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Washington DC-Baltimore Area

Lahore, Pakistan

• Plotree Info Design is a Data Visualization Firm that uses modern web technologies to craft interactive data driven visual stories for clientsFeatured Clients/ Projects:
• Lahore University of Management Sciences: Led the design of interactive websites on various themes of Lahore’s socio-cultural history in collaboration with Dr. Ali Usman Qasmi, a professor of South Asian History
• Center for Asian Philanthropy and Society, Hong Kong: Designed data visualization showcasing the data collected through the center’s flagship study, Doing good index. The doing good index is a quantitative assessment.
• Impetus Advisory Group (IAG): Led the development of a series of data driven visual stories on food supply chain and Global Food Safety Regulation for IAG’s clients including UNIDO (United Nations Industrial.
• British Council: Designed online interactive GIS maps to showcase creative hubs for art and artisans in 12 cities across Pakistan.
• UN Population Fund: Led the design of interactive visualizations presenting key results from Economic and Social Wellbeing of Women Survey 2018 which covered approximately 30,000 households across Punjab. The.

Lahore, Pakistan

• Punjab Health Survey (PHS) Round II was conducted under the supervision of Punjab Bureau of Statistics to evaluate province level indicators on reproductive and early childhood health. Data collection, analysis and.
• Developed dashboards to enable real time data analysis during the listing and data collection phases
• Managed a team of six field monitors who used the dashboards to monitor summaries of incoming data, major indicator values, progress at the cluster and enumerator level and to identify inconsistencies within the data
• Wrote code in R to clean and reformat the incoming data as per the requirements of Punjab Bureau of Statistics (in.sav SPSS format), thus enabling analysts at the Bureau to conduct parallel analysis in SPSS
• Developed, integrated and presented the final results (used d3js to develop data visualizations for the report)
• Authored and compiled the final report for the survey

Greater New York City Area

• Open Development Mekong(ODM) is a partnership of open data platforms across the Mekong region including in Cambodia (Open Development Cambodia, ODC) and Myanmar (Open Development Myanmar, ODmm).
• Developed a strategy for Open Development Myanmar (ODmm) and Open Development Cambodia (ODC) to play an effective role in aggregating and presenting data related to United Nations SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)
• Conducted baseline studies on the localization process of the SDGs in Myanmar and Cambodia. Created web content to be published on the ODM, ODmm and ODC websites (articles summarizing the localization process and data.

Greater New York City Area

• Designed and prototyped educational web applications for Quantitative analysis I and Quantitative analysis III students to aid understanding of statistical concepts (using R shiny framework).
• Gathered feedback from former students of the courses to improve the design of the applications. A few example applications:

Greater New York City Area

Summary of Student Evaluation: Summary statistics of the responses to 'The Teaching Assistant contributed significantly to the course' (On the scale of 1 to 5: from strongly disagree to strongly agree)Median 5 Interpolated Median 4.72Mean 4.36 Std Dev 1.11

Lahore, Pakistan

• A social enterprise incubator and a research center at LUMS
• Designed and implemented an evaluation framework for assessing over-time progress of SIL team and “Hatchery’s” (SIL’s early stage social enterprise incubator) participants in the development of their business models.
• Trained and mentored over 50 competitively selected students on Customer Development Process and Business Model Development.
• Developed the incubation curriculum for ‘Business Model Development’ and ‘Evaluating Social Impact’ modules

Karachi, Pakistan

• Achieved gains in students' mastery of science concepts through simple, easily implemented experiments. Improved average student scores by 34% and 41 % in 7th and 8th respectively by the end of 2012-13 academic year.
• Designed ‘Real world learning’ models that helped channel students interest in cricket and traditional food to gain mastery over math concepts of averages, ratios and percentages.
• Analyzed and summarized performance data of over 5500 students for the ‘Training and Support’ and ‘Monitoring and Evaluation’ departments by using the R programming language.

Lahore, Pakistan

Designed a simulation on MATLAB to optimize three dimensions of patch antennas through a novel approach of genetic algorithms.

Master’S Degree, Public Administration

Coursework in "Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences" Economic and Political Development Advanced Policy and Economic Analysis

Nanodegree, Machine Learning Engineer

Nanodegree, Data Analysis

Bachelor’S Degree, Electrical Engineering