Bridging neuroscience, GPU computing & immersive technology
I successfully defended my PhD in Life Sciences and Biotechnologies at the University of Sassari, Italy, on 6 May 2026. My doctoral research developed the NeuroConstellation platform family — five GPU-accelerated visualisation tools for rendering large-scale neural network activity across desktop, mixed reality, virtual reality, and web browser environments.
My work sits at the intersection of computational neuroscience, extended reality, and human-computer interaction. I collaborate with researchers at the Institute of Biophysics CNR Palermo (Migliore lab), George Mason University (Ascoli lab), EBRAINS-Italy, and Aix-Marseille University, where I completed a 6-month international research mobility from August 2025 to January 2026. My ongoing research includes EEG signal analysis using MATLAB and brain co-simulation frameworks within the EBRAINS-Italy infrastructure.
Before the PhD, I earned an M.S. in Software Engineering from UESTC, China — where my thesis focused on fine-grained emotion detection from text using deep learning — and a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Sindh, Pakistan. This interdisciplinary background, combining software engineering, NLP, and neuroscience, shapes how I approach complex visualisation challenges.
Notable distinction: Part of the first group of international students invited to serve as museum guides in UESTC's 60-year history (2019), delivering special lectures on Chinese technological advancement to a global audience.
Outside research, I have been actively involved in community work — most notably as an ILM Ambassador with the British Council's Take a Child to School programme, which contributed to enrolling over 110,000 out-of-school children across Pakistan.