Dr. Muhammad Umer Anwaar SCIT - BNU

Dr. Muhammad Umer Anwaar is an Assistant Professor at the School of Computer & Information Technology (SCIT), Beaconhouse National University (BNU), Lahore. He brings over 10 years of professional and research experience in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning, with an academic background from leading European institutions.

He has extensive industry and research experience in applied AI, having worked in Germany on large-scale B2B and B2G e-procurement platforms, public procurement systems, and government-funded collaborative research projects. His work focuses on applying advanced machine learning and generative AI techniques to solve real-world problems involving large-scale, multimodal, and graph-structured data.

His research interests include machine learning, generative AI, large language models, knowledge graphs, multimodal data representation, natural language processing, and data-driven decision systems. Alongside his academic role, he continues to actively engage in industry–academia collaboration.

• PhD in Computer Science, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany
• MS in Communication Engineering, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany
• BE in Electrical Engineering, National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST), Pakistan

• Assistant Professor, School of Computer & Information Technology, Beaconhouse National University (BNU), Lahore
• AI Product Owner, Unite, Germany (2025–Present)
• AI Project Lead, Government Collaborative Research (BayVFP), Germany (2024–Present)
• Senior Data Scientist, Unite, Munich, Germany (2022–2023)
• Applied Research Scientist, Mercateo Group, Germany (2016–2022)
• Project Engineer, Pak-Arab Oil Refinery, Pakistan (2012–2015)

• Taught Machine Learning course “Information Retrieval in High Dimensional Data” at Technical University of Munich (TUM) for 8 years (2018–2025).
• Mentored and supervised 15+ Master’s students in Graph Neural Networks, NLP, Computer Vision, Clustering, and Multimodal Representation Learning.
• Collaborated with external research institutes on government-funded AI research projects in Germany.
• Actively involved in industry–academia collaboration for applied AI research and innovation.

Dr. Anwaar has published 9 peer-reviewed research papers in leading international conferences in the field of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, including IEEE/CVF WACV, ACM Multimedia, ECML PKDD, ICPR, and ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction.

Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PEnQ41oAAAAJ&hl=en

• Email Address: umer.anwaar@bnu.edu.pk