Hashir Ahmad

Finding similarites and differences between AI and humans

Currently looking for full-time roles starting April 2022. Reach out to me if you have opportunities that you would like to offer.

Experience

  • Master Thesis | Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence (in foundation) | Oct 2021 - Present
    • Topic: “Cell type clustering in Volume EM data: A Graph Neural Network based approach”
    • Proving that connectivity is as important as morphology for inferring cell type of cells
  • Graduate Research Assistant | Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence (in foundation) | Dec 2020 - Present
    • Topic: “Visualizing volumetric data with SyConn and Neuroglancer”
    • Developed and deployed a web toolkit for rendering and analyzing 3D segmentation and raw volumes
    • Added modules for filtering cells based on presynaptic, postsynaptic and largest synaptic partner

Education

  • Master of Science (Informatics) | Technical University of Munich | Oct 2018 - Present
    • Major: Data Analytics and Machine Learning
    • Minors: Computer Vision, Robotics
  • Nanodegree (Deep Learning) | Udacity | May 2020 - June 2020
    • Projects: Predicting bike sharing patterns, Dog breed classifier, Generate TV scripts, Generate faces, Deploy a sentiment analysis model
  • Bachelor of Technology (Computer Engineering) | Aligarh Muslim University | Aug 2014 - Jun 2018
    • Major Project: “Emotion detection using CNN”

Skills

  • Python
    • Object-oriented know-how
    • 4 years of experience
  • Java
  • R
  • ML/DL stack
    • NumPy
    • scikit-learn
    • pandas
    • PyTorch
    • PyTorch geometric
  • Web stack
    • Flask
    • Tornado
    • NGINX

Languages

  • English
    • Full professional proficiency
  • German
    • Limited working proficiency
  • Hindi
    • Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Urdu
    • Native or bilingual proficiency

Volunteering experience

  • SSGSA Mentor | Sir Syed Education Society of North America | Jun 2020 - Present

Sir Syed Global Scholar Award (SSGSA) is a mentorship program administered by Sir Syed Education Society of North America, a USA based 501 (C) (3) non-profit alumni organization of AMU. SSGSA is offered to students and alumni of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) from all faculties, including sciences, life sciences, medicine, arts, business, commerce, law, and education.

Mentorship objectives are to help the selected SSGSA scholars in achieving their dreams of higher studies abroad. An SSGSA mentor is an ambassador of the SSGSA program who materializes the vision of SSGSA. In practical terms, an SSGSA mentor’s goal is to guide his/her mentees in their admission processes into universities.

  • Member | TUM.ai | Dec 2020 - Jun 2021

TUM.ai is a student initiative located at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Together with our highly talented students, we run projects, events and hackathons around Artificial Intelligence.

  • MINGA Mentor | Technical University of Munich | Aug 2019 - Dec 2019

The mentoring program MINGA (Mentors for International & Guest students from Abroad) matches international students with current TUM students, providing the chance to connect with a peer who can answer questions and offer assistance.