I'm a machine-learning researcher at Dubai College, working on explainable AI for healthcare. I founded EpicxAI, co-founded Lock In and AlziDetect, and co-lead the Dubai CS Society. At school I have led societies in mathematics, physics and computer science.
COMPSAC, Healthcom ×2, ICMHI, URTC, CAISAIS, TALE, SBP-BRiMS
First or equal-first author; one sole-authored
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Emergent Ventures grant for Lock In
With Alpha Clinic; 165 referred to GPs
Across the world
We compare ML models on heart-failure records for mortality, ejection fraction and survival, and use feature importance to see which clinical measures drive each prediction.
An interpretable way to screen for Alzheimer's from EEG. Recordings are scored against a model of healthy brains using directions from the Alzheimer's literature, so training needs no Alzheimer's patients, and each score breaks down by frequency band and brain region.
We used 1.65M answers from EdNet to find what predicts a student ending a session. Interpretable hazard models put phone use as the largest effect.
Shorter version of the TALE paper, presented at CMU.
An explainable CKD screening formula that uses only serum creatinine and can be worked out by hand.
We test EEG mind-wandering detection on video watching and on reading, with leakage-controlled evaluation. Accuracy on reading is close to chance.
Brain-tumour segmentation and survival estimation from MRI in one deployable pipeline. An interpretability layer turns the masks into tumour volumes and ratios a clinician can read.
Models study time as an investment split across subjects, using empirical data, a simulation and an RL agent. Permutation importance shows which student traits matter for GPA.
Journal extension of the ICMHI paper. It adds a decision-support app with SHAP explanations for clinicians and patients.
Journal extension of the Healthcom mind-wandering paper, with more models, aimed at detection that is trustworthy and interpretable across tasks.
Interpretability theory: polynomial surrogates for black-box models with certified error bounds. The title is hidden during double-blind review.
Student lead. Explainable and interpretable models for clinical and EEG data.
EEG and gaze for Alzheimer's screening, through AlziDetect.
Research intern at the joint MIT–Harvard lab at MGH. Deep learning for MRI segmentation under Harvard PhD supervision, and an Alzheimer's imaging project pending grant approval.
Certified polynomial surrogates for black-box models.
How students spend study time, and why they quit.
First research: simulating nanostructures for more sensitive biosensors.
Users type what they want to do and EpicxAI opens the right page. Royal Sundaram Insurance agents use it.
A study planner for schools. I'm also co-first author on our learning-science papers at IEEE MIT URTC and IEEE TALE.
Presented at MIT and Carnegie Mellon.
Low-cost Alzheimer's screening from EEG, eye movements and face tracking, with researchers at Hong Kong PolyU and EdUHK. We partnered with Alpha Clinic to reach 530+ seniors, and referred 165 of them to their GPs.
Carpooling for school runs, built for about 2,000 Dubai College parents. Now being prepared for launch.
A digital aide for student parliament: an anonymous channel for students to give feedback to student leadership. In talks with student leadership.
Waste detection from photos. A ResNet50 model sorts items into 7 material types.
A multiplayer quiz game where the rarest right answer scores the most. Teachers can host it for a class.
A small interpreted programming language. The interpreter is written in Python.
SET 0 5; SET 1 6; SET 2 1; ADD 1 1; OUT 1; DO 0 ! 1 [ OUT 0; SUB 0 2; ]
Data structures and algorithms in Python. I used it to teach DSA to other students.
$ pip install py3dsa
A Python maths library I wrote with Vihaan Mathur. The last release was in July 2024.
It started as Dubai College's CS society, which we grew into the Dubai CS Society. I've since handed on the school chapter and still head the wider society. Weekly sessions, four sub-clubs, hackathons and guest speakers. Our first international chapter opened in Bahrain, with Singapore, New Jersey and Hong Kong next.
Featured in the Dubai College Computer Science department's promotional video.
Each year we mentor a group of students to build one app for the school. So far that's DC CarShare, built with the Sustainability Club, and SpeakUp, an anonymous feedback channel to student leadership. Students also get experience with real-world CS applications, such as from guest speaker talks, our first in two years.
Animated, Manim-powered lessons on six core CS topics, with runnable Python. Built with a City University of Hong Kong professor and used across our chapters.
Free summer programmes we run with other student organisations, open to students anywhere. Across two cohorts we mentored 370+ underserved students, reflecting the global expansion of our society.
An intra-school charity basketball league and our biggest charity project. CS Society members built the league's website and live stats tools, and filmed content for the school's social media.
Weekly mentoring and maths-team practice. We organise the Dubai Math Super League, helped run a national competition, and I started the DC Integration Bee.
An integral from the Integration Bee. Can you solve it?
The applied side of the Maths Society, run as its own club.
The ISMTF senior competition at the University of Vienna. I placed 4th individually, one of nine students representing Dubai College. In the virtual round I was 6th individually and our team placed 1st.
Separate from organising it through the Maths Society, I also compete in it for Dubai College. We've ranked first in the UAE twice.
I started it for calculus-based physics beyond the syllabus. This year we ran a practical measuring g and Physics Olympiads at three levels.
DC CarShare began as an idea in the Sustainability Club. We built it with the CS Society and presented it to the school's senior leadership, and the app is now being prepared for launch. I also wrote about computer vision for carbon-credit monitoring in the club magazine.
A-Levels: Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science.
SAT: 1560 (800 Math, 760 Reading & Writing).
AP Calculus AB: 5.
GCSEs: 10 subjects, all Grade 9. Pearson High Achiever Award.
HPQ: “To what extent can AI affect the software development process?” · A*
EPQ: “Do Parkinson's spiral/wave-drawing CNN classifiers pass explainability checks by highlighting clinically known features on the drawing?”
Badminton, ranked 14th in the UAE for U19 singles, and a quarter-finalist at the LionSSports tournament.
Grade 8 with Merit in Electronic Keyboard (Trinity).
Economics and theology. Presenter and essayist at the Dubai Keynes Society (DKS). Commendation (top 10%) in the John Locke Institute International Relations category for “Does foreign aid help or hurt poor people?”, and Very High Commendation (top 1%) in Theology for “If you achieved enlightenment, how would you know?”
