Khawar Islam
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) - Gen AI at Upendi.app
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolKhawar Islam is a machine learning and computer vision leader with 11 years of experience, currently serving as CTO for GenAI at Upendi.app and pursuing a PhD in Computer Vision and Machine Learning at the University of Melbourne. He blends deep learning research—spanning vision transformers, self-supervised learning, knowledge distillation and scene graphs—with practical GenAI engineering such as Stable Diffusion refiners, ControlNet, and IP-Adapter deployments. His background includes academic research on abusive content classifiers and large-scale dataset construction (10M+) as well as industrial work on object detection, segmentation, and low-data regimes. Comfortable moving between research and product, he has shipped both foundational models and applied tools for ID/face workflows, OCR, and realistic image synthesis. Notably, he pairs a strong publication and lab pedigree from Sejong University and CVPR Lab with hands-on engineering across PyTorch/TensorFlow and NVIDIA toolchains. He brings a hybrid profile: a researcher who repeatedly turns complex vision concepts into production-ready GenAI features.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Engineering, Master's degree Computer Engineering at Sejong UniversityThe University of Melbourne
English, Urdu
Github Skills (200)
scene-text10
facenet10
text-detection10
face-alignment10
face-recognition10
optical-character-recognition10
computer-vision10
easyocr10
mobilenet10
data-mining10
xception10
openface10
opencv10
python10
efficientnet10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
khawar-islam/ImageCompression
Sep 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:24 commits, 1 comment, 1 issue in 8 months
khawar-islam/diffuseMix
Apr 2024 - Jan 2026
Official PyTorch implementation of DiffuseMix : Label-Preserving Data Augmentation with Diffusion Models (CVPR'2024)
Contributions:10 pushes, 19 comments, 13 issues in 1 year 9 months
data-augmentationdiffusion-modelspytorchcutmixgenerative-data-augmentation
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