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Tayyab Manan

Hello, I'm Tayyab Manan · AI/ML engineer

I build ML systems that make it to production

Computer Vision · Explainable ML · Production ML · Geospatial AI

Graduate student at COMSATS, building machine learning systems across computer vision, NLP, and geospatial AI. Currently an AI Developer at Cointegration since 2025.

Open to full-time AI/ML rolesIslamabad, UTC+5Available for remote contract workReplies in 24h
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Selected Work

Featured Projects

A few projects I've taken from first model to live demo.

Natural Language Processing

79.5% win rate

Urdu LLM Fine-Tuning

A Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct model fine-tuned with QLoRA to speak natural Urdu: Urdu script, Roman Urdu, and Urdu/English code-mixing. The current version reaches a 79.5% pairwise win rate over the base model across two independent LLM judges on a 100-prompt evaluation set, recovers every regression its predecessor introduced, and adds RAG-aware training that makes retrieval safe on factual queries. Validated with a multi-judge harness (including a free Claude-Code-CLI judge) and shipped as a live Gradio + Modal demo. A first end-to-end fine-tune, built in public for about $60.

Machine Learning & MLOps

73.2% acc · 61% recall

US Visa Approval Prediction

Machine learning system that predicts US PERM labor certification outcomes and explains why using SHAP. Features a 5-stage MLOps pipeline, GridSearchCV across 5 boosting models, threshold-tuned Gradient Boosting, and a FastAPI backend with per-prediction explainability.

Geospatial AI

R² 0.65→0.89

WaterTrace Pakistan

Machine learning system for groundwater monitoring and prediction in Pakistan, built on 22 years of satellite data (2002-2024) from GRACE and GLDAS. Features time-series forecasting with Gradient Boosting (R²=0.89), interactive district-level maps, and a Flask API for predictions.

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Built in Public

Technical deep-dives on the projects above, with the metrics, trade-offs, and failures kept in.

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Background

Education

  • Master's in Artificial Intelligence Engineering

    COMSATS University Islamabad

    2025 - 2027 (expected)

  • BS Geographic Information Science

    University of the Punjab, Lahore

    2021 - 2025

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Interested in collaborating?

I build production ML systems and I'm looking for the right team to do it with. Happy to talk about roles, projects, or just trade notes on AI.