Haris Bin Zia
Teaching Fellow at Queen Mary University of London
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHaris Bin Zia is a machine learning engineer and researcher with eight years of experience bridging academia and industry, currently a Teaching Fellow at Queen Mary University of London while pursuing a PhD in Computer Science. He specializes in building, fine-tuning, and deploying state-of-the-art NLP and LLM systems using Python, PyTorch and the Hugging Face ecosystem, with applied work across ASR, word segmentation, text simplification, content moderation and information extraction. Haris has hands-on MLOps and cloud experience (AWS, MLflow) and has moved research prototypes into production-ready pipelines during research internships and industry roles. He contributes to open-source tooling for decentralized social network data collection and brings an uncommon mix of classroom teaching, research rigor, and practical engineering across global teams in the UK and Pakistan.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.80, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.80 at Information Technology UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.48, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.48 at National University of Computer and Emerging SciencesDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Queen Mary University of LondonSSC, Science, A+, SSC, Science, A+ at Sir Syed College, Wah CanttHSSC, Pre-Engineering, A, HSSC, Pre-Engineering, A at F.G. Degree College For Men, Wah Cantt
English, Urdu
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Github Skills (43)
urdu9
lexicon9
dictionary8
translation7
sentence7
simplification7
speech-synthesis7
roberta6
nlp6
speech-recognition6
sentence-similarity6
word-segmentation6
similarity6
multilingual6
electra6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
harisbinzia/Urdu-Word-Segmentation
Jan 2018 - Oct 2018
Urdu Word Segmentation using Conditional Random Fields (CRFs)
Contributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 8 months
segmentationword-segmentationdeep-learningrandom-fieldsconditional
harisbinzia/PronouncUR
Jan 2018 - May 2020
PronouncUR: An Urdu Pronunciation Lexicon Generator
Contributions:13 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
dictionarypronunciationtranslationspeech-recognitionpronunciation-lexicon
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