Imran Ashraf

I'm an Associate AI Engineer at Connectia Technologies in Islamabad, where I work on LLM features, RAG pipelines and AI agents, along with the backend work that ships them: NestJS services, AWS Cognito sign-in flows and push notifications for a React Native app. Since 2023 I've also been a research assistant at VLCMatrixLab. I lead three projects there and mentor junior researchers. Most of my research asks one question: can a person check why a model made its call? My paper on explainable phishing website detection in Nature Scientific Reports, where I'm the corresponding author, is my clearest answer so far. I graduated in Software Engineering from The University of Lahore with a Gold Medal and a 3.80 CGPA. My final year project trained self-driving agents with multi-agent reinforcement learning, and I presented related work on vehicle platooning at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. Next, I want a fully funded PhD in Europe on explainable and agentic AI. If you supervise in that area, I'd like to hear from you.