Hi, I'm Akhtar

Postdoc. Researcher (CV & ML)
MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates

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I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in Computer Vision at MBZUAI in Abu Dhabi. My research spans areas like Domain Adaptation, Uncertainty Estimation, Model Calibration, and Vision-Language Models (VLMs). Currently, I am focused on tackling challenges in Model Calibration, enhancing the accuracy of Weather Modeling, and improving Remote Sensing analysis through VLMs.

Advisors: Dr. Salman Khan, Dr. Fahad S Khan.

Publications (Selected)

People

Grateful for the opportunity to work with brilliant minds in recent years, including my advisors {Salman Khan (MBZUAI-UAE, ANU-Australia), Haris Khan (MBZUAI-UAE), Saquib Sarfraz (KIT, Mercedes-Germany), Fahad Khan (MBZUAI-UAE, Linkoping-Sweden), and Mohsen Ali (ITU-Pakistan)}, collaborators, and students. Below is a non-exhaustive list of students and early-career collaborators with whom I have had the privilege to supervise/collaborate, both in the past and currently.

Muhammad Sohail Danish

Muhammad Sohail Danish

Ph.D. student at MBZUAI. We are currently collaborating on remote sensing benchmarking and foundation models. He has co-authored papers at ICCV (Highlight) and CVPR as part of our joint research efforts.
Akashah Shabbir

Akashah Shabbir

Ph.D. student at MBZUAI. Currently collaborating with her on developing an agentic pipeline for remote sensing tasks.
Vishal Nedungadi

Vishal Nedungadi

Former researcher at MBZUAI. Collaborated with him on air pollution forecasting, which led to a Best Paper award at the ICML TerraBytes workshop. He is now a Ph.D. student at Wageningen University and Research.
Ashshak Sharifdeen

Ashshak Sharifdeen

Researcher at MBZUAI. Currently collaborating with him on model calibration for vision-language models. He co-authored a Highlight paper with us at CVPR.
Yohan Abeysinghe

Yohan Abeysinghe

Researcher at MBZUAI. Currently collaborating on air pollution forecasting using a refined modular framework that integrates diffusion mechanisms for climate modeling.
Syed Roshaan Ali

Syed Roshaan Ali

Currently collaborating on remote sensing benchmarking and foundation models. He contributed to our ICCV paper, which was accepted as a Highlight.
Muhammad Umer

Muhammad Umer

Researcher at MBZUAI. Currently collaborating with him on developing an agentic pipeline for remote sensing tasks.

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Curriculum Vitae (CV)

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