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Saarbrücken, Sl, De

Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany

· working on the development of new approaches for dense information retrieval.· Working on approaches for zero-shot information retrieval and question answering which can then be used for various tasks like talking agents, question answering systems, information retrieval systems and etc· Developing a new education learning system for the University of Saarland.

Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan

-> Designed and developed Information Retrieval system for banking sector employees to search for laws and regulation of their domain. Worked on indexing, relevance and ranking using statistical and latest transformer models. -> Applied document clustering using embeddings, weak supervised learning and NER to build a document similarity graph. -> Implemented a query recommendation module to recommend similar queries to users.Technologies I used: Python, huggingface, FastText,Faiss

Karachi Pakistan

Working on Java spring boot, IBM business process management and IBM Operational Decision Management, I built and managed several projects including the services provided by Systems Limited Client Etisalat. Also developed several practical coding and software development skills including OOP, clean and optimized coding, git versioning and debugging skills which helped me grow professionally.Supervised a team of two people to work on multiple projects like customer offer promotion and delivery systems. Remodelled and optimized the algorithm which lead to faster performance along with decrease in false recommendations.

Master Of Science - Ms, Language Science And Technology

Bachelors, Computer Science

Bachelors thesis: "Deep Information Retrieval System using Context-Aware Embedded Vector Representations". Used Word Vectors, Elmo, ULMfit.

Intermediate, Computer Science