🥇 Gold Medal — 1st Position, BSCS
University Award
University of Azad Jammu & Kashmir · Session 2012–2016
Awarded the Gold Medal / Certificate of Recognition for 1st Position in B.S. Computer Sciences for the session 2012–16 by the University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Muzaffarabad. CGPA: 3.98 / 4.00 · Marks: 5999.50 / 6750 · 88.88% · Grade A.
Recognised by multiple professors in recommendation letters as an extraordinary student who was immediately hired as a permanent lecturer after graduation due to consistently first-rate academic performance.
Gold Medal
1st Position
CGPA 3.98 / 4.00
University of AJK
🎓 DAAD Fully Funded Scholarshipship
Scholarship
DAAD — Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
Recipient of a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship, supporting academic and research activities in Germany. DAAD is one of the world's largest academic funding organisations.
DAAD
German Academic Exchange
Research Funding
🏛️ Employment Reference — HITeC e.V. / University of Hamburg
Official Reference
Dr. Lothar Hotz, CEO HITeC e.V. · Hamburg, October 2024
Official employment reference from the Hamburger Informatik Technologie-Center e.V. (HITeC e.V.), signed by Dr. Lothar Hotz, Geschäftsführung/CEO. Reference states:
"Ms. Shabbir possesses comprehensive and versatile expertise, which she applied confidently and purposefully in practice at all times. Thanks to her very quick comprehension, Ms. Shabbir immediately grasped even complex situations... Ms. Shabbir was a much appreciated contact person due to her fresh, obliging and cooperative manner. We were always satisfied with her performance in every respect."
Projects covered: CoyPu (NLP/event detection), EVASST (energy forecasting), DigitalCurri (tire industry AI), EWIVIKIS (intelligent sauna/heat cabin AI). Technologies: BERT, RoBERTa, LSTM, GRU, MLP, AWS DynamoDB, Federated Learning, GitLab CI/CD, JIRA, LLMs.
📄 Letter of Recommendation — University of Kotli AJK (Chairperson, CS&IT)
Recommendation Letter
Dept. CS&IT, University of Kotli AJK · August 2022
Strong recommendation from the Chairperson of Department of CS & IT, University of Kotli AJK (signed August 2022): "She is an outstanding Software developer, teacher, researcher, and colleague, and her contributions to the field of computer science are significant."
📄 Letter of Recommendation — Dr. Rashid Mahmood, University of Kotli AJK
Academic Recommendation
Dept. Software Engineering, University of Kotli AJK · August 2021
Dr. Rashid Mahmood (Postdoc, Karolinska Institute Sweden; Assistant Professor, University of Kotli) notes: "I found her punctual, obedient, sharp learner, task-oriented, and above all having an interactive approach... I feel no hesitation to strongly recommend Shaista for higher studies... she will appear as one of the most effective researchers among her peers." Mentions: gold medal distinction, first in class, immediately hired as permanent lecturer.
🏸 Badminton Championship — Singles & Doubles (3 Years)
Sports Champion
University of Kotli AJK · 2012–2016
Won the Badminton Championship in both Singles and Doubles categories for three consecutive years during BSCS studies at University of Management Sciences and IT (now University of Kotli AJK). Head of Sports at Punjab Group of Colleges Kotli Campus (2017–2019).
Badminton Singles Champion
Badminton Doubles Champion
3 Consecutive Years
🎓 Campus Coordinator — Punjab Group of Colleges, Kotli
Leadership Role
Punjab Group of Colleges · 2017–2019
Served as Head of Sports, Campus Coordinator, Controller Examiner, and Event Manager at Punjab Group of Colleges Kotli Campus — overseeing sports programs, student events, campus coordination, and exam quality assurance alongside teaching duties.
Goethe Institut · Professional working proficiency
Full professional proficiency · Academic & research level
Native language · Pakistan
Native language · AJK / Punjab
Fluent comprehension and communication