Autonomous desktop and workflow agents with tool use, persistent memory, file handling and safety-focused automation controls. Local or hosted models, swappable at runtime.
Building AIthat can explainitself.
I'm Syed Raza — an AI/ML and software engineer who also researches and teaches the subject. At Twelvetech Systems I build agents, LLM-powered assistants, computer vision and IoT systems, and the Java and Python backends underneath them. As a researcher I have fifteen outputs and eight named governance frameworks, a PhD in progress on explainable AI, and a seat on an IEEE Standards Association committee. I also lecture across Levels 3–7.
Six things I ship, end to end.
From the model and the pipeline through to the API, the database and the container it runs in.
Classification and risk models end to end — preprocessing, feature engineering, training, evaluation, then integration behind a dashboard people actually use.
Context-aware text classification and sentiment pipelines that separate real signal from noise, with privacy-conscious handling of sensitive data built in from the start.
Instance segmentation and image classification — localising damage on vehicle imagery with Mask R-CNN, and running classifiers on-device through TensorFlow Lite where there is no network to rely on.
Sensor rigs on ESP8266 and Arduino streaming to Firebase in real time, with mobile apps closing the loop — reading conditions, deciding, and actuating hardware back in the field.
Java 17 and Spring Boot services, REST and SOAP APIs, Spring Cloud microservices with OpenFeign and Ribbon, WebSocket real-time reporting and background processing.
Relational and NoSQL design, PL/SQL procedures, schema and query optimisation, and the reporting layers on top — from Oracle enterprise stacks to graph stores.
Full SDLC ownership: requirements, architecture, build, test, deploy. Containerised delivery, CI pipelines, monitoring frameworks and legacy migration without downtime.
Three threads, one question: can it show its working?
Shipping the thing, not the slide
Every system here reached users. The student risk agent, the desktop assistant and the mental-health classifier all began as questions and ended as running software — trained, evaluated, integrated and deployed, not left in a notebook.
Governance that survives an org chart
Most AI governance writing stops at principles. SAGE-GOV, C-3F and Star-TBL are deliberately operational — pillars, phases, audit trails and metrics an SME can actually run without a compliance department.
Making AI legible in the classroom
Detection-led approaches to generative AI are losing. My work argues for the opposite — transparent, co-intelligent assessment where both the student's reasoning and the system's reasoning can be inspected. That's CIAN, and it's what the PhD is taking further.
Eight named models, not eight sets of principles.
Each one is an operational artefact: pillars, phases, metrics. Tap any card to open it.
Modular lifecycle model embedding privacy, fairness, environmental accountability and human oversight into AI-powered advertising.
Six-pillar roadmap — strategy, readiness, governance, ethical & environmental-by-design, pilot–monitor–scale, stakeholder engagement — for ESG-aligned digital transformation.
Privacy-preserving federated learning for cross-border FinTech that satisfies multi-jurisdictional AML/KYC regulation with an auditable governance architecture.
Pedagogical framework redefining assessment as a co-intelligent, transparent and accountable process supporting AI-augmented creativity and reflection.
Recentres internal QA on the student learning experience, treating it as the primary object and performance metrics as evaluative signals rather than ends.
Four-phase implementation pathway linking AI use cases to auditable energy benchmarks, causal impact evaluation and verifiable net-zero outcomes.
Scalable, governance-aware model letting SMEs combine predictive, prescriptive and generative AI to improve economic, environmental and social supply chain performance.
Hybrid architectures pairing classical embedded processors with remote or compact quantum co-processors, plus engineering and governance pathways for deployment.
11 systems that shipped.
Machine learning and agents, computer vision, IoT rigs that read the physical world, Android apps running models on-device, and enterprise platforms from the Java and Spring years. Each one owned end to end — data pipeline, model, service layer, interface, deployment. Percentages are measured or estimated against the baseline they replaced.
Student Performance & Dropout Risk Prediction Agent
An AI agent that reads attendance, submissions, grades and engagement signals to surface learners at risk before the risk becomes an outcome.
- Built the first working version of the risk engine, cutting manual monitoring effort by an estimated 50%.
- Trained a classification model on academic and behavioural data, lifting identification consistency by roughly 35%.
- Wired the model into a tutor-facing dashboard producing risk summaries, support recommendations and follow-up actions.
AI Desktop Assistant Agent
A Windows desktop assistant that runs local or hosted models and takes the repetitive edges off a working day.
- Built in Python and Flask with an HTML/CSS/JS front end — tasks, notes, reminders, memory and file operations, around 40% less time in manual workflows.
