Shayan Ahmad Email & Phone Number

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

● Selected as one of the first 20 tutors on the online platform partnered with Khan Academy for free online tutoring. ● Helped 70+ students globally in 100+ sessions with math and SAT.● Helped plan the future of the platform and implemented a virtual mastery-based classroom model.

Peer Tutor with the NYUAD Academic Resource Center:● Collaborated with the ARC and Professor Hisham Sati to establish a Peer Tutoring Center for STEM courses in NYU Abu Dhabi.● Conducted 50+ 1:1 peer tutoring sessions for students struggling with Calculus, Discrete Mathematics and Linear Algebra. ● Trained new tutors in effective pedagogical practices, focusing on identifying and addressing students' knowledge gaps patiently.

NYUAD Summer Research Assistantship Program, eBrain Lab● Developed a comprehensive library of backdoor attacks and tools using Pytorch and TensorFlow, under Professor Muhammad Shafique(Computer Engineering).● Executed detailed comparative analysis of clean label backdoor attacks, including BadNets, Lira, and Narcissus, on popular datasets such as CIFAR-10, ImageNet and COCO to identify model vulnerabilities.● Explored CARLA simulator to investigate attacks in full-system settings and propose better defense strategies.

- Took responsibilities for the club including recruitment drive, constitution-making and finance management- Organized biweekly events to promote student interest in mathematics.- Worked with the Academic Resource Center to set up a peer tutoring system to help students struggling with math courses.- Arranged and organized weekly teaching sessions for NYUAD’s Math Team for International Mathematics Competition (IMC)

United Arab Emirates

● Assisted in development of multilingual text-to-code translation models with Assistant CS Professor Riyadh Baghdadi.● Conducted web scraping and data cleaning using Python(Beautiful Soup, Selenium) from sites like geeksforgeeks.com, creating a detailed dataset of Python and C++ text-code pairs for fine-tuning machine learning models.

- Made videos on SAT math and Olympiad Geometry on youtube: https://bit.ly/3mJQfY0- Created an Instagram page called Preplion to help people with SAT and math, posted videos, and later started an online SAT tutoring business through it, coaching 50+ high school students: https://bit.ly/31aucSC- Trained high schoolers in geometry for the first 2022 IMO selection test: https://bit.ly/3AiSBmg

Pakistan

●Led mathematics instruction for grades 4-8 in a flipped classroom model using Khan Academy’s tools to allow self-paced learning.● Guided 4th graders to reach Algebra early, and helped struggling students significantly improve their performance.● Focused on nurturing a growth mindset and enhancing problem-solving skills, leading to higher engagement in students.

Pakistan

Pakistan

Bachelor'S Degree, Mathematics And Computer Science, 3.6

High School Diploma

Alevels: 2A*, 2A Olevels: 7A*, 2A