YOUSIF ALSAFFAR

Data Scientist and Software Enginner, available for work in July 2024.
Graduating from IE University in Madrid, Spain, where I am studying Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence.
Featured Work

InternationalQuantChampionship
Created advanced Self-supervised Agents, Semantic Space Models, and Graph Neural Networks to Generate more than 90 Quantative Expressions - Alphas.
FinancialModeling
GNN
ReinforcementLearning

ColBERT:HumorClassification
A Paper Implementation of ColBERT: Using BERT Sentence Embedding in Parallel Neural Networks for Computational Humor. Achieved 91.55% accuracy on the Bnechmark with the simplified architecture.
Python
Tensorflow
BERT

ClobberAIAgent
An AI agent that uses Negated-Scout search algorithm (variation of alpha-beta pruning) to find the most optimal move for a game Clobber within a selected depth. A game that is not explored much in the AI community.
Python
Alpha-betapruning

IE&RaynairSustainabilityDatathon
A challenge to predict flight weights and fuel consumption prior to boarding to reduce CO2 emissions. We Applied advanced models to achieve the First Prize.
Python
GradientBoostingModels

FineTurningMT5forArabicSummarization
Fine-tuning the Multilingual T5 model for Arabic Summarization using the BBC News dataset. Started this project for another personal project, but it is deployed on HuggingFace for public use.
Python
Transformers
PyTorch
ILOVEDATAANDALLTHECOOLSTUFFWECANDOWITHIT!
My Name is Yousif Alsaffar, originally from Iraq, and currently in Spain. I have always been fascinated with Computers and Technology since I was a kid.
Whether it's developing a Predictive Model to solve a business problem, or Fine-tuning a Large Language Model for a NLP task, or Training a Reinforcement Learning Agent to play a game, I always find it fascinating to see a bunch of weights in a model learn from data and make accurate decisions.
In my free time I like to start side projects that I find cool and fun. Once I tried to fine-tune a LLM Model on my personal chat data to write like me in Iraqi-Arabic (still in progress and will take a while :D). Another one I tried to create a generative jewelry designing model(Not as easy as I thought). And many more...
Also, I love meeting new people and learning about different cultures. After my 2-years at UWC, I feel that I thrive in Diverse enviroment and made me truly understand the importance of understanding differences.
ProgrammingLanguages
Python, R, C++, SQL, NoSQL, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, PHP, React, Vue.js, Next.js, Flutter, Dart
MachineLearningFrameworks&Libraries
TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, Scikit-learn, Weights & Biases, Transformers, NetworkX, Gemotry Pytorch, Spark MLlib, Apache Hadoop, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Dask, Apache Flink, Caffe
SoftwareEngineeringSkills&Tools
AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Git, CI/CD, Jenkins, Linux, Unix, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, A/B Testing, JIRA, Selenium, pytest, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Apache Hadoop, Spark, FastAPI, Flask, Django, GraphQL, Agile, Scrum

Ali Al-Wardi
the mockery of the human mind

Karen Hosack
Great Paintings

Erwin Schrödinger
My View of The World

Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas
Pragmatic Programmer

Tracy Kidder
the soul of a new machine

Canking, Ess2Mad
bobby_fisher_teaches_chess

Stephen Hawking
a brief history of time

Michael J Town
mind-of-machine

Andrew Barto and Richard S. Sutton
reniforcment_learning

Christopher E. Mason and Igor Tulchinsky
the_age_of_prediction

Fred Brooks
the_mythical_man_world

Ali Al-Wardi
the mockery of the human mind

Karen Hosack
Great Paintings

Erwin Schrödinger
My View of The World

Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas
Pragmatic Programmer

Tracy Kidder
the soul of a new machine

Canking, Ess2Mad
bobby_fisher_teaches_chess

Stephen Hawking
a brief history of time

Michael J Town
mind-of-machine

Andrew Barto and Richard S. Sutton
reniforcment_learning

Christopher E. Mason and Igor Tulchinsky
the_age_of_prediction

Fred Brooks
the_mythical_man_world
A few Books I have read or currently reading or trying to read soon :)
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