Ji Lucas
Sr. Research Software Engineer at Qatar Computing Research Institute
Chicago, Illinois, Qatar
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Top SchoolJi Lucas is a senior research software engineer with 12 years of experience translating academic research into production-ready prototypes and services, currently based in Chicago and working at Qatar Computing Research Institute. He has led end-to-end ML projects from pretraining LLMs on A100/H100 and fine-tuning Llama-family models to deploying Arabic-focused applications like Fanar, alongside diverse computer vision, RL, and anomaly-detection systems. Ji combines deep technical skills in PyTorch, TensorFlow, transformers, GIS and big-data frameworks with product-minded engineering—designing scalable pipelines, private dataset workflows, and real-time crisis data integrations. His background spans geospatial and emergency-response systems, enterprise testing platforms, and collaborative research with partners such as MIT CSAIL, demonstrating an ability to bridge academia, industry and humanitarian use cases. Notably, he has built production translation pipelines for Arabic contexts and architected cross-platform analytics frameworks (Rheem) that emphasize usability across domains. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex scientific discovery into tangible, user-facing solutions.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
• Master of Science in Information Systems, Information Systems, • Master of Science in Information Systems, Information Systems at DePaul University
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Github Skills (28)
artificial-intelligence8
classifier7
machine-learning7
wordnet6
bengali6
glove5
nlp5
topic-modeling5
fasttext5
lda5
similarity5
matching5
word2vec5
classification5
latent-dirichlet-allocation4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
qcri-social/aidr-extensions
Sep 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year
jikimlucas/MicroMappersTextAnalytics
Feb 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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