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Awards & Honors

^{Aug 2020 - May 2021}
Fulbright Scholar
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, U.S. State Dept., Fulbright Commission

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Best Paper Award
Public Interest Technology - University Network

^{Dec 2019}
Founders' Award
Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture
_{The highest honor awarded to one outstanding student from graduating class.}

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Honorable Mention, KBA Award for Socially Responsible Architecture
Institute of Architects’, Pakistan
_{National Award}

^{2015 - 2019}
4 Honor’s List, 1 Dean’s List
Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture

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Distinction
Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture

^{March 2022}
Highly Commended Award
UIA - International Union of Architects

^{March 2018}
Best Undergraduate Paper
Institute of Architects' Pakistan

^{Feb 2017}
Runner-up, IKEA Young Athletes Playroom Design Competition, Special Olympics Pakistan

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‘Iftikhar Ali’ Award: Outstanding performance, Psychology, Cordoba School for A’levels, 2014

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Presentations &
Invited Talks

^{November 2024}
Institute for Architects’ Pakistan, Lahore,
Pakistan ‘Artificial Intelligence and the Futures of Architectural Design’, Lahore, Pakistan

^{November 2023}
Society for Social Studies of Sciences (4S),
Conversations Around the Table: Limitations and Potentials of Civic Data for Youth’ Engagement’,  Honolulu, Hawai’i

^{November 2023}
Society for Social Studies of Sciences (4S),
‘Epistemic Injustice and Trust: Interrogating Technological Complicity in Data- Driven Ecologies’, Honolulu, Hawai’i

^{October 2023}
University of Engineering and Technology,
‘Architectural Futures: Thinking about Design, Cities and Architecture’,Lahore, Pakistan 

^{June 2023}
The Southeast Environmental Justice Summit,  “Mapping for Environmental Justice”, Atlanta, USA

^{May 2023}
Air Quality ATL23 Symposium: “Urban Air Quality in The Age of Climate Change”, “Visualizing Resiliency: Map Spot”, Atlanta, USA

^{March 2023}
National Science Teachers Association (NSTA 2023), “Youth Advocacy for Disaster Resilience through Data Visualization”, Atlanta, USA,

^{January 2023}
Code for America, ‘Social Innovation as Cooking and Consipiracy’,

^{Dec 2022}
Society for Social Studies of Sciences (4S), “Visualizing Resiliency”, Cholula, Mexico, 2022

^{May 2022}
Columbia University, GSAPP, “Digital Impact On Space”,

^{April 2022}
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, “Heart Sense: Feminist Reflections on Physiology and Embodiment”, Presented at ACCelerate Festival, Washington D.C.,

^{Dec 2020}
Consulate of Italy, Trellis: A Shared Housing project in Karachi”, Presented at ‘Drawing the Future, Karachi,

^{Feb 2020}
N.E.D. Univeristy of Engineering & Technology, Dept. of Architecture "Shared Economy & Architecture", Karachi,

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Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture "Virtual Space and the future of Architecture", Karachi

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IAPEX 2018 “Architect + Communal Space and The Future” Karachi, Pakistan, 2018 *First student speaker in the 14-year history of the Conference

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Education

^{Aug 2021 - Present}
Ph.D. in Digital Media, Human-Computer Interaction
Georgia Institute of Technology

_{Minor in Public Policy} 

_{Graduated National Science Foundation's National Innovation Corps ( NSF's I-Corps ) Program}

^{Aug 2020 -May 2021}
M.Sc. in Architectural Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

_{Minor in Global Studies, Course work in Artificial Intelligence}

^{Jan 2015 - Dec 2019}
B. Arch.
Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture

_{Project Management, Project Management, Digital Tools for Architects, Design Studios}

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Experience

^{Oct 2023 - Present}
Researcher
metaLAB (at) Harvard


^{Aug 2021 - Present}
Graduate Research Assistant
Georgia Institute of Technology


^{May 2023 - Aug 2023, Jan 2024 - Oct 2024}
Researcher
Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University

^{May 2022 - Aug 2022}
International Strategy Analyst Intern
Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute (EII)



^{March 2019 - May 2020}
Co-Founder & Creative Director
Buzzbox


^{May 2018 - May 2020}
Philosophy Instructor & Instructional Designer
The Learning Tree / be-khudi