Abdullah Hashmat

Abdullah Hashmat

Research Fellow

Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS)

Kaiserslautern, Germany

B.S. Computer Science, LUMS (2025)

abdullah.hashmat02@gmail.com

About

I am an AI researcher and Computer Science graduate focused on the intersection of Machine Learning, Scientific AI, and Computational Biology. My research experience includes LLMs, speech technologies for low-resource languages, benchmark development, molecular property prediction, and generative models for drug discovery.

Currently, I am a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) in Kaiserslautern, Germany, exploring Agentic Systems and Scientific AI. Previously, at DFKI, I worked on bioinformatics and state-space modeling techniques for molecular representation learning.

I am driven by the goal of leveraging AI to advance science, healthcare, and multilingual technologies. My work includes PakBBQ and Pak3H, first author publications at the EMNLP Main Conference in 2025 and 2026. In this line of work, I curate human verified dataset benchmarks for low resource communities and study how AI models behave across languages, cultures, and social contexts. My current work focuses on self evolving scientific hypothesis generation through agentic workflows for inverse molecular design.

Publications

MolScientist: Agentic Inverse Molecular Design With Scientific Experience (First Author)

Under Review

Preprint available soon

PakDecept: Benchmarking LLM Deception in Urdu (First Author)

Under Review

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IRTIQA: Evolving in English, Evaluated in Urdu — Does Agent Self-Evolution Transfer Across Languages? (First Author)

Committed, ARR

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Rethinking the Architecture of Chemical Language Models: ADMET Property Prediction with State Space Models

Under Review

Preprint available soon

Pak3H: Evaluating the Cost of Cultural Mismatch in LLM Alignment with a Human-Contextualized Urdu Benchmark (First Author)

EMNLP 2026 · Main Conference, Oral Presentation

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PakBBQ: A Culturally Adapted Bias Benchmark for QA (First Author)

EMNLP 2025 · Main Conference, Core: A*

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News & Updates

November 2026

Presented Pak3H at EMNLP 2026 (Oral Presentation)

August 2026

Pak3H accepted at EMNLP 2026 Main Conference and selected for oral presentation

June 2026

Joined the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) as a Research Fellow

February 2026

Started collaboration with the SocialNLP Lab, Macquarie University, Australia

November 2025

PakBBQ accepted at EMNLP 2025 Main Conference (Core: A*)

June 2025

Started as Research Assistant at DFKI Germany

May 2025

Graduated from LUMS with B.S. in Computer Science

January 2025

Appointed as Teaching Assistant for CS5302 Foundations of Generative AI

January 2025

Appointed as Teaching Assistant for AI600 Machine Learning (MS in AI)

September 2024

Appointed as Teaching Assistant for CS535 Machine Learning

September 2023

Joined AI in Healthcare Initiative (AIHI) as a Research Assistant

September 2023

Joined Center for Speech and Language Technologies (CSaLT) as a Research Assistant

September 2023

Appointed as Teaching Assistant for CS100 Computational Problem Solving

Research Interests

Large Language Models

  • Benchmark Development
  • LLM Biases and Fairness
  • Reasoning & Robustness

Scientific AI

  • Agentic Systems
  • Generative Models for Drug Discovery
  • AI for Scientific Discovery

Computational Biology

  • Molecular Property Prediction
  • Molecular Representation Learning
  • State-Space Modeling

Low-Resource Speech & NLP

  • Speech Technologies
  • Multilingual Evaluation
  • Fair & Ethical AI

Teaching

Teaching Assistant – AI600 Machine Learning (MS in AI)

LUMS

Teaching Assistant – CS5302 Foundations of Generative AI

LUMS

Teaching Assistant – CS535 Machine Learning

LUMS

Teaching Assistant – CS100 Computational Problem Solving

LUMS

Selected Projects

PakBBQ
2025 FYP

PakBBQ: Bias Benchmark

Culturally adapted QA benchmark for multilingual LLM bias evaluation. 17,180 examples in Urdu/English across 8 bias categories.

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Knowledge Distillation
2025 Research

Bias Mitigation KD

Confidence-aware knowledge distillation achieving balanced shape/texture bias. Improved OOD generalization on vision models.

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AI for All
2024 Low-Resource NLP

AI for All

Evaluating LLMs in Sindhi, Pashto, and Urdu. Bias and jailbreak testing on lightweight transformers.

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AI Stock Insights
2024 AWS & LLMs

AI Stock Insights

AWS-based platform for stock analysis. S3, Lambda, ECS, Postgres with LLM-powered chatbot.

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Data Science Chatbot
2024 Agentic AI

Data Science Chatbot

End-to-end AI chatbot for EDA and data cleaning. Fine-tuned GPT-3.5, deployed on Hugging Face.

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Unity Game
2024 Game Dev

Platformer Game

2D platformer in Unity with 10+ levels. Hand-drawn pixel art, dynamic lighting, puzzle mechanics.

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Skills

Programming

  • Python
  • JavaScript / TypeScript
  • C++ / C / C#
  • Matlab
  • SQL

AI & ML

  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • scikit-learn
  • Transformers
  • NLTK

Data & Tools

  • NumPy & Pandas
  • GeoPandas
  • DynamoDB
  • Matplotlib & Seaborn

Development

  • React & MERN Stack
  • Redux
  • Tailwind CSS

Cloud & DevOps

  • AWS
  • Google APIs
  • Neon Postgre

Other

  • Gradio
  • LaTeX
  • Unity
  • Hugging Face