worker and Founder Vice President: Young Pakistan Social Welfare Society, 2008–present.
Student Ambassador: Delft University of Technology, Signal and System Track, 2014–2015.
Reviewer: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Computers in Biology and Medicine, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems with Applications, IEEE ICIP, IEEE SSCI, Information Fusion, Neurocomputing, Pattern Recognition, Pattern Recognition Letters, MethodsX, e-Prime.
Conferences/Events Participation: NUTEC2008, Softec2011, LIYSF2012, Eusipco2015, ERF2018, ICPR2018, WellComp2020, SSCI2020, SSCI2023, ITEApoDays2024, GITEX Europe 2025, IBCAST2025.
Membership
IEEE Member Finland section, Mar. 2019- Current
IEEE Biometrics Council member, Mar. 2019- Current
IEEE Young Professionals, Mar. 2019- Current
IEEE Signal Processing Society, Jan. 2019- Dec. 2022
Computer Vision and Pattern Analysis Laboratory (VPA LAB) Sabanci University, Aug. 2013 – Jan. 2016
Machine Intelligence for Speech Audio and Multimedia (MISAM) research group, Aug. 2013 – Jan. 2016
Pattern Recognition Laboratory (PR-LAB) Delft University of Technology, Aug. 2014 – Aug. 2015
PEDAGOGY training completed at Tampere University
Pedagogy Courses/Training: (Basic 25 Credits completed)
Teaching and learning in higher education (10 Cr)
Curriculum and educational development (5 Cr)
Academic supervision and guidance, Participation in teaching (5 Cr)
Participatory development project (5 Cr)
Essentials of Doctoral Supervision (1 Cr)