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Pioneering AI Research for Pakistan

Our world-class research teams are developing cutting-edge AI solutions tailored to Pakistan's unique challengesβ€”from Urdu NLP to agricultural AI, healthcare diagnostics to national security systems.

50+
Publications
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Research Labs
26
Active Projects
6
Global Partners

Research Focus Areas

Addressing Pakistan's critical challenges through AI innovation

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AI for National Security

Threat detection, surveillance analytics, counter-terrorism intelligence, and border security systems.

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Urdu & Regional NLP

Natural language processing for Urdu, Sindhi, Pashto, and other Pakistani languages.

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Healthcare AI

Medical imaging diagnostics, disease prediction, and healthcare resource optimization.

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Agricultural AI

Crop disease detection, yield prediction, and precision farming using satellite imagery.

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Smart Governance

AI solutions for e-governance, public service delivery, and policy decision support.

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AI Safety & Ethics

Responsible AI development, bias detection, privacy preservation, and ethical frameworks.

Research Labs

State-of-the-art facilities driving innovation

NLP & Language Technology Lab

8 Projects

Urdu NLP, Machine Translation, Speech Recognition

πŸ‘€Lab Lead: Dr. Fatima Zahra

Computer Vision Lab

6 Projects

Object Detection, Medical Imaging, Satellite Analysis

πŸ‘€Lab Lead: Dr. Imran Shah

Security AI Lab

5 Projects

Threat Detection, Surveillance, Cyber Security

πŸ‘€Lab Lead: Brig. (R) Rashid Mahmood

Applied ML Lab

7 Projects

MLOps, Edge Deployment, Model Optimization

πŸ‘€Lab Lead: Dr. Hassan Ali

Recent Publications

Peer-reviewed research from our teams

UrduBERT: Pre-trained Language Model for Urdu Text Understanding

Dr. Fatima Zahra, Dr. Hassan Ali, et al.

ACL 20262026πŸ“„ 45 citations

Federated Learning for Privacy-Preserving Healthcare AI in Pakistan

Dr. Ahmed Malik, Dr. Sarah Khan, et al.

Nature Digital Medicine2025πŸ“„ 89 citations

Deep Learning Approach for Crop Disease Detection in Pakistan

Dr. Imran Shah, Dr. Ayesha Farooq, et al.

Agricultural AI Journal2025πŸ“„ 67 citations

Multilingual Threat Detection in Social Media: A Pakistani Context

Dr. Rashid Mahmood, Dr. Nadia Butt, et al.

ACM CCS2025πŸ“„ 34 citations

Efficient OCR for Nastaliq Script Using Attention Mechanisms

Dr. Zainab Ahmed, Dr. Omar Qureshi, et al.

CVPR 20252025πŸ“„ 52 citations

International Collaborations

Partnering with world-leading institutions

Stanford University

USA

Healthcare AI

MIT CSAIL

USA

NLP Research

University of Oxford

UK

AI Ethics

Tsinghua University

China

Computer Vision

KAUST

Saudi Arabia

ML for Science

TU Munich

Germany

Autonomous Systems

Join Our Research Team

We're looking for talented researchers, PhD candidates, and visiting scholars to contribute to Pakistan's AI research ecosystem. Multiple positions available.