const atshal = {
identity : "AI + Hardware Builder | CS Researcher | ex-CEO",
currently : "Building Afim — Chrome extension, 30 weekly users, live",
research : "URCA @ UB — sports analytics pipelines → toward publication",
hardware : "Built AI wearable that whispers to Alzheimer's patients",
from : "Karachi 🇵🇰 → Buffalo 🇺🇸",
openTo : ["PhD (AI/ML · AI Safety)", "Early-stage startups", "Research roles"],
motto : "Ship it. Then make it better.",
}
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Chrome Extension · 30 WAU · Live on Chrome Store Captures every decision, message, and context across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini & Slack. Your AI conversations build on each other — forever.
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KentHacks · Hardware + AI · Built solo Glasses-mounted Raspberry Pi. Real-time face recognition. Whispers: "This is your son Atshal." I built the entire hardware system from a pile of components.
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Auth0 Hackathon · $10K Prize Pool Reads your real Gmail and GitHub. Runs 100% locally via Ollama. Your credentials never leave your machine — ever.
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Built from scratch · Winter break project 500-run Monte Carlo per shift. Negative Binomial GLM. 14-day predictions with full uncertainty bands. Not one guess — a probability distribution.
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📊 URCA @ University at Buffalo (Funded)
├── Python data pipelines for sports performance analysis
├── Statistical modelling → coaching insights
└── Working toward peer-reviewed publication
🧬 Independent LLM Research
├── Replicated: "Scalable Extraction of Training Data from Production LLMs"
├── 55 adversarial conversations → extracted verbatim training fragments
└── Raises concrete AI safety questions about memorisation in production
AI / ML / Data
Hardware
Web & Product
Open to: PhD (AI/ML · AI Safety) · Early-stage startup engineering · Research collaborations
Building something that matters? → Let's talk