BIOSCAN-5M
A large-scale multimodal dataset project combining millions of biological images, DNA barcode sequences, taxonomy metadata, and machine-learning experimentation.
- Multimodal
- Dataset
- Machine Learning
AI, Research &
Real-World Impact.
I am Zahra, an AI professional and researcher working across advanced AI, technology, research, business, and practical real-world applications.
PhD · AI Research & Strategy
Curiosity first.
01 About
AI researcher, strategist, and licensed financial-services professional.
I’m an AI professional and researcher with a multidisciplinary background that brings together artificial intelligence, technology, research, business, and financial services. I have a PhD and have spent much of my career exploring how advanced ideas in AI and machine learning can move beyond research and create meaningful impact in the real world.
My work spans AI research, enterprise AI strategy and adoption, AI governance and tooling, agentic systems, and workforce enablement. I enjoy working at the intersection of research and practice—understanding complex problems, exploring emerging technologies, and finding practical ways to turn them into solutions that create value.
My experience also extends beyond technology. My background and professional licensing in financial services have given me another perspective on business, decision-making, and understanding people’s needs.
What connects these different parts of my journey is curiosity. I enjoy learning, exploring new ideas, and bringing together perspectives from different fields. Whether I’m working on research, developing an AI strategy, or solving a practical business problem, I’m most interested in work that turns ideas into something useful and meaningful.
02 Services
How I work with organisations and teams.
AI Strategy & Advisory
AI strategy, adoption, opportunity identification, and transformation.
Enterprise AI Enablement
AI governance, tooling, agentic AI, and organizational enablement.
AI Research & Innovation
Advanced AI/ML research, emerging technologies, and research collaboration.
AI Solutions & Prototyping
AI-powered tools, prototypes, dashboards, and practical solutions.
AI Education & Workshops
AI literacy, training, workshops, and workforce upskilling.
Financial Services
Licensed financial-services support and guidance within the scope of professional licensing.
Research & Digital Products
Frameworks, methodologies, tools, and resources developed from my research and professional work.
03 Portfolio
Selected Work & Research.
A selection of research and applied projects. The full collection lives on my portfolio.
Causal Implicit Models & Interventional Methods
Research exploring implicit causal representation learning and interventional methods, including soft interventions and switchable causal mechanisms.
- Causality
- Representation Learning
- Research
Barcode-Metric
A scalable bioinformatics framework for analyzing DNA barcode diversity and sequence similarity across large hierarchical biological datasets.
- Bioinformatics
- Framework
- Scalability
SuperFormer
A Transformer-based approach using superpixels for efficient salient object detection.
- Transformers
- Computer Vision
- Efficiency
04 Contact
Open to opportunities, research, and collaboration.
For professional opportunities, AI and research collaboration, or advisory work, the fastest way to reach me is by email.