1st place — StoryWeave
2025HackVortex Codestorm 5
Won first place for StoryWeave, a generative-AI wellness app that creates personalized narrated stories with custom background music. Part of 5+ international hackathons competed.
View on DevpostMS/PhD Applicant · Computer Science
Muhammad Jawad
AI Engineer · Generative AI, LLMs, RAG & Multi-Agent Systems
About Me
A bit about my journey
I hold a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Peshawar. Over the past two years, I have focused on generative AI. My final-year project, ShortlistPro, is an AI-powered recruitment assistant that helps teams screen candidates and conduct initial interviews. I also developed StoryWeave, a wellness application featuring personalized narration and music, which won first place at the HackVortex Codestorm 5 competition. In addition, I regularly publish my projects on GitHub.
I am looking for M.S. or Ph.D. position for Spring 2027 or Fall 2027. I interned at DeepCognition Software Services, where I worked on efficient LLM fine-tuning and privacy-preserving machine learning using TinyLlama, LoRA/QLoRA, and differential privacy techniques. Beyond academics, I co-founded the Computing Students Society at the University of Peshawar, served twice as a Section Leader for Stanford University's Code in Place program (2025 and 2026), and taught the CSS AI Bootcamp in Summer 2025.
Education
Academic background
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
University of Peshawar
2021 – 20253.70 / 4.00
Relevant coursework
CalculusLinear AlgebraProbability & StatisticsData Structures and AlgorithmsDesign and Analysis of AlgorithmsSoftware EngineeringAdvanced Database SystemsApplied Image ProcessingMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingArtificial Intelligence
Recognition
Achievements & honours
Competitions, rankings, and community work outside my projects and teaching roles.
CS50x Puzzle Day — perfect score
2026Harvard University
Solved all 10 of 10 puzzle problems in Harvard’s annual CS50x Puzzle Day, a timed challenge for students who have taken CS50.
View certificateRanked #172 worldwide
2025UC Berkeley CALICO Informatics Competition
Placed 172nd globally in CALICO, a bioinformatics and computational biology competition run by UC Berkeley.
View certificateAdvent of Code 2025 — full completion
Dec 2025Advent of Code
Finished every daily challenge (12/12) in the 2025 event, implementing solutions in Python.
View solutions100+ LeetCode problems
OngoingLeetCode
Practiced data structures and algorithms through 100+ problems on LeetCode, covering arrays, trees, graphs, and dynamic programming.
View profileCo-founder & Vice President
2024 – 2025Computing Students Society
Helped start the society and ran 5+ technical events for students, including workshops and the AI Bootcamp program.
View alumni pageProjects
Selected work
A selection of academic and hackathon projects that showcase my technical range.
Final Year Project
Hackathon Project
Teaching
Teaching experience
Stanford University — Code in Place
RemoteSection Leader (Mentor)
Apr 2026 – Present- Mentor students one-on-one in Python debugging, structured problem-solving, and concept clarification.
Computing Students Society — AI Bootcamp
Peshawar, PakistanAI Bootcamp Instructor
Jun 2025 – Aug 2025- Led four sessions on computer vision and generative AI for 40+ beginners—covering CNNs, YOLO, LangChain, and RAG—with students building and deploying their own AI projects.
Stanford University — Code in Place
RemoteSection Leader
Apr 2025 – May 2025- Led weekly Python sessions for 10+ students covering fundamentals, debugging, and code reviews.
Experience
Professional experience
Software Engineering Intern
DeepCognition Software Services · Peshawar, Pakistan
- Fine-tuned TinyLlama using Unsloth with LoRA and QLoRA on constrained GPU environments.
- Built DP-SGD training workflows via Opacus with gradient clipping and noise injection for privacy preservation.
Volunteer
Volunteer experience
Computing Students Society
Co-Founder & Vice President
Co-founded the society and organized 5+ technical events for the campus computing community, including workshops and the AI Bootcamp program.
View alumni pageLanguage
English proficiency
Duolingo English Test
140/160
IELTS Equiv.
~7.5
CEFR Level
C1
TOEFL iBT
~110
Duolingo publishes score alignment ranges; 140/160 is commonly mapped to approximately IELTS 7.5, CEFR C1, and TOEFL iBT ~110. View alignment table.
Skills
Technical skills
Languages & Frameworks
PythonSQLJavaScriptTypeScriptReactNext.jsDjangoFastAPIPydanticTailwind CSS
Generative AI & LLM Systems
LangChainLangGraphGoogle GeminiHugging Face TransformersFeatherless.aiElevenLabsUnslothRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Agentic WorkflowsFine-TuningPrompt Engineering
Databases
PostgreSQLMySQLSQLiteFAISSChromaDB
Tools & Infrastructure
Git & GitHubDockerFFmpegDigitalOceanVercelLaTeX
Credentials