Wasif Ahmed

Wasif Ahmed

Electrical Engineering Student at LUMS | AI Research & Leadership

Based in: Lahore, PKCurrently: Teaching Assistant – AI on Edge Devices, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)Experience: 1 year

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Electrical Engineering student at LUMS with a specialized focus on Edge AI, model compression, and high-stakes engineering leadership. As Chief Research & Initiatives Officer at SPADES, I oversee international-scale STEM projects, including Pakistan’s first student rocketry initiative. Expert in PyTorch, quantization (QAT/PTQ), and pruning, with a proven track record of formulating complex ML problems into deployable, high-performance solutions.

Experience

Teaching Assistant – AI on Edge Devices

Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)Lahore, PKworkAug 2026 – Present
  • Supporting 80 students through quantization, pruning, and profiling assignments, continual learning projects, quizzes, and technical troubleshooting.

Research Assistant – Latent Reasoning (Project Lead)

Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)Lahore, PKworkApr 2026 – Present

Summary

Leading a project on LLM reasoning under Dr. Muhammad Tahir.

What I did

  • Building rollout, activation-analysis, and probing pipelines to investigate divergence before the final answer.

Chief Research & Initiatives Officer

SPADES: Pakistan’s Largest Student STEM SocietyLUMS, Lahorework

Summary

Lead ambitious engineering projects including an FPV Drone, Rocketry, Raptor Jet, and a Robotic Arm 3D Printer; spearheading Pakistan’s first student rocketry project to compete internationally by 2027, with first test launch planned for March 2025. Strategically drive society’s external relations, partnerships, and collaborations with industry leaders to elevate SPADES’ visibility and outreach. Oversee major society events delivering high-value experiences: LUMS Science Symposium (LSS) — a 5-day research-based event hosting 500+ high school students from across Pakistan; PSIFI — society’s flagship high school olympiad with 1,500+ participants; HackX — university hackathon with 200+ participants. Oversee Techstars Startup Weekend LUMS (TSWL), Cosmos 101 (astronomy course), the Observatory, and other society initiatives. Secured an invitation for PSIFI’s top-performing team to represent Pakistan at the Asian Physics Olympiad (Saudi Arabia), strengthening SPADES’ national academic recognition. Organized a month-long initiative teaching coding and mathematics to 100+ underprivileged students. Collaborated with environmental organizations to distribute smog detectors across 10 schools in Lahore, raising air-pollution awareness. Hosted Pakistan’s first NASA engineer talk, highlighting the James Webb Space Telescope project to 300+ attendees. Partnered with UPLIFT AI (US-based) to organize internships for 33 students; mentored on RAG, APIs, and custom RAG systems to build applied AI projects. Supported UPLIFT AI in collecting native-language data for Pakistan’s first GPT-based WhatsApp voice bot for low-literacy users (voice banking, agriculture guidance, bill payments).

What I did

  • Leading drone, rocketry, and robotics projects.
  • Organizing major STEM events and symposiums.
  • Managing industry partnerships and student internships.

Results

  • Winner of CERN Beamline for Schools Competition (2024) out of 367 teams worldwide; led experimental design to detect and characterize distributions of different particle species.
  • Arranged UPLIFT AI internships for 33 students.
  • Organized the LUMS Science Symposium (500+ students), PSIFI (1,500+), and HackX (200+).
  • Winner of CERN Beamline Competition (2024) out of 367 teams globally
  • Secured invitation for PSIFI’s top-performing team to represent Pakistan at the Asian Physics Olympiad
  • Organized month-long initiative for 100+ underprivileged students
  • Partnered with UPLIFT AI to organize internships for 33 students
  • Targeting 100 m/s top speed for the Raptor Jet project through aerodynamic optimization
FPV DroneRocketryRaptor Jet engineRobotic Arm 3D PrinterRAGAPIsGPT-based WhatsApp voice botIMU SensorsGyroscopeAccelerometerTelemetryData Logging

Skills

Technical

Pruning
Quantization
QAT/PTQ
PyTorchPyTorch
Model compression
PythonPython
Knowledge distillation
Profiling & Benchmarking
GitGit
C++C++
scikit-learn
CC
Actor–critic RL
RAG
Vision–Language Models
Dynamic Programming
Reinforcement Learning
Edge AI
Fine-Tuning
Claude Code
TypeScriptTypeScript
VAEs
MATLAB
Hugging Face Transformers
NumPy
SciPy
RLHF
Post-Training
Alignment
Mechanistic Interpretability
Representation Learning
Model Compression & Quantization
Diffusion Models

Languages

English

Projects

Reasoning Effort: Validating Internal Measures of Reasoning Demand

personalAug 2026 – Present
Analyzed 1,500 trajectories from 500 MATH-500 problems, comparing hidden-state norms, effective rank, and curvature. Revealed length confounds in apparent effort signals.

Attention Routing: Investigating Mechanisms of LLM Reasoning Failure

personalAug 2026 – Present
Investigating premise-selection and computation errors in matched GSM8K rollouts, including Qwen3 thinking modes. Developing attention-pattern and value-vector patches for causal validation.

Latent Reasoning: Geometry, Dynamics, and Causal Steering of LLM Reasoning

Project LeadacademicApr 2026 – Present
Built GSM8K rollout/activation pipelines; analyzed layers and reasoning phases using PCA/SVD, principal angles, and spectral entropy. Found statistically significant spectral separation between correct and incorrect reasoning.
Gemma-3-1B-ITGSM8KMechanistic InterpretabilityPCASVDProbingSparse Autoencoders

LLM Post-Training: Preference Learning, Length Bias, and Policy Optimization

personal2026 – Present
Implemented DPO/PPO/GRPO for Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct with LoRA. Ran length-balance experiments and reward/generation diagnostics.

Visual Inductive Biases, Domain Adaptation, and OOD Detection

personal2026 – Present
Compared ResNet-50, ViT, and CLIP on STL-10; evaluated DAN/DANN/CDAN on PACS. Tested open-set recognition (Vanilla/ProSER/GCSC) on CIFAR-10.

Education

B.S. Electrical Engineering

Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)Electrical Engineering; Minor in Computer Science2027

Coursework

Advanced Topics in Machine LearningDeep LearningDeep Vision–Language ModelsLearning for Dynamics and ControlInternet of ThingsAI on Edge DevicesDynamic Programming and Reinforcement LearningApplied Probability

Societies & activities

SPADES

Recognition

Awards

CERN Beamline for Schools Winner (2024)

CERN2023

Selected among 367 teams worldwide; led experimental design to detect and characterize distributions of different particle species produced when an incident proton beam strikes a target.

Top 50, National Physics Olympiad (twice)

National Physics Talent Contest

Achieved twice

International Astronomy and Astrophysics Competition (IAAC) Gold Medalist

International Astronomy and Astrophysics Competition

International Youth Math Challenge (IYMC) Bronze Medalist

International Youth Math Challenge

Social impact & activities

Organizer

SPADESvolunteer

Organized a month-long initiative teaching coding and mathematics to 100+ underprivileged students.

Collaborator

Environmental Organizationsvolunteer

Collaborated with environmental organizations to distribute smog detectors across 10 schools in Lahore, raising air-pollution awareness.

NASA Engineer Talk: James Webb Space Telescope

SPADES Eventother

Hosted Pakistan’s first NASA engineer talk, highlighting the James Webb Space Telescope project to 300+ attendees.

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