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Hey there! I'm Misbah

ML Research Assistant at geotrans lab logoGeoTrans Labs

I'm a 3rd Year Computer Engineering Student. I live and breathe programming.

I am also a
Full Stack Developer AI/ML Glazer Casual Day Trader Gym Bro Swimmer Performative Male
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I’m a third-year Computer/Software Engineering student at University of Alberta, currently a ML Research Assistant at GeoTrans LabsGeoTrans Labs. Previously, I built production software as a Software Engineer Intern at VSF HoldingsVSF Holdings, completed my SWE (AI/ML-focused) Residency at HeadstarterHeadstarter, and wrapped up my role as an AI Student Ambassador at Intel CorporationIntel Corporation. I’m interested in full-stack or backend/systems engineering roles where I can build and ship at scale. I’m eager to break into banks or big tech companies serving millions - if not billions - of users. I’m currently searching for an 8-month co-op starting Winter 2026, and I’m open to longer terms when the fit is right.
My skillset spans languages like Python logo Python, TypeScript logo TypeScript, JavaScript logo JavaScript, C logo C/C++ logo C++, and shells things together with Bash logo Bash. I craft the client-side with HTML5 logo HTML, CSS3 logo CSS, and ship polished interfaces in React, Next.js, and rapidly iterate with Tailwind. On the backend, I spin up services in Node.js, Express.js, and fabricate APIs with FastAPI logo FastAPI. Data lives in PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Supabase, and Firebase, with plenty of monitoring and testing sprinkled in.

🔗 This is my SWE resume - reach out if you’d like my AI/ML or Fintech versions: download it here.
When I’m not LOCKED IN, you’ll probably catch me at a cat café 🐱, rating every matcha latte I can find 🍵, registering for Hackathons I won't attend, lifting at the gym 🏋️‍♂️, or doomscrolling in my room doomscrolling logo.

My Work Experience

 GeoTrans Labs, University of Alberta logo GeoTrans Labs, University of Alberta

Sep 2025 - Present


ML Engineer Research Assistant

Building GeoTrans Lab’s road-surface and tire-friction monitoring platform end-to-end - ingesting traffic and weather data, running Swin Transformer inference on batched imagery, and streaming results into mapping dashboards so our stakeholders can spot slippage risks in real time. I tuned the ONNX + FastAPI pipeline with GPU acceleration to drop latency to under five seconds for 144 images and layered in Gemini-based preprocessing so we can skip frames with untrackable conditions, pushing inference accuracy to 94% across five surface types. Everything ships through Dockerized deployments on Cloud Run backed by GitHub Actions, which cut our setup time by almost half.

Swin Transformer
 VSF Holdings logo VSF Holdings

Jun 2025 - Aug 2025


Software Engineer Intern

Partnered closely with VSF’s executives to design and ship a full-stack investment analytics platform on Vercel using Next.js, TypeScript, and Node/FastAPI services. I owned the UX for investor dashboards, session analytics, and CRM/KYC onboarding flows, which ultimately tripled average visit duration and slashed manual onboarding work by 60% thanks to automated ETL pipelines in Python and SQL. Weekly Agile sprints ran like clockwork - design reviews, Figma prototyping, and stakeholder demos every Friday kept us shipping on time for every release.

FastAPI
 Intel logo Intel

May 2025 - Aug 2025


AI Student Ambassador

As an Intel AI Student Ambassador I led hands-on workshops that walked 300+ learners through the AI Analytics Toolkit, Modin, and XGBoost optimizations - everything from profiling data pipelines to squeezing extra accuracy out of boosted trees on Intel hardware. Outside the classroom I build demo projects on Developer Cloud, publish performance case studies, and share ready-to-run notebooks on Hugging Face so the community can replicate the optimizations.

ModinscikitXGBoostIntel® Tiber™ AI Studio
 Headstarter logo Headstarter

May 2025 - Aug 2025


Software Engineer Resident

As a Software Engineering Resident at Headstarter, I’m building 14+ full-stack and AI/ML projects focused on deploying real-world tools. My work spans LLM chaining, hyperparameter tuning, and fine-tuning over 10+ models, all with production-ready pipelines. I’ve contributed to both Python-based backends and TypeScript frontends, and have been mentored by engineers from Google, Tesla, and Two Sigma.

