Abubakar Abid

Fatima Fellowship · Part-time

• Executive Director

  Feb 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 6 mos·California, United States·Current

  Founded the Fatima Fellowship, a free 9-month international program to prepare PhD applicants from around the world for admissions into top computer science / machine learning PhD programs

Gradio

• CEO, Co-Founder

  Dec 2018 - Nov 2021 · 3 yrs·Mountain View, California

  ● Founded a venture-backed company that allows machine learning developers to quickly create web applications from their ML models for easy demoing & debugging ● Led interdisciplinary team of 8 ML developers & technical writers to develop open-source tools used by 18,000+ ML engineers including teams at Cisco, Google, & Amazon ● Roadmapped, prototyped, & implemented key features for the Gradio software that has been used to create 400,000+ ML apps

Verily Life Sciences

• Machine Learning Research Intern

  Jun 2018 - Sep 2018 · 4 mos·San Francisco Bay Area

  ● Built ML models to predict immune cell type based on integrated genomics and proteomics data, as part of a quality control pipeline that achieved 85% accuracy at predicting 25 cell subtypes ● Built a feature selection pipeline using self-normalizing deep networks to reduce the number of genes that needed to be sequenced by 95% while keeping most of the genomic signal

Two Sigma

• Machine Learning Research Intern

  Mar 2018 - Jun 2018 · 4 mos·Palo Alto, California, United States

  ● One of the early testers and users of Two Sigma’s ML development platform, AlphaStudio ● Developed novel methods to impute missing values in financial time-series datasets and implemented them on large-scale asset pricing data, reducing pricing prediction errors

Stanford University

• PHD Candidate

  Sep 2016 - Sep 2021 · 5 yrs 1 mo·Palo Alto, CA

  ● Research area: building reliable deep learning models, with applications to biology and medicine ● Published 21 peer-reviewed papers in top conferences (ICML, NeurIPS) & journals (Nature): https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8slGl3oAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao ● GRE Verbal: 170 / 170, Quantitative: 170 / 170, ● Awards: PD Soros Fellowship (awarded to 30 graduate students across United States), Stanford Graduate Fellowship (awarded to top 10% of PhD students at Stanford)

Supply, Inc.

• Systems Engineer

  Jun 2015 - Sep 2015 · 4 mos

  ● Simulation and design of 16-element high-power phased array system for wireless charging ● Construction of control circuitry for phased array system

Breatheasy

• Biomedical Engineer

  Mar 2014 - Jun 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos·Cambridge, MA

  Working with fellow students at MIT and clinicians at Boston Medical Center, I developed a functioning prototype for breathing sensor for patients with tracheostomies. My specific role was to analyze pulmonary signals and design algorithms to detect patients suffering from partial or complete blockage. Also supervised operations and logistics for the team.

AOASoft - Masjidtime

• Director of Operations

  Jun 2013 - Jul 2015 · 2 yrs 2 mos·Cambridge, MA

  With partners from Harvard and UCLA, started a company to develop an extensive financial web platform for non-profit management. Developed both the web and android application for mosque management and announcements. Also supervised the logistics and finances of the company.

Verghese Clinical Inference Group

• Research Assistant

  Jun 2013 - Jul 2015 · 2 yrs 2 mos·Cambridge, MA

  Building mechanistic models to better understand lung pathophysiology

Voldman BioMEMS Lab

• Research Scientist

  May 2013 - Jul 2015 · 2 yrs 3 mos·Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

  Building a reconfigurable probe for better long-term brain-machine interfaces.

Solar Boat Research Project

• Team Manager

  Aug 2012 - May 2013 · 10 mos·Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

  Constructed data loggers and designed a solar array system to be installed in summer of 2013 in the Ecuadorean rainforest; guided the development of an entire solar-powered boat network.

Georgia Institute of Technology

• NNIN Intern

  Jun 2012 - Aug 2012 · 3 mos·Greater Atlanta Area

  Fabricating photonics-based biosensors with efficient delivery of reagents and analytes to resonator surfaces. (Building efficient sensors to detect toxins in water!)

T2 Biosystems

• Research Extern

  Jan 2012 - Feb 2012 · 2 mos·Lexington, MA

  As part of a project team, worked full-time to develop mathematical tools to harvest data from a next-generation hemostasis product; designed algorithms for complex data analysis.

Whitehead Institute

• Research Intern

  Sep 2011 - Feb 2012 · 6 mos·Weinberg Lab

  Currently exploring the role of non-coding mRNA sequences in cancer metastasis

National Academic Quiz Tournaments

• Science Writer

  Aug 2011 - Dec 2012 · 1 yr 5 mos·Greater Boston Area

Altair Prep

• Software Engineer

  Jul 2011 - Jul 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo·Greater Atlanta Area

  Helped start an E-learning company that revolutionized test prep by offering automated, yet personalized tutoring to individual students.

Winship Cancer Institute

• Research Intern

  Jun 2010 - Jul 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos·Atlanta, GA

  Investigated the role of the CXCR4 receptor in the epithelial-mesenchymal transition