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Open for Work - CVI connect research, writing, and field-built tools to explain where infrastructure, law, and human institutions start shaping one another.
Johns Hopkins SAISUS
SNF Agora InstituteUS
CAIDPpolicy clinic
Mercatus CenterBastiat Fellow
BASI
BASIAI policy
Daadras FoundationPakistan
SALAM
Project SalamPakistan
PFP
Davis Projects for Peacegrant
The NationPakistan
SAIS Observerwriting
Forman Christian CollegePakistan
PEEF
PEEFMerit-cum-Need Scholar
PSF
Public Service FellowJohns Hopkins SAIS
TR
Telophase Risk Advisoryanalysis
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The warm-paper design system is built. Two essays are in research — one on AI models and religious authority, another on the Mecca Pact — both still deep in source-gathering and drafting, nothing published yet.
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Public-interest systems built to make power, evidence, and community work more legible.
A source-first map of 51 technology-policy instruments across 12 domains, with uncertainty kept visible.
The Gen Z Protest Atlas: a source-bounded research index of youth-led movements, legal context, monitoring methods, and visual evidence.
Education, relief, digital literacy, and community programming built from local trust in Pakistan.
A four-month peacebuilding project bringing Punjabi and Pashtoon youth together through participatory theatre and public dialogue in Lahore.
A strict Python pipeline and public evidence surface tracing lobbying, funding, and revolving-door relationships.
A browser game that turns the semiconductor supply chain into playable decisions, from mining to powering a data center.
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Essays on political economy, language, technology, and the contradictions institutions prefer to hide.
An experiment in what belief systems AI models adopt, reject, or invent when handed religious texts.
Fear markets, hallucination, and the struggle over who governs AI-mediated religious knowledge.
How language models widen access to Islamic inquiry while raising harder questions about authority, error, and accountability.
A proposal for the corporate AI economy and the token logic shaping institutional work.
What language the future will carry, and who gets flattened when English becomes infrastructure.
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Send a note if you need clear analysis, a working prototype, or a sharper way to explain institutional risk around AI and geopolitical change.
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