Omer Ishaq
Verified Expert in Engineering
AI, Machine and Deep Learning Developer
Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan
Toptal member since April 22, 2022
Omer is a machine and deep learning researcher, engineer, and consultant with significant experience in academic research, consulting, and developing computer vision solutions in the software industry. He is proficient with PyTorch, OpenCV, Scikit-image, Scikit-learn, Google-Cloud-VMs, Google-Cloud-Run, and Google-Storage. Omer's interests include image classification, segmentation, object detection, clustering, low shot learning, image registration, and facial recognition.
Portfolio
Experience
- Image Processing - 16 years
- Machine Learning - 12 years
- Deep Learning - 7 years
- Python 3 - 7 years
- PyTorch - 6 years
- Scikit-learn - 5 years
- OpenCV - 5 years
- Natural Language Processing (NLP) - 1 year
Preferred Environment
Ubuntu, Spyder, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), OpenCV, PyTorch, Scikit-learn
The most amazing...
...project I've designed and developed recently is a vision-based system for detecting, identifying, and reading product and label information in supermarkets.
Work Experience
Lead/Head AI
SiParadigm
- Led the AI teams in designing and developing multi-agentic healthcare robust and accurate healthcare diagnostic solutions based on multi-modal large language models and deep learning.
- Played an integral role in project planning and execution while ensuring regulatory compliance with standards such as HIPAA.
- Performed data analysis over large medical datasets.
Consultant (Deep Learning and Image Analysis)
Freelance Work for DTEC DDC
- Developed a computer vision system for detecting, identifying, and reading product and label information from shelves in supermarkets.
- Built object detection, classification, and OCR pipelines.
- Deployed massively multi-threaded solutions on Google Cloud Run.
- Created a tool for unsupervised image clustering based on Siamese Networks.
Assistant Professor (Image Analysis and Deep Learning)
Air University, Pakistan
- Supervised graduate students in the field of deep learning and computer vision.
- Spearheaded a project for the creation of a Kinect-based tool for automated assistance in physiotherapy.
- Oversaw a project on vision-based facial recognition.
Ph.D. Candidate (Full-time Employee at Uppsala University)
Uppsala University
- Developed an image processing and deep learning tool for the detection of fluorescent biomarkers in microscopy images using Caffe.
- Created a tool for the automated measurement of the tail curvature of Zebrafish in microscopy images for assistance in high throughput screening in drug discovery. A research paper was published in International Symposium on biomedical imaging.
- Developed a tool for super resolution microscopy analysis using compressed sensing. A research paper detailing the results was published in the International Conference on pattern recognition.
Research Assistant (Automated Medical Image Analysis) and MS Student
Simon Fraser University
- Developed a tool for statistical shape analysis of the corpus callosum in magnetic resonance images.
- Created a tool for registration-based segmentation of the corpus callosum in magnetic resonance images.
- Built a tool for mid-sagittal plane identification in brain MR volumes.
Experience
Automated Quantification of Zebrafish Tail Deformation for High-throughput Drug Screening
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24499782/Computer Vision System for Supermarkets
Detection and Classification of Fluorescent Biomarkers in Microscopy Images
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Uppsala University - Uppsala, Sweden
Master's Degree in Computer Science
Simon Fraser University - Vancouver, Canada
Skills
Libraries/APIs
OpenCV, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, LSTM, Pandas, Hugging Face Transformers
Tools
You Only Look Once (YOLO), Spyder, Scikit-image, MATLAB, ITK, ChatGPT, n8n
Languages
Python, Python 3
Frameworks
Caffe, Flask, Agentic Frameworks, LlamaIndex
Platforms
Ubuntu, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ollama
Storage
Google Cloud, Elasticsearch
Other
Image Processing, Machine Learning, Medical Imaging, Computer Vision, Large Language Models (LLMs), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Image Recognition, Data Science, Classification, Computer Vision Algorithms, Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG), Deep Learning, Image Analysis, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Leadership, Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT), OpenAI GPT-3 API, Data Analysis, Data Visualization, BERT, Text-to-Speech (TTS), Predictive Modeling, Data Analytics, Data Engineering, Image Segmentation, Video Processing, Compressed Sensing, Hugging Face, Chatbots, Regular Expressions, Genetic Algorithms, Frameworks, Language Models, Prompt Engineering, OpenAI GPT-4 API, LangChain, Gemini API
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