Resume - Sheikh A Mannan

Experience

Meta ~ Marketplace Feed Delivery

Software Engineer Intern, ML / Summer 2024, Summer 2025

Improved cold-start product delivery by introducing an item-to-item retrieval lever combining engagement-based and content-based features.
A/B tests showed 1% gain in meaningful list interactions and 0.74% increase in click engagement for over-delivered products; 0.65% gain in meaningful interactions for cold-start listings.

SIGNAL Lab @ CSU

Graduate Research Assistant / January 2025 - May 2026

Developing real-time AI systems to assist human pilots in recovering from spatial disorientation in aerospace control tasks.
Published 8 papers across embodiment, machine translation, low-resource NLP, and human-agent interaction (COLING, ACL, HCII, AAAI, HAI).
Received Best Paper Nomination at Human-Agent Interaction 2024, Swansea, UK.

Colorado State University

Graduate Teaching Assistant / January 2021 - December 2024

Courses: CS314 Software Engineering, CS345 Machine Learning, CS455 Distributed Systems, CS514 Software Product and Process Evaluation.
Held office hours and recitations; developed automated grading scripts for 140+ student courses.
Maintained GitHub Actions runners and web servers for DevOps infrastructure of the Software Engineering course.

Freelance Software Developer

Self-employed / June 2020 - December 2020

Developed full-stack mobile and web applications using react.js, node.js, and flutter for clients based on their requirements and use-cases.
Led the development of a cross-platform mobile application for a food-delivery service; implemented real-time delivery tracking and performed a complete UI overhaul for the platform. The app, Dryvar Foods is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store and has more than 5,000+ downloads.

Medialogic Pakistan Pvt Ltd.

Data Scientist / August 2020 - November 2020

Provided insights on behavioral patterns in television viewership and extrapolated demographic labels via a probabilistic model onto a 60% larger unlabelled dataset from Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd. (PTCL) for improved television viewership ratings.

Lahore University of Management Sciences

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant / January 2019 - May 2020

Courses: CS473 Networks Security, CS310 Algorithms, CS200 Intro to Programming.
Created labs, programming, and written assignments and held regular office hours to assist students in understanding course content.
Implemented automated grading scripts for all assignments for the Algorithms course to reduce checking time and maintain consistency.

Education

Colorado State University

PhD Computer Science / January 2021 - May 2026

CGPA: 4.00/4.00

Advised by Dr. Nikhil Krishnaswamy. Research Topics: Applied Machine Learning, Human-AI Teaming, Embodiment & Situated Grounding.

Dissertation: "Real-Time AI Assistance for Disorienting Control Tasks: Performance, Behavior, and Trust"

Lahore University of Management Sciences

B.S Computer Science / August 2016 - June 2020

CGPA: 3.28/4.00

Graduation with Merit.

Relevant Courses: Distributed Systems, Networks Security, Software Engineering, Programming Languages, Network Centric Computing, Advanced Programming, Algorithms, Data Structures.

Technical Skills

ML & AI

PyTorch
PyTorch-Lightning
TensorFlow
Hugging Face
Scikit-Learn
Gymnasium
Stable-Baselines3
ROS2
PyRealSense
Pandas
NumPy
Matplotlib
Seaborn

Languages

Python
Java
JavaScript
TypeScript
Golang
C/C++
SQL

Web & Mobile

React.js
Next.js
Node.js
Flutter
WordPress
JUnit
Jest

Tools & DevOps

Git
Docker
GitHub Actions
Selenium
Postman
Code Climate
Zenhub
BeautifulSoup4

Professional Services

Reviewer for multiple tracks. International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING), Turin, Italy. 2024.

Reviewer. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (IJHCI). 2024.

Reviewer. 9th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP), ACL. 2024.

Interests

Video Gaming, Football (soccer), Tennis, Swimming, Hiking, Formula 1

Awards

Recipient of Computer Science Graduate Fellowship, Colorado State University, 2024.
Graduation with Merit, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan, 2020.
Winner of 23rd edition of SOFTEC Programming Competition, Pakistan, 2019.
Runner Up of IEEE LUMS Coding Guru Programming Competition, Pakistan, 2019.