About Me

I am a first-year PhD student at University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC), advised by Dr. Boris Glavic. My work focuses on making data transformations in large data lakes scalable and automatic. I am broadly interested in data discovery, data cleaning and integration, and fairness in data systems.

Before my PhD, I spent 7 years in industry working on data engineering.

I received my BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Engineering & Technology (UET), Lahore, advised by Dr. Irfan Ullah Chaudhary, and an MS in Computer Science from Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), where I worked with Dr. Ihsan Ayyub Qazi.

Here is my full CV.

News & Activity

04/26: I will be presenting my poster on transformation discovery at Midwest Data Day at UChicago!

08/25: I started my PhD at University of Illinois Chicago!

01/25: I joined LUMS as an Adjunct Faculty this month and will be teaching ‘Data Engineering for AI Systems’ this semester!

08/24: My paper has been accepted at the Workshop on Quality in Databases (QDB) at VLDB 2024. Read it here or watch my talk here.

07/24: My paper has been accepted at the Workshop on Big Data Visual Exploration and Analytics (BigVis) at VLDB 2024. Read it here or watch my talk here.

04/24: Honored to have been selected to serve on the alumni board of the Department of Computer Science at LUMS!

03/24: I gave a talk on ‘Elevating Trust In Your Data With Python: A Practical Guide’ at PyCon Pakistan 2024.

02/24: I pitched at the UK Climate Finance Accelerator about using data for building sustainable logistics networks at BridgeLinx.