Computer Science major with a minor in Informatics at UAlbany - maintaining a 3.98 GPA, applying NLP to HCI, and building software that didn't exist before.
Mentored by Professor Amreeta Chatterjee at UAlbany's SURP - Summer 2026. Two parallel investigations into how AI shapes human collaboration and wellbeing.
Engineered a two-stage Python data mining pipeline across seven high-traffic student subreddits. Built an advanced NLP pipeline with BERTopic and BAAI/bge-m3 embeddings processing 8,192-token context windows - preserving the full narrative arc of long-form posts. Integrated a local Llama 3 model via Ollama for hyper-specific HCI topic labeling. Optimized for RTX 5070 GPU with aggressive CUDA memory management.
Designed survey protocols and executed quantitative analysis to evaluate how AI collaboration tool design shapes team labor division and collaborative learning. Analyzed Likert-scale composites through thematic coding, investigating patterns of cognitive offloading and how AI reliance impacts the Zone of Proximal Development during group problem-solving.
Designed and facilitated a comprehensive hands-on NLP workshop translating complex data science into accessible curriculum for beginners. Authored live, interactive Python scripts guiding participants through a complete end-to-end NLP pipeline - demonstrating transformer-based embeddings over Bag-of-Words (LDA), UMAP dimensionality reduction, HDBSCAN clustering, and privacy-compliant generative labeling with a locally hosted Llama 3 model.
A range of systems - from low-level hardware simulation to full-stack web apps and HCI tools.
Full-stack roadmap planner that models a university curriculum as a Directed Acyclic Graph. Kahn's Algorithm on the backend detects impossible prerequisite loops in O(V+E) time, validated across 15+ courses and 17 dependency rules.
Journaling app where writing activity grows a living SVG tree. A scoring system maps word count and consistency to visual growth stages, rendered in real time with smooth transitions.
A 32-bit CPU built from scratch - custom Bit/Word classes, a two's complement ALU, DRAM simulation, instruction cache hierarchy, and a full fetch-decode-execute pipeline. No native Java math.
A full interpreter pipeline for a custom language - lexer → parser → AST → constraint satisfaction engine. Solves logic puzzles via permutation search with pinning optimization, reducing Battleship's search space from 10³² to near-instant.
HCI research project. Conducted contextual inquiries with elderly users, identified the "After-Hours pill misidentification" safety gap, and prototyped a multimodal scan/voice interface with Universal Design principles.
API-driven portal integrating NASA APOD and Mars Rover feeds with async error recovery, date-based browsing, and animated glassmorphism UI built purely in vanilla JS.
Single-player game engine using struct-based state management and manual memory control. Three-board display, randomized AI opponent, Valgrind-clean with no global state.
A multi-page responsive website showcasing Yemeni culture and history. Mobile-first CSS, semantic HTML for accessibility, built entirely with core web technologies.
Architected a full-stack volunteer directory portal scaling to 1,200+ students. Pitched to UAlbany OCM, securing enterprise engineering resources to migrate into the official Drupal CMS. Drove WCAG 2.1 compliance across 5 courses.
Dual-project research appointment - NLP pipeline for mental health discourse analysis and quantitative study of AI-mediated collaboration. Also designed and facilitated the BERT & BERTopic NLP workshop.
Built a 0→1 student organization from scratch - authored the constitution, recruited a 15-member executive board, secured official university recognition within one semester.
Primary contact for 100+ weekly inquiries across Financial Aid and Billing. Maintained 92%+ satisfaction while reducing resolution time by 15% during peak periods.
University at Albany · 3.98 GPA
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