Postdoctoral Researcher · PhD Computer Science, LUMS
ERC Consolidator project STEMMA · Lead, Work Package 3I build tools and evidence for a web that is lighter on the planet, open to everyone, and backed by trustworthy data sharing. I lead the network-analysis work package on the ERC-funded STEMMA project, and my work also spans web energy measurement, accessibility engineering and the European Data Spaces Support Centre.
Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse, 1475–1700
The first macro-level, data-driven view of how early modern English poetry circulated in manuscript. I lead Work Package 3, which models that circulation as a network to find the literary communities behind it.
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Data and AI Research, University of Galway. I argue that web engineering, sustainability and accessibility have to be tackled together if the web is to serve everyone without an outsized environmental cost.
Since July 2026 my postdoc has focused on STEMMA, a European Research Council Consolidator project led by Prof. Erin A. McCarthy, where I lead Work Package 3: modelling how early modern English manuscript poetry circulated as a network. Before that I worked on the EU-funded Data Spaces Support Centre (DSSC), built GreenWebInspector for real-time web energy profiling, and lead a research line on digital equity for rare-disease patient communities. Before that I completed my PhD and MS at LUMS on context-aware sports analytics, web energy optimisation and program analysis, and my BS at NUST in the High-Performance Computing Lab.
Workshop on Software Engineering and AI for All
in competitive grants, travel awards and fellowships, including Co-PI on two LUMS Faculty Initiative Fund grants.
Management Committee member for Ireland in AutoPEAC, plus working groups in HARPA, Agrifood-OneAI, BOPALiM and ARiF.
Each theme pairs measurement with tools that under-resourced organisations can actually use.
Methods and tools for measuring, modelling and reducing the energy footprint of web applications, from static design features to live profiling, with next steps towards energy regression testing in CI/CD.
The WARD audit covered 103 rare-disease patient organisation websites in five countries and found none fully compliant. I am now building automated and crowdsourced remediation for organisations without accessibility teams.
Through the EU Data Spaces Support Centre, I work on design principles for trustworthy, FAIR data sharing across European sectors, with a focus on governance, energy and accessibility.
On the ERC Consolidator project STEMMA I lead the work package that turns six datasets of early modern English verse manuscripts into a network, tracing how poems moved between readers, scribes and communities from 1475 to 1700.
Satellite, IoT and ML platform for forest monitoring and risk assessment.
Summarisation, POS tagging, sentiment, cybercrime text and Arabic OCR.
Context-aware player performance and man-of-the-match prediction.
Model checking MPI Java programs and delta debugging for MapReduce.
EMG onset detection, balance phenotyping and nanobody binding.
Taxi demand, legal outcomes, contact-centre GenAI and imputation.
Real-time web energy classification, presented at ACM WWW'26.
Data, results and code for the 161,220-site civil society accessibility audit.
How static front-end features relate to website energy, from Lighthouse and WebPageTest data.
Web energy scoring code from the green-web project.
Context-aware cricket player metric with ODI ball-by-ball data, 2001–2019.
Arabic handwritten and printed text samples for OCR and handwriting research.
Multi-source rumour verification with a teacher–student distillation framework.
Model checking of unmodified MPI Java programs with Java PathFinder.
Parallel I/O for MPJ Express, the Java HPC library.
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Bars use real start and end dates: about 12½ years in research roles and a year in industry since 2010, alongside more than a decade of teaching.
From introductory programming to advanced algorithms across Ireland and Pakistan. More than 30 senior-year projects co-advised, involving over 150 students.
I connect theory to real-world data and societal problems, using scaffolded problem-solving, formative feedback and universal design to support diverse cohorts.
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| Award | Year | Amount |
|---|---|---|
Fully funded PhD FellowshipLUMS | 2015–19 | €23K |
Co-PI, FIF Grant · Forest ObservatoryLUMS | 2025–26 | €5K |
Co-PI, FIF Grant · Forest ObservatoryLUMS | 2024–25 | €5K |
Bachelor's ScholarshipPM's ICT R&D Fund | 2008–12 | €4K |
Travel Grant · PPoPP 2016, SpainLUMS | 2016 | €3.4K |
Travel Grant · ICSE 2018, SwedenLUMS | 2018 | €3.3K |
Travel Grant · WorldS4 2026, LondonUniversity of Galway | 2026 | €3K |
Volunteering & community
Interested in web sustainability, accessibility, data spaces or applied ML? I am happy to talk about joint projects, proposals, talks and reviewing.
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