Resume

Resume of Zaber Ibn Abdul Hakim.

Work

  • 2026 Jun - Present
    Senior Data Scientist
    Capital One
    • Developing a generalized evaluation framework to benchmark LLM and agentic system performance.
    • Improve validation components for a production multi-agent system, verifying factual accuracy of generated outputs in high-volume customer-service workflows.
  • 2025 Jun - 2025 Aug
    AI Research Intern
    Comcast
    • Built distributed data pipeline using PySpark to process large-scale conversation datasets and added LLM supervision into clustering frameworks using LangChain, LLM Tool/Function Calling to improve the categorization.
    • Designed a hierarchical, multi-layered clustering framework by integrating LLM-based verification and summarization into agglomerative clustering to create descriptive cluster hierarchies.
    • Developed LLM-based evaluation frameworks for comparing the different unsupervised clustering methods.
  • 2024 Aug - 2026 Jun
    Graduate Researcher
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    • Creating a large-scale multimodal (text-video-audio) evaluation dataset & LLM-based method for event/entity extraction and relation extraction (event matching/search) to reduce the information gap between modalities.
    • Improving the object and part detection of LLMs using LLM post-training, i.e., reinforcement learning (PPO, GRPO).
    • Uncovering security vulnerabilities in multimodal LLMs via novel adversarial attack in realistic black-box setting.
  • 2023 Jun - 2024 Jul
    Machine Learning Engineer
    IQVIA
    • Created IQVIA's AI-Assistant by fine-tuning (SFT) LLaMA model on business-specific use cases to enhance user experience and product engagement.
    • Finetuned LLM via QLoRA and quantized with AutoAWQ that reduced response time by 54% and memory usage by 73%.
    • Designed and deployed production LLM serving infrastructure using vLLM on AWS cloud, implementing autoscaling, monitoring, and GPU inference optimization.
    • Experimented retrieval augmented generation (RAG) based solution to accommodate fast changing information.
    • Enhanced IQVIA's recommendation algorithms suite, generating over $10M in annual revenue, and contributed to the deployment & MLOps pipeline of these models using Kubeflow & Kubernetes.
  • 2022 Jan - 2024 Feb
    Research Intern
    Xu Lab - Carnegie Mellon University
    • Improved the understanding of different sentence components in video-language joint learning tasks
    • Devised a solution to detect anomalous events in automated tools during experiments in a laboratory using recorded videos.

Competition

  • 2022 Sept
    IEEE Video and Image Proceesing Cup 2022
    IEEE Signal Processing Society
    Synthetic Image Detection
    • First Runner up
  • 2022 Sept
    HP Presents Kaggle Days World Championship 2022
    Kaggle
    • Winner of Shanghai Regional
    • Selected as one of the top 36 data science teams globally to participate in the final event at Barcelona, Spain
  • 2022 May
    IEEE Signal Proceesing Cup 2022
    IEEE Signal Processing Society
    Differentiation between original human speech and synthetic speech.
    • Winner
    • Presented our solution at ICASSP 2022, Singapore
  • 2021 Nov
    Deep Chimpact
    DrivenData
    Depth Estimation of animals from Images for Wildlife Conservation
    • Winner
    • 1st Place out of 313 teams
  • 2021 Jan
    NFL 1st and Future - Impact Detection
    Kaggle
    Detection of helmet impacts between players in videos of NFL games.
    • 25th Place out of 460 teams
    • Silver Medal Winner at Kaggle
  • 2021 Aug
    SIIM-FISABIO-RSNA COVID-19 Detection
    Kaggle
    Identify and localize COVID-19 abnormalities on chest radiograph images
    • 4th Place out of 1305 teams.
    • Gold Medal Winner at Kaggle
    • Best Student Team Award Winner

Education

  • 2024 Aug - 2026 May

    Blacksburg, Virginia

    Master's of Science
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    Computer Science
    CGPA: 4.00/4.00
    • Information Extraction and Retrieval
    • LLM Security
    • LLM Training
  • 2018 Apr - 2023 May

    Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Bachelor of Science
    Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
    Computer Science and Engineering
    • Data Structures and Algorithms
    • Software Development
    • Machine Learning