Data Scientist · ML/AI Engineer

Hamna Raeel builds
intelligent systems with
deep learning & data.

MS Data Science candidate and Research Assistant applying Computer Vision, NLP, and Deep Learning to real-world problems — from histopathology disease detection to cross-lingual language understanding.

Research Assistant @ AI Diagnostics Lab, FAST‑NUCES MS Data Science Islamabad, Pakistan
3+ yrs
Combined ML, Data Science & Engineering Experience
5
Roles Across Research, DevOps & Engineering
12
Projects Shipped — Research & Full‑Stack
MS
Data Science, FAST‑NUCES (In Progress)
About

Turning data into diagnosis, insight, and impact

I'm a Data Science graduate student (MS) and Research Assistant at the Artificial Intelligence Diagnostics Lab, FAST‑NUCES, passionate about leveraging Deep Learning, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision to solve real-world problems. I hold a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and am currently expanding my expertise in ML, DL, CV, and NLP.

My ongoing research focuses on histopathology image classification and segmentation, using models like Mask R‑CNN, Mask2Former, ResNet, UNet, and Vision/Swin Transformers to improve disease detection accuracy.

Alongside research, I've built professional experience in DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure — CI/CD pipelines, Docker/Kubernetes orchestration, and deployments across IBM Cloud, Azure, and VMware — plus a strong foundation in full-stack development with React, Next.js, and FastAPI. I'm always open to research collaboration and data science opportunities that drive real-world impact.

Currently Focused On

  • Deep Learning, ML & Computer Vision research
  • Model development, evaluation & deployment
  • Cloud & MLOps (Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins)
  • NLP & LLM-based systems (RAG, LangChain)
  • Data analysis, visualization & storytelling
Skills

Technical Toolkit

Languages, frameworks, and infrastructure I use to build, train, and ship ML systems.

Languages

PythonRSQL JavaScriptTypeScriptC++

ML / DL Frameworks

PyTorchTensorFlowScikit-learn LangChainLangGraphPandasNumPy

Models & Architectures

CNN / ResNet / UNetMask R-CNNMask2Former ViT / SwinDETR / SegFormermDeBERTa

MLOps & Tools

HuggingFaceDockerKubernetes Jenkins CI/CDOptunaWeights & BiasesGit

Cloud & Data

IBM CloudMicrosoft AzureVMware PostgreSQLMySQLFirebase PrometheusGrafana

Full-Stack

ReactNext.jsFastAPI Node.jsTailwind CSSREST APIs
Experience

Where I've Worked

Research Assistant  ·  Artificial Intelligence Diagnostics Lab, FAST‑NUCES
Oct 2025 — Jan 2026
Islamabad, Pakistan
  • Developed and trained deep learning segmentation models using Mask R‑CNN, Fast R‑CNN, SegFormer, and DETR.
  • Optimized preprocessing, augmentation, and training pipelines to improve histopathology image segmentation performance.
  • Built and evaluated classification models using ResNet, DenseNet, EfficientNet, Vision and Swin Transformer.
DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure Intern  ·  Software Productivity Strategists, Inc. (SPS)
Jul 2025 — Sep 2025
Islamabad, Pakistan
  • Developed ELT data pipelines and automated CI/CD workflows using Jenkins for reliable deployments.
  • Containerized applications with Docker and orchestrated deployments using Kubernetes on IBM Cloud.
  • Implemented monitoring and logging with Prometheus and Grafana across multi-cloud (Azure, IBM Cloud, VMware) environments.
Data Science Intern  ·  Artificial Intelligence Diagnostics Lab, FAST‑NUCES
Mar 2025 — May 2025
Islamabad, Pakistan
  • Developed and evaluated ML/DL models (CNN, ResNet, UNet, SVM, Decision Trees) across benchmark datasets including CBIS‑DDSM, Chest X‑Ray, Retinal Vessel, and CIFAR‑10/100.
  • Implemented RAG using vector databases, embedding models, and LLMs for intelligent document search and Q&A.
Software Engineer  ·  Optimus Bee
Nov 2022 — Dec 2024
Lahore, Pakistan
  • Built an e-commerce platform with Stripe payments, secure authentication, and order management.
  • Developed a Mental Health Wellness app with an AI-powered chatbot, mood tracking, and recommendations.
  • Built an admin dashboard with dynamic UI, REST APIs, and reporting for an Australian travel agency.
Frontend Web Developer  ·  Cyber Legends
Jun 2021 — Oct 2022
Lahore, Pakistan
  • Led development of a WordPress-based university portal (NASTP‑IIT) with a custom online admission system.
  • Built "Infinite Writing," a freelance services platform with dual client/writer dashboards.
Projects

