Curriculum Vitae

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Education

MSc in Artificial Intelligence

Queen Mary University of London

Sep 2022 - Sep 2023

Merit (2:1)

BSc in Computer Science

BRAC University

Jan 2017 - Oct 2021

CGPA 3.45 | VC's List & Dean's List

Research Experience

Research Fellow

Sep 2024 - Present

Fatima Fellowship

  • Designed MIRAGE, an agentic multimodal misinformation detection pipeline orchestrating LVLMs with web search tools.
  • Co-led development of cross-graph attention GNNs for image-text consistency scoring.
  • Achieved 93.05% accuracy on evaluation set, outperforming best LLM baseline by 2.82%.
GNN LVLM Agentic AI

Professional Experience

AI Engineer (Lead Architect)

Aug 2025 - Present

Technovative Solutions Ltd., Manchester

  • Leading agentic AI architecture for EU programmes (CLIMATEAdaptEOSC, EcoPlast).
  • Mentoring a team of 10 junior engineers and setting research roadmaps.
  • Operationalized Prithvi EO model for geospatial workflows and self-supervised vision backbones (SimCLR).
  • Deployed foundation models as containerized services with CI/CD.
Architecture Geospatial AI Docker CI/CD

Data Scientist

May 2024 - July 2024

Faculty AI, London

  • Delivered production ML services for supply chain reliability prediction.
  • Built end-to-end pipelines with XGBoost and LightGBM.
  • Deployed FastAPI microservices with monitoring and failsafe mechanisms.
FastAPI XGBoost MLOps

Technical Skills

Languages & Core:

Python PyTorch NumPy Pandas C++ SQL

LLMs & Agents:

RAG LangChain LoRA/QLoRA RLHF/GRPO Hugging Face

Machine Learning:

Graph Neural Networks PyG Reinforcement Learning SimCLR XGBoost

MLOps & Cloud:

Docker FastAPI AWS (EC2/S3) GCP Vertex AI W&B

Contact

Email: sharears4077@gmail.com

Phone: +44 7308 009 046

Location: Manchester, UK