Ahmad Mustafa Anis

I'm a Deep Learning Computer Vision Engineer at Roll.ai and AI Research Fellow at Fatima Fellowship advised by Dr. Wei Peng from Stanford University. I completed my Bachelors in Computer Science from International Islamic University Pakistan, advised by Dr. Muhammad Nadeem.

I was an AI Fellow at the 14th Batch of PI School of AI with a scholarship worth 12,500€.

I serve as a community lead (For Geo-Regional Asia and ML-Maths Subgroups) at Cohere.for.ai, led by Sara Hooker. In this role, I've hosted over 50 researchers from Asia to present their work at Cohere for AI, completed a study group on NYU Deep Learning by Yann LeCun.

See my Resume here (Updated Sep 2024).

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Research

I am interested in Deep Learning in general, and read literature from different fields. In-particular, I try to follow the research in the following areas:

  • Improving Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
    • Visual Question Answering (VQA)
      • How well can a model reason on an image/video and answer questions. How can we extend it to multi-cultural and multi-lingual settings while maintaining alignment.
    • Image Generation
      • How well can a model reasonate with the textual caption and generate image. How can we extend it to a multi-cultural and multi-lingual settings while maintaining alignment.
  • Self-Supervised Learning
    • How to learn good representations from a huge amount of data that can be used for down-stream tasks without huge efforts.
  • World Models
    • How can we make models that can plan and reason in an environment.

News

  • [Sep 2024] Starting as a Pre-Doctoral AI Research Fellow at Fatima Fellowship advised by Dr. Wei Peng, Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University.
  • [Sep 2024] Will be serving as a reviwer for the 4th MRL (Multi-Lingual Representation Learning) Workshop happening at EMNLP
  • [July 2024] Our work on "The Rapid Decline of the AI Data Commons" has been published
  • [June, 2024] Serving as NLP Lead for Bytewise Fellowship..
  • [April, 2024] Accepted in Oxford Machine Learning Summer School OxML (MLX Fundamentals).
  • [April, 2024] Started working as a Deep Learning Computer Vision Engineer at Roll.ai.
  • [Dec, 2023] Got accepted as AI Fellow at the 14th Batch of PI School of AI with a scholarship worth 12,500€.
  • [Dec, 2023] Started as a ML-Maths Community Lead at Cohere.for.ai led by Sara Hooker.
  • [June, 2023] Served as Urdu Language Ambassador for AYA. Contributed 3 Datasets and led data crowd sourcing.
  • [Mar, 2023] Serving as Data Science Lead for Bytewise Fellowship..
  • [Feb, 2023] Started as a Asian Community Lead at Cohere.for.ai led by Sara Hooker. See our sessions: here.
  • [Aug, 2022] Graduated from IIUI with a Bachelors in Computer Science.
  • [April, 2022] Started as a Machine Learning Engineer at Redbuffer.ai.
  • [Dec, 2021] Started as a Software Engineer (Deep Learning and Computer Vision) at Wortel.ai.
  • [July, 2021] Started as a Deep Learning and Computer Vision Intern at Wortel.ai.
  • [Sep, 2018] Started my Undergraduate studies in CS at IIUI
  • Publications

    Consent in Crisis
    Consent in Crisis: The Rapid Decline of the AI Data Commons
    Shayne Longpre, Robert Mahari, Ariel Lee, Campbell Lund, [11 authors], Ahmad Mustafa Anis, [29 more authors], Daphne Ippolito, Sara Hooker, Jad Kabbara, and Sandy Pentland
    NeurIPS, 2024 (Under review)
    This paper examines the rapid decline of consent and data availability in AI training corpora, highlighting the challenges and implications for the AI data commons.

    Favourite Papers

    List of papers I really admire (and hope to do similar impactful work).

  • CLIP, abs
  • World Models, abs
  • JEPA, abs
  • SimCLR, abs
  • Vision Transformers Need Registers, abs
  • Pali-3, abs
  • Learning by Distilling Context, abs
  • SigLIP, abs
  • GILL: Generating Images with Multimodal Language Models, abs

  • Code from Jon Barron Website.