Research · Engineering · Teaching

Professional work

Turning research questions into reliable software

My work connects reinforcement learning, planning and research software. I build experiments that can be audited, communicate what the evidence supports, and turn difficult ideas into tools other people can inspect.

Current roles

Research Software Developer

University College London · The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction

June 2026–present

Building reproducible multi-agent LLM experiment software for management research, including configuration, structured logging and auditable runs.

Doctoral Researcher

Coventry University · Centre for Computational Science and Mathematical Modelling

September 2024–present

Researching planning and reinforcement learning for energy-efficient building control, interpretability and reliable learning.

How I work

A reproducible research loop

01

Frame the decision

Start with the operational question, constraints and evidence needed to make a useful claim.

02

Build the comparison

Define baselines, controlled changes and evaluation conditions before interpreting results.

03

Make runs auditable

Use explicit configuration, structured outputs and checks that make experimental runs easier to reproduce.

04

Explain the evidence

Separate what was measured from what is inferred, then communicate the result at the reader’s level.

Open work

Selected public projects

All GitHub repositories

Applied AI

Production engineering

Associate AI Engineer · CureMD

Lahore, Pakistan

July 2023–September 2024

  • Built an internal LLM and RAG code assistant used across 150+ developers, helping reduce code-review turnaround by more than 25%.
  • Shipped RAG support systems handling 500+ daily queries with a reported 92% resolution rate.
  • Developed automated code-grading workflows using Llama 3 and programmatic tests.

Teaching and service

Supporting research communities

Teaching Assistant and Lab Demonstrator

Coventry University · August 2025–January 2026

Led weekly deep learning and computer vision labs for 30+ MSc Data Science students and graded 200+ assignments per semester.

Volunteer Teaching Assistant

Coventry University · 2025–2026

Supported module delivery and student learning beyond contracted duties.

  • Oral presentation at AAAI 2026 on deadline-aware, energy-efficient domestic hot-water control.
  • Talk at the Tri-University International AI Symposium, 2026.
  • Co-organiser of the Coventry–NUST–Monash Suzhou symposium, April 2026.
  • Peer reviewer for Elsevier and MDPI journals.

Research

Questions I work on

Energy-aware control

Planning and reinforcement learning for building energy systems under changing prices, deadlines, uncertainty and comfort constraints.

MCTS · PPO · SAC · BOPTEST

Reliable reinforcement learning

Understanding how numerical details can affect policy optimisation and making experimental claims reproducible and easier to audit.

Numerical stability · evaluation · reproducibility

Interpretable policies

Turning learned control behaviour into compact explanations that people can inspect, compare and reason about.

Policy analysis · SINDy · diagnostics

Research software

Building configurable, structured and repeatable software for AI experiments, including multi-agent LLM studies.

Python · Docker · logging · experiment design

Recognition

Teaching, funding and awards

2026 Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy Advance HE
2026 Turing Scheme Award Funded international research visit.
2024 Fully Funded PhD Studentship Coventry University, CSMM
2023 Second Runner-Up, Prime Minister’s National Innovation Award Government of Pakistan Autonomous Weeding Robot, selected from 40,000+ entries.

Tools

Technical toolkit

Languages

  • Python
  • C++
  • MATLAB

Reinforcement learning and control

  • Stable Baselines3
  • RLlib
  • Gymnasium
  • MuJoCo
  • BOPTEST
  • Monte Carlo Tree Search
  • SINDy

Machine learning

  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • scikit-learn
  • OpenCV
  • Hugging Face

Research infrastructure

  • Git
  • Docker
  • Linux
  • HPC and SLURM
  • Weights & Biases
  • LaTeX

Explore the work

Read the publications, try the interactive demos, or download the verified CV for a concise record.

Contact

khanm442@uni.coventry.ac.uk

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