Hafeez Ullah
Chairperson & Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, University of Gwadar
PhD Candidate in Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence Specialization, FAST-NUCES Karachi
hafeezullah@ug.edu.pk
I am the Chairperson of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Gwadar, where I have taught since 2017, and a PhD candidate in Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence Specialization at FAST — National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Karachi.
My research focuses on Generative AI, Natural Language Processing, and low-resource languages — in particular my mother tongue, Balochi. My PhD work spans corpus construction, contextual embeddings, named entity recognition, and fine-tuning large language models for Balochi. I built BNer, the first gold-standard NER dataset for Balochi (58,893 tokens across five domains), and contributed the Balochi language to Global PIQA, a participatory commonsense-reasoning benchmark built by 350+ researchers covering 140+ language varieties.
Alongside research, I have over nine years of experience in university teaching, departmental leadership, and IT governance: I launched the BS Computer Science (AI specialization) and BS Data Science programs at the University of Gwadar, served as Director of IT, and supervise undergraduate final-year projects and research students.
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Research interests
Low-Resource NLP
Corpus construction, tokenization, embeddings, and named entity recognition for Balochi and other Arabic-script languages.
Generative & Agentic AI
Fine-tuning large language models, LLM evaluation, and building agentic AI systems.
Multilingual Evaluation
Culturally grounded benchmarks and cross-lingual performance gaps in state-of-the-art LLMs.