Stanford University

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

R&D Engineer, Entrepreneur

● Lead a full stack engineering team (back end, front end, deep end aka ML) building Gradio (www.gradio.app), the open-source platform for rapidly building machine learning applications

Hugging Face

Machine Learning Team Lead

Founded the Fatima Fellowship, a free 9-month international program to prepare PhD applicants from around the world for admissions into top computer science / machine learning PhD programs

Fatima Fellowship

Executive Director

● Founded a venture-backed company that allows machine learning developers to quickly create
web applications from their ML models for easy demoing & debugging
● Led interdisciplinary team of 8 ML developers & technical writers to develop open-source tools used by 18,000+ ML engineers including teams at Cisco, Google, & Amazon 
● Roadmapped, prototyped, & implemented key features for the Gradio software that has been used  to create 400,000+ ML apps

Gradio

CEO, Co-Founder

● Built ML models to predict immune cell type based on integrated genomics and proteomics data,
as part of a quality control pipeline that achieved 85% accuracy at predicting 25 cell subtypes
● Built a feature selection pipeline using self-normalizing deep networks to reduce the number of
genes that needed to be sequenced by 95% while keeping most of the genomic signal

Verily Life Sciences

Machine Learning Research Intern

● One of the early testers and users of Two Sigma’s ML development platform, AlphaStudio
● Developed novel methods to impute missing values in financial time-series datasets and implemented them on large-scale asset pricing data, reducing pricing prediction errors

Two Sigma

● Research area: building reliable deep learning models, with applications to biology and medicine 
● Published 21 peer-reviewed papers in top conferences (ICML, NeurIPS) & journals (Nature): https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8slGl3oAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
● GRE Verbal: 170 / 170, Quantitative: 170 / 170, 
● Awards: PD Soros Fellowship (awarded to 30 graduate students across United States), Stanford Graduate Fellowship (awarded to top 10% of PhD students at Stanford)

PHD Candidate

● Simulation and design of 16-element high-power phased array system for wireless charging 
● Construction of control circuitry for phased array system

Supply, Inc.

Systems Engineer

Working with fellow students at MIT and clinicians at Boston Medical Center, I developed a functioning prototype for breathing sensor for patients with tracheostomies. My specific role was to analyze pulmonary signals and design algorithms to detect patients suffering from partial or complete blockage. Also supervised operations and logistics for the team.

Breatheasy

Biomedical Engineer

Building mechanistic models to better understand lung pathophysiology

Verghese Clinical Inference Group

Research Assistant

With partners from Harvard and UCLA, started a company to develop an extensive financial web platform for non-profit management. Developed both the web and android application for mosque management and announcements. Also supervised the logistics and finances of the company.

AOASoft - Masjidtime

Director of Operations

Building a reconfigurable probe for better long-term brain-machine interfaces.

Voldman BioMEMS Lab

Research Scientist

Constructed data loggers and designed a solar array system to be installed in summer of 2013 in the Ecuadorean rainforest; guided the development of an entire solar-powered boat network.

Solar Boat Research Project

Team Manager

Fabricating photonics-based biosensors with efficient delivery of reagents and analytes to resonator surfaces. (Building efficient sensors to detect toxins in water!)

Georgia Institute of Technology

NNIN Intern

As part of a project team, worked full-time to develop mathematical tools to harvest data from a next-generation hemostasis product; designed algorithms for complex data analysis.

T2 Biosystems

Research Extern

Currently exploring the role of non-coding mRNA sequences in cancer metastasis

Whitehead Institute

Research Intern

National Academic Quiz Tournaments

Science Writer

Helped start an E-learning company that revolutionized test prep by offering automated, yet personalized tutoring to individual students.

Altair Prep

Software Engineer

Investigated the role of the CXCR4 receptor in the epithelial-mesenchymal transition

Abubakar Abid