- Added local Llama/Ollama and OpenAI-compatible model support for workspace search, file summarisation and web lookup, improving retrieval speed by roughly 60%.
- Shipped safety-focused automation controls, diagnostics, .env configuration and Windows setup scripts, halving setup and troubleshooting time.
Scratch & Dent Detection in Vehicles
A computer vision system that finds surface damage on vehicle photographs and says exactly where it is and what kind it is.
- Built an instance segmentation pipeline with Mask R-CNN in PyTorch to localise and label damage regions rather than just classify a whole image.
- Trained and evaluated on the CarDD dataset, separating scratches from dents at the pixel-mask level.
- Aimed at scalable inspection workflows — insurance claims, fleet checks and rental handovers that currently rely on a person walking round the car.
Image Captioning with Attention
An encoder–decoder model that looks at a photograph and writes a sentence describing it, attending to different regions as each word is generated.
- Built a full training pipeline in PyTorch on the Flickr8k dataset, from preprocessing and vocabulary construction through to evaluation.
- Used EfficientNet-B0 as the CNN feature extractor feeding an LSTM decoder with an attention mechanism over image regions.
- Implemented beam-search decoding at inference to raise caption quality over greedy sampling.
Mental Health Language Classification Platform
A context-aware web platform that reads written input for behavioural and mental-health indicators, then presents insight without overreaching into diagnosis.
- Collected input, analysed indicators and surfaced AI-supported insight, reducing manual assessment and reporting effort by an estimated 50%.
- Trained and evaluated a model to identify risk patterns from contextual signals, improving prediction consistency by around 35%.
- Owned the full pipeline: preprocessing, feature engineering, model integration, dashboard deployment and privacy-conscious handling of sensitive data.
Smart Agriculture Monitoring System
Field sensors read the soil, an on-device model decides whether the crop needs water, and the farmer can start the pump from their phone. A closed loop, end to end.
- Built an ESP8266 sensor rig capturing soil moisture, temperature, humidity and water level, streaming readings to Firebase in real time.
- Wrote an Android application that pulls live data and runs an on-device ML model to decide whether irrigation is needed.
- Closed the loop with remote pump control from the app over IoT-enabled devices — the system reads, decides and acts without anyone walking the field.
Rice Seed Health Detection
Point a phone camera at rice seed and get a healthy-or-not answer immediately, with no network round trip.
- Built an Android application that classifies seed health in real time from live camera input.
- Ran a lightweight model on-device through TensorFlow Lite so it works in the field without connectivity.
- Trained the classifier via Google Teachable Machine, then exported and integrated it — giving farmers and researchers a fast, repeatable quality check.
Cow Monitoring System
A wearable sensor rig for cattle, built to make herd health legible as data rather than as a farmer's hunch.
- Built the data collection device around an Adafruit ESP8266, combining an MLX90614 infrared thermometer with an accelerometer.
- Captured movement and body-temperature datasets suitable for training downstream behaviour and health models.
- Enabled real-time monitoring of herd health and behaviour patterns from continuously streamed sensor readings.
Incubator Monitoring System
Continuous temperature and humidity monitoring for an incubator, where drift of a couple of degrees is the difference between a hatch and a loss.
- Built the monitoring device on an ESP8266 with an AM2302 temperature and humidity sensor.
- Captured continuous environmental readings for real-time tracking against target incubation conditions.
- Designed the rig for reliable long-run data collection rather than spot checks.
Task Tracker Hub
Employee activity tracking built for visibility and accountability rather than surveillance theatre.
- Led development of task-level tracking to improve workforce visibility and operational performance management.
- Delivered secure real-time reporting and background processing for centralised monitoring and data-informed decisions.
- Introduced idle-time alerts and activity justification prompts to strengthen productivity discipline.
- Led the move from Java Swing to JavaFX, achieving an 80% improvement in user satisfaction.
Asset Management System
Full asset lifecycle management — procurement through to disposal — for an organisation that needed its numbers to reconcile.
- Designed and implemented procurement, allocation, tracking and disposal flows, reducing reporting errors by 30%.
- Delivered role-based access control and authentication, strengthening governance and improving security by 40%.
- Oversaw cost, depreciation and end-of-life tracking modules for accurate financial reporting and compliance.
How the work actually gets done.
Full SDLC ownership
Requirements analysis, architecture, design, implementation, testing and deployment — working alongside clients, business analysts and QA rather than throwing builds over a wall.
Legacy migration
Led a Struts-to-Spring-Boot migration that rebuilt core functionality while improving performance, scalability and maintainability, plus a Java Swing to JavaFX rewrite that lifted satisfaction 80%.
