Hello, I'm

Safia Baloch

Wandering in nature is my first thing and asking good questions is second. Inspired by the algorithms applied behind beautiful nature. Graph are the most beautiful techniques to understand science.

About me

I am computer science lecturer at GIKI.
My research focuses on Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models (LLMs), and Agentic AI, with an interest in developing trustworthy, human-centered AI systems. I investigate how language models and intelligent agents understand, retrieve, and utilize knowledge in multilingual and real-world settings, including multilingual/low-resource NLP, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and information retrieval and knowledge grounding.
I was awarded Outstanding Instructor by the Data Science Department at GIKI in May 2025. Current research focus on human-centered Multi Agent Systems and Responsible AI

  • Current Work: Lecturer, Data Science Department, GIKI
  • Education: MS Computer Science, FAST NUCES Karachi
  • Contact: shahalsafia45@gmail.com
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Work Experience

  • Academia

  • Lecturer - GIK Institute

    2024 - Present

    Teaching Data Science, Cloud Computing, DevOps Lab, Information Retrieval, Big Data Analytics - Coordinator, Data Science Students Summer Internships & Curriculum Committee - Batch Advisor, DS Final Year Students - Supervising FYPs including Health Atlas (AI-driven prescription digitization & disease mapping) - Instructor, ML to LLM Summer Bootcamp (Jul–Aug 2025) - Outstanding Instructor Award, May 2025

  • Lecturer - FAST NUCES Karachi

    2021 - 2024

    Taught Operating Systems, Discrete Structures, Data Structures, Parallel Distributed Computing - Faculty Head, ACM Chapter (2021–22) and ACM-Women Chapter (2022–23) - Supervised research on virtual therapy, ML-based TB detection, resume screening

  • Lab Instructor - FAST NUCES Karachi

    2017 - 2020

    Labs for Programming Fundamentals, Data Structures, Operating Systems, ICT Tools

  • Industry

  • SQA Engineer - OvrLod Karachi

    Oct 2016 - June 2017

Publications [upgrading...]

  • Towards Human-Centered Multi-Agent Systems: Integrating Cognition, Culture, Values and Cooperation in AI Agents

    Safia Baloch, Rahemeen Khan

    arXiv preprint · 2026

    arXiv [arXiv:2606.08274]
  • Governed by Agents: A Survey on the Role of Agentic AI in Future Computing Environments

    Nauman Ali Murad, Safia Baloch

    arXiv preprint · 2025

    arXiv [arXiv:2509.16676]
  • Forecasting the Stability of COVID-19 Vaccine Companies Stock Market using LSTM and Time-Series Models

    Rahemeen Khan, Safia Baloch

    International Conference on Communication, Computing and Digital Systems (C-CODE / ICCDS) · 2023

    Conference [IEEE]
  • UrduTokBench: A Multidomain Tokenization Benchmark for Urdu NLP

    Safia Baloch et al.

    In Preparation
  • From Labels to Latent Topics: Benchmarking Text Mining Approaches on AG News

    Safia Baloch et al.

    In Preparation
  • Projects [under work...]

    Here you find my thesis, Towards Human Action Understanding in Social Media Videos using Multimodal Models, together with all resources (Datasets & ML models).

    My Hobbies

    Everything is about Nature