Experience

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  Rose AI

  • Machine Learning Engineer Intern

    • May 2024 - Present

    Interned at this AI startup leveraging LLMs to provide a natural language interface for financial data visualization

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  University of Michigan Robotics Department

  • Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

  • Research Assistant

    • Jan 2023 - Present
    • Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

    Trained a transformer-based PyTorch computer vision model (NAR4TSP) for use in an intelligent, robotically-aligned Optical Coherence Tomography system for imaging the eye during ophthalmic surgery. Contributed to the image processing code base written in opencv and vortex.

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  University of Michigan Information and Technology Services

  • Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

  • GenAI Services Intern

    • Jul 2023 - Nov 2023
    • Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

    Helped build UM’s groundbreaking native generative AI services with Langchain, Django, and Vue.js, providing equitable GPT Plus access to all students. Collaborated with UX engineers and security engineers to add tested front-end features and bug fixes for UMGPT and Maizey chatbots.

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  IMRA America, Inc.

  • Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

  • Production Engineer

    • Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
    • Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

    Built and tested hundreds of electro-optical components for femtosecond lasers used in medical devices, collaborating with physicists, engineers, and technicians to boost production and track down defects.

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  Dugsi Scholars

  • Hargeisa, Somaliland

  • Co-Founder

    • Oct 2014 - Jul 2020
    • Hargeisa, Somaliland

    Founded an educational non-profit with a Somali friend that, through in-country seminars and remote mentoring, won several Somali students full rides to Harvard and Middlebury College.