Teaching

1. 
   Nov 2023 – present

   Teaching and academic support

   Johannes Kepler University Linz · Austria

   Teaching and mentoring at undergraduate and postgraduate level in machine learning, multimedia and computational perception — lectures, project supervision, research guidance, course-material development and modern learning technologies.

2. 
   Jan – Dec 2016

   Lecturer

   National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences · Faisalabad, Pakistan

   Sole lecturer for three undergraduate courses — Operating Systems, Web Programming and Advanced Computer Architecture — including syllabus preparation, assessment design and examination.

Prepared to teach: Machine Learning · Deep Learning · Natural Language Processing · Computer Vision · Multimodal Learning · Pattern Recognition · Research Methods in AI.

Research supervision

14 supervised and co-supervised student research projects across multimodal learning, content moderation, information extraction, emotion recognition, recommendation and captioning. Six have so far produced peer-reviewed publications — each is linked below.

• SB-BEVFusion: Enhancing the Robustness against Sensor Malfunction and Corruptions
  Markus Essl · JKU Linz
  → IEEE ICIP 2026
• Document Redaction as an Object Detection Task
  Niklas Maurer · JKU Linz

• Robust Harmful Meme Detection under Missing Modalities via Shared Representation Learning
  Felix Breiteneder · JKU Linz
  → ACM Web Conference 2026
• Inductive Bias for Face-Voice Association
  Oleksandr Kats · JKU Linz
  → ICASSP 2026
• Single-Branch Network Architectures to Close the Modality Gap in Multimodal Recommendation
  Christian Ganhör · JKU Linz
  → ACM TORS 2025
• Emo-MAVCeleb: A Multilingual and Multimodal Emotion Recognition Dataset
  Dominik Hübner · JKU Linz
• Face-Voice Association under Multilingual Settings
  Daniel Kutasi · JKU Linz
• Music4All A+A: A Multimodal Dataset for Music Information Retrieval Tasks
  Jonas Geiger · JKU Linz
• A New Baseline for Harmful Meme Detection under Missing Modalities
  Felix Breiteneder · JKU Linz

• Learning Face-Voice Association
  Andreas Wagner · JKU Linz

• Guiding Attention using Partial-Order Relationships for Image Captioning
  Murad Popattia · NUCES, Karachi
  → CVPR 2022
• Cross-modal Speaker Verification and Recognition: A Multilingual Perspective
  Muhammad Saad Saeed · UET Taxila · 2021
  → CVPR 2021
• Fine-Grained Image Classification
  Moreno Caraffini · University of Insubria · 2019
• Visual Vehicle Detection Scheme on Low-Powered Embedded GPU
  Basharat Hussain · UET Taxila · 2017