Faizan Ayoub

AI researcher and founder. I build language technology for Kashmiri and AI products for education and student wellbeing, from Kashmir.

🏆 Best Paper Award · ICRTC-2026 (Springer)

Anatomy of Decoder-Only LLM Failure in Low-Resource Machine Translation: Tokenizer Fertility, Data Thresholds, and Decoding Strategies for Kashmiri

Faizan Ayoub, Neha Prerna Tigga · Read the paper · Research page

AI research and products

Kashmir AI Research Kashmiri NLP: a Kashmiri→English translator, a native-speaker evaluation platform and a hub of 115 Kashmiri NLP resources. kashmirairesearch.online CalmConnect AI-assisted student wellness: mood journaling, PHQ-9/GAD-7 screening, an AI wellness companion and psychologist booking. calmconnect.in CalmConnect Research Lab Academic research portal on student mental health. research.calmconnect.in AmanahVale AI education platform for Kashmir: students learn AI by doing it, teachers learn to teach it. amanahvale.com

Other products I've built

Baghdadi Biryani Ordering and delivery platform: customer wallet, cashback, QR scanning and an admin analytics dashboard. baghdadibiryani.com Clothesi Retail ERP for a branded-fashion retailer in Srinagar: in-store POS, inventory and a cashback wallet. clothesi.in Abdul Quyoom Personal portfolio site, built for a client. abdul-qayoom-portfolio.vercel.app The Offline Solar System Game An educational game that runs offline. offline-solar-system-game.vercel.app