Independent researcher
Hanif Rahman
Computational work on Pashto speech and language, kidney disease, and patient education.
I build datasets, benchmarks, and readable explanations across low-resource language technology and kidney disease. My recent work focuses on Pashto speech recognition, script failure in multilingual ASR, and public-facing IgA nephropathy education.
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The site is organised around three common reasons people arrive: research, patient education, and collaboration.
For speech and NLP researchers
Pashto corpora, speech benchmarks, model evaluations, and reproducible pipelines for low-resource language work.
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Plain-language writing on IgA nephropathy, diagnosis, treatment options, and questions to ask in clinic.
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Current interests across multilingual ASR, Pashto data infrastructure, computational biology, and public education.
About HanifSelected work
Recent papers and public resources from the Google Scholar profile, with direct links to arXiv, code, data, and patient education.
Benchmarking Multilingual Speech Models on Pashto: Zero-Shot ASR, Script Failure, and Cross-Domain Evaluation
A reproducible public benchmark for Pashto automatic speech recognition across Whisper, MMS, SeamlessM4T, and OmniASR models. The study separates word error rate from script fidelity and documents cross-domain failure modes in read-speech datasets.
Read paperScript collapse in multilingual ASR: A reference-free metric and 100-pair benchmark
Introduces Script Fidelity Rate, a reference-free metric for detecting speech recognition output in the wrong writing system. The benchmark covers ten languages, six scripts, and ten multilingual speech models.
Read paperPashtoCorp: A 1.25-Billion-Word Corpus, Evaluation Suite, and Reproducible Pipeline for Low-Resource Language Development
Presents a 1.25-billion-word Pashto corpus, evaluation suite, and reproducible pipeline. The release includes data, model training, and code for low-resource NLP experiments.
Read paperIgA Nephropathy: A Patient and Family Guide
A comprehensive guide to IgA Nephropathy for patients, families, and anyone wanting to understand this common kidney disease. Covers diagnosis, progression, treatment options, and what to expect living with the condition.
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Articles for patients, researchers, and readers who want careful explanations without academic fog.