Our Team

Small team. Big ambitions.

A diverse group of researchers, developers, and specialists working together to push AI forward — openly.

Core Team

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Gibran Khan Tareen

Founder & Lead Researcher

AI researcher, full-stack developer, and 4x LinkedIn Top Voice. Building open, efficient AI — one paper at a time.

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Junaid Khan

Co-Founder & Head of Operations

Co-founded HeuristixAI to operationalize open AI research. Oversees team coordination, recruitment, and organizational growth.

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Zahid Khan

Senior Developer & Tech Lead

Leads technical architecture, development infrastructure, and engineering decisions.

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Priya Sharma

AI Research Scientist

Focuses on applied NLP and model evaluation. Brings rigorous experimental design to HeuristixAI's research pipeline.

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Simran Kaur

Data Science Lead

Leads data strategy and analytics across research projects. Specializes in ML pipelines and data-driven decision making.

Interns & Junior Staff

Current cohort — contributing to live research and products.

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Mir Farhan Nawaz

Research Intern

2025 – Present

Co-author on LoRA self-reflection paper
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I. Khan

Junior Content Specialist

2025 – Present

Content creation across channels — research summaries to social posts
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S. Ahmed

ML Engineering Intern

2025 – Present

Working on model evaluation pipelines and experiment tracking
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A. Raza

AI Research Intern

2025 – Present

Assisting in literature review and dataset curation for ongoing research
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F. Malik

Junior Developer

2026 – Present

Frontend development and UI integration for internal tools
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Z. Hussain

AI Content & Research Analyst

2026 – Present

Research summaries, documentation, and technical content

Want to join the team?

We have open internship roles across AI research, ML engineering, and content.

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