Usman Gohar
Research Assistant at Iowa State University
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolUsman Gohar is an AI evaluation and safety researcher with nine years of experience applying machine learning to real-world problems, currently a PhD student and research assistant at Iowa State University focused on empirical fairness in ML systems. He has blended academic rigor with industry impact through internships and roles at Google, Seagate, Bayer, and OATI, where he built production-ready forecasting pipelines, automated deployments, and designed grower-level ML value models. As a section lead for the AI harms chapter at Mila, he contributed to high-profile safety discourse under Yoshua Bengio’s initiative, signaling both domain depth and policy-minded thinking. His background spans data engineering, feature engineering, and applied research across agriculture, energy, and healthcare signal processing, and he brings practical deployment experience alongside research credentials. Based in Minneapolis, he pairs PhD-level inquiry with hands-on data science execution and a demonstrated knack for turning disparate data sources into actionable models.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Iowa State UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Minnesota DuluthBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)
English, Urdu, Pashto
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
android6
server6
matlab6
cyclomatic-complexity4
complexity3
summarization3
control-flow-graph3
java2
acl2
wave2
python2
nlp2
wandb2
natural-language-processing2
klee2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
UsmanGohar/usmangohar.github.io
May 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:221 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
UsmanGohar/Trajectory-Outlier-Detection
Feb 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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