Data scientist at the New York City Council's Oversight & Investigations Division.
Selected work:
- council-discourse - every NYC Council meeting transcribed with named speakers and chaptered, after Vikram Oberoi's citymeetings.nyc. Live at council-discourse.pages.dev.
- crimerisk - national block-group-level crime-risk surface for the US, built from public data.
- lobbying-signals - trend detection over federal lobbying disclosures. Live at umqadir.github.io/lobbying-signals.
- ecg-clinical - ECG diagnostic models trained at one hospital, evaluated at two others.
- small-lm-lab - small language models trained from scratch to locate when induction heads form.
- nettalk - from-scratch NumPy reproduction of NETtalk (Sejnowski & Rosenberg, 1987).
