Zain Sohail
Research Engineer (Machine Learning) at HEAD acoustics GmbH
Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolZain Sohail is a research engineer in machine learning with 11 years of experience applying data-driven solutions to large-scale scientific and audio signal problems across academia and industry. He builds robust data pipelines and reproducible ML systems—most recently at HEAD acoustics—after engineering TB-scale distributed processing tools (Dask, Xarray) for physics datastreams at DESY. Comfortable bridging research and production, he has implemented real-time signal-processing for hearing-aid prototypes and automated CI, testing and metadata provenance to keep complex workflows auditable. Trained in engineering physics (Oldenburg, DTU) and currently deepening data-science expertise at RWTH Aachen, he brings a physics-first approach to ML that prioritizes data integrity and observability over model-centric fixes. An understated strength is his focus on practical tooling—packages, notebooks and visualization—that make large, multi-dimensional datasets directly usable by scientists and engineers.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Engineering Physics, 3.8, Note: 1.3, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Engineering Physics, 3.8, Note: 1.3 at Carl von Ossietzky Universität OldenburgMaster of Science - MS, Data Science, Master of Science - MS, Data Science at RWTH Aachen UniversityTechnical University of DenmarkGeneral Certificate of Education Advanced Level (A Level), Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, English, General Certificate of Education Advanced Level (A Level), Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, English at Al Waha International School
English, Urdu, geman
Github Skills (42)
event-data10
backend9
noise8
frame8
condensed-matter-physics8
mir8
digital-signal-processing8
signal-processing7
lv27
dask-dataframes7
flash7
noise-reduction7
python7
wireshark7
audio-effect7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
OpenCOMPES/docs
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:75 pushes in 8 months
zain-sohail/zain-sohail
Sep 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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