ML pipelines end to end
Preprocessing, feature engineering, model training and evaluation, then integration into a dashboard — including privacy-conscious handling where the data is sensitive.
Production reliability
Monitoring frameworks, performance analytics, incident management and RBAC-backed access control, built across three years running enterprise IT operations.
What I actually use.
Grouped honestly. The ML and LLM work is what I build with now; the Java and Spring stack is years of production experience behind it; the academic practice is daily work. Percentages are my own read, not a certification.
12 groups.
Seven years of shipping software, and teaching how it's built.
I build AI systems for a living, research how to keep them accountable, and teach software engineering at degree level. The three feed each other constantly.
The engineering came first and never stopped. Java and Spring in Lahore — a Struts-to-Spring-Boot migration, microservices for a multi-vendor ordering platform, then team-lead roles on asset lifecycle and workforce tracking systems. Then London: three years running enterprise IT operations, and since 2025 my own company building for clients. Somewhere in there I discovered I was better at explaining the architecture than defending it in a standup, and the teaching started alongside it.
Most of my building energy now goes into AI and ML. A student risk-prediction agent that reads attendance, submissions, grades and engagement signals and flags learners before they fall through. A Windows desktop assistant running local Llama/Ollama or OpenAI-compatible models with tool use, memory, file handling and safety controls. A context-aware NLP platform that detects mental-health indicators in written language, with privacy handling designed in from the start. Each one is a full pipeline — preprocessing, feature engineering, training, evaluation, integration, deployment — not a notebook.
Since 2024 I've been a Lecturer and Module Leader at Regent College London, a University of Greater Manchester delivery partner, teaching computing and software engineering across Levels 3–7. I lead module design and moderation, write assessments and module guides, and supervise dissertations. I teach on the PCC model — prepare, collaborate, consolidate — because the interesting part of a class is what happens when students arrive having already read something.
In 2025 I founded Twelvetech Systems to do this properly: AI agents, chatbots, automation tooling and bespoke platforms, delivered end to end from requirements through to client handover. The same year I began visiting lecturing at London Brookes College. In 2026 I joined an IEEE Standards Association revision committee working on the standard for engineering and managing websites for systems, software and services information.
My research sits at the join — fifteen outputs across AI governance, sustainable digital transformation, quantum machine learning, FinTech compliance and assessment design, most of them producing a named, operational framework rather than a set of principles. I have a PhD in Computer Science in progress at the University of Greater Manchester, researching explainable AI in higher education assessment.
Five qualifications, two countries.
Researching explainable AI in higher education assessment — the thread running through CIAN, PLEX-QA and the wider governance work.
DevOps, research methods, contemporary software engineering practices, software project management, advanced programming, database systems and cloud computing, with additional study in AI and machine learning.
Programming, data structures, algorithms, database management, networking, software development and systems analysis.
Mathematics, physics and chemistry.
Mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology.
Recognised where it counts.
Six programmes, 2025.
Two guest sessions, April 2025.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Healthcare, Education and Industry
Invited session on practical AI applications, emerging career pathways, and building applied technical skill through projects, coding and continuous learning.
Information Technology, Digital Skills and Career Counselling
Invited talk on academic progression, employability, AI-related career pathways and continuous professional development in the technology sector.
Eleven roles across engineering, founding and teaching.
Engineering and founding first, then the standards work, then the teaching — each block newest first. Filter by track, or expand any role for the detail.
- Founded an AI-focused software company delivering custom agents, chatbots, automation tooling, web platforms and bespoke systems — improving client workflow efficiency by an estimated 40–60%.
- Direct end-to-end product development: requirements, UI/UX, backend engineering, model and API integration, testing, deployment and handover — cutting turnaround by roughly 35%.
- Built the company's digital presence, service strategy and client acquisition pipeline.
- Positioned the business around AI automation, predictive analytics and intelligent systems for digital transformation.
- Revising the technical standard on Systems and Software Engineering — engineering and management of websites for systems, software and services information.
- Co-revised the Testing and Validation of Websites section with the international working group.
- Owned enterprise IT operations end to end — availability, performance optimisation, incident management and service continuity for business-critical functions.
- Aligned infrastructure, applications and support teams to standardise process, speed incident resolution and lift service delivery measurably.
- Introduced monitoring frameworks and performance analytics that reduced downtime, improved resilience and enabled data-driven decisions at organisational level.
- Led migration from Struts to Spring Boot, rebuilding core functionality and improving performance, scalability and maintainability.
- Built front-end and back-end for the Asset Management project in Java, PL/SQL, Struts and JSF.
