01Assistant · Self-hosted
ProfDesk
One chat. Every AI. Your whole computer.
Claude, ChatGPT and a private local model in one chat, running on your own computer and reachable from your phone. Built for teachers.
Python · FastAPI · Ollama
An AS Pictures release · presents
Asad Saleem — AI Engineer and Researcher
in Machines That Learn to Improve Themselves
AI Engineer · Independent Researcher · LLM Agents & Computer Vision
I build AI applications and do research across AI, agents and computer science.
STARRING PYTHON · PYTORCH · OLLAMA · REACT WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY ASAD SALEEM BS COMPUTER SCIENCE (AI) · SUKKUR IBA UNIVERSITY · EXPECTED AUGUST 2027
Reel 01
Feature Presentation
Research · 2026 · Independent
Self-Improving Harnesses Below the Capability Floor
“Can a small model running on a laptop rewrite its own prompt, memory and tools — and get better?”
A re-implementation of Continual Harness (Karten et al., 2026) for local Ollama models, tested on qwen3.5:0.8b and gemma4:e2b across 20 automatically checked computer tasks.
32→15%
qwen with self-editing as-is — worse than a fixed harness
27→60%
held-out tasks with all five safeguards (suggestive)
1,256
task runs released; one command rebuilds every table
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02Thesis · Agents
LecAssist
One lecture in. The busywork out.
Final-year project: record, transcribe mixed Urdu/English, summarise, then let an agent create assignments on Moodle — always after the teacher approves.
Ollama · faster-whisper · Playwright · Electron
03Multi-agent · Reasoning
Tribunal
Let the agents argue it out.
Multi-agent reasoning platform exploring structured debate, counterarguments and synthesis.
Python · TypeScript · Node.js · LLM APIs
04Retrieval · Experimental
Quantum-RAG
Find the passage that matters.
Semantic retrieval prototype — chunking, embeddings, vector search — with separate quantum-inspired experiments.
Python · Embeddings · Vector search
05Full-stack · Tools
Rizzume
Your résumé, typeset.
Resume builder connecting a React interface to a Flask API and LaTeX PDF export.
React · Flask · LaTeX · Docker
06Full-stack · Education
CareToShare
Notes, shared by the whole class.
Student study-material sharing with Google OAuth, files stored in each user’s own Google Drive.
React · Express · MongoDB · Drive API
Short Films & earlier work
- ALIF-AIPythonExperimental assistant for Quran & Hadith explanations
- Semantic Book RecommenderJupyterBook recommendations through semantic search
- DroplistHTMLMake movie & YouTube playlists and share them
- SavetubeJavaScriptSave videos to watch later, while eating
- logtoolPythonAnalyse streaming-server logs for 4xx/5xx errors
- TwitterXBotPythonTweepy scripts for posting text, images and video
- Grades TrackerJavaKeep track of semester grades
- Hide Tray IconsPowerShellPowerShell to hide Windows 11 system-tray icons
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Filmography
00:00:00:00● REC
Dec 2025 — present
AI Engineer
Miami TV
Agent workflows for research and content generation, a retrieval-based assistant, and streaming analytics.
00:01:00:00
Sep — Nov 2025
Junior AI Engineer
Memo Apps
Educational software and workflow automation.
00:02:00:00
Jun — Aug 2025
Python Developer
Easy.co
Data-extraction pipelines.
00:03:00:00
Expected Aug 2027
BS Computer Science (AI)
Sukkur IBA University
Thesis: LecAssist, an agentic academic assistant (2026–2027).
Cast & Crew
ML & AI
- PyTorch
- TensorFlow
- scikit-learn
- Transformers
- Ollama
- NumPy
- Pandas
Research
- Experiment design
- Paired significance testing
- Ablations
- LaTeX
Software & Deployment
- Python
- FastAPI
- Flask
- React
- Node.js
- Docker
- Linux
- GCP
- MongoDB
- Redis
Intermission
Director’s Picks
The films I keep going back to — westerns, sci-fi, Nolan, Ritchie and everything in between.
Tonight’s screening
Sci-FiInterstellar
- WesternThe Dollars Trilogy
- WesternDuck, You Sucker!
- WesternThe Sisters Brothers
- Sci-FiInterstellar
- Sci-FiInception
- Sci-FiThe Matrix
- Sci-FiSource Code
- Sci-FiGravity
- Sci-FiThe Martian
- EpicThe Odyssey
- MysteryThe Prestige
- MysteryShutter Island
- ThrillerPrisoners
- ThrillerNightcrawler
- ActionThe Bourne Trilogy
- War1917
- WarFury
- WarPearl Harbor
- EpicTroy
- WarThe Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
- ActionIn the Grey
- CrimeThe Gentlemen
- CrimeThe Irishman
- ActionCaptain America: Civil War
- MusicalLa La Land
- SatireDon't Look Up
Reel 04
All articles →Press Room
Research · 6 min read
Can a Small Model Improve Itself? Testing Continual Harness on a Laptop
I re-implemented Continual Harness for two small local models. Self-editing made both of them worse — and only outside checks brought the small one back.
Thesis · 4 min read
LecAssist: Turning One Lecture Recording into the Week’s Busywork
My final-year project records a lecture, transcribes mixed Urdu and English, and lets an agent create the Moodle work — only after the teacher says yes.
Build · 4 min read
ProfDesk: One Chat for Claude, ChatGPT and a Private Local Model
A self-hosted assistant for teachers that runs on your own computer and works from your phone — and never sends anything without a button press.
Final Reel
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