Jawaad Ahmar

Software Engineer & ML Researcher

Computer science graduate from Western University. Award-winning ML researcher with published work in privacy-preserving federated learning. I build systems at the intersection of distributed computing and machine learning.

Research & Engineering

FEDERATED LEARNING & ENCRYPTION

Undergraduate thesis exploring privacy-utility trade-offs in federated learning using homomorphic encryption, differential privacy, and a novel sequential hybrid approach.

PyTorchOpacusPyfhelDockerCIFAR-10

CRYPTOCURRENCY PRICE PREDICTION

Comparative ML study using XGBoost and LSTM to predict significant crypto price movements, with extensive feature engineering and financial performance optimization.

XGBoostTensorFlowscikit-learnPandasCoinGecko API