- Worked with clients, business analysts and QA across the SDLC, achieving a 15% reduction in processing time for key operations.
- Backend developer on Task Tracker Hub and Click to Mail — business logic in Java and Spring (Boot, MVC, Data JPA, WebSocket, Data REST).
- Partnered with the CTO, project manager and testing team to integrate backend services with front-end designs against fixed deadlines.
- Contributed across the full SDLC: requirements analysis, design, development, testing and deployment.
- Backend developer on a multi-vendor online food ordering system using Java, Python, Spring Boot and Flask.
- Built scalable microservices supporting multiple vendors — 20% faster order processing, 15% less downtime.
- Lecture across Levels 3–7 computing modules — Advanced Software Development, Contemporary Software Engineering Practices, Research Methods, Cloud Technologies, Data Structures and Algorithms, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, Relational Databases — alongside dissertation supervision.
- Design and deliver module content on the PCC model (Prepare, Collaborate, Consolidate) with assessments and module guides aligned to learning outcomes, OfS requirements and partner quality assurance standards.
- Lead module moderation: review assessments, exam papers and briefs for constructive alignment with learning objectives.
- Also lecture across Levels 3–7 business and management modules, from Business Environment and Accounting Principles through Strategic Management, Corporate Governance and International HRM.
- Collaborate with faculty, programme leaders and academic partners to keep content current against partner guidelines and institutional administration processes.
- Contribute to institutional publications and research outputs as part of the research team.
- Participate in student recruitment, including interviews for intention-to-study applicants.
- Teach across business and computing modules including Marketing Processes and Planning, Leadership and Management, Accounting Principles and Managing Human Resources.
- Lead module planning, delivery and academic coordination against curriculum objectives, assessment requirements and quality assurance standards.
- Design and review teaching materials, assessments and learning activities supporting engagement, progression and industry relevance.
- Taught Computer Science and coding at KS3, KS4 and KS5, setting homework and exam-style questions.
- Supervised classes and maintained lesson continuity during teacher absence.
- Tutored Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Computer Science and coding across KS3–KS5.
- Supported SEN learners, including students with ADHD, through personalised coaching that built confidence alongside attainment.
- Worked to AQA, Edexcel and OCR specifications, maintaining subject-network membership to stay current with best practice.
- Delivered lessons designed to move students measurably through the specification and into stronger exam outcomes.
- Assessed homework with constructive written feedback supporting continuous progression.
- Ran mock exams, revision workshops and project showcases to raise engagement across AQA, Edexcel and OCR routes.
Frameworks, not principles.
Fifteen outputs across AI governance, assessment design, sustainability, quantum machine learning and regulated finance — ten of them published, four as first author, with eight named operational models between them. Published through IEEE Xplore, Springer Nature, the University of Oxford and Regent College London.
Eight models you can actually run.
Tap a card to see what it decomposes into.
Modular lifecycle model embedding privacy, fairness, environmental accountability and human oversight into AI-powered advertising.
Six-pillar roadmap — strategy, readiness, governance, ethical & environmental-by-design, pilot–monitor–scale, stakeholder engagement — for ESG-aligned digital transformation.
Privacy-preserving federated learning for cross-border FinTech that satisfies multi-jurisdictional AML/KYC regulation with an auditable governance architecture.
Pedagogical framework redefining assessment as a co-intelligent, transparent and accountable process supporting AI-augmented creativity and reflection.
Recentres internal QA on the student learning experience, treating it as the primary object and performance metrics as evaluative signals rather than ends.
Four-phase implementation pathway linking AI use cases to auditable energy benchmarks, causal impact evaluation and verifiable net-zero outcomes.
Scalable, governance-aware model letting SMEs combine predictive, prescriptive and generative AI to improve economic, environmental and social supply chain performance.
Hybrid architectures pairing classical embedded processors with remote or compact quantum co-processors, plus engineering and governance pathways for deployment.
Where the work has landed.
Fifteen outputs.
AIEOU Shared Research Agenda 2026
A research agenda on the future of artificial intelligence in education — defining interdisciplinary research priorities, governance considerations and collaborative pathways for responsible AI integration across global education systems.
Recentring Internal Quality Assurance on the Student Learning Experience: The PLEX-QA Approach
Reframes internal quality assurance as a recursive enhancement system, treating the learning experience as the primary object of QA while performance metrics act as evaluative signals rather than ends in themselves.
Quantum Machine Learning: A Transformative Approach for Big Data and Complex Systems
Examines hybrid quantum-classical workflows, quantum data encoding and variational quantum circuits, and where they plausibly land across education, research and industry.
