Abu Dhabi, UAE

GeorgeNasseem

B.Sc. Computer Science and Mathematics, Minor in Artificial Intelligence, New York University Abu Dhabi

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Experience

June 2026 to Aug. 2026

Abu Dhabi, UAE

AI Engineering Intern at Nadeera Technologies

Built the agent behind Meridian, an HR policy assistant: it chains tool calls (document search, SQL lookups, a calculator) in a hand-written OpenRouter loop and tailors answers to the employee asking.
Tagged each answer sentence with its source, added a verifier that removes sentences it cannot trace, and resolved conflicting policies by effective date instead of silently picking one.
Built the scorer for a 60-question eval that needs no LLM judge (79% groundedness, 86% refusal accuracy, 0.72 tool-selection F1) and backed the system with 450+ unit tests.

Apr. 2026 to May 2026

Abu Dhabi, UAE

Database Intern at e&

Built a proof-of-concept AI tool that tests proposed database changes and explains failures before deployment.
Worked with DBAs on Oracle, PostgreSQL, and ERP: reviewed schemas, tuned queries, helped run migrations.

Research

SMART Lab, NYU Abu Dhabi

PI: Prof. Hanan Salam / Abu Dhabi, UAE

Sept. 2026 to Present

Undergraduate Researcher

Building an analogy pipeline on the SCAR benchmark that extracts and aligns relational graphs across two domains; a local Qwen2.5-7B checks each match and a policy states it, flags it as misleading, or drops it.
Traced a failed 80-item dev run (38 empty lessons, no verifier verdict for 60% of candidate matches) to four causes; wrote batched, schema-constrained verifier calls, two policy fixes, and a revised extraction prompt.

Feb. 2026 to May 2026

Research Assistant

Built RuneMail, an email client that sorts, summarizes, and drafts replies with on-device Qwen2.5-3B (WebLLM).

Projects

nyuad.life

TypeScript
React
Supabase
Voyage AI

Website

Built a Q&A site for NYUAD students that answers from 13,000+ student forum threads, official university pages, and the class schedule, with hybrid keyword + vector search, cross-encoder reranking, and cited answers.
Kept it free to run with a fallback chain across seven model providers plus answer caching; added a schedule builder that turns requests like "Fridays off, nothing before 10" into clash-free timetables, ranked by professor ratings.

Sprout

Python
PyTorch
ONNX

GitHub Demo

Wrote a 29M-parameter Llama-style model (RoPE, RMSNorm, SwiGLU, KV cache) and a byte-level BPE tokenizer from scratch; pretrained on 1.57B tokens to 0.391 bits per byte on held-out data.
Ran single-seed ablations (learned positions 1.36% worse than RoPE), instruction-tuned on 2.36M conversations (replies ending on their own: 0/20 to 19/20), and shipped an in-browser ONNX demo.

lrnit

TypeScript
Next.js
Supabase
pgvector

Website

Built a learning platform where an LLM turns a goal into a curriculum, with SM-2 spaced repetition and RAG.

Also built

LP Matching (Vineyard Ventures case)

Python
Playwright
LLMs

GitHub

Zombie Run

C#
Unity

GitHub

Skills

Programming

Python
TypeScript/JavaScript
SQL
C#

AI & ML

PyTorch
Hugging Face
ONNX Runtime
vLLM
WebLLM
RAG
tool-calling agents
LLM evals
hybrid search and reranking
constrained decoding

Tools

React
Next.js
Node.js
Supabase
PostgreSQL
pgvector
SQLite
Oracle DB
Vercel
W&B
Git
Playwright
GitHub Actions
Vitest
Unity

Soft Skills

Public speaking and debate
technical writing
teamwork across engineering and research teams

Leadership

NYUAD Student Government, First Year Class Experience committee
Scouts (7 years)

Activities

Change the World MUN, New York (General Assembly, Best Delegate nominee)
NYUAD volleyball

Languages

English
Arabic

Education

Aug. 2025 to May 2029

GPA 3.82/4.00

New York University Abu Dhabi

B.Sc. Computer Science and Mathematics, Minor in Artificial Intelligence

Coursework

Data Structures
Linear Algebra
Multivariable Calculus
Probability and Statistics
Data Analysis

Contact

George Nasseem

Abu Dhabi, UAE

george.nasseem@nyu.edu

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George Nasseem / updated 2026-10-11