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Portugal

California, United States

• Achieved over 25% CAGR since 2015 with a custom trading strategy, by optimizing a machine learning model for dynamic capital allocation and optimal trade identification across diverse assets.
• Facilitated more targeted investment approaches, as indicated by a 5-10% increase in multiple strategy’s precisions, by implementing cluster analysis to categorize stocks based on performance metrics.
• Significantly reduced false positives in multiple trading strategies, as indicated by an increase of over 40% in precision for most strategies, by developing and optimizing low variance machine learning models.
• Enhanced model robustness, as measured by notable variance reduction, through strategic feature selection and model fine tuning on time-series financial data.
• Boosted trading model precision by 5-10% through sentiment analysis on Twitter and news data, by leveraging NLP to extract key features for enhanced predictive performance.

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

• Developed a Yolov4-based custom model achieving 95% MAP for enhanced vehicle identification from video streams, enhancing traffic monitoring and accuracy in real-time violation detection.
• Designed a machine learning model for clickbait detection, achieving 95% accuracy in content classification.

California, United States

• Aggregated and Cleaned over 100,000 records of sports provider data in the USA using Python (Pandas).
• Automated email delivery to all records of sports providers and potential investors using Python (smtplib).
• Directed company’s branding and social media content which improved engagements by over 100%.

Significantly increased group fitness class attendance by at least 200% within a year, through extensive awareness campaigns promoting student health.

Achieved a 50% fundraising increase, raising over PKR 300k in a year, by delegating tasks among team members to secure sponsors and funds, driving all community service initiatives and events.

• Headed the hiring process of fresh students and team-building exercises for more than 50 society members.

Islamabad, Pakistan

• Automated the TA/DA allowance process, using LAMP stack which reduced process inefficiencies by more than 50%.
• Experienced each phase of SDLC using Agile and SCRUM.
• Learnt Full Stack Web Development using React, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, and MySQL.

Islamabad, Pakistan

• Initiated and designed the marketing campaign for the JOYBOX, including the design of new brochures and flyers.
• Vendor Management - daily co-ordination and follow-ups with 5 vendors for deliverables.
• Created 3rd party SMS content, and proofread and edited marketing and related documents.

Islamabad, Pakistan

• On ground sales along with warehouse and accounts management of over 50 products and 20 salespersons.
• Eliminated process inefficiencies and accomplished time reduction by up to 50% on daily tasks.

Lahore, Pakistan

• Initiated, designed, and launched their first social media campaign to over 11 thousand students and alumni at LUMS.
• Organised on-ground and social media marketing projects that helped increase company exposure to the majority of students at LUMS.

Bachelor Of Science (Honors), Economics | Finance | Computer Science | Mathematics

Activities and Societies: • LUMS Shredded Society - Vice President - 2019 • LUMS Community Service Society - Assistant Director Marketing.

A Levels, Aice Diploma - Distinction | 4A, 2B | High Honor Roll 2017

Activities and Societies: School cricket team captainSubjects: Mathematics, Economics, Physics, Chemistry, Urdu, Critical Thinking, Global.

O Levels, Mathematics And Computer Science, 8 A*/A

Activities and Societies: School Cricket Team Captain