Laeeq Aslam

Physics-Informed Forecasting | Urban Thermal Risk | Edge AI Optimization

Physics-Informed AI · Edge Deployment

Resilient AI for Energy, Climate, and Infrastructure Physics-informed models for sustainable systems — designed to run where they’re needed, even on constrained hardware

I build physics-informed forecasting systems for clean energy, grid reliability, and city-scale thermal-stress early warning. These models operate under edge constraints such as NVIDIA Jetson Nano while still delivering high-fidelity short-horizon forecasts of wind speed, electrical load, and near-surface air temperature under extreme regimes. My peer-reviewed publications include 10+ papers (6 first-author), with state-of-the-art error reductions such as 69.2% lower extreme-condition temperature error in dense urban cores and multi-hour wind predictions that outperform recent deep-learning baselines under strict memory and latency budgets.

Working Toward Global Sustainability Goals

This work supports clean and reliable energy access (SDG 7), sustainable and heat-resilient cities (SDG 11), and climate action and adaptation (SDG 13).

SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities SDG 13 Climate Action SDG 13 Climate Action

Current research trends in physics-informed AI for wind forecasting and urban climate resilience · AI / ML for climate change, wind energy, and SDG-aligned collaboration

Changsha, China (open to relocation)
(+86) 191 1883 2562

Publications & Research

Recent work in physics-informed forecasting, urban thermal risk, and embedded deployment.

Recent / Featured

All Publications

Experience

Track record from embedded systems and high-throughput vision pipelines to physics-informed forecasting for energy and climate resilience on constrained hardware.

PhD Researcher – ML & AI for Sustainable Systems

Central South University · Sept 2020 – Present

PhD

I design physics-informed sequence models for wind, load, and near-surface temperature forecasting, targeting grid reliability and urban thermal-stress early warning. This includes regime-adaptive focal losses, adaptive physics penalties, attention-equipped hybrid recurrent / convolutional temporal modules, and hardware-aware optimization for Jetson-class devices.

I led research end-to-end from problem formulation to publication, producing 6 first-author papers. The work aligns with a provincial Key R&D program on wind energy and grid optimization (Project 2020WK2007).

AI/ML Consultant – Edge Computing & Computer Vision

Bond and Built Pvt Ltd · Jul 2024 – Mar 2025

Industry

Built and scaled a footwear analytics pipeline handling 60+ concurrent video streams and ~50,000 daily inferences. Delivered production-grade market intelligence under real deployment and bandwidth constraints.

Machine Learning Engineer – Vision & Deployment

DLISION · May 2021 – Sept 2022

Industry

Led semantic segmentation and real-time detection pipelines. Tuned UNet variants with attention and focal loss to improve segmentation accuracy by ~3% over in-house baselines and optimized inference for deployment.

Lecturer & Research Assistant – Embedded Systems / AI

iUSE School of Engineering & IIUI · 2013 – 2020

Taught embedded systems, programming, and discrete-time signal processing. Built an Instrumentation & Measurement Lab for sensor-driven data acquisition in MATLAB. Supervised applied student projects in energy management, safety telemetry, and secure voting.

Investigated GAN-based medical diagnostics for breast cancer, with emphasis on data augmentation and robustness.

Education & Skills

Education

  1. PhD in Control Science & Machine Learning

    Central South University, China

    Sept 2020 – Present

  2. MS in Electronic Engineering Gold Medalist

    International Islamic University, Pakistan

    Sept 2015 – Aug 2017

  3. BS in Electronic Engineering

    International Islamic University, Pakistan

    Sept 2006 – Aug 2010

Technical Skills

Machine Learning & AI
Deep Learning · Computer Vision · Time-Series Forecasting
Programming & Tools
Python · MATLAB · C++ · TensorFlow · PyTorch · OpenCV · Edge Impulse
Deployment & Systems
Docker · AWS (EC2) · Git · Triton Inference Server
Hardware & IoT
Raspberry Pi · NVIDIA Jetson · Arduino Nano BLE Sense
Data & Optimization
Pandas · NumPy · Matplotlib · Seaborn · Feature Engineering

Awards & Memberships

Chinese Government CSC Scholarship (PhD)
Hunan Provincial Key R&D Program (Project 2020WK2007) — wind energy & grid optimization
Gold Medalist — MS in Electronic Engineering
Registered Engineer, Pakistan Engineering Council (ELECTRO/22837)
Member, IEEE

References

Academic supervision, senior mentorship, and active collaboration.

Prof. Runmin Zou PhD Supervisor

Deputy Dean, School of Automation, Central South University

rmzou@csu.edu.cn
Changsha, Hunan, China

Doctoral advisor for physics-informed forecasting and hardware-aware energy systems, including grid reliability and wind forecasting under embedded deployment constraints.

Prof. Aqdas Naveed Malik

Former Acting President & Former Vice President,
International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI), Pakistan

anaveed@iiu.edu.pk
Islamabad, Pakistan

Senior academic mentor during my MS in Electronic Engineering. Guided early work on intelligent sensing and signal processing that evolved into energy-forecasting and reliability research.

Asst. Prof. Gang Li

Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Mississippi State University, United States

gli@me.msstate.edu
Mississippi, USA

Collaborator on structural reliability, energy systems, and deployable learning architectures for sustainable operations. We are preparing joint work linking forecasting quality to operational resilience.

PyPI / Research Tooling

Lightweight, deployment-aware tooling. Built for reproducibility, ablation, and on-device inference.

ed-rvfl-sc

PyPI CPU-only Edge-ready

MIT License · Python ≥3.9

Repo

Ensemble Deep Random Vector Functional Link with skip connections (edRVFL-SC). Delivers deep-ML–level accuracy without GPU training, using closed-form layer solves and feature reuse. Targets ultra-fast training and inference on CPU and embedded boards.

Install
pip install ed-rvfl-sc
Non-iterative training,
100× faster setup,
Jetson-friendly.

TimeMesh

PyPI Forecasting pipeline

PyTorch · Temporal CNNs / LSTM / Transformer

Repo

Preprocessing and dataset tooling for time-series forecasting experiments. Sliding windows, normalization flows, train/val/test slicing, and ready-to-train tensors for LSTM, TCN, Transformer, and iTransformer-style models.

Install
pip install timemesh
Reproducible splits,
clean dataloaders,
fast ablations.

Keras Swin-UNet

PyPI Segmentation

TensorFlow · Vision Transformer · Focal Loss

Repo

Transformer-based Swin-UNet segmentation stack for earth observation, medical imaging, and industrial perception. Includes attention backbones and robust Focal Loss settings for rare-structure segmentation.

Install
pip install keras-swin-unet
Strong baselines,
clean API,
industry-friendly.

Get in Touch

Open to postdoctoral roles, collaborations in climate resilience and energy systems, and embedded AI for constrained hardware.

Contact Information

Email

204608004@csu.edu.cn

Phone

(+86) 191 1883 2562

Location

Changsha, China (Open to relocation)

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