Resume
Resume of Zaber Ibn Abdul Hakim.
Work
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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2022 Sept IEEE Video and Image Proceesing Cup 2022
IEEE Signal Processing Society
Synthetic Image Detection
- First Runner up
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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
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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
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2021 Nov Deep Chimpact
DrivenData
Depth Estimation of animals from Images for Wildlife Conservation
- Winner
- 1st Place out of 313 teams
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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
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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
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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
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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