I’m a researcher (AI/ML) with interests in information diffusion in news and social media, multimodal news analysis, LLM-based multi-agent ecosystems, and information spreading barriers.

Affiliations

Jozef Stefan Institute
Postdoc
2024 – Present · Ljubljana · Slovenia

Univerza v Mariboru
Postdoc
2025 – 2026 · Maribor · Slovenia

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network
Early Stage researcher (ESR)
2020 – 2023

Jozef Stefan Institute
PhD
2020 – 2024 · Ljubljana · Slovenia

The British Library
ESR
Jul-Sept 2022 · London · UK

UK Web Archive
ESR
May-Jul 2021 · London · UK

PMAS Arid Agriculture University
Lecturer
2018 – 2020 · Gujrat · Pakistan

Nextbridge
Senior Software Engineer
2013 – 2018 · Lahore · Pakistan

Research Projects

PREPARE
Postdoc
2026 – Present · Ljubljana · Slovenia

TWON
Postdoc
2024 – 2026 · Ljubljana · Slovenia

AI4Hope
Postdoc
2025 – 2026 · Maribor · Slovenia

CLEOPATRA
PhD
2020 – 2023 · Ljubljana · Slovenia

Top publications

1. BAR-analytics: A web-based platform for analyzing information spreading barriers in news: Comparative analysis across multiple barriers and events at International Journal of Information Management Data Insights (Q1)
2. News dissemination: a semantic approach to barrier classification at Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (Q2)
3. Profiling the barriers to the spreading of news using news headlines at Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (Q2)
4. Analysis of Event-Centric News Spreading Barriers at Springer Nature
5. MM-claims: a dataset for multimodal claim detection in social media at NAACL (Top-tier)
6. Political and Economic Patterns in COVID-19 News: From Lockdown to Vaccination at IEEE Access (Q1)
7. Analysis of information cascading and propagation barriers across distinctive news events at Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (Q2)

Programming Languages & Tools

Objective-C

Swift

Kotlin

Java

Python

HTML

TypeScript

JavaScript

PyTorch

Hugging Face

React

Docker

Git

VS Code

Figma

Development Projects

Project 1

BizziBus

Project 2

VIET

Project 3

iMoves

Project 4

Triwire

Project 5

Medical Resource

Project 7

The Mouve

Bayut

Zameen

Project 10

DigitalLife

Project 11

MyBiv

Project 12

SchoolView

Project 13

Walk & Wake