Summary
Seyfal Sultanov is a detail-oriented software engineer and teaching assistant with four years of experience bridging education, research, and applied technology. At University of Illinois Chicago he managed grading and workflow for a 450+ student Calculus III course, implementing tooling that cut grading time by 40% and slashed regrade requests, showing a knack for scalable education systems. His research work includes fine-tuning GPT-4 for a robot-assisted reading tool funded by a $350K NSF grant and building teacher-facing UIs to customize lessons, combining ML experimentation with measurable pedagogical evaluation. He has hands-on risk and project management experience from internships at EY and BestComp, where he delivered high-throughput OMR grading and IT audit processes. Based in Chicago and academically strong (BS CS, 3.9 GPA), Seyfal brings an uncommon blend of classroom-scale systems engineering, applied AI for education, and operational rigor.
4 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Academic, Solving global Challenges, Academic, Solving global Challenges at Yale Young Global Scholars
Academic, 3.99 / 4.00, Academic, 3.99 / 4.00 at Baku European Lyceum
Bachelor of Science - BS (Hons), Computer Science | Minor in Math | Honors College, 3.9 / 4.00, Bachelor of Science - BS (Hons), Computer Science | Minor in Math | Honors College, 3.9 / 4.00 at University of Illinois Chicago
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering at Koç University
English, Azerbaijani, Russian, Turkish, French, German