Summary
Ayesha Hakim is an academic and researcher with nine years of experience bridging teaching, research computing, and applied machine learning across universities in Pakistan and New Zealand. Currently an Assistant Professor at NUST, she has a track record of designing curricula and supervising projects in databases, data mining, machine learning and HCI while supporting research groups with HPC and research-IT solutions. Her work includes interdisciplinary research on emotion recognition and trajectory modeling, developed with signal-processing toolchains and deployed in academic collaborations. Ayesha combines entrepreneurial drive with classroom mentorship and a hands-on history of building and maintaining research software and LIMS tools. A gold-medalist BS graduate with a postgraduate certificate in computer science, she is notable for moving seamlessly between classroom instruction and operational research support—helping researchers translate computational advances into reproducible experiments. Based in Multan, she balances an international academic footprint with practical, researcher-facing technical expertise.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Post Graduate Certificate, Computer Science, A, Post Graduate Certificate, Computer Science, A at Massey University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, A (Gold Medalist), Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, A (Gold Medalist) at Bahauddin Zakariya University
English, Urdu