Research
Problems that matter here.
Urdu-language models, vision on sub-$50 hardware, evaluation standards for public deployment. Our labs work on what benchmarks ignore, and publish where it counts.
- Labs
- 5
- Publications
- 10
- Active projects
- 4
Labs
Five labs, one agenda.
- 01
Language & Reasoning Lab
Models that understand the languages of two hundred and forty million people.
- Urdu and regional-language benchmarks
- Evaluation of reasoning
- Retrieval and grounding
Dr. Bilal Ahmed2 publications · 2 projects - 02
Perception & Robotics Lab
Vision that works on a dusty road at four in the afternoon.
- Crop-disease detection
- Infrastructure inspection
- Edge inference
Dr. Zara Siddiqui2 publications · 2 projects - 03
Safety, Alignment & Governance Lab
How systems fail, and how institutions should respond.
- Evaluation and red-teaming
- Public-sector deployment
- Procurement standards
Dr. Fatima Noor2 publications · 1 projects - 04
Systems for Machine Learning Lab
Frontier techniques on non-frontier hardware.
- Efficient training
- Quantisation and serving
- Scheduling on shared clusters
Dr. Omar Farooq2 publications · 1 projects - 05
AI for Health & Society Lab
Rigorous models for decisions that affect real people.
- Maternal and child health
- Epidemiological modelling
- Fairness and calibration
Dr. Ayesha Rehman2 publications · 0 projects
Selected work
Recent publications.
- 2026ReportSafety, Alignment & Governance Lab
Evaluating Language Models for Public-Sector Deployment: A Practical Guide
Fatima Noor, Hamza Qureshi, Sana Malik · PIOAI Policy Report 2026-01
- 2026PaperLanguage & Reasoning Lab
Measuring Reasoning Without Leaking the Test: Procedural Generation for LLM Evaluation
Bilal Ahmed, Omar Farooq, Hamid Raza · ICLR 2026
- 2026PaperLanguage & Reasoning Lab
UrduQA: A Contamination-Resistant Benchmark for Question Answering in Urdu
Bilal Ahmed, Rafia Hussain, Ali Hassan, Sana Malik · ACL 2026 (Findings)
- 2025PaperPerception & Robotics Lab
Field-Robust Cotton Leaf Disease Detection on Sub-$50 Hardware
Zara Siddiqui, Imran Khalid, Noor Fatima Baig · CVPR 2025 Workshop on Computer Vision for Agriculture