Saimon Tsegai

Graduate Research Assistant

Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
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Saimon Tsegai is a PhD student and Graduate Research Assistant at Virginia Tech specializing in LLM systems and agentic AI, with five years of hands-on experience building and deploying practical AI solutions. He has engineered large-scale training datasets and evaluation pipelines at the Technology Innovation Institute, and implemented quantization frameworks and on-device LLM deployments that prioritize privacy and low-latency inference. His background spans full-stack delivery—from Flutter mobile apps and Angular web integrations to backend APIs and optimized data storage on AWS—reflecting a strong systems-to-models fluency. Academically rigorous (4.0 PhD studies at Virginia Tech and a 3.96 BEng from Khalifa University), he blends research depth with production engineering, notably automating end-to-end model workflows and extending multilingual coding evaluation tooling. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who pushes research into deployable, resource-efficient AI products.
code4 years of coding experience
bookDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0 at Virginia Tech
bookBachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, 3.96/4.0, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, 3.96/4.0 at Khalifa University
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Github Skills (20)

artificial-intelligence10
chatgpt10
selenium10
python10
scraper10
automation10
agent10
chrome10
resume10
gpt10
machine-learning4
generative-ai4
ai4
quantization3
llm3

Programming languages (4)

JavaScriptJupyter NotebookPythonDart

Github contributions (5)

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Auto_Jobs_Applier_AIHawk is a tool that automates the jobs application process. Utilizing artificial intelligence, it enables users to apply for multiple job offers in an automated and personalized way.
Contributions:21 pushes, 18 branches in 1 month
49Simon/dynamiq

Nov 2024 - Nov 2024

Dynamiq is an orchestration framework for agentic AI and LLM applications
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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Saimon Tsegai - Graduate Research Assistant