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abdulllkhan/README.md

Abdul Samad Zaheer Khan

Founding Engineer at Starboard · MS Computer Engineering, New York University
Portfolio · LinkedIn · New York, NY


About

I am a founding engineer at Starboard, where I build multi-agent systems and data pipelines for logistics. My work sits where machine learning meets production engineering: agents that use tools, language models fine-tuned for document understanding, and the infrastructure that keeps them reliable. I hold an MS in Computer Engineering from New York University, where I researched hybrid quantum–classical neural networks at the Center for Quantum Information Physics.

I am also drawn to games, both as engineering problems, as in TicTacPro below, and at the table: I have represented NYU in contract bridge and poker.

Experience

Founding Engineer, Starboard · Oct 2025 – Present
Multi-agent systems with tool use that autonomously process shipment tracking, monitor carrier portals, and reconcile data across logistics platforms. Built scrapers and data pipelines with 95%+ accuracy on real-time tracking, and fine-tuned open-source LLMs for document parsing, cutting processing time from 2.5 minutes to under 10 seconds per document.

Research Intern, New York University, Center for Quantum Information Physics · Jan – May 2025
Built a hybrid quantum–classical neural network that estimates six-year lung-cancer risk from a single low-dose CT scan, advised by Prof. Javad Shabani.

Software Development Intern, Tiny Archives · Sep – Dec 2024
Backend archival systems for organizations and individuals in Python, Django, and PostgreSQL.

Software Development Engineer I, Finflux · Nov 2022 – Jul 2023
Built ELMS, an exposure and limit-management engine covering more than 35 million customers, and resolved production issues in the core Loan Management System.

Featured work

OpenSigmoid

Live

End-to-end encrypted (AES-256-GCM) Web3 messaging with Ethereum and Solana wallet authentication, token-gated communities, and in-chat crypto payments, running on a real-time WebSocket layer with reconnection and delivery confirmation.

Go · React · PostgreSQL · WebSockets

TicTacPro

Play the game · Code · Paper (PDF)

TicTacPro is tic-tac-toe with three piece sizes and stacking: a player wins with a line of same-size pieces or a "bullseye" of all three sizes in one cell. An exhaustive alpha-beta solver proves the game is a first-player win from all 27 openings (700 million nodes in 246 seconds on 20 cores), overturning the opposite conclusion that time-limited minimax self-play had converged on. Against the solved game I trained a Dueling Double DQN (792K parameters) on an NVIDIA DGX Spark; a curriculum of rule-based opponents lifted it from 0/20 to 40/40 against the bullseye-fork strategy. The deployed version lets you play against the tree-search AI in the browser.

Python · PyTorch · alpha-beta search · reinforcement learning

AI Agent Security: Multi-Step Tool Attacks

Code · Competition

A red-teaming entry for a Kaggle competition on tool-using LLM agents (gpt-oss-20b and Gemma). The search finds message chains that make an agent exfiltrate data through otherwise benign tool calls, and reached a public score of 73.88. The write-up also documents why the attack overfit the public guardrail: the hidden private guardrail, which tracks data provenance, blocked it.

Python · llama.cpp · LLM red-teaming

Other projects

Project Summary Stack
chromeControl MCP-compliant Chrome sidebar that reads the current page and answers questions about it, with local processing and domain-based security tiers. TypeScript, React, MCP
Squaris Three procedurally generated polycube packing puzzles built on one generation kernel, with daily puzzles that are solvable by construction. React, TypeScript, Three.js
Quantum–Classical Neural Network Six-year lung-cancer risk from a single low-dose CT scan, with model weights stored in qubits through Qiskit. Python, Qiskit, PyTorch
QubitQuery Retrieval-augmented assistant over lecture notes, using OpenAI embeddings and a FAISS index. LangChain, FAISS
Stock Direction Prediction Reddit sentiment from fine-tuned FinBERT and Llama models, fed into a Random Forest that forecasts GameStop's price direction. FinBERT, scikit-learn

Writing

Hackathons

HackNYU · Kiro Hackathon (chromeControl) · Reddit Devvit (Squaris) · YQuantum · IMC Prosperity 3 · Hackfinity

Education

New York University, MS in Computer Engineering, 2025
The National Institute of Engineering, Mysuru, BE in Computer Science, 2021

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  1. chromecontrol chromecontrol Public

    TypeScript

  2. squaris squaris Public

    reddit game hackathon - revvit

    TypeScript

  3. rag_llm rag_llm Public

    RAG LLM Gen AI application using OpenAI APIs

    Python

  4. everWealth everWealth Public

    cookieReport for hackNYU hackathon 2025

    Java 1

  5. DL_FinalProject_SentimentAnalysis DL_FinalProject_SentimentAnalysis Public

    DL Final Project

    Jupyter Notebook 1

  6. ai-swag ai-swag Public

    dl project

    HTML