Faizon Zaman
Lead Lexical Programmer at Wolfram|Alpha LLC
Village of Pittsford, New York, United States
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Top SchoolFaizon Zaman is a Lead Lexical Programmer at Wolfram|Alpha with eight years of experience building linguistics and natural language systems that map entity-property queries into the Wolfram Knowledgebase. Trained in cognitive science with complementary studies in computer science and audio production, he blends linguistic insight, prompt engineering, and hands-on development to improve educational content and NL understanding. A regular mentor and TA in Wolfram’s summer programs, he has guided student projects on LLM illocutionary understanding, emergent agent behavior, and multimodal reconstruction—hinting at a comfort working at the intersection of language, art, and code. Based in Pittsford, NY, Faizon also pursues AV art and personal knowledge management practices, bringing a creative, interdisciplinary sensibility to technical problems.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, Associate's degree Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies at Monroe Community CollegeTechnology and Innovation Track, Technology and Innovation Track at Wolfram Summer Research InstituteBachelor of Science (B.S.) Cognitive Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Cognitive Science at State University of New York at Oswego
English, French, Urdu
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Github Skills (41)
mathematica10
wolfram-mathematica10
lexer9
linguistics9
prefix9
pattern-matching9
parser9
wolfram-language9
text-search9
text-mining9
lexical9
editor8
typescript8
markdown8
visual-studio-code8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dishmint/ArcanePropagation
May 2022 - Apr 2026
Exploring image convolution and fragment shaders.
Contributions:56 PRs, 128 pushes, 67 branches in 3 years 11 months
convolutionfragment-shaderglslimage-processingmaxmsp
dishmint/P5
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 84 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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