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Abdul Rafay Bajwa

@abdulrafaybajwa

Data Science Research Associate at LUMS building calibrated uncertainty signals for diabetic retinopathy grading.

Pakistan
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At the Internet, Data and Society Lab @ LUMS, I’m building a post-hoc confidence-estimation wrapper for a pretrained fundus vision–language model, producing calibrated uncertainty signals for diabetic retinopathy grading without retraining the model. I also designed a randomized controlled trial to test whether sharing those signals with graders can mitigate automation bias.

At AI Hub for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health @ LUMS, I own the ETL layer for a prospective mother–infant cohort and contribute computational modeling for early risk stratification. I’m also opening a research line testing whether obstetric ultrasound features predict maternal and neonatal complications.

My work spans computational social science and information retrieval. I led a project examining GenAI-powered microtargeted persuasion and built its multimodal content pipeline; I also co-authored a personalized information retrieval pipeline using BM25, ColBERT, and frequency–recency weighting.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

LU
Current

Day-to-Day Supervisor

LUMS

Jun 2026 - Present (4 months)

Supervising undergraduate final-year project students through scoping, method selection, and execution.

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Current

Research Associate, Data Science

AI Hub for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health @ LUMS

Jan 2026 - Present (9 months)

Contributing computational modeling to a Gates Foundation–funded project building early risk stratification systems for maternal and neonatal outcomes. Owns the ETL layer for a prospective cohort with 3,000+ variables per patient.

IL
Current

Senior Research Associate, Data Science

Internet, Data and Society Lab @ LUMS

Jan 2024 - Present (2 years 9 months)

Leading a two-person junior research team building a post-hoc confidence-estimation wrapper around a pretrained fundus vision–language foundation model for diabetic retinopathy grading. Designed a randomized controlled trial and set study architecture week to week.

LA
Current

Co-Organizer & Analyst

Lahore Smog Testimony Archive

Building an open archive of first-person accounts of living with smog in Lahore and across Pakistan. Analyzing the testimony corpus to surface patterns capable of informing air-quality policy.

LU

Teaching Assistant

LUMS

Sep 2025 - Dec 2025 (3 months)

Held bi-weekly office hours for 50+ students; designed and graded programming assignments on RAG-based chatbot implementation and retrieval parameter tradeoffs. Mentored project teams through the semester with weekly milestone meetings.

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Undergraduate Researcher

Biomedical Informatics & Engineering Research Lab (BIRL) @ L

Sep 2024 - May 2025 (8 months)

Collaborated on a multimodal early-detection platform for stress, anxiety, and depression using EEG headsets combined with facial, audio, and handwriting inputs. Developed a supermodel architecture integrating domain-specific classifiers.

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Undergraduate Research Intern

The Networks and Systems Group @ LUMS

Jun 2023 - Aug 2023 (2 months)

Contributed to Analyzing Ad Exposure and Content in Child-Oriented Videos on YouTube (WWW '24), assisting in large-scale ad data collection, Selenium script reliability improvements, and systematic ad categorization.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Lahore University of Management Sciences logoLS

Lahore University of Management Sciences

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

2021 - 2025

Grade: 3.61/4.00

Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from Lahore University of Management Sciences, with a CGPA of 3.61/4.00 and a senior CGPA of 3.75/4.00.

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