Mission Log / 2026

Shahreyar Ashraf

AI Engineer and Researcher

I design intelligent systems that move from research insight to production impact in security-critical and high-scale environments.

Portrait of Shahreyar Ashraf
771 AI-generated pull requests analyzed
125 active blockchain repositories studied
15,000+ repositories mined during filtering

Chapter 02 / Origin

Why I Build

I build products where model quality, software rigor, and measurable outcomes all matter at the same time.

I work at the boundary of machine learning research and real-world delivery. My focus is building systems that are statistically sound, operationally reliable, and explainable under pressure.

From graph-based fraud intelligence and production risk scoring to LLM alignment and anomaly detection, I am motivated by one idea: technical depth should create practical leverage for teams and users.

I approach product and engineering like mission design: define the signal, build the system, instrument it deeply, and iterate until the outcomes are measurable.

Chapter 03 / Journey

Timeline of Growth

Education, research, and production roles converging into one engineering trajectory.

BS Computer Science

Lahore University of Management Sciences

education
Expected Jul 2026Lahore, Pakistan
  • Dean's Honor List (Spring 2025)
  • Coursework across deep learning, generative AI, systems, and algorithms

Research Publication

MSR 2026 - AI coding agents in blockchain repositories

research
2026LUMS
  • Empirical analysis of 771 AI-generated PRs
  • Statistical significance testing across tool performance

AI and Process Strategist

RozeRemit - 365 Care Group

experience
Nov 2025 - PresentHybrid
  • Production risk-scoring architecture with graph-enhanced fraud detection
  • Real-time scoring, explainability, observability, and CI/CD delivery

Project Head and Developer

AIESEC in Pakistan and AIESEC International

experience
Jun 2024 - PresentLahore and Remote
  • Built Nexus operations platform for 800+ active members
  • Automated global EXPA workflows with measurable latency reduction

AI Growth Intern

Paismo

experience
Jun 2025 - Jul 2025Lahore, Pakistan
  • Built sales automation agents for lead intelligence
  • Developed multi-agent newsletter generation system

Data Analyst Intern

Junaid Jamshed

experience
Jun 2023Karachi, Pakistan
  • Automated reporting and reduced processing time by 30%
  • Used data analysis to improve operational KPIs

Chapter 04 / Missions

Case Studies and Systems

Selected projects with technical decisions, stack choices, and measurable impact.

Neon telemetry lines over a dark operations grid

Mission

Real-time Log Anomaly Detection

A hybrid anomaly detection system for high-velocity logs that combines statistical baselines with transformer sequence modeling.

PyTorchDrain3scikit-learnIsolation Forest
  • Reduced false positives with adaptive thresholding in streaming pipelines.
  • Modeled contextual event dependencies beyond frequency-only methods.
Layered transformer blocks and vector fields in neon

Mission

LLM Alignment and Optimization

From-scratch language model implementation and preference alignment pipeline with low-rank adaptation for efficient fine-tuning.

PyTorchLoRADPOHugging Face
  • Cut trainable parameters by 99% with targeted LoRA adaptation.
  • Implemented DPO alignment workflow across the final transformer layers.
Network graph constellation with temporal links

Mission

Graph Neural Networks (Temporal and Spectral)

A set of graph-learning systems spanning ST-GCN forecasting, spectral regularization, and policy optimization with GraphSAGE.

PyTorch GeometricGraphSAGEGCNST-GCN
  • Improved MUTAG generalization by 7.5% via spectral regularization.
  • Modeled traffic dynamics on a 100-node grid with spatio-temporal learning.
Diffusion particles converging into generated forms

Mission

Deep Generative Modeling

A practical generative modeling lab covering DDPM diffusion, CLIP-guided sampling, beta-VAE disentanglement, and PixelCNN.

PyTorchDDPMCLIPVAE
  • Built a full DDPM training and reverse-sampling loop from scratch.
  • Guided generation with text-conditioned CLIP losses.
Digital marketplace nodes exchanging assets

Mission

Barter Ease

A cross-platform product exchange app with secure identity, mixed SQL/NoSQL persistence, and scalable cloud deployment.

React NativeAWS EC2AWS CognitoSQL
  • Delivered secure identity and transaction flows for exchange operations.
  • Optimized throughput for high-velocity exchange requests.

Chapter 05 / Systems

Interactive Skills Dashboard

Filter across libraries, concepts, and production tooling that power my work.

ML and DL Libraries

PyTorchPyTorch GeometricHugging Face TransformersDiffusersscikit-learnPandasNumPyOpenCVMatplotlib

ML and DL Concepts

Transformers (GQA, RoPE)Graph Neural Networks (GCN, GraphSAGE, ST-GCN)Diffusion (DDPM)VAEGANPixelCNNDirect Preference Optimization (DPO)LoRASpectral Graph Theory

Programming and Tooling

PythonC/C++JavaScriptGitDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformAWS EC2AWS Cognito

Web and Application Development

ReactNext.jsReact NativeNode.jsMongoDBSQLGraphQLTailwind CSS

Chapter 06 / Proof

Evidence, Leadership, and Research

Quantitative outcomes and responsibilities that validate the journey.

Achievements

Dean's Honor List

Recognized by LUMS in Spring 2025 for sustained academic excellence.

MSR 2026 Publication

Published research on AI coding agents in blockchain repositories with statistically rigorous analysis.

Nexus Platform Transformation

Led the end-to-end digital transformation for AIESEC operations, supporting 800+ members at national scale.

Leadership

  • Led nationwide platform modernization initiatives spanning product design, architecture, and delivery.

  • Coordinated cross-functional workflows across local and international stakeholders.

  • Scaled systems with observability and governance as first-class engineering requirements.

Impact Metrics

771 AI-generated pull requests analyzed125 active blockchain repositories studied15,000+ repositories mined during filtering1,068 blockchain domain keywords extracted23x faster PR resolution observed800+ members served through Nexus40,000 users across 100 countries supported40% reduction in ticket resolution latency30% reporting-time reduction100k+ graph nodes in fraud simulations

Publication and Research

Studying the Footprints of AI Coding Agents in Blockchain Repositories

MSR 2026 / Published / 2026

  • Led an empirical study of 771 AI-generated pull requests across 125 active blockchain repositories.

    771125
  • Built a multi-source mining pipeline using CoinMarketCap and Alchemy APIs to derive 1,068 domain keywords from 15,000+ repositories.

    1,06815,000
  • Applied Kruskal-Wallis and Dunn's tests to show uniform acceptance rates (p = 0.494) but significant velocity differences (p < 0.001).

    p = 0.494p < 0.001
  • Found Cursor resolving PRs 23x faster than Claude Code with zero median latency in the sample.

    23x

Chapter 07 / Contact

Open a New Mission

If you are building AI products, research systems, or high-trust workflows, I am open to collaboration.

Reach me directly at ashrafshahreyar@gmail.com.