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Syed RazaAvailable for AI/ML engineering, research & collaboration

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.

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Building atTwelvetech Systems
Lecturing atRegent College London
ResearchPhD in progress
StandardsIEEE SA committee
BasedLondon, United Kingdom
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01 — What I build

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.

AI agents & assistantsAGT

Autonomous desktop and workflow agents with tool use, persistent memory, file handling and safety-focused automation controls. Local or hosted models, swappable at runtime.

PythonFlaskOllama / LlamaOpenAI APIAgent tooling
Applied ML & predictionML

Classification and risk models end to end — preprocessing, feature engineering, training, evaluation, then integration behind a dashboard people actually use.

scikit-learnPandasNumPyModel evaluationFeature engineering
NLP & language systemsNLP

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.

NLPText classificationSentiment analysisPrivacy by design
Computer visionCV

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.

PyTorchMask R-CNNEfficientNet-B0TensorFlow LiteSegmentation
IoT & edge devicesIOT

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.

ESP8266ArduinoEmbedded CFirebaseAndroidSensor integration
Backend & microservicesAPI

Java 17 and Spring Boot services, REST and SOAP APIs, Spring Cloud microservices with OpenFeign and Ribbon, WebSocket real-time reporting and background processing.

Java 17Spring BootSpring CloudREST / SOAPWebSocket
Data & persistenceDAT

Relational and NoSQL design, PL/SQL procedures, schema and query optimisation, and the reporting layers on top — from Oracle enterprise stacks to graph stores.

PostgreSQLMySQLOracle / PL-SQLMongoDBNeo4jHibernate
Delivery & DevOpsOPS

Full SDLC ownership: requirements, architecture, build, test, deploy. Containerised delivery, CI pipelines, monitoring frameworks and legacy migration without downtime.

DockerKubernetesJenkinsMaven / GradleGitMonitoring
02 — Focus

Three threads, one question: can it show its working?

Engineering

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

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.

Assessment

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.

03 — Frameworks

Eight named models, not eight sets of principles.

Each one is an operational artefact: pillars, phases, metrics. Tap any card to open it.

PRISM+MA

Modular lifecycle model embedding privacy, fairness, environmental accountability and human oversight into AI-powered advertising.

Privacy, Responsibility, Impact, Sustainability, Measurement
Generative AIDigital marketingSustainabilityLifecycle governance
SAGE-GOVEN

Six-pillar roadmap — strategy, readiness, governance, ethical & environmental-by-design, pilot–monitor–scale, stakeholder engagement — for ESG-aligned digital transformation.

Sustainable AI–Green Enterprise Governance
ESGGreen techEnterprise governanceSME to large
C-3FFI

Privacy-preserving federated learning for cross-border FinTech that satisfies multi-jurisdictional AML/KYC regulation with an auditable governance architecture.

Compliance-First Federated Framework (TRACER)
Federated learningAML/KYCCross-borderAuditability
CIANED

Pedagogical framework redefining assessment as a co-intelligent, transparent and accountable process supporting AI-augmented creativity and reflection.

Co-Intelligence Assessment Nexus
GenAIAssessment designHigher educationSpringer chapter
PLEX-QAED

Recentres internal QA on the student learning experience, treating it as the primary object and performance metrics as evaluative signals rather than ends.

Primary Learning Experience–Centred Quality Assurance
Quality assuranceStudent experienceRecursive enhancement
AICEMIN

Four-phase implementation pathway linking AI use cases to auditable energy benchmarks, causal impact evaluation and verifiable net-zero outcomes.

AI-enabled Carbon and Energy Management
Net zeroUK manufacturingCausal inferenceBenchmarks
Star-TBLSU

Scalable, governance-aware model letting SMEs combine predictive, prescriptive and generative AI to improve economic, environmental and social supply chain performance.

Triple Bottom Line AI Adoption
Supply chainUK SMEsTriple bottom lineIEEE Xplore
EQMLQU

Hybrid architectures pairing classical embedded processors with remote or compact quantum co-processors, plus engineering and governance pathways for deployment.

Embedded Quantum Machine Learning
QuantumEdge & IoTHybrid architectureFeasibility