Program Focus
From strong foundations to meaningful AI innovation
April 4-5, 2026
AI Spring School 2026
Two Days of AI from Strong Foundations to the Frontiers Beyond LLMs
About
At its core, the AI Spring School is designed as a platform for bringing together top researchers and industry professionals from across Pakistan to engage in meaningful dialogue on AI foundations, emerging frontiers, and future directions for education, research, and industry.
Speakers
What to Expect
01
Panel Discussions
Focused conversations on AI in education, the future of work, and applying AI to local challenges in Pakistan, highlighting industry readiness, skills development, infrastructure, and strategic adoption.
02
Research Talks
Talks by renowned faculty members and researchers from universities across Pakistan covering emerging directions in AI, core methods, and real-world applications.
03
Technical Workshop
An intensive hands-on workshop covering LLM foundations, core concepts, linguistic annotation and corpus curation, and a deep dive into the mathematical intuition and internal formulation of large language models.
Activities & Schedule
Panel Discussion
Research Talk
Workshop
Opening / Closing
Activity
08:4509:15
Opening
Registration
9:159:30
Opening
Opening Remarks
WSDr. Walther
Schwarzacher, Dean, SBASSE
09:3010:00
Research Talk Dr.
Rizwan Ahmed Khan - IBA Karachi View flyer
Brains, Algorithms, and Beyond: Recent Advances and Challenges
in AI
Dr.
Rizwan Ahmed Khan - IBA Karachi 10:0010:30
Research Talk Dr. Abubakr Muhammad - LUMS View flyer ?
Learning Earth Systems Dynamics for Applications in Sustainability
Dr. Abubakr Muhammad - LUMS 10:3010:45
Break
Tea Break
10:4511:45
Panel
AI Education and the Future of Work
Moderator Dr. Jessica Albrent
Panelists Mr. Adil Khalil, Dr. Usman Qayyum, Dr. Muhammad Atif Tahir,
Dr. Momina Moetesum, Hassan Murad
View flyer 11:4512:15
Research Talk Dr. Muhammad Sher Daudpota - Sukkur IBA View flyer
Building Agentic AI Systems: From Generative Models to
Multi-Agent Frameworks
Dr. Muhammad Sher Daudpota - Sukkur IBA 12:1512:45
Research Talk Dr.
Usman Qayyum - AI Resolve View flyer
Beyond LLMs: Swarm Intelligence and Decentralized Agentic Orchestration
Dr.
Usman Qayyum - AI Resolve 12:4512:45
Activity
Group Photo (Outside SBASSE) and Lunch (Pepsi Dining Centre, PDC)
12:452:00
Break
Lunch Break
2:002:30
Research Talk Dr. Muhammad
Atif Tahir - IBA Karachi View flyer
Federated Unlearning using Diffusive Noise Injection
Dr. Muhammad
Atif Tahir - IBA Karachi2:303:00
Research Talk Dr. Momina
Moetesum - NUST View flyer
How Safe Are LLMs? Rethinking Security in the Age of
Generative AI
Dr. Momina
Moetesum - NUST3:003:30
Research Talk Dr.
Arif Mahmood - ITU View flyer
A Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) for Whole Slide Image
Understanding
Dr.
Arif Mahmood - ITU3:303:45
Break
Tea Break
3:455:15
Workshop
Workshop on Building LLMs from Foundations to Formulation - Session 1
9:009:30
Research Talk Dr.
Murtaza Taj - LUMS View flyer
Beyond End-to-End Learning: Embedding Structure, and Constraints into AI Systems
Dr.
Murtaza Taj - LUMS9:3010:00
Research Talk Dr.
Mohsen Ali - ITU View flyer
Bridging Data & Models: Representation Learning for Digital
Hematopathology
Dr.
Mohsen Ali - ITU 10:0010:30
Research Talk Dr. Muhammad
Tahir - LUMS View flyer
From Perception to Cognition: Modern Frontiers of Deep Vision-Language Models
Dr. Muhammad
Tahir - LUMS 10:3010:45
Break
Tea Break
10:4512:15
Workshop
Workshop on Building LLMs from Foundations to Formulation - Session 2
12:1512:45
Activity
Buffer / Networking
12:452:00
Break
Lunch
2:002:30
Research Talk Dr.
Muhammad Adnan Siddique - ITU View flyer
AI applications in Geoscience & Remote Sensing
Dr.
Muhammad Adnan Siddique - ITU2:303:00
Research Talk Dr. Zubair Khalid - LUMS View flyer
Interpretable and Scalable Learning for Spatiotemporal Systems
Dr. Zubair Khalid - LUMS3:003:15
Break
Tea Break
3:154:15
Panel
AI for Local Problems and Industry Readiness
Moderator Dr. Safee Ullah Chaudhry
Panelists Yasser Bashir, Muhammad Waqas Ali, Sabahat Bokhari, Dr. Momin
Ayub Uppal
View flyer 4:154:45
Research Talk Dr.
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi - LUMS View flyer
Doctor-AI Collaboration in Diagnostic Reasoning
Dr.
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi - LUMS4:455:15
Research Talk Dr. Safee Ullah Chaudhry - LUMS View flyer
Elixir Vitae
Dr. Safee Ullah Chaudhry - LUMSWho Should Attend
1
Faculty members and researchers
2
AI and data professionals from industry
3
MS and PhD students
4
Senior undergraduate students
5
Anyone interested in AI fundamentals and real-world impact
Organizers
Dr. Zubair Khalid
Associate Professor
Dr. Muhammad Adnan Siddique
Assistant Professor
Mina Rafael Arif
Program Manager
Omer Abdul Jalil
AI Engineer
Salaar Khan
PhD Research Scholar
Nausherwan Malik
Data/AI Engineer
Usama Imdad
AI Engineer
Venue
SBASSE, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan
Registration
Limited seats available : Registration Closed
Contact
Email: city@lums.edu.pk