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HBSc Computer Science & Mathematics (AI focus) — Student SWE interested in AI & ML.

[education]

University of Toronto — HBSc, Computer Science & Mathematics (in progress)
Focus in Artificial Intelligence • Toronto, ON • Sep 2024 – Jun 2028 (expected)

[experience]

Wheeler Lab — Instrumentation Software Developer (Work Study)
  • Python & PySide6 GUIs for DISCO on Linux (data acquisition, device control, data handling).
  • Integrate new hardware; extend automation pipelines; prototype ML-assisted image analysis.
  • Refactor & document codebase; standardize Git workflows and testing for reliability.
University of Toronto Quantum Computing Club — Web Developer / Executive
  • Team of 2 building a new website for 650+ members; streamline event & resource updates.
Helmholtz Munich — Research Intern
  • Operated pco.edge 4.2 & pco.camware for optoacoustic imaging / photothermal diagnostics research.
  • Wet-lab work with technicians; contributed to data acquisition & sample prep for spectroscopy and laser systems.

[projects]

APA Site Choice Transformer — Toronto Bioinformatics Hackathon (2nd place)
  • Co-led a team of 5 (2nd of 23 projects; 116 contestants) — $500 award.
  • PyTorch + Hugging Face on A100 GPUs; custom loaders for >800k labeled sequences (PolyASite 2.0, PolyA_DB, GENCODE).
  • Held-out: Acc 0.86 · AUROC 0.93 · AUPRC 0.94 · F1 0.86.
  • Managed GCP A100s; used AWS; Git LFS; diagnosed CUDA/Triton attention issues; stabilized training/inference.
LeetTutor — AI Code-Review Micro-App
  • Analyzes 1,000+ LeetCode problems; targeted feedback in <2s round-trip.
  • Groq qwen-32B via Cloudflare Function (serverless; secure API keys); client bundle <30 KB.
  • Plain-JS UI with live status + output sanitization; 100/100 Lighthouse perf & best-practice scores.
  • Wrangler + GitHub Actions: local emulation & cloud deploys — every commit live in <1 min.

[contact]

Email: b.kafidov [at] mail.utoronto [dot] ca

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