Syed Saleh
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Syed Saleh

Computational Modeling & Data Analytics @ Virginia Tech

AI, Data Science, and Applied Machine Learning

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// About

Building systems that hold up in the real world.

I'm a third-year student at Virginia Tech studying Computational Modeling and Data Analytics — a program built around one idea: that the right model, applied carefully, can make a complicated system legible.

My focus sits at the intersection of machine learning, data engineering, and applied AI. I care less about novelty for its own sake and more about whether a system actually ships — whether it holds up outside a notebook and does something useful for the people who rely on it.

That's shown up in leading small teams through real deployments, not just prototypes, and in building tools end-to-end: from raw data and pipelines to interfaces people actually use.

Applied AI systems

RAG pipelines, LLM workflows, automation

Real-world leadership

Teams, nonprofits, and deployed products

Deployable systems

Built to ship, not just to demo

// Experience

Where the work has happened.

A mix of applied analytics, AI deployments, and leading teams that ship.

  1. Virginia Tech Baseball

    2026 — 2027

    Incoming Student Data Analyst

    • Supporting TrackMan and in-game data collection and analysis
    • Contributing to player evaluation and pitching analysis
    • Building reports and visualizations using R and SQL

  2. South Asian Business Council of Virginia

    2025

    AI & Data Science Intern

    • Led a 5-member team building an AI receptionist system for 25 businesses
    • Built voice-to-text and AI response pipelines on Azure SQL and n8n
    • Reduced manual scheduling workload by 60% across pilot businesses
    • Designed a RAG system to make the automation reusable across clients

  3. StudentCoders of Virginia

    2023 — Present

    Founder & Co-President

    • Built a nonprofit coding education initiative reaching 250+ students
    • Led 20+ workshops teaching Python fundamentals
    • Managed a team of 15+ volunteers and day-to-day operations

  4. Applied Federal Technologies

    2023

    Federal Technology & Contracts Intern

    • Analyzed 500+ federal contracts to support go/no-go decisions
    • Tracked 100+ RFIs and RFPs through the business development pipeline
    • Researched agencies and partners to inform BD strategy

  5. NASA HUNCH

    2022

    Student Researcher

    • Designed a lunar rover wheel prototype
    • Presented findings to NASA Langley engineers

// Projects

Selected work.

A few systems built end-to-end, from data pipeline to deployed product.

AI Stock Research Assistant

An NLP pipeline that reads SEC 10-Q filings and financial news, runs sentiment analysis and embeddings, and produces buy / sell / hold signal generation for S&P 500 stocks.

PythonPandasAzure AINLP

AI Receptionist System

A voice automation system handling real-world scheduling for small businesses, combining a RAG pipeline with Azure SQL and n8n for reusable, deployable automation.

RAGAzure SQLn8nVoice AI

YouTube to MP3 Converter

A batch audio-extraction tool with configurable bitrate control, built on yt-dlp and FFmpeg for fast, reliable local conversion.

Pythonyt-dlpFFmpeg

LLVM IR Analyzer

In Progress

An in-progress exploration of the LLVM and Clang toolchain, focused on parsing and analyzing intermediate representation for compiler-level insight.

LLVMClangCompilers

// Education

Foundations.

Virginia Tech

Expected May 2028

B.S. Computational Modeling & Data Analytics

GPA 3.8 / 4.0

Relevant coursework

Data StructuresObject-Oriented ProgrammingLinear AlgebraProbabilityMultivariable Calculus

// Contact

Let's build something worth shipping.

Open to data analyst, applied AI, and software roles. Reach out and I'll get back to you soon.

salehsyed1010@gmail.com

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