Beyond Bans and Bots: A Self-Determination Theory Approach to Academic Integrity and Generative AI
Argues for a partnership model of generative AI use built on autonomy, competence and relatedness, as an alternative to detection-led compliance regimes.
Federated Learning for Cross-Border FinTech Compliance: A TRACER-Based Framework for Auditable AML/KYC
A compliance-first federated AI framework for cross-border FinTech, enabling privacy-preserving model training while satisfying multi-jurisdictional regulation through auditable federated governance.
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Enhancing Triple Bottom Line Sustainability in UK SME Supply Chains
A scalable, governance-aware model letting SMEs combine predictive, prescriptive and generative AI to improve economic, environmental and social supply chain performance.
Embedded Quantum Machine Learning in Embedded Systems: Feasibility, Hybrid Architectures and Quantum Co-Processors
Assesses the feasibility of quantum machine learning at the edge, proposing hybrid architectures that pair classical embedded processors with remote or compact quantum co-processors.
Measuring and Governing AI-Enabled Decision Transformation in Business
An integrative governance and measurement framework linking AI workflow embedment, stewardship capability, accountability structures and decision-quality metrics to value capture and risk management.
Context-Aware Machine Learning for Detecting Clinical Mental Health Indicators in Social Media
A feature-driven NLP framework over large-scale Reddit data that separates clinical signals of depression and anxiety from general negative mood, with privacy and ethical safeguards built in.
AI Governance Capability for AI-Enabled Digital Transformation: A Curated Systematic Review and Research Agenda
A multidimensional governance framework spanning data stewardship, model lifecycle management, explainability, human oversight and accountability.
Integrating Generative AI and Green Technology in Enterprise Governance
A six-pillar roadmap — strategy, readiness, governance, ethical and environmental-by-design, pilot–monitor–scale, stakeholder engagement — for ESG-aligned digital transformation in SMEs and large enterprises.
Digital Twins to Achieve Net-Zero: A Comprehensive Framework for the Power Sector in Bangladesh
Addresses gaps in net-zero policy, real-time energy monitoring and sustainable energy governance, showing how digital twins enable predictive analysis, optimisation and emissions reduction.
Pedagogical Innovation in the GenAI Era: Designing and Assessing Student Submissions through a Strategic Framework
The Co-Intelligence Assessment Nexus redefines assessment as a co-intelligent, transparent and accountable process supporting AI-augmented creativity, reflection and personalised learning.
Integration of Generative AI in Digital Marketing: A Framework for Sustainable Advertisement
Analyses sustainability risk in AI-driven advertising — environmental impact, ethics, governance, digital clutter — and proposes a modular lifecycle model embedding privacy, fairness, environmental accountability and human oversight.
AI-Driven Energy Efficiency in UK Manufacturing: Causal Impacts on Emissions and Cost
A four-phase implementation pathway linking AI use cases to auditable energy benchmarks, causal impact evaluation and verifiable net-zero outcomes.
IEEE Standards Association.
Systems and Software Engineering — engineering and management of websites for systems, software and services information
Member of the revision committee, working internationally on the updated technical standard, including co-revision of the section on testing and validation of websites.
33 computing modules, Levels 3 to 7.
Delivered on the BEng (Hons) Software Engineering, BSc (Hons) Computing, MSc Software Engineering and MSc Artificial Intelligence programmes — plus module leadership, moderation, internal verification and dissertation supervision.
The PCC model.
Contact time is the scarcest resource in a module, so it should be spent on the things that only work with other people in the room.
Reading, pre-recorded explanation and a short check of understanding, so nobody arrives cold and contact time isn't spent on transmission.
Argument, critique, live debugging and group design — the work that genuinely needs a room, a whiteboard and other people's disagreement.
Applied tasks, formative feedback and reflection that turn the session into something retrievable rather than something attended.
As Module Leader and Moderator I write module guides and assessments, run moderation on papers and briefs for constructive alignment, and keep content mapped to OfS requirements and partner quality assurance standards. I've supported SEN learners including students with ADHD through personalised coaching, and I work to AQA, Edexcel and OCR specifications at secondary level.
33 modules across five levels.
6 of them sit on the AI and machine learning track — applied AI, data mining, computer vision, deep learning and generative NLP.
Six named dissertations, 20+ group projects.
Alongside these, 20+ postgraduates supervised on group projects in applied AI and computing.
Teaching, research, or something you want built.
Based in London, United Kingdom. Open to AI/ML engineering work through Twelvetech, research collaboration, guest lectures, external examining and peer review.
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