Nafiz Hamid
Principal AI ML Engineer at Mayo Clinic
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNafiz Hamid is a Senior AI/ML Engineer with 11 years of experience building production-scale generative AI, LLMs, and agentic systems that bridge research and product. He combines deep academic pedigree—postdoctoral and research fellow roles at Harvard Medical School, Broad Institute, and MGH—with leadership experience as Head of AI/ML at a therapeutics startup and now at Mayo Clinic. Skilled across the full ML lifecycle, Nafiz designs robust ML infrastructure, retrieval-augmented systems, and autonomous agents while shipping optimized models in PyTorch, TensorFlow and C++. He thrives in cross-functional environments, leading technical design reviews and turning complex biological and clinical problems into deployable AI solutions. An uncommon strength is his track record of moving advanced computational biology research into real-world clinical and therapeutic applications.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at Iowa State UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Islamic University of TechnologyPostdoctoral Research, AI in Computational Biology, Postdoctoral Research, AI in Computational Biology at Harvard University
English, Bengali
Github Skills (74)
weak-supervision10
jupyter-notebook10
syntax-highlighting10
jax9
python9
deep-learning9
genomics9
pytorch9
machine-learning9
recurrent-neural-networks9
css9
jupyter9
data-science9
tensorflow9
gtk8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
nafizh/Bacteriocin_paper
Jan 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 10 months
notebookspythonmachine-learningprediction
nafizh/NeuBI
Nov 2018 - Jun 2022
Neural Bacteriocin Identifier - a recurrent neural network based software to predict bacteriocins from protein sequences.
Contributions:20 commits, 17 pushes, 1 comment in 3 years 7 months
recurrent-neural-networks
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