Ph.D. 2026
Joined Spring 2022Now: Software Engineer (AI), Waymo
- Ph.D., Computer Science, Iowa State University, 2026
- M.S., Computer Engineering, American University of Sharjah, 2021
- B.S., Computer Science, Lahore University of Management Sciences, 2019
Arbab was a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Iowa State University and a research assistant at the AI Institute for Resilient Agriculture (AIIRA). After joining Dr. Soumik Sarkar's lab in Spring 2022, his research centered on 3D reconstruction using neural radiance fields (NeRFs), with applications to soybean plants. He also explored the intersections of machine learning, computer vision, and generative AI, including large language models and MLOps.
He is currently a Software Engineer (AI) at Waymo.
Research interests: 3D reconstruction, neural radiance fields, computer vision, generative AI, large language models, MLOps
Publications with the lab (7)
- SAGE: Scalable Agentic Grounded Evaluation for Crop Disease Diagnosis — CVPR 2026 Workshop on Emerging Directions in Data for Multimodal Foundation Models (DataMFM) (2026)
- WeedNet: a foundation model-based global-to-local AI approach for weed species identification and classification — Nature Communications (2026)
- Use of artificial intelligence in soybean breeding and production — Advances in Agronomy 190 (2025)
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- Leveraging vision language models for specialized agricultural tasks — 2025 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV … (2025)
- The impact of market orientation and brand storytelling on Shark Tank evaluations – a B2B and large language modeling perspective — Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing (2024)
- Assisted few-shot learning for vision-language models in agricultural stress phenotype identification — Adaptive Foundation Models: Evolving AI for Personalized and Efficient Learning (2024)
- Evaluating neural radiance fields for 3D plant geometry reconstruction in field conditions — Plant Phenomics (2024)
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