Current
Assistant Professor
NUST Institute of Civil Engineering, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology.
Academic appointments & experience
2021 — 2026
Graduate Research Assistant
Structural and Artificial Intelligence Lab, University of Houston.
- Collected UAV imagery and developed digital twins of bridges in Houston.
- Created synthetic bridge point-cloud data and trained transformer-based models for structural-component segmentation.
- Investigated automated bridge-damage segmentation and element-level inspection workflows.
Summer 2025
Graduate Structural Engineering Intern
Diagnostics Department, Walter P Moore, Houston.
- Built internal tools for damage annotation of structural imagery and point clouds.
- Developed automated damage-segmentation and quantitative condition-assessment workflows.
2021
Lecturer
Swedish College of Engineering and Technology, Taxila.
- Taught undergraduate civil-engineering courses, updated course curricula, and supervised undergraduate research groups.
2020 — 2021
Structural Design Engineer Intern
Ahmed Tariq Ashraf Engineering Consultants, Pakistan.
- Contributed to structural design, analysis, and drawing preparation for building projects.
2018 — 2019
Graduate Teaching Assistant
NUST Institute of Civil Engineering, Islamabad.
- Supported undergraduate instruction, tutorials, and laboratory activities in civil engineering.
Education
2021 — 2026
PhD, Structural Engineering
University of Houston, Houston, USA.
2017 — 2020
MS, Structural Engineering
National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.
2013 — 2017
BE, Civil Engineering
University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar, Pakistan.
Research experience
Research experience includes UAV-based bridge documentation, photogrammetric and LiDAR reconstruction, digital twins, synthetic point-cloud generation, semantic and instance segmentation, automated damage assessment, and probabilistic seismic hazard analysis.
Teaching experience
Current teaching includes CE-809 Structural Dynamics and CE-312 Artificial Intelligence in the Built Environment. Previous experience includes lecturer and graduate teaching-assistant roles in civil and structural engineering.
Academic and technical areas
Selected funded projects
Developing Digital Twins for Texas Bridges
Texas Department of Transportation. Work included field imagery and point-cloud collection, synthetic bridge datasets, and deep-learning models for structural-component segmentation.
Seismic Hazard Maps for the Building Code of Pakistan
Pakistan Engineering Council. Work included earthquake catalogues, crustal fault information, probabilistic methods, and hazard modeling.
Site-specific seismic hazard studies
Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment for the Gulpur Hydropower Project and Naya Pakistan Housing Project.