Who am I
I grew up in a farming household in rural Punjab, Pakistan. Nobody around me worked in software. A Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship brought me to Budapest to study computer science at ELTE.
Cold emails helped me find work beyond my degree. One led to ETH Zürich's Agentic Systems Lab, where I joined a master's-level cohort as a bachelor's student. At Infineon, I worked on multilingual LLM pipelines.
With RC2S2, I asked five models the same sensitive questions using 15,552 synthetic personas. The models' answers changed depending on the persona in the prompt. I presented that work at conferences, and it drew me toward studying how AI systems fail.
That interest runs through my projects. Trace Autopsy looks for failure patterns in recorded agent runs, such as repeated tool calls. In my retrieval work, I separate errors in reading a document from errors in searching it, because each needs a different fix. My thesis, EngageMind, is a study assistant that answers from your own documents.
I also taught operating systems and co-founded ELTE's Data Science Club with Kumar. We started without a budget, and the club grew past 200 members with five project teams. We later helped run a 150-person agentic AI hackathon in Budapest. Seeing the teams present their work at demo day is one of my favorite memories from ELTE.
If you're working on something related, send me an email. I'd like to hear about it.
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