FastAPILLMsXGBoost
 Computer Engineering Club, University of Alberta logo Computer Engineering Club, University of Alberta

Sep 2024 – Present


Vice President External

As VP External I run industry outreach for Alberta’s busiest student tech organization - lining up sponsors for Aether, HackED, and HackED Beta, co-hosting multi-club workshops and hackathons, and building the events site that keeps 2,500+ students in the loop. Before stepping into the VP role I served as a Junior Executive for the 2024–25 term, representing second-year Computer Engineering students, mentoring incoming members, and spearheading the initial sponsor pipeline that we still rely on today.

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 AlbertaSAT logo AlbertaSAT

Sep 2024 – Dec 2024


Software Engineer Member

Contributed to AlbertaSAT’s 2026 CubeSat launch as a software member on an Agile squad, pairing with electrical and mechanical teams to vet subsystem code long before we risked hardware testing. I built Rust-based simulators for more than two dozen components, helping uncover four critical integration issues and keeping the mission timeline intact.

SimulationCubeSatSystems Engineering
Check out my LinkedIn!

My Projects

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This Website!

My very own portfolio website!

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Winter Road Surface Monitoring

Analyzing winter road grip conditions as a GeoTrans Lab undergraduate research assistant.

SvelteKitLeafletApache EChartsFirestoreFastAPI
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Ergonomiq

AI-powered ergonomic wellness system combining computer vision and EMG sensors for real-time posture, eye strain, and wrist monitoring. Built for Nathacks 2025.

shadcn/uiFastAPIMediaPipeArduino
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PostureGuard AI

Real-time posture monitoring and analysis using AI-powered pose detection, built during Hack The North 2025.

shadcn/uiMediaPipe Tasks VisionWebAssembly
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Property Recommendation System

AI-powered property recommendation system for real estate appraisals

XGBoostSHAPStreamlitFuzzyWuzzyGeopyPandasRegex
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Brain Tumor Classification

Classifying brain tumors in MRI scans using advanced deep learning, with a Streamlit web app and Xception transfer learning.

TensorFlowKerasStreamlitNumPyPandasMatplotlib
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Customer AI Voice Assistant

An intelligent system that powers automated customer service interactions through AI-driven conversations

Socket.io
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Multimodal Video Analysis

Multimodal video assistant powered by Gemini - ever wish your video could answer back? Now it can

FastAPIGemini APIyoutube-transcript-apiOpenCV
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Reddit Stock Sentiment Analyzer

A Python-based tool that analyzes Reddit posts and comments to gauge stock sentiment, correlating social sentiment with market data for trend insights.

PRAWyfinanceNLTKTextBlobscikit-learnFlaskmatplotlibseaborn
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Cointegration Pairs Trading System

End-to-end cointegration-based pairs trading engine with clustering, OLS modeling, ADF testing, rolling z-score signals, and a full portfolio backtester.

pandasNumPystatsmodelsscikit-learnSciPyyfinancematplotlibseaborn
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Insurance Claims Automation

AI-driven medical form automation system that extracts data from referral packages and fills Prior Authorization PDFs in under 2 minutes

Google Gemini APIPyMuPDFData-mappingMistral OCR
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PlayMG

EMG-based gesture control interface using the Bioamp EXG Pill and Arduino. Maps forearm muscle contractions to keyboard actions with real-time signal processing and peak detection algorithms

C++ArduinoSignal ProcessingEMGMatplotlibScipy
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Tuesday.com

AI-powered project management platform built during HackED 2025

EJSAxiosdotenvTogetherAI
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Summarizely

Your Python-based AI sidekick: Gemini does the heavy lifting, then pushes polished summaries into Docs

StreamlitGoogle Gemini APIGoogle Docs API
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Spotify Album Finder

A web app to search artists and explore their full album discography using the Spotify Web API.

Spotify Web APIFetch API
Check out my GitHub repositories!