Summary
Shabir Ahmad is an AI Solution Architect and research professor with 15+ years bridging academia and industry to deliver production-grade AI and healthcare systems. He combines deep research impact—100+ peer-reviewed papers, h-index 34—with hands-on engineering across cloud migrations, low-latency medical AI deployments, and full-stack web/mobile stacks (Drupal, PHP, Python, Flutter). As a former CTO he halved latency in a clinical AI product and has led major government-funded IoT and AI projects while supervising graduate researchers. Currently at Microsoft focusing on Azure migrations, he uniquely blends grant-winning academic rigor with pragmatic product engineering and active open-source contributions. Colleagues describe him as a connector who turns cutting-edge research into scalable, real-world solutions.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at UET Peshawar
MS Computer Software Engineering, MS Computer Software Engineering at NUST College of EME Islamabad
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Engineering at Jeju National University, Republic of Korea
English, Korean, Urdu, Pashto