Abdul Wahab Cide Ali
cs & maths @ Williams College
Building mobility solutions for remote locations @ looprides.dev
Creating content on student career journeys @ Studio 275
Studio 275
Conversations about student career journeys, tech, and building in public
BrijHowardSarin
Strategy & Product Intern, Jane Street
MiltonVento
Amazon SDE Intern
TashriqueAhmed
Meta SWE Intern
Projects
Carpooling for Remote Colleges
Tech Stack
React NativeExpoNext.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQLStripeClerk
Key Features
- •Real-time ride matching and booking
- •Secure payment processing with Stripe Connect
- •Chat messaging between drivers and riders
- •Location tracking and route optimization
Training multilingual language models for underrepresented African languages
Tech Stack
PythonPyTorchTransformersDVCW&BSentencePiece
Key Features
- •Supports 6 African languages (Amharic, Fulani, Hausa, Somali, Swahili, Yoruba)
- •GPT-2 architecture with 768-dimensional embeddings
- •16K+ shared vocabulary using BPE tokenization
- •Comprehensive training pipeline with W&B monitoring
Sub-200ms fraud detection pipeline using stream processing and pattern matching
Tech Stack
Java 11Apache FlinkKafkaDynamoDBDockerAWS Lambda
Key Features
- •Complex Event Processing (CEP) for fraud pattern detection
- •Handles 1M+ events/sec with <200ms P99 latency
- •Stateful stream processing with RocksDB checkpoints
- •Serverless alerting via Lambda and SNS
Interactive web application for visualizing and manipulating graph theory concepts
Tech Stack
Next.js 15React 19TypeScriptCytoscape.jsTailwind CSSMotion
Key Features
- •Interactive graph creation and manipulation
- •Pre-built templates for common graph structures
- •Undo/redo functionality with keyboard shortcuts
- •Real-time visualization with smooth animations
Technical Writing
Research
Multilingual African Language Model (MALM)
Ongoing • Williamstown, MA
- • Developing a comprehensive language model supporting 6 major African languages (Amharic, Fulani, Hausa, Somali, Swahili, and Yoruba) with a unified 16K token vocabulary
- • Engineering robust data pipelines that process and clean multilingual corpora from OSCAR and CC-100 datasets, implementing advanced filtering mechanisms to ensure high-quality training data
- • Optimizing model training across diverse hardware architectures, from NVIDIA GPUs to Apple Silicon, to democratize access to AI technologies for underrepresented African language communities
Topological Graph Theory
Ongoing
- • Investigating graph embeddings on non-planar surfaces, with focus on minimizing crossing numbers and understanding structural properties of graph minors
- • Exploring algorithmic applications of Robertson-Seymour theory and its implications for computational complexity in graph algorithms
- • Connecting spatial graph theory with knot theory to develop new geometric insights and visualization techniques for complex graph structures