• Led deployment & optimization of motion-modeling AI pipelines, cutting inference time by 60%+
• Built a scalable CUDA system with custom endpoints for commercial web app integration
• Trained transformer-based text-to-motion models for realistic human movement generation

• Mentored a cohort of 10 high-school students in Medical AI (Stanford HAI AI4ALL)
• Taught advanced linear algebra, ML fundamentals, and deployment of Medical-AI systems
• Guided zero-shot medical image classifiers using BiomedCLIP & SmolVLM

• Best Oral Presentation in Cardiac Surgery (62nd Eastern Cardiothoracic Surgical Society)
• Designed an algorithm projecting +94% organ-donation success and reduced ICU workload
• Co-authored 4 papers on AI-driven clinical decision-making with custom software & models

• Repaired ASIC hashing boards and NVIDIA GPUs (RTX 30/40 series)
• Maintained GPU clusters in harsh environments to maximize uptime

• NC NASA Hackathon, HackNC, NC State Hackathon, Truist Immersive Experience, UNCC AIR
• 1st place, 2024 NC State Competitive Programming Competition
• Built AI voice-translation & bias-reduction apps; 1st place in 5 major events

• Deployed Dell PowerEdge servers & 40TB NAS over 10GbE for low-latency workflows
• Experimented with quantization & fine-tuning for model compression
• Fine-tuned ResNet50 on chest X-rays for pneumonia detection (90% accuracy)

• Reduced T2M inference from 90s → 7s; audio preproc 4min → 30s via CUDA optimizations
• Built FastAPI endpoints + Next.js UI for real-time T2M/A2M generation
• Motion retargeting to TADA avatars with Three.js for in-browser 3D animation

• Implemented a VQ-VAE for discrete motion embeddings for transformer-based generation
• Trained an autoencoder with low reconstruction errors (L2: 0.0159, L1: 0.0640)
• Boosted performance with codebook resets & EMA stabilization

Mentored high-school students through the Medical AI track.

Mentored students through UNC Charlotte's STEM internship program.

Led bi-weekly drives feeding 50+ families each time.

Assisted with translation and documentation in Jordanian refugee camps.

Built the website and scheduling system for a refugee-focused free clinic.