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United States

United States

- Develop novel computer vision pipeline using image pre-processing and Vision Transformers to automate MRI vocal tract segmentation, reducing hours of manual labeling (submitted to Acoustical Society of America 2024)- Visualized multilingual LLM interpretations by comparing speech Transformer LLM (Meta AI HuBERT) activations in German vs. English vowels- Benchmarked cost vs. latency of Meta AI SAM model on Nvidia A100, L4, and T4 GPU to determine hardware needed for containerizing and deploying the model in Google Kubernetes Engine

San Francisco Bay Area

- Designed and implemented LLM Benchmarking tool using NextJS and Google Cloud for performance evaluations between model releases–allowing competitive analysis for Engineering and Solutions Architect teams- Developed CI/CD workflow in Github Actions to automate unit testing with docker containers to streamline development-to-production releases- Performed dual role as Software Engineer and Product Manager–drive MVP feature plans, align stakeholder visions into actionable design docs, and translate ambiguity into concrete engineering tasks

Los Angeles, California, United States

- Teaching Intro C++ cohort of 40 students by leading a weekly lab section- Host weekly office hours and collaborate with the professor to create lessons, assignments, and exams

Los Angeles, California, United States

- Debugged ARM-based C++ firmware in Linux-based environment using GDB and Logic Analyzers- Responsible Engineer for in-house rocket tracking system, managing deliverables for SW, EE, and MechE teams- Produce detailed project and toolchain collateral to simplify onboarding using Github, GNU, and Python

Santa Barbara, California, United States

- Spearheaded NLP pipeline using Python to automate speech-to-text translation and summarization using SpaCy LLM and AWS S3 Buckets, resulting in converting a customer from trial to a paid subscription- Enhanced LLM accuracy and reduce token consumption through efficient use of few-shot prompting engineering, resulting in $36,000/year savings in operation cost- Pioneered “Meta-Prompting”, a workflow emulating prompt engineering through recursively calling an LLM to create and score new AI generated prompts- Implemented AWS Relational Database endpoints to query and slice NLP pipeline findings by metadata uploaded during integration, resulting in more scalable and granular customer insights- Overhauled codebase error handling to use centralized Object Oriented architecture between frontend components and backend queries to recover from customer-facing failures- Developed internal guides on Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and AWS Serverless Stack Technology (SST) to streamline onboarding for new engineers

Roles and Accomplishments-Led team to compete in Alabama and Northern California Regionals Championships-Contributed to open source robot navigation library to resolve hardware null-pointer crashes-Developed collateral to drive adoption of AprilTags open source computer vision library -Optimized Blob Detection computer vision algorithm for 97% accuracy object detection under variable lighting

Roles and Accomplishment- Captain for completely student-led team, advanced to NorCal Championships (Highest in 2021)- Pioneering Triple Localization SLAM system for robot movement- Contribution to Open Source Library Road Runner- Custom part manufacturing using 3D Printing

Roles and Accomplishment- Founding and leading Serendipity, Community Outreach Initiative- Started Distance Learning Coding Classes for General and Special Education Students during COVID-19- CAD Designer of Autonomous Robotic Intake- Lead Outreach Visionary and Documenter- Creating a Special Needs Outreach Program specially tailored modularized curriculum- Drive Team, Driver- Created interactive student guides

- Front-End Website Development with Vue JS and Vuetify framework- Back-End Website Development and databases with Firebase by Google

- Developed an Autonomous Germ Detecting Robot- 3D Printed all custom robotic pieces- Programmed the robots Smart Autonomous Movement System- Assembled and configured Hardware such as Odometry(movement system)

Computer Science And Linguistics (Computational Linguistics), B.S.

- Undergraduate Students in Linguistics: Director of Computational Linguistics - USC Scholarship Panelist and Dornsife Student Ambassador.

High School Diploma, Engineering

Activities and Societies: Special Education Robotics Initiative, IHS Branch - Founder and President Master Builder Certified - Berbawy.