He also heads the Big Data Analytics Laboratory (BDA-LAB) at IBA with a primary research focus on discovering optimized infrastructures for integrating and analyzing Big Data/OSINT variety. He has 10 years of professional and research experience in the domains of Business Intelligence, Predictive Analytics, Data Warehousing, Data Science, Big Data, and Advanced Analytics. He also has 8 years of professional and consultancy experience in these domains and focuses on spreading the use of these domains in Pakistani corporate sector. He is a regular speaker, participant and panelist at local events targeting Data Science, Predictive Analytics and Big Data. He has conducted numerous training and workshops on Big Data, both for government and private organizations.