Usama Zafar
PhD Candidate
Uppsala, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolUsama Zafar is a PhD candidate in Scientific Computing at Uppsala University with a decade of software engineering experience spanning backend C development, frontend VB/.NET, and mobile app work from an internship at Microsoft. His research focuses on security and privacy in federated learning, with broader interests in large-scale distributed ML, deep learning and blockchain—bridging theoretical research and practical systems. He has a strong academic pedigree including advanced studies at Tsinghua and consistently high GPAs, while also succeeding as a top 1% freelancer on Freelancer.com due to timely, high-quality deliveries. Comfortable moving between research and production, he brings both rigorous scientific training and proven client-facing engineering results.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Software Engineering, GPA 3.85, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Software Engineering, GPA 3.85 at National University of Science and TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Tsinghua UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Scientific Computing, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Scientific Computing at Uppsala University
English, Urdu
Stackoverflow
3,205reputation
448kreached
37answers
31questions
Github Skills (86)
python10
deep-learning10
gpu10
numpy10
ml10
neural-network10
data-science10
tensorflow10
machine-learning10
acceleration9
tensor9
gpu-acceleration9
co-simulation9
pytorch9
manifold9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
usamazf/async-PySyft
Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:32 commits in 17 days
usamazf/flower-baseline
Sep 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 49 commits, 49 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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