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mahdi afshari

MIT CS · systems, ML, building things that work

for the curious :3

$ cat research.txt

Research

McGovern Institute, MIT

Jun – Dec 2024

-Designed and evaluated Drift Diffusion Model variants for memory task behavioral data
-Integrated Gaussian Process regression for time-varying latent parameter estimation
-Built modular codebase for simulation, model fitting, and evaluation

CSAIL, MIT

Jan – May 2024

-Developed approach to predict protein function from secondary structure
-Implemented iterative refinement feedback loop for structure-function predictions
-Personalized ESMFold model for pipeline-specific accuracy improvements

$ ls projects/

System design capstone exploring resilient interplanetary communication protocols

Personal site on Next.js + Tailwind with MDX content, photo galleries, and a minimalist terminal UI.

A collection of storage and caching components: LRU cache, log-structured KV, and B+Tree variants.

Web-based music similarity and recommendations using a Siamese network over mel spectrograms.

$ cat skills.txt

languagespython, c, typescript, sql

ml/datapytorch, numpy, pandas, sklearn

systemslinux, docker

webreact, nextjs, tailwind

hardwarebluespec, verilog

toolsgit, latex