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Shamsheer Rahiman

MS CS at USC. AI Research Intern at Centific. Previously Data Scientist at ION Group — production ML + LLM systems used daily by 1,000+ people.

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// los angeles, ca

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01 / experience

Where I've worked

  1. 2025 — Present
    Los Angeles, CA

    AI Research Intern

    ·Centific
    • Benchmarking foundation models across multimodal and reasoning tasks.
    • Designing agentic AI systems and evaluation harnesses for client deployments.
    • Translating research findings into actionable product recommendations.
    LLMsAgentsPythonEval Harnesses
  2. 2023 — 2024
    Mumbai, India

    Data Scientist

    ·ION Group
    • Built an agentic AI framework for autonomous web research used across teams in a global fintech.
    • Shipped an internal SQL chatbot that let non-technical users query production data in natural language.
    • Designed and deployed a risk classification system serving real-time decisions on credit workflows.
    • Built and operated a Flask app on Azure used daily by 1,000+ internal users.
    PythonLLMsFlaskAzureSQLML
  3. 2024 — 2026
    Los Angeles, CA

    M.S. in Computer Science

    ·University of Southern California

    Education

02 / selected work

Projects.

all on github
Dysarthria Detection

Dysarthria Detection

CNN + LSTM in TensorFlow/Keras for speech-disorder detection, wrapped in a Streamlit app with Whisper STT and TTS.

TensorFlowKerasWhisperStreamlit
Book-Bae

Book-Bae

Full-stack Django on Azure with PostgreSQL + Google Play Books API — personalized recs across 5,000+ entries.

DjangoPostgreSQLAzure
BookYourShow

BookYourShow

Kotlin + Jetpack Compose Android app using Ticketmaster + Google Places APIs for real-time, location-aware event discovery. MongoDB Atlas syncs to a companion web app on GCP.

KotlinComposeMongoDBGCP
Anime Recommender

Anime Recommender

Hybrid collaborative + content-based recommender with Scikit-learn, published as a PyPI library handling 10K+ entries.

Scikit-learnPandasPyPI

// more projects shipping over the coming months