Shafiuddin Ahmed
AI ML Computational Science Manager
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShafiuddin Ahmed is an AI/ML leader and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Colorado Boulder with a decade of experience building NLP and computational science solutions across academia and industry. Currently managing AI/ML Computational Science at Accenture’s Center for Advanced AI, he blends research-grade expertise in semantic role labeling, coreference, and clinical annotation with product-focused engineering. His background includes DARPA-funded multi-task NLP research, contributions to open-source tooling such as spacy-llm, and production ML systems developed earlier in R&D roles at HP and startups. Comfortable teaching and mentoring, he has served multiple NLP and software engineering courses while shipping annotation pipelines and large-scale entity/event linking for clinical datasets. Based in Sunnyvale, he pairs rigorous academic training (PhD, MS) with practical deployment experience and a knack for turning complex text understanding research into usable systems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology, HyderabadChirec public schoolSSC, SSC at Nalanda Good Samaritan High SchoolHSC, MPC, Maths Physics Chemistry, HSC, MPC, Maths Physics Chemistry at Sri Chaitanya Junior KalasalaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 3.92, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 3.92 at University of Colorado Boulder
Hindi, Telugu, Urdu, English
Github Skills (35)
acl10
computational-linguistics10
phonetics9
embedding9
nlp9
falcon9
spacy8
prompt-engineering8
natural-language-processing8
prop8
text-classification8
named-entity-recognition8
conll7
large-language-models7
pos7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ahmeshaf/coreference_and_annotations
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
A single repository to do both Coreference Resolution and Machine-assisted Coreference Annotations
Contributions:12 reviews, 69 commits, 3 PRs in 8 months
annotationsto-docoreference-resolutionresolutionassisted
csci5832-f23/assignment_3
Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
Assignment 3: HMM-based POS Tagger & CRF-based NER Tagger
Contributions:36 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
posnerpos-taggertaggercrf
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