Experience

AI Engineer & LLM Specialist

Upwork

December 2023 – Present
  • Top Rated freelancer on Upwork (top 10%), with a 100% job success rate and all 5-star ratings from 20+ clients.
  • Provided AI solutions using LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewaI, and prompt engineering, increasing efficiency by 20%.
  • Optimized local LLMs for privacy-focused tasks, ensuring data security while improving task accuracy by 25%.
  • Developed modular AI tools with LangChain and Streamlit, boosting data retrieval accuracy by 35%.
  • Integrated multimodal AI systems for analytics, enhancing decision-making and achieving 100% client satisfaction.

Researcher - Traffic Management via LLMs Reasoning

Dr. Tariq Alsahfi (University of Jeddah)

September 2024 – Present
  • Published research papers on LLM-based traffic flow and accident severity prediction in high-impact journals.
  • Developed the TraffiCoT framwork, improving traffic prediction accuracy by 19% over ML and 23% over DL models.
  • Reduced paper acceptance timelines by 30% through streamlined research and writing workflows.
  • Collaborated on projects integrating LLMs with geographic data to enhance traffic analysis and optimization.

Researcher - AI Security & Cyber Deception

Dr. Haitao Xu (Zhejiang University)

February 2022 – May 2024
  • Published high-impact papers on AI-driven cybersecurity, focusing on deceptive ads and affiliate marketing detection.
  • Developed the AdsFlow algorithm for ad detection and classification, improving ad analysis accuracy.
  • Built Chrome extensions and tools for real-time deceptive ad detection and URL spoofing prevention.
  • Designed an ads intention classification system to identify deceptive intentions, enhancing fraud detection.
  • Applied NLP techniques to streamline e-crime investigations, reducing analysis time by 40%.

Data Scientist

Chengdu Ayurveda Biotechnology Co., Ltd China

August 2020 – January 2023
  • Led the company to #1 position on Alibaba's medical equipment marketplace in China, achieving 180% YoY growth in sales.
  • Optimized SEO and search visibility, resulting in 95% increase in product search appearances.
  • Increased company revenue by 35% through predictive analytics and trend forecasting of medical equipment sales.
  • Developed ML models for inventory optimization, reducing stockout incidents by 45% and storage costs by 28%.
  • Implemented real-time sales analytics dashboard, improving decision-making response time by 60%.
  • Created customer segmentation model that increased targeted marketing efficiency by 40%.

Publications

Recursive Decomposition of Logical Thoughts:Framework for Superior Reasoning and Knowledge Propagation in LLMs

Kaleem Ullah Qasim, Jiashu Zhang, Tariq Alsahfi, Ateeq Ur Rehman Butt

Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 2024

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From data to decisions: enhancing financial forecasts with LSTM for AI token prices

Kaleem Ullah Qasim, Rizwan Ali, Muhammad Waqas Aslam

Journal of Economic Studies, 2023

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Understanding the Business of Online Affiliate Marketing: An Empirical Study

Haitao Xu, Yiwen Sun, Kaleem Ullah Qasim

IEEE INFOCOM 2025 Main Conference, 2024

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Projects

NL2SQL Intention Aware Agent

LangChain OpenAI SQLAlchemy FastAPI PostgreSQL
  • Developed an NL2SQL chatbot for querying tabular data
  • Added intent classification for routing queries
  • Enabled SQL generation, execution, and visualizations
  • Follow-up question generation for user engagement
  • Simplified data interaction for non-SQL users
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SaRGeN (Suspicious Activity Report Generator)

Streamlit ML Groq Plotly HuggingFace
  • Suspesious transaction detection and reporting
  • Automated SAR filing for financial institutions
  • Real-time transaction monitoring and alerts
  • Dynamic visualization of transaction patterns
  • Integrated Groq for real-time high speed inference
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Real-time Civility Enforcement Engine

Flask Detoxify Plotly FastAPI
  • Real-time toxicity detection in chat messages
  • Automated moderation and user warnings
  • Dynamic visualization of toxicity trends
  • Integrated Detoxify for real-time inference
  • Reduced toxic content by 100% in user interactions
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PaperPat - arXiv Paper Search Engine

FastAPI SQLite React arXiv API PyPDF2
  • Secure authentication with encrypted storage.
  • Advanced search with filters.
  • Bulk downloads with metadata handling.
  • Responsive UI with 60% faster load times.
  • Reliable SQLite integration with 99.9% uptime.
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Education

Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence

Southwest Jiaotong University - China

2022 - Present

Specialization: Reasoning in LLMs, Prompt Engineering

Master in Computer Application Technology

Southwestern University of Finance and Economics - China

2019 - 2022

Specialization: NLP, Machine Learning, NLU, NLI

Mandarin Certification

Beijing Language and Culture University - China

2016 - 2018

Specialization: Chinese Language Proficiency, Chinese Culture

Bachelor of Information Technology

University of Education - Pakistan

2011 - 2015

Specialization: Software Engineering

Certifications

Skills

AI & LLM

LangChain LlamaIndex CrewAI AutoGPT AgentGPT Semantic Kernel

ML & DL

PyTorch TensorFlow HuggingFace Transformers OpenAI FastAI

Languages

Python TypeScript SQL REST APIs GraphQL Bash

MLOps

Docker Git MLflow Weights & Biases DVC Kubeflow

Frameworks

Streamlit FastAPI Django Flask Gradio Dash Plotly Matplotlib

Vector DBs

Pinecone Weaviate ChromaDB Milvus Faiss Annoy