SAIFULLAH
Final Year PhD Candidate @ DFKI GmbH
Hi, I'm Saifullah, a research software developer and PhD candidate at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany. My current research work interests include Explainable AI, Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning, and Model Robustness in Document Intelligence. Outside of research, I enjoy gaming, anime, coding, and robotics!
Work
- German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH
- PhD Researcher
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- Intelligent Robotics Lab (IRL), National Center of Artificial Intelligence (NCAI)
- Technical Lead / Research Associate
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- Ingenio
- Lead Robotics
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- Robotics & Intelligent Systems Engineering (RISE) Lab, NUST
- Team Lead Project RoboCup
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- Robotics & Intelligent Systems Engineering (RISE) Lab, NUST
- Robotics Software Intern
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- NUST Aerial Robotics (NUSTAR) Lab, NUST
- Junior Researcher
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Education
- RPTU University of Kaiserslautern-Landau
- Doctorate (PhD) in Computer Science (CS)
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- National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)
- MS Robotics & Intelligent Machine Engineering (RIME) · GPA: 1.0
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- National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)
- Bachelors (BS) in Mechanical Engineering · GPA: 1.31
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Exchange Programs & Competitions
- Oxford Machine Learning Summer School (OxML) 2023
- Summer School Participant
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- Sakura Exchange Program in Science, Tohoku University, Japan
- Research Exchange Student
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- Standard Platform League (SPL), RoboCup 2016
- Team Member, Team NUST
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Skills
Deep Learning
PyTorchPyTorch IgniteExplainable AIPrivate MLDocument AICNNsTransformersDiffusion Models
Frontend/Backend
FastApiReactNextJSS3LakeFSSQL-AlchemySupabaseRabbitMQPySparkDockerGit
LLM Frameworks
LangChainRAGvLLM
Database
PostgreSQLMongoDB
Programming
PythonC++CJavascript
Operating Systems
LinuxDockerWindowsGentoo
Robotics
ROSGazeboVREPOpenCVMulti-body DynamicsMotion PlanningSLAM
Edge AI
NVIDIA DeepstreamNVIDIA JetsonTensorRT
Graphics Designs
Adobe Photoshop
Publications
- Saifullah, S., Siddiqui, S. A., Agne, S., Dengel, A., Ahmed, S.26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2022, IEEE
- Saifullah, S., Agne, S., Dengel, A., Ahmed, S.International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR), vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 187--209, 2023. Springer.
- Saifullah, S., Agne, S., Dengel, A., Ahmed, S.International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR), pp. 1--27, 2024. Springer.
- Saifullah, S., Agne, S., Dengel, A., Ahmed, S.International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, pp. 207--226, 2023. Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham.
- Saifullah, S., Agne, S., Dengel, A., Ahmed, S.arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.03777, 2023.
- Saifullah, S., Mercier, D., Lucieri, A., Dengel, A., Ahmed, S.Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 7, 1236947, 2024. Frontiers Media SA.
- Saifullah, S., Mercier, D., Agne, S., Dengel, A., Ahmed, S.International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR), pp. 1--25, 2024. Springer.
- Agne, S., Dengel, A., Ahmed, S.IEEE Access, 2024. IEEE.
- Saifullah, S., Agne, S., Dengel, A., Ahmed, S.arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.03830, 2024.
- Riaz, N., Saifullah, S., Agne, S., Dengel, A., Ahmed, S.International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, pp. 429--444, 2024. Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham.
- Hamdani, S. J. H., Saifullah, S., Agne, S., Dengel, A., Ahmed, S.International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, pp. 368--383, 2024. Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham.
- Saifullah, S., Agne, S., Dengel, A., Ahmed, S.arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.04233, 2025.
- Saifullah, S., Agne, S., Dengel, A., Ahmed, S.arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.04208, 2025.