Ali Nawaf

Researcher

Houston Methodist Hospital

Aug 2025 – Present

• Collaborating with Houston Methodist Hospital’s computational team to build AI-powered CT scan analysis models, predicting cardiovascular disease risk in high-risk patients.

Researcher

UWC Science Collective

July 2025 – Present

• Implemented and optimized variational autoencoders (VAEs) in Python using PyTorch, contributing to research in a Cornell University PhD-led lab.
• Applied advanced mathematical concepts to design and test VAEs and diffusion models, enhancing data generation.

Research Assistant

Case Western Reserve University

July 2025 – Present

• Researching privacy-preserving frameworks leveraging PCA, differential privacy, and federated learning for scalable use in agriculture and bioinformatics.

Software Engineer

Eaton

Jan 2025 – May 2025

• Built an automated ETL Azure data pipeline to process customer-service data from Salesforce, delivering Business Intelligence insights via Tableau dashboards.
• Optimized business analytics throughput with batch jobs, handling thousands of inputs at lower latency and cost.
• Implemented role-based access control (RBAC), strengthening access control and reducing security risk.

Machine Learning Intern

Heads-up Hockey

Dec 2024 – Aug 2025

• Automated dataset annotation pipeline, reducing training time by ~67% and cutting compute costs significantly.
• Trained computer-vision models in PyTorch and TensorFlow; achieved ~3× accuracy gains and ~3× faster inference speed, enabling real-time video analysis.
• Built an on-device iOS ML system that detects and extracts high-velocity shots on goal using only the camera.
• Built an interactive Swift-based game integrating responsive front-end design with optimized back-end logic.

IT Intern

EarthLink ISP

May 2024 – Aug 2024

• Built a Java-based monitoring system for real-time network health tracking, improving fault detection by 50%.
• Automated support ticket classification with Python, reducing manual workload and response time by 60%.

Computer Vision SmartLabeler

Pytorch, Python, Systems Design, API, Git, GitHub, Docker

• Built an interface on top of the popular open source tool Label-Studio to automate annotations, lowering cost and manpower required for labeling images.
• Architected project with modular systems design, containerized via Docker for reproducibility.

ElectroVector App

Swift, Python, Git, GitHub, API

• Developed ElectroVector, a data analytics Swift + Python app converting ECGs into vectorcardiograms, extracting clinically meaningful metrics for medical staff.