Awais Rauf

Postdoc, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Joined
September 2019

Names

Awais Rauf (Preferred)
, 
Muhammad Awais

Emails

****@khu.ac.kr (Confirmed)
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****@huawei.com (Confirmed)
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****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
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****@mbzuai.ac.ae (Confirmed)
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****@qmul.ac.uk (Confirmed)
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****@betterdata.ai (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Postdoc
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (mbzuai.ac.ae)
2023 – Present
Student Research Assistant
Sony AI (sony.ai)
2022 – 2022
Assistant Researcher
AI Theory Group, Noah's Ark Lab, Huawei Technologies Ltd, Hong Kong (huawei.com)
2020 – 2022
PhD student
Kyung-Hee University, Korea (khu.ac.kr)
2019 – 2022
Research Assistant
Signal Processing and Information Decoding Research Lab, ITU of Punjab Lahore, Pakistan (itu.edu.pk)
2017 – 2019
MS student
ITU of Punjab Lahore, Pakistan (itu.edu.pk)
2016 – 2019
Teaching Assistant
ITU of Punjab Lahore, Pakistan (itu.edu.pk)
2016 – 2019
Research Intern
Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan (uet.edu.pk)
2016 – 2016
Undergrad student
University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan (uet.edu.pk)
2012 – 2016

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Mentor
Zhou Fengwei
2020 – 2022
Advisor
Zhenguo Li
2020 – 2022
PhD Advisor
Sung-Ho Bae
2019 – 2022
Co-Advisor
Ping Luo
2020 – 2021
MS Advisor
Ali Ahmed
2017 – 2019
Supervisor
Usama Bin Sikandar
2016 – 2018

Expertise

deep learning
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machine learning
2017 – Present
machine learning
2016 – Present
foundational models
, 
vision-language models
2020 – 2025
deep learning architectures
, 
adversarial attacks/defenses
, 
transfer learning
2018 – 2020

Publications

Co-Authors