SAIFULLAH

I'm a final-year PhD student at DFKI Germany currently working on AI safety topics in document analysis, including explainable AI, model robustness, and privacy-preserving machine learning. I have experience working with multimodal document analysis models, generative AI including diffusion models and VLMs, local and global differential privacy, synthetic data generation, and large-scale distributed training and evaluation. You can find my recent publications and projects on my research page.

Before my PhD, I worked in robotics and computer vision for several years, mainly on humanoid robots and autonomous systems, covering motion planning, control, perception, SLAM, and multi-robot coordination. I was also the lead developer for the RoboCup project at RISE Lab, where we built autonomous soccer gameplay software to compete in the RoboCup Standard Platform League (SPL).

I also worked at the National Center of Artificial Intelligence (NCAI), Pakistan, for some time, where I worked on building reinforcement learning pipelines for mobile robotics and UAV systems, as well as real-time edge solutions for AI-driven business applications.

I've moved through robotics, vision, and now deep learning research. I still enjoy exploring new ideas, running small experiments, and improving tools or pipelines when I can. Outside of work, you'll usually find me gaming, watching anime, or hanging out with friends on Discord. Much of my work is open-source and can be found on my GitHub.

Feel free to reach out if you'd like to collaborate or discuss research ideas!