Yussef Ali

Research Software Engineer Columbia University

Data layer for a graph visualization platform mapping toxic engagement as transnational networks. Omeka S archive ingested into Neo4j and QGIS.

AI/ML Engineer Intern NASA Glenn Research Center

Graph neural network surrogate for SPICE circuit simulation. R² 0.986 common mode, 0.975 differential, in milliseconds instead of hours.

RAG agent for flight rationale reviews. YOLO inference cut by ~37s via ONNX on Cloud Run.

Data Analytics Intern Capital One

Python/SQL pipeline across 4,000+ loan syndications, replacing weeks of Excel. Completeness 67% → 86%.

Business Analytics Intern Capital One

Mined 70M+ web events for an 8M-customer segment. +4.2% conversion via A/B testing.

Satellite AI

Object detection on satellite and planetary imagery. Fine-tuned YOLO models served through ONNX Runtime.

DealScope

AI deal analysis for marketplace listings. It answers one question: is this a good deal?

Four Gemini agents evaluate a used item in parallel and return a single score from 0 to 100. Running them concurrently with asyncio cut response time from ~60s to ~27s. In its first week: 194 views, 4m 30s average session.

GEM Fellow National GEM Consortium

National graduate fellowship in STEM, selected from 2,200+ applicants a year and matched with an employer sponsor. Presented research at the GEM 50th Conference.

Founding President ColorStack, UNT

60+ members and 28 events in the first year. $700+ raised.

M.S. Data Science, Machine Learning Columbia University

B.S. Computer Science, Data Science University of North Texas