Biography

I am currently a Post-Doc Research Fellow at LUMS working on proposals for research funding and co-supervising a Master’s thesis in Computer Science. Additionally, I am working on research related to “Interpretability of AI Models”. This research builds on my recent Post-Doctoral experience as a Research Scientist at the Research for Intelligent Software Engineering (RISE) laboratory at Singapore Management University (SMU), ranked fourth globally for software engineering research. My work at SMU involved evaluating human-model alignment for deep-learning-based AI systems, with a particular focus on causal explainability. As part of the Science of Certified AI systems project, funded by the Ministry of Education, I worked with my supervisor Prof. Lingxiao Jiang, to develop methodologies to evaluate the trustworthiness of AI models for code-relevant tasks.

I obtained my PhD degree in Computer Science from the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan in 2021. My Ph.D. was supervised by Prof. Dr. Shafay Shamail and my PhD committee members included Dr. Hamid Abdul Basit, Dr. Basit Shafique, and Dr. Naveed Arshad. My Ph.D. thesis is titled “Feature-driven API usage-based Code Example Recommendation for Opportunistic Reuse”.