Omar Ghaffar
Software Engineer
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOmar Ghaffar is a software engineer and rising senior at the University of Texas at Dallas studying artificial intelligence with a minor in computer science, focused on applying machine learning to medicine, linguistics, and financial markets. With eight years of experience, he has hands-on work in computer vision and neural networks—training CycleGAN models for synthetic-to-real image translation and using pose-detection tooling during an ML internship at AI.Reverie. He codes primarily in C++ and Python, leveraging PyTorch, Keras, NumPy and Pandas, and pursues algorithmic trading strategies alongside deep reinforcement learning and neuroevolution research. Omar’s background observing surgeries at Children’s Medical Center gives him a rare clinical perspective that informs his interest in medical AI applications. He maintains an active GitHub and technical blog that document experiments and projects bridging theory to practical systems.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science, Artificial Intelligence, Minor in Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Artificial Intelligence, Minor in Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas
Urdu, Pashto, Spanish, Arabic, English
Github Skills (28)
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programming-language8
golang8
websocket7
supervised-learning7
unsupervised-learning7
go7
websocket-client7
aiohttp-client6
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slack6
interpreter6
python6
compiler5
machine-learning5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
osghaffar/osghaffar.github.io
May 2018 - Apr 2024
Contributions:600 pushes, 23 branches in 6 years
jekyll-blogjekylljekyll-thememinutes
osghaffar/Algo-Trading
May 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:90 commits, 87 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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