Oct 2025
Google PhD Fellowship 2025
I’ve been awarded the Google PhD Fellowship 2025 in Machine Perception. 🎉
[Google Blog Post] [MBZUAI Highlighting my Journey] [My LinkedIn Post]
Oct 2025
Two papers @ NeurIPS 2025
Perception Language Model - PLM (Spotlight) and Perception Encoder (Oral) are accepted to NeurIPS 2025. See you at San Diego!!
April 2025
Meta AI Open Source Release
Meta AI released Perception Encoder (PE) and Perception Language Model (PLM), announced by VPs Joelle Pineau and Yann LeCun. I am the first author of the PLM paper and a contributor in the PE paper.
March 2025
Meta Internship # 2
Rejoined Meta as a Research Scientist Intern and will be working with the FAIR Perception team on the release of Perception Language Model (PLM) and Perception Encoder (PE).
[Announcement] [Blog]
Jun 2025 - Dec 2024
Meta Internship # 1
Completed a research internship with the FAIR Perception Team at Meta in San Francisco, USA, where I worked closely with the team, including Andrea Madotto and Christoph Feichtenhofer, on developing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) for images and videos.
April 2024
PhD Candidacy Exam
Completed research proficiency exam and advanced to candidacy as a PhD student at Department of Computer Vision at MBZUAI.
Dec 2022
Completed Masters @ MBZUAI
Successfully defended my Master's thesis at MBZUAI and was fortunate to publish at ECCV 2022 and NeurIPS 2022 during my studies. Special thanks to my supervisors, Dr. Salman Khan and Prof. Fahad Khan, for this achievement.
May 2023
PhD @ MBZUAI
Started my PhD at the Department of Computer Vision at MBZUAI, advised by Dr. Salman Khan and Prof. Fahad Khan.
July 2022
First Paper at A* Conference
Class-agnostic Object Detection with Multi-modal Transformer, my first first-author work is accepted at ECCV-2022.
Jan 2020
Masters @ MBZUAI
Joined MBZUAI on a fully-funded scholarship as Masters Student at the Department of Computer Vision. MBZUAI is the world's first graduate-level, research-based AI university, located in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Jul 2020
Joined Hazen.ai
Joined Hazen.ai as Computer Vision Engineer in Lahore, Pakistan. Hazen.ai, founded in 2018 and headquartered in Saudi Arabia, is a global leader in traffic AI innovation
Jun 2018
Joined Confiz Limited
Joined Confiz Limited as Software Engineer. Confiz Limited is a dynamic global technology services company leading digital transformation and serving clients from SMEs to Fortune 100 firms in retail, CPG, and more.
May 2018
Completed B.Sc. @ UET Lahore
Successfully defended my B.Sc. Electrical Engineering thesis with honors at UET Lahore. Special thanks to my supervisor Dr. Kashif Javed for this achievement.
Sep 2014
Engineering @ UET Lahore
Secured admission in Electrical Engineering program at UET Lahore and ranked among the top-100 candidates nationwide who applied for engineering.