Raza Ahmad
Research Engineer At DePaul University
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRaza Ahmad is a research engineer based in Chicago with 10 years of experience applying data science, machine learning, NLP, and graph databases to problems in data provenance and computational reproducibility. At DePaul University and previously as an international research fellow at SRI, he designed provenance query architectures, integrated diverse storage backends (Neo4j, PostgreSQL, LevelDB, Redis), and pushed improvements in real-time ingestion, compression, and privacy-aware querying. His earlier work spans applied ML for healthcare, security, and HEP challenges, plus practical SEO and project management for web clients, giving him both deep research rigor and product-minded delivery. Currently pursuing a PhD, he blends systems-level engineering with experimental rigor to make provenance both scalable and auditable—often optimizing streaming and distributed settings that are easy to overlook.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Ongoing), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Ongoing) at DePaul UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
Punjabi, Arabic, Urdu, English
Github Skills (29)
operation10
spade10
audit10
security10
auditing10
gossip9
neo4j8
jumpstart8
cypher8
neo4j-database7
graph7
directed-acyclic-graph7
database6
hmvc6
graph-database6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sranasir/SPADE
Dec 2016 - Dec 2024
SPADE: Support for Provenance Auditing in Distributed Environments
Contributions:58 pushes, 6 branches in 8 years 1 month
spadesecurityprovenanceauditingenvironments
depaul-dice/Flinc
Apr 2023 - Feb 2025
Reproducible Notebook Containers with Application Virtualization
Contributions:1 review, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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