PhD Researcher · Multimodal AI · Video Understanding · LLMs & Agents
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I'm a PhD student at MBZUAI (Abu Dhabi, UAE), advised by Prof. Fahad Khan, working on:
- 🎥 Video Understanding with Large Multimodal Models (LMMs)
- 🧠 Multimodal Reasoning — step-by-step visual reasoning, self-evolving AI
- 🌍 Multilingual & Culturally-Aware LLMs
- 🤖 LLM/LMM Agents & efficient on-device deployment
Previously a Researcher at MBZUAI and Research Assistant at IIT Ropar.
- 📢 3 papers at CVPR 2026 (2× Findings + 1× Main)
- ⭐ ICLR 2025 Spotlight (Top 2%) — MobiLLaMA
- 🌟 CVPR 2025 Highlight — All Languages Matter
- 📦 300K+ HuggingFace downloads across released models
- 🥇 Khalifa Fund Entrepreneurship Winner — 250K AED grant
- 🚀 Founder @ Lawa.AI & Nutrigenics.Care
| Paper | Venue | Links |
|---|---|---|
| EvoLMM: Self-Evolving Large Multimodal Models | CVPR 2026 | Paper |
| CoVR-R: Reason-Aware Composed Video Retrieval | CVPR 2026 | Paper |
| LlamaV-o1: Step-by-Step Visual Reasoning | ACL 2025 | Paper |
| MobiLLaMA: Lightweight Transparent GPT | ICLR 2025 ⭐ Spotlight | Paper · HF 🤗 |
| Composed Video Retrieval via Enriched Context | CVPR 2024 | Paper |
| Video Instance Segmentation (Open-World) | IJCV 2024 | Paper |
Full list → Google Scholar · Portfolio
Lawa.AI — Agentic AI platform for enterprises. Multilingual, privacy-first, on-device.
$130K+ yearly revenue · $70K seed grant · Khalifa Fund Winner
Nutrigenics.Care — AI-powered personalized nutrition & health platform.
$100K grant funding · Microsoft Founders Hub ($150K support)