Featured Research & ML Projects

Deep learning research spanning medical imaging, cross-lingual NLP, and text classification.

Actual model output HSCR classifier live results: diseased case at 95.1% confidence with 6 segmented ganglion cells, versus a non-diseased case at 8.3% confidence with 3 segments
Live Demo

Hirschsprung Disease Detection via Segmentation‑Guided Histopathology Analysis

A Mask2Former-based segmentation model with a ResNet–Swin Transformer backbone, paired with a downstream classification framework for automated histopathology disease detection.

92% Dice Score 94% Accuracy 95.3% AUC‑ROC
PyTorchMask2FormerSwin TransformerMedical Imaging
Try live inference on Hugging Face

Screenshots above show real output — live Space may take ~30s to wake from idle.

View Source on GitHub
Cross‑Lingual Graph XNLI ENFRARZH ESHIRUDE
Live Demo

Meta‑Learning for Zero‑Shot Cross‑Lingual Transfer (CML‑mDeBERTa)

A Curriculum Meta-Learning framework built on first-order MAML, trained on the XNLI dataset to enable zero-shot natural language inference across 15 languages.

80.34% Mean Accuracy +11% vs Baseline
mDeBERTaMAMLXNLINLP
Try live inference on Hugging Face

Live Space may take ~30s to wake from idle.

View Source on GitHub
Token Embeddings
Code coming soon

Sentence Classification using Convolutional Neural Networks (TextCNN)

A TextCNN model for sentence classification on the AGNews dataset, benchmarked across random, static, non-static, and multichannel word embedding strategies.

4 Embedding Variants
TextCNNAGNewsWord EmbeddingsNLP
Link to be added
Engineering

AI/ML Engineering Projects

Production-style infrastructure for running LLM systems safely and cheaply — not research, but the tooling that makes AI features reliable to ship.

Live dashboard Prompt Versioning & A/B Testing Platform dashboard showing a customer-support-classifier experiment with a declared winner: chain-of-thought at mean 0.84 task accuracy, pending auto-promotion
Live Demo

Prompt Versioning & A/B Testing Platform

Most teams tweak an LLM prompt, eyeball a few outputs, and ship — with no way to know if the change actually helped, quietly hurt accuracy for a slice of users, or tripled the token bill, until someone complains. This platform brings feature‑flag‑style rigor to prompt changes instead: every version is saved like a Git commit, traffic is split between variants with consistent hashing, and a real stats engine (Welch's t‑test + Mann‑Whitney U) declares a significant winner before it auto‑promotes to production.

88% vs 66% Accuracy p < 0.00001 540 Live Requests
FastAPIPostgreSQLscipyStreamlit
View live dashboard View Source on GitHub
Live dashboard LLM Cost Autopilot dashboard showing 97.9% cost reduction, 201 total requests, 33.8% escalation rate, $0.0261 actual cost vs $1.2673 reference-model cost, and a complexity tier distribution chart
Live Demo

LLM Cost Autopilot — Complexity‑Routed LLM Gateway

Every request to a large model like GPT‑4 costs the same whether it's answering "what's 2+2" or a genuinely hard question — most production traffic doesn't need the expensive model, but routing prompts to cheaper ones by hand is risky with no safety net. This gateway solves that: it scores each prompt's complexity with an interpretable RandomForest classifier, sends it to the cheapest model that can handle it, and runs an async verifier that escalates to a stronger model whenever the cheap model's answer looks wrong.

