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Hussain Shahbaz Khawaja

Hussain Shahbaz Khawaja

AI Strategist & Technical Lead, Generative AI expert

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Islamabad, Pakistan
Joined February 2026
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Summary

AI product and strategy leader — blends technical AI expertise with product strategy to guide AI initiatives and implementations at companies such as Troon Technologies, and in founder/lead roles. theorg+2
Educator and trainer — regularly delivers workshops, bootcamps and university-level instruction on machine learning, deep learning and generative AI (Atomcamp workshop, visiting faculty and training roles). atomcamp+2
Researcher in NLP and emotion analysis — contributed academic work on emotion lexicon expansion and has a research profile connected to the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences and AIM Lab. ieee+1
Active freelancer, community contributor and author — maintains Kaggle and GitHub activity, writes about freelancing and AI on Medium, and offers consulting/training services through platforms such as Topmate. kaggle+3

Work

Education

Projects

Writing

Domain Specific Emotion Lexicon Expansion

Conference paper describing CB-Lex, a method to automatically expand emotion lexicons for domain adaptation, showing improvements in emotion classification performance.

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Lessons from My 2.5-Year Journey as an AI Freelancer: $75K in Earnings

Medium blog post recounting experience as an AI freelancer, lessons learned about freelancing and earnings over a 2.5-year period.

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Data Science Ecosystem Report (Pakistan)

A report on the data science ecosystem in Pakistan co-authored/credited to Hussain Shahbaz Khawaja and others, documenting the local landscape and capabilities.

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Hobbies

Passionate reader and book enthusiast. medium