About Me

Most machine learning work looks clean in a notebook and breaks in production. I spent a PhD figuring out why — and the last four years at Prospa making sure it doesn't.

I'm a Data Scientist and ML Engineer based in Sydney. I build models that go into production, pipelines that don't fall apart when real data shows up, and dashboards that catch drift before anyone else notices.

Generative AI is where my head is right now — specifically what happens when LLMs meet messy, real-world business data.

I also write about this work. Not the polished version — the actual version.

Ambreen Hanif

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Experience & Education

Experience
2024 - present
Senior Generative AI Engineer (Research Lead)
Macquarie University

Designed and deployed RAG-based and GraphRAG-based intelligent advising solutions, including chatbot, for courses and student progression, leveraging multi-agent LLM orchestration and knowledge graphs to deliver scalable, explainable, and policy-compliant decision support.

2020 - present
Data Scientist
Prospa

Built ML models, explainability frameworks, and production data pipelines, complemented by drift-monitoring dashboards to ensure performance stability and business impact.

2019 - 2020
Machine Learning Engineer
Cognitivo

Built and optimized a computer vision model for road sign detection and tracking, improving accuracy and real-time performance, and containerized the solution using Docker for scalable and reproducible deployment.

2014-2018
Senior Lecturer
Namal

Designed and delivered undergraduate and postgraduate coursework in computer science and data science. Developed lab exercises that bridged theory and hands-on implementation, giving students practical experience with real tools and datasets.

Education
2024
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Macquarie University
2022
Masters of Research
Macquarie University

Publications