97.9% Cost Reduction 86% Classifier Accuracy 33.8% Escalation Rate
FastAPIscikit-learnStreamlitDocker
View live dashboard View Source on GitHub
QLoRA Adapter
Open Source

LoRA Fine‑Tuning Pipeline for Automated Code‑Review Revisions

Base LLMs asked to apply a reviewer's comment don't just fix what was flagged — they reformat neighboring lines, add unrequested error handling, and wrap the diff in prose. This pipeline QLoRA‑fine‑tunes Mistral‑7B on 2,500 high‑signal examples curated from 150k+ raw PR diffs via a custom grounding‑score filter, guarded by three independent data‑leakage checks, so the model reproduces untouched code byte‑for‑byte and changes only what was asked. Evaluated with paired bootstrap confidence intervals and McNemar tests against a benchmark built so a copy‑the‑input baseline can't score well.

35.0% vs 22.5% Exact Match 150k → 2.5k Curated 3 Leakage Guards
QLoRAMistral-7BPEFTFastAPI
View Source on GitHub
Provider Failover
Open Source

LLM API Gateway — Rate Limiting, Failover & Observability

Most teams call OpenAI or Anthropic directly from application code, then discover the hard way that they need rate limiting, budget guardrails, and a failover plan for when a provider degrades. This gateway is that infrastructure layer: a unified proxy across OpenAI, Anthropic, and Ollama with Redis‑backed atomic per‑team rate limiting, budget caps and per‑model access control enforced before a request reaches a provider, and automatic fallback routing verified end‑to‑end during a simulated provider outage. Circuit breakers run the full closed → open → half‑open → closed lifecycle, with every request, cost, and failover event traced via OpenTelemetry and surfaced across three Grafana dashboards.

3 Providers, 1 Unified API Full Circuit‑Breaker Lifecycle 3 Grafana Dashboards
FastAPIRedisOpenTelemetryDocker
View Source on GitHub
Engineering

Other Engineering Work

Full-stack, cloud, and DevOps projects delivered across internships, freelance, and client work.

CloudETL

ELT data pipelines with automated CI/CD workflows via Jenkins, containerized with Docker and orchestrated with Kubernetes on IBM Cloud. Built during the SPS DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure internship.

View on GitHub

WebApp — Azure CI/CD

Web application deployed with CI/CD pipelines across Azure, IBM Cloud, and VMware, with Prometheus and Grafana monitoring. Built during the SPS DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure internship.

View on GitHub

E-Commerce Platform

Full-stack store with Stripe payments, secure authentication, and order management.

View on GitHub

Mental Health Wellness App

AI-powered chatbot with mood tracking and personalized recommendations.

View on GitHub

Financial Budget Management Tool

Expense tracking, categorization, and analytics dashboards.

View on GitHub

Travel Agency Admin Dashboard

Dynamic UI with REST APIs, user management, and reporting for an Australian travel agency.

Education

Academic Background

Master of Science, Data Science
FAST — National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
Islamabad, Pakistan

Coursework: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, NLP, Generative AI

Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science
Lahore College for Women University
Sep 2020 — Sep 2024

Foundation in algorithms, systems, and software engineering.

Certifications

Certifications & Trainings

Google Advanced Data Analytics Databases & SQL for Data Science (IBM) ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers AI Concepts for Developers (Microsoft) AI Apps & Agents on Azure (Microsoft) Frontend Fundamentals Developer Foundations with C++ Certified AI, Metaverse & Web3.0 Developer
Get In Touch

Let's build something intelligent together.

Open to research collaboration, data science roles, and ML engineering opportunities focused on real-world impact.