Laeeq Aslam

Laeeq Aslam

Aerial Wind Sensing | Wind-Field Reconstruction | Physics-Informed Learning

Postdoctoral Research Fellow · GTIIT
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Machine Learning for Wind, Energy, and Climate Systems From physics-informed forecasting to drone-based environmental sensing

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at GTIIT working at the intersection of machine learning, wind-energy systems, environmental sensing, and climate resilience. My background combines academic research, teaching, and applied AI engineering. During my PhD, I developed physics-informed and hardware-aware learning models for wind forecasting, grid reliability, and urban heat-risk prediction. My current research extends this work to drone-based wind sensing, where low-cost multirotor drones estimate wind speed and direction from flight telemetry and reconstruct local wind fields using Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs).

Current

Postdoc at GTIIT

Aerial wind sensing & PINNs

PhD 2025

Central South Univ.

Physics-informed AI

6 papers

First-author

2024–2025

3 packages

Open-source PyPI

ed-rvfl-sc · TimeMesh

Featured Publications

Selected work in physics-informed forecasting, aerial wind sensing, and urban climate resilience.

Physics-Informed Multi-Gated Convolutional Recurrent Network for Extreme Wind Speed Prediction

Applied Energy, 2026

Laeeq Aslam, Runmin Zou, Yaohui Huang, Gang Li, Fatima Yaqoob, Sara Mouafik, Saad Yousaf

Affordable and Clean Energy (SDG 7) Affordable and Clean Energy (SDG 7) Climate Action (SDG 13) Climate Action (SDG 13)
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Physics-Informed Ensemble Learning for City-Center Grid Cell Temperature Prediction During Thermal Extremes

Urban Climate, 2025

Laeeq Aslam, Runmin Zou, Gang Li, Ebrahim Shahzad Awan, Sara Mouafik

Sustainable Cities and Communities (SDG 11) Sustainable Cities and Communities (SDG 11) Climate Action (SDG 13) Climate Action (SDG 13)

Physics-Informed Spatio-Temporal Network with Trainable Adaptive Feature Selection for Short-Term Wind Speed Prediction

Computers & Electrical Engineering, 2025

Laeeq Aslam, Runmin Zou, Yaohui Huang, Ebrahim Shahzad Awan, Sharjeel Abid Butt, and Qian Zhou

Affordable and Clean Energy (SDG 7) Affordable and Clean Energy (SDG 7) Climate Action (SDG 13) Climate Action (SDG 13)
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Research

Turning sparse, noisy field measurements into physically credible estimates — from drone-based wind sensing to grid-scale forecasting and urban climate early warning.

Aerial Wind Sensing

Low-cost multirotor drones as mobile wind-sensing platforms. Estimating wind speed and direction from telemetry, attitude response, and reference calibration during real outdoor flights.

Current GTIIT project

Energy Forecasting

Physics-guided short-horizon models combining temporal learning, physical transport structure, and regime-aware correction for wind-energy integration and grid reliability.

Parallel research line

Climate-Risk Intelligence

Physics-informed spatio-temporal models for urban heat-risk early warning, preserving spatial context and physical plausibility at lead times useful for intervention.

Parallel research line

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

News

Recent updates.

  1. 2026 Joined Guangdong Technion–Israel Institute of Technology (GTIIT) as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
  2. 2025 Published physics-informed ensemble learning for urban thermal extremes in Urban Climate (Elsevier).
  3. 2025 Published physics-informed spatio-temporal wind forecasting in Computers & Electrical Engineering (Elsevier).
  4. 2025 Published shallow hybrid model for wind prediction on memory-constrained devices in Computers & Electrical Engineering.
  5. 2025 Published dynamic optimization of recurrent networks for edge wind prediction in IEEE Access.

Experience

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

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Guangdong Technion–Israel Institute of Technology (GTIIT) · Mar 2026 – Present

Current

I work on low-cost drone-based wind estimation and wind-field reconstruction. This research uses multirotor telemetry, reference wind measurements, and physics-informed learning to estimate ambient wind and recover local flow structure from sparse aerial observations.

The current focus is robust estimation under real flight conditions, Physics-Informed Neural Network reconstruction, cross-platform generalization, and deployable inference pipelines for field experiments and atmospheric sensing.

PhD Researcher – Physics-Informed AI for Energy and Climate Systems

Central South University · Sept 2020 – Dec 2025

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.

Teaching & Mentoring

Seven years of classroom and laboratory instruction in embedded systems, signal processing, and programming.

Courses Taught

  • Embedded Systems Design
  • Programming Fundamentals (C/C++)
  • Discrete-Time Signal Processing
  • Instrumentation & Measurement

Lab Development

  • Built Instrumentation & Measurement Lab from scratch
  • Designed sensor-driven data acquisition workflows in MATLAB
  • Developed hands-on experiments for 100+ undergraduates

Student Supervision

  • Supervised applied projects in energy management
  • Safety telemetry and secure voting systems
  • GAN-based medical diagnostics research mentoring

Education & Skills

Education

  1. PhD in Control Science & Machine Learning

    Central South University, China

    Sept 2020 – Dec 2025

  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

Open-Source Tooling

Production-grade Python packages for reproducible research and edge deployment.

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.

Contact

I welcome research correspondence on low-cost drone-based wind estimation, PINN-based wind-field reconstruction, physics-guided energy forecasting, and climate-risk intelligence.

Email

laeeq.aslam.100@gmail.com

Guangdong Technion–Israel Institute of Technology (GTIIT), Shantou, Guangdong, China.

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