Dr. Aftab Ali

Dr. Aftab Ali is a trained mathematician and educator specializing in analysis, spectral theory, and differential operators on metric graphs. He earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), where his research focused on surgery transformations and spectral analysis of quantum graphs. During his doctoral studies, he also completed a research fellowship at Stockholm University, Sweden, further deepening his expertise in spectral geometry and quantum graph theory. Prior to his PhD, Dr. Ali completed his MS in Mathematics at LUMS, He holds a BS in Mathematics from the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan. Before his current role, Dr. Ali served as an Adjunct Faculty member at LUMS, His teaching portfolio also includes experience as an International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (IBDP) Mathematics Instructor at TNS Beaconhouse. Dr. Ali has published in peer-reviewed journal and has earned multiple academic distinctions, including the NMF Gold Medal in MS Mathematics, the Dean’s Honor List Award, the Indigenous HEC Scholarship Award, the Silver Medal in BS Mathematics, and the HEC IRSIP Fellowship. Beyond academia, he has worked as a Math Specialist for large language models (LLMs), designing adversarial prompts, advanced graduate- and PhD-level mathematical problems, and annotated solution frameworks to improve LLM reasoning and interpretability. He contributed to major AI evaluation and development initiatives, including the Microsoft LLM Math Project Team, Amazon’s Math Humanity’s Last Exam (HLE), the PDP STEM Project, and Amazon’s Math Critical Expression initiative, where he helped establish rigorous mathematical benchmarking protocols. He remains dedicated to advancing mathematics education, strengthening analytical thinking, and integrating research, teaching, and emerging AI innovation into his professional practice.