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Mohamed Awadalla

AI/ML Engineer & Computer Science Graduate building intelligent systems that solve real-world problems.

Brooklyn, NY
Mohamedawadalla75@gmail.com
2026
Graduate
AI/ML
Specialization

About Me

I am a Computer Science graduate specializing in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. I work with modern AI frameworks, neural networks, and large language models, with hands-on experience in fine-tuning and evaluating LLMs.

As a Legal Tech & Automation Intern at NYC Emergency Management, I build internal web tools, workflow automation, and legal technology systems that replace manual processes with reusable software.

I am passionate about leveraging AI to solve real-world problems and help organizations harness the power of artificial intelligence.

Education

Long Island University
Honors College
Brooklyn, NY
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
2026
Dean's List, Dean Scholar

Skills

</>Programming Languages & Frameworks

  • Python
  • C++
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • HTML/CSS
  • SQL
  • PyTorch
  • Scikit-learn
  • NumPy
  • Pandas

MLMachine Learning & AI

  • LLM Fine-Tuning (LoRA)
  • Neural Networks
  • Transformers
  • NLP
  • Time-Series Modeling (LSTM)
  • Backpropagation
  • Custom Autograd

ETLData Engineering

  • Data Pipelines
  • Feature Engineering
  • Text Processing
  • Data Cleaning
  • OCR (Tesseract, AWS Textract)
  • REST API Integration
  • ETL

GitTools & Infrastructure

  • Git
  • Linux
  • Docker
  • AWS
  • Cloudflare (Pages, Workers)
  • Jupyter
  • REST APIs
  • CI/CD

AutoLow-Code Development & Automation

  • Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate)
  • SharePoint
  • SharePoint Lists
  • Workflow Automation

CSFoundations

  • Data Structures & Algorithms
  • Object-Oriented Design
  • Automatic Differentiation
  • Systems Design
  • Empirical Experimentation

Relevant Experience

Legal Tech & Automation Intern

New York City Emergency Management
Brooklyn, NY
June 2025 – Present

Designed and built a custom event registration and tracking website (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) integrated with the Zoom Events REST API, handling sign-up and attendance tracking for 1,000+ registrants across hybrid events and replacing a manual coordination process with a reusable template adopted by the department.

Authored a vendor evaluation framework benchmarking 8 competing legal matter management platforms (Thomson Reuters-class systems) on technical capabilities, cost, and integration fit; framework adopted by Chief Counsel and drove the department’s final vendor selection.

Designed and deployed an end-to-end OKR tracking and reporting system for the Office of the Chief Counsel: built a dynamic Power Apps form with cascading dropdowns backed by a SharePoint list of 63 pre-populated records across 4 attorneys, and orchestrated 3 Power Automate flows for quarterly reminders, 48-hour compliance follow-ups, and automated HTML report generation and email delivery.

Projects

Custom Autograd Engine & Character-Level Language Model

Re-implemented a reverse-mode automatic differentiation engine in Python (inspired by Karpathy’s micrograd), then extended it beyond the tutorial with tensor operations, a numerical gradient checker using finite differences, and a PyTorch benchmark suite validating gradient correctness against torch.autograd on identical inputs.

Built a character-level language model on top of the custom engine with tokenization, embedding layers, and an MLP architecture following Bengio et al. (2003), trained end-to-end via backpropagation on a 32,000-name dataset.

Python PyTorch Backpropagation Custom Autograd Neural Networks

LegalDocuMan — Document Processing & Classification Suite

Built a modular Python application for automated legal document classification, signature detection, and vendor-based file organization — deployed at NYC Emergency Management’s Office of the Chief Counsel to process a legal drive of 16,000+ contracts ahead of migration to a new legal management system.

Architected as a multi-component pipeline (processing engine, threaded GUI, CLI query tool, test suite) with OCR fallback via Tesseract, PDF text extraction via pdfplumber, and persistent metadata tracking for retention and destruction scheduling; released as MIT-licensed open-source with full installation and contribution documentation.

Python Tesseract pdfplumber OCR CLI GUI

Financial Time-Series Forecasting (LSTM & Sequence Modeling)

Built a PyTorch LSTM for sequence modeling on financial market data, with a multi-API ingestion pipeline, systematic hyperparameter search, and ensemble experimentation to improve forecasting accuracy.

Engineered time-series features across multi-API sources, ran controlled experiments on model architecture and training procedure, and analyzed performance across configurations to improve generalization on out-of-sample data.

Python PyTorch LSTM Time-Series Modeling Feature Engineering

DLS Website Sanitized

Built a sanitized public version of the Disaster Law Symposium registration and tracking website used for hybrid event sign-up and attendance workflows.

Implemented reusable front-end registration flows with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, designed around the same operational needs as the internal Zoom Events-integrated system.

HTML CSS JavaScript REST APIs Event Registration

Context-Aware Spotify Recommendation Engine

Developing a behavioral ML system that predicts user intent from skip patterns and listening context.

Moving beyond collaborative filtering to model psychological engagement (discovery vs. comfort modes).

Engineered 4 custom recommendation algorithms: momentum-based transitions, rage-skip detection with immediate fallback, novelty injection for zero-play tracks, and user-controlled exploration parameters.

Built ETL pipeline processing 100K+ songs with engineered audio features (valence, energy, tempo).

Python XGBoost LSTM ETL Pipelines Feature Engineering Behavioral ML

Contact Information

I'm happy to discuss AI/ML, Cybersecurity, research opportunities, and professional collaborations. Feel free to reach out for with any inquiries or potential opportunities.