Minahil is a data-driven engineer with experience in ML pipelines, NLP models, RAG systems, and real-time analytics. She has a BSc (Hons) in Artificial Intelligence from The University of Manchester.
Her work experience includes:
Data Scientist Intern at the University of Liverpool (Virtual Engineering Centre), where she built data science platforms for vessel tracking and behavioral marketing insights.
Teaching Assistant for Machine Learning at the University of Manchester, providing support to students on model design and implementation.
Tech Business Development Intern at Amazon Web Services, where she developed a sales enablement platform.
Technical Support & Deployment at the University of Manchester, providing network support and participating in system upgrades.
Student Partner Intern at the University of Manchester's Institute of Teaching and Learning, co-leading a project on digital annotation and co-authoring findings.
Her projects include a semantic document retrieval system with knowledge graphs and LLM embeddings, image classification with DenseNet-121, air quality prediction, and an e-commerce database design.
She has held leadership roles as Chair of UniCS (University of Manchester's Computer Science Society) and as a Mentor for Zero Gravity and the School of Computer Science.
Her skills include various programming languages and tools (Python, Java, C, PHP/HTML/CSS/JS, Git, Docker, Jupyter, Linux, LaTeX, Jenkins, React, Django, REST APIs, FastAPI, Spring, Thymeleaf), ML/DL/NLP libraries (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, scikit-learn, HuggingFace, Optuna, OpenCV, NLTK, SpaCy, Gensim, Pandas, NumPy), data and cloud technologies (MySQL, MongoDB, Neo4j, NoSQL, Cypher, PowerBI, AWS, Azure), and soft skills such as leadership, collaboration, and technical writing.
She has received several awards, including the Head of Department Award, Stellify, and an Outstanding Contribution to Widening Participation commendation from the University of Manchester.