Curriculum vitae

• since 2022

  PhD, Electrical & Computer Engineering

  University of Alberta, Edmonton

  Advanced Control Systems & Diagnosis Lab. Fault diagnosis for electric drives, predictive control, and robustness in deep learning.

• 2018–2021

  MSc, Electrical Engineering: Control & Systems Engineering

  King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran

  Thesis: Intelligent Model Predictive Torque Control of Induction Motor.

• 2016–2017

  MSc, Electrical Engineering: Power & Control Systems

  University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore

  Design project: Advance Direct Torque Control of a Two Phase Symmetrical Induction Motor fed with a B4 Inverter.

• 2009–2014

  BSc, Electrical Engineering: Electronics & Telecommunication

  University of the Punjab, Lahore

  Thesis: Wandering Autonomous Lifelike Behaviour Based Ground Vehicle.

• since 2026

  Co-Researcher

  Time to Thrive Research Group, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Alberta

  Building the International Student Hub, and sitting in the consultation sessions working out a framework international students can use to manage their time and self-care.

• since 2025

  Machine Learning Consultant

  Ibtidah Solutions, Lahore (remote)

  Research-side work on AI for industrial and clinical problems. A digital twin of a compressor system built on liquid neural networks, a preprocessing pipeline that synchronises multi-modal sensor streams sampled at different rates, and currently a two-model diabetic retinopathy screening pipeline: a deep network grading retinal scans, and a locally served LLM writing the summary the patient reads.

• 2024–2025

  President, Graduate Students’ Association

  University of Alberta

  Led the association representing graduate students at the U of A. Secured $8.55M in student financial support, renewed the U-Pass and returned $3.4M to students, created a $200K Community Engagement Award, and published Under Pressure, the first comprehensive graduate mental health report at the university.

• 2023–2024

  Vice President Student Services, Graduate Students’ Association

  University of Alberta

  Health and dental plan, child-minding and student-parent supports, U-Pass negotiations, and SGBV work-integrated-learning toolkits.

• since 2022

  Research Scholar

  Advanced Control Systems & Diagnosis Lab, University of Alberta

  Time-series fault identification and localization with synthetic feature engineering, acoustic anomaly detection for power drives, physics-informed deep learning and data balancing for industrial fault diagnosis, and multi-modal sensor fusion to bring false alarms down. Contributor to the ORION project under Horizon Europe.

• 2020–2021

  Electrical Design Engineer

  EPCM Pro, Lahore

  Electrical installation design blueprints alongside the senior design engineer; client liaison; project budgets and timelines.

• 2018–2020

  Research Assistant

  Flexible AC Transmission Systems Lab, KFUPM, Dhahran

  Weighting-factor design for model predictive control of motor drives, sensorless predictive control for line-start PMSMs, differential-flatness control of a DC-DC Cuk converter with hierarchical sliding mode, and a jerk-based chaotic oscillator.

20 publications, listed in full on the research page. 239 citations, h-index 8, i10-index 7.

• MATH 100, 101 & 102

  2022–2026

  ESSC · University of Alberta · Graduate teaching assistant

  Eight terms on the drop-in desk, working through first-year students’ questions in person.

  • Jan–Apr 2026MATH 101
  • Sep–Dec 2025MATH 100
  • Jan–Apr 2025MATH 101
  • Sep–Dec 2024MATH 100
  • Jan–Apr 2024MATH 102
  • Sep–Dec 2023MATH 100
  • Jan–Apr 2023MATH 101
  • Sep–Dec 2022MATH 100

• ECE 460: Control Systems II Laboratory

  Jan–Apr 2023

  Electrical & Computer Engineering · University of Alberta · Laboratory teaching assistant

  Set up the benches, walked students through each procedure and marked the reports.

• EE 480: Power Electronics

  Sep–Dec 2019

  King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran · Teaching assistant

  Graded assignments and worked with the course instructor on evaluating the final projects. I also answered students’ questions about their own designs while they were still building them.

• Teaching assistantship

  Apr–May 2019

  King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran · Assistant to Umer Johar

• LAB 380: Automatic Control

  Apr–May 2018

  King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran · Teaching assistant

  Ran the automatic control lab, setting up each experiment, taking students through the procedure and marking their write-ups.

• IEEE Industry Applications Society publications

• IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution

• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

• Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

• Jun 2025

  Best Paper Presentation Award

  IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE)

• 2023–2025

  Alberta Innovates Graduate Student Scholarship

  University of Alberta

  $31,000 a year, held for two years.

• 2022–23, 2025–26

  Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship

  University of Alberta

  Held twice, $12,000 each time.

• since 2022

  Graduate Research Assistance Fellowship

  University of Alberta

• Jan–Dec 2022

  Graduate Recruitment Scholarship

  University of Alberta

  $10,000.

• Sep 2021

  China Belt & Road Scholarship

  The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  Full tuition for the research PhD programme, HKD 42,100 a year.

• Jun 2021

  University International Postgraduate Award (UIPA)

  University of New South Wales, Sydney

  Full tuition and a living stipend for the PhD in Electrical Engineering.

• Mar 2021

  PhD Studentship

  The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  Four years of funded study.

• 2018–2021

  KFUPM Graduate Excellence Scholarship (full funding)

  KFUPM, Dhahran

• Jun 2018

  IES Travel Grant

  IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, for ISIE 2018

• 2016–2017

  HEC Indigenous Scholarship

  Higher Education Commission, for the MSc at UET Lahore

• Jul 2026

  Local AI: Build a RAG Model from Scratch with Open-Source Tools

  LinkedIn Learning

• 2025

  Fundamentals of Reinforcement Learning

  Coursera

• 2023

  TCPS 2: CORE research ethics

  Panel on Research Ethics, Canada

• 2020

  Data Science Fundamentals

  KnowledgeHut

• Languages

  Python, MATLAB, C/C++, R

• Machine learning

  PyTorch, TensorFlow. LSTMs and learnable filter banks, 1D CNNs, random forests, gradient-boosted meta-learners, stacking ensembles, transformers, liquid neural networks, locally served LLMs

• Training

  Adaptive focal loss, adversarial training, out-of-fold stacking, class balancing for rare faults, physics-informed constraints

• Optimisation

  NSGA-II, MOPSO, genetic algorithms, artificial bee colony, TOPSIS decision making, primal-dual formulations, convex surrogates

• Control

  Finite-control-set MPC, model predictive torque control, adaptive discrete-time and hierarchical sliding mode, backstepping, differential flatness, MRAS observers, LQG, field-oriented control

• Signals & data

  Statistical feature engineering and feature fusion, acoustic fault signatures, sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics, multi-modal sensor synchronisation, sentence embeddings and retrieval

• Plant

  Induction machines, line-start PMSMs, modular multilevel converters, grid-tied inverters with LCL and LC filters, DC-DC Cuk converters, quadrotor UAVs

• Bench

  Hardware in the loop with RTDS and dSPACE, Imperix B-Box real-time control, Profi CASSY acquisition, torque and speed instrumentation, MATLAB/Simulink

• Tools

  Git, VS Code, PyCharm, Jupyter, Weights & Biases, Ollama