B.S. Computer Science · MS/PhD Applicant

Muhammad Jawad

Trustworthy AI · Computer Vision · Environmental ML

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About Me

A bit about my journey

I am a B.S. Computer Science graduate from the University of Peshawar with a 3.70/4.00 CGPA. My interests are in trustworthy AI, computer vision, environmental machine learning, and human-centered AI systems. I enjoy building complete systems, but I am equally interested in how they are evaluated, where they fail, and how people can use them responsibly.

My recent work includes CropSeg, a UAV crop-and-weed segmentation pipeline evaluated on PhenoBench; LAND Hawaiʻi Rainfall Downscaling, an independent climate-ML reproduction; and ShortlistPro, an AI-assisted recruitment platform designed with structured outputs and human handoff. During my internship at DeepCognishann Software Services, I worked on efficient TinyLlama fine-tuning and privacy-preserving training with DP-SGD.

I also value teaching and community building. I served as a Stanford Code in Place 2025 Section Leader, co-founded the Computing Students Society, and teach AI Bootcamps for beginner students. I am now seeking graduate research opportunities that will prepare me to pursue a career as a professor working on reliable, useful AI.

Education

Academic background

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

University of Peshawar

2021 – 20253.70 / 4.00

Relevant coursework

CalculusLinear AlgebraProbability & StatisticsData Structures and AlgorithmsDesign and Analysis of AlgorithmsSoftware EngineeringAdvanced Database SystemsApplied Image ProcessingMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingArtificial Intelligence

Projects

Selected work

Research-oriented technical work and hackathon projects spanning trustworthy AI, computer vision, environmental ML, and human-centered systems.

Final Year Project

GitHub

Selected Technical Projects

GitHub
GitHub

International Hackathon Projects

GitHub
GitHub

Teaching

Teaching experience

Computing Students Society — AI Bootcamp

Peshawar, Pakistan

AI Bootcamp Instructor

Jul 2026 – Present
  • Teaching neural networks, computer vision, NLP, transformers, LLMs, LangChain, RAG, and agentic coding.
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Computing Students Society — AI Bootcamp

Peshawar, Pakistan

AI Bootcamp Instructor

Jun 2025 – Aug 2025
  • Taught Python, CNNs, YOLO, LangChain, and RAG to 40+ beginners who built and deployed AI systems.
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Stanford University — Code in Place Program

Remote

Section Leader

Apr 2025 – May 2025
  • Led weekly Python sessions for 10+ international students, teaching fundamentals, debugging, and code reviews.
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Experience

Professional experience

Software Engineering Intern

DeepCognishann Software Services · Peshawar, Pakistan

Jan 2025 – Apr 2025
  • Fine-tuned TinyLlama with LoRA and QLoRA for English–Urdu translation under limited GPU memory.
  • Implemented DP-SGD workflows with Opacus, gradient clipping, and noise injection for privacy-preserving training.

Volunteer

Volunteer experience

Computing Students Society

Co-Founder & Vice President

2024 – 2025

Co-founded the society and organized two technical bootcamps and 5+ events for the campus computing community.

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Recognition

Achievements & honours

Competitions, rankings, and community work outside my projects and teaching roles.

1st place — StoryWeave

2025

HackVortex Codestorm 5

Won first place for StoryWeave, a multimodal generative-AI wellness application; competed in 5+ international hackathons.

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Ranked #172 worldwide

2026

UC Berkeley CALICO Informatics Competition

Placed 172nd worldwide in UC Berkeley's CALICO Informatics Competition.

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CS50x Puzzle Day — perfect score

2026

Harvard University

Solved all 10 of 10 problems at Harvard CS50x Puzzle Day 2026.

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Advent of Code 2025 — full completion

Dec 2025

Advent of Code

Completed all 12 challenges in Advent of Code 2025 using Python.

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100+ LeetCode problems

Ongoing

LeetCode

Solved 100+ data-structures-and-algorithms problems spanning arrays, trees, graphs, and dynamic programming.

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Language

English proficiency

Duolingo English Test

140/160

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Skills

Technical skills

Languages & Frameworks

PythonSQLDjangoFastAPIReactTypeScriptPydantic

Machine Learning & Deep Learning

PyTorchTensorFlowKerasscikit-learnOpenCVAlbumentations

Generative AI & LLM Systems

LangChainLangGraphHugging Face TransformersUnslothFine-TuningRAGAgentic Workflows

Data, Tools & Infrastructure

PostgreSQLMySQLSQLiteFAISSChromaDBDockerGit/GitHubLaTeXDigitalOceanPlaywright

Credentials

Certificates & credentials

Machine Learning Specialization

Coursera · DeepLearning.AI

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AI Programming with Python

Udacity

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Data Science Bootcamp Training

atomcamp

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Artificial Intelligence Bootcamp Training

atomcamp

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Generative AI Application Developer Certificate

Pak Angels · Silicon Valley, CA, USA

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Contact

Let’s connect

Interested in my research or want to discuss collaboration opportunities? I’d love to hear from you.

Seeking thesis-based MS and PhD opportunities for Spring or Fall 2027