Saqib Azim
Research Engineer at Guide Labs
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSaqib Azim is a research engineer based in San Francisco with a decade of experience building AI and computer vision systems across industry and academia. He holds an MS in Artificial Intelligence from UC San Diego and has applied ML, reinforcement learning, and robot learning to problems ranging from adversarial robustness of CLIP to visual SLAM and navigation at Hitachi and Guide Labs. Saqib blends hands-on engineering with research rigor—training provably robust classifiers, devising adversarial attacks, and improving real-world perception stacks for navigation and hazardous-activity detection. He’s an active open-source contributor to projects like the cross-platform Python UI framework Kivy, where he’s fixed image saving, UI selection behavior, and other subtle bugs. Comfortable teaching core ML and signal courses, he also has a track record of translating sensor-noisy problems into practical solutions, such as achieving high accuracy in smartwatch-based handwriting recognition. This mix of production-minded engineering, published research experience, and open-source contribution makes him effective at moving novel ML ideas into deployable systems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoIndian Institute of Technology BombaySenior Secondary (CBSE), Science (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science), Senior Secondary (CBSE), Science (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science) at Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 2 IshaporeMatriculation (WBBSE), General, Matriculation (WBBSE), General at H.C. Kankariya Jain Vidyalaya
English, Bengali, Japanese, Hindi, Urdu
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Github Skills (10)
ui-design10
python10
kivy10
mobile-development9
app-dev9
tkinter6
numpy6
android4
macos3
windows3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kivy/kivy
Nov 2016 - Feb 2017
Open source UI framework written in Python, running on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 20 PRs, 64 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Saqib contributed to various aspects of the Kivy framework, including fixing image saving errors and updating app configuration files. They also worked on UI-related issues by addressing selection behaviors in `CompoundSelectionBehavior` and text input bubble functionalities. Additionally, the user addressed multiple pep8 errors and fixed a bug with action view maximizing/minimizing.
pythonlinux-windowswindowsui-frameworklinux
saqib1707/saqib1707.github.io
Dec 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:177 commits, 257 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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