Syed Muhammad Aqdas Rizvi (smarizvi110)

Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) | Lahore, Pakistan

Relevant Coursework: Networks and Systems, Data Structures/Algorithms, Software Engineering, Operating Systems, Databases, AI & ML, Natural Language Processing.

Karachi, Pakistan

• Conceived, designed, and evaluated CATS, a novel framework endowing TCP with semantic priority awareness, culminating in a sole-author publication on IEEE Xplore. [View Project]
• Engineered a custom C++ TCP socket implementation within the ns-3 network simulator, utilizing an "Interceptor and Feeder" architecture seamlessly operating alongside the TCP BBR congestion control algorithm.
• Designed a sophisticated two-threshold hysteresis intra-flow fairness mechanism to prevent starvation of low-priority data.
• Executed a rigorous, representative worst-case webpage download simulation, extracting verifiable PCAP traces using a custom TCP Option (Kind 253).
• Proved a 78.7% improvement in First Contentful Paint (FCP) by intelligently reordering packet transmission, radically improving user-perceived QoE with negligible overhead to total load time.

Center for Speech and Language Technologies (CSaLT) | Lahore, Pakistan

• Conducted a comprehensive literature review of Keyword Spotting (KWS) technologies, focusing specifically on Urdu.
• Analyzed current acoustic modeling challenges and proposed architectural solutions to advance accessibility in low-resource AI environments, publishing the findings as an independent arXiv preprint.

PhysLab | Lahore, Pakistan

• Investigated Faraday's Law of Electromagnetic Induction; co-authored the official experiment manual and developed MATLAB scripts for automated data processing, both published on the laboratory's platform. [View Project]
• Refined experimental setups for Surface Plasmon Resonance to significantly improve measurement accuracy.

Risk Associates | Karachi, Pakistan

• Translating abstract security and compliance requirements (ISO/IEC 27001 & 42001) into concrete, system-level controls spanning software architecture, data governance, and access control networks.
• Conducting threat modeling and risk assessments for enterprise infrastructures, gaining deep practical insight into real-world distributed systems vulnerabilities and mitigation strategies.
• Assisting in the design of AI Management Systems, providing hands-on exposure to emerging challenges in AI governance, model lifecycle oversight, and secure pipeline architecture.

AI in Healthcare Initiative (AIHI), LUMS | Lahore, Pakistan

• Developed MigraineAid, an applied machine learning platform to help sufferers predict attack occurrences.
• Implemented a high-performance backend in Rust to ensure memory safety and fast data processing for real-time analytics, integrating Firebase and Firestore for scalable data management.
• Contributed to ML model development pipelines and built a secure frontend dashboard in JavaScript for researchers.

TeReSol (for Bank AL Habib Limited) | Karachi, Pakistan

• Engineered reusable micro-frontend components for core banking software utilizing a finite state machine (FSM) to manage strict user workflows and API integrations under high-security banking constraints.