I am a researcher in AI/ML working on problems related to information understanding and analysis across news, social media, and clinical data.

Research Interests

• Information diffusion in news and social media
• Multimodal news analysis (text, images)
• LLM-based multi-agent systems and ecosystems
• Clinical data analysis and healthcare AI
• Plagiarism detection and content similarity modeling

Affiliations

Jozef Stefan Institute
Associate Researcher
2024 – Present · Ljubljana · Slovenia

Univerza v Mariboru
Associate Researcher
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
Associate Researcher
2026 – Present · Ljubljana · Slovenia

TWON
Associate Researcher
2024 – 2026 · Ljubljana · Slovenia

AI4Hope
Associate Researcher
2025 – 2026 · Maribor · Slovenia

CLEOPATRA
PhD
2020 – 2023 · Ljubljana · Slovenia

Top publications

1. (2026) Fake News Detection Through LLM-Driven Text Augmentation Across Media and Languages at Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction (Q1)
2. (2026) Constructing a dataset to support agent-based modeling of online interactions: users, topics, and interaction networks at IEEE access (Q1)
3. (2025) 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)
4. (2025) News dissemination: a semantic approach to barrier classification at Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (Q2)
5. (2025) Analysis of Event-Centric News Spreading Barriers at Springer Nature
6. (2023) Profiling the barriers to the spreading of news using news headlines at Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (Q2)
7. (2022) MM-claims: a dataset for multimodal claim detection in social media at NAACL (Top-tier)
8. (2022) Political and Economic Patterns in COVID-19 News: From Lockdown to Vaccination at IEEE Access (Q1)
9. (2022) Analysis of information cascading and propagation barriers across distinctive news events at Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (Q2)
10. (2016) Author Diarization Using Cluster-Distance Approach at CLEF (Working Notes)

Preprints/ arXiv/ SSRN Papers

1. (2026) TWON social media: A scalable MERN-stack platform for experimental research in online social networks
2. (2026) Simulating multi-agent social media ecosystem with LLMs: Modeling, evaluation, and structural effects of ranking mechanisms

Programming Languages & Tools

Objective-C

Swift

Kotlin

Java

Python

HTML

TypeScript

JavaScript

PyTorch

Hugging Face

React

Docker

Git

VS Code

Figma

Development Projects

VIZIBUS

VIET

VIET

iM

iMoves

TW

Triwire

MR

Medical Resource

TM

The Mouve

Bayut

Zameen

DL

DigitalLife

MB

MyBiv

SV

SchoolView

WW

Walk & Wake