— Team
Three engineers, two iterations,
one pipeline.
CORAL was built over two iterations of the Final Year Project at the FAST School of Computing — three Computer Science undergraduates at FAST-NUCES Islamabad, each owning specific pipeline stages but co-designing the architecture end-to-end.
Ali Irfan
21I-2572 · Pipeline architect · Backend & deployment
Designed the weighted multi-sequence alignment algorithm (Stage 1) that classifies every aligned chunk as SAME, SPLIT, MERGE, or NOISE — turning word-boundary disagreement into actionable metadata. Also owns the FastAPI backend and the Hugging Face Space deployment that keeps the inference orchestrator live for the demo.
Nouman Hafeez
21I-0416 · Corpus + retrieval · Web app · LLM strategy
Built the 500K-token Urdu lexicon for Stage 2 — BK-tree fuzzy lookup ranked by an n-gram language model. Led the full web app redesign and overall system architecture, and drove the LLM research and integration strategy that shaped how Stage 4 consumes upstream metadata under bounded authority.
Rafay Khattak
21I-0423 · Research pitch · Evaluation lead
Pitched the original CORAL research idea and framed the consensus-refinement hypothesis that the project is built around. Owns the full evaluation methodology — Common Voice and conversational benchmarks, the eight-step ablation suite, residual-error analysis, and the WER/CER reporting that drives the future-work roadmap.
— Supervision
Supervisors
Ms. Kainat Iqbal
Primary Supervisor
FAST-NUCES Islamabad · Department of Artificial Intelligence & Data Science
Ms. Saira Qamar
Co-Supervisor
FAST-NUCES Islamabad · Department of Artificial Intelligence & Data Science
— Institution
FAST School of Computing
Islamabad Campus
National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences
The three-member CORAL team are Computer Science undergraduates at the FAST School of Computing, Islamabad Campus. Supervision is provided by the Department of Artificial Intelligence & Data Science. Two FYP iterations — FYP-1 (Generate-and-Refine concept) and FYP-2 (the deployed five-stage pipeline).
2
FYP iterations
May 2026
Final submission
5
Pipeline stages
Open
Source release
See what the team built.
Step through the pipeline interactively, or read the research.