Preprint
LegacyRAG: Multi-GPU RAG via Vulkan on Legacy Hardware
A. Shaik · SSRN 6750398
Retrieval spread across consumer GPUs nobody would choose for the job, driven through Vulkan instead of CUDA.
Most of what I'm known for runs on a server somewhere. This is the rest of it. Writing, photographs, and things I started for no reason at all.
I take far more pictures than I ever show anyone. Newark mostly, and wherever else I end up.
Five for now. There are a lot more where these came from.
Big fan of EDM. Mostly melodic dubstep and bass, with a decent amount of brostep when the mood calls for it. Pick a track and watch it: the trace is the real waveform, and it takes its colours from the album art.
Thirty second previews, streamed from Spotify. Full tracks and lyrics open on the services that license them.
Speaking, organising, mentoring, and running the feed. None of it is engineering. All of it is why the engineering gets seen.
One I shot and cut myself. Watch on Instagram ↗
Content Creator
Instagram · @_azeez_1904
2025 — Present
Social Media Manager, E-board
NJIT Center for Entrepreneurship
Sept. 2026 — Present
Base44 Ambassador
Base44 · NJIT campus
Apr. 2026 — Present
Community Organizer
CrowdTheory · EqualSpace, Newark
Aug. — Mar. 2026
Mentor & Program Experience Advisor
CodePath · grew the mentee group
2026
Keynote Speaker
NJIT College Day
2026
Panelist
FYEE Conference
Dec. 2025
Best Presenter Award
NJIT AI Exploration Day
Retrieval on hardware nobody wants, agents that stay in their lane, and ontologies you move with your hands.
Preprint
LegacyRAG: Multi-GPU RAG via Vulkan on Legacy Hardware
A. Shaik · SSRN 6750398
Retrieval spread across consumer GPUs nobody would choose for the job, driven through Vulkan instead of CUDA.
Paper
VROOM: Evaluating Role-Based Collaboration for Immersive Ontology Manipulation
Chitransh, Paulino, Shaik et al. · ACM IMX 2026, pp. 628–633
How a small team splits roles when they build an ontology together inside VR.
Poster
Corpus Controlled Agent Specialization
A. Shaik et al. · NE Agents Day 2026, Jane Street, NYC
Keeping agents in their lane by controlling what each one is allowed to read.
Peer review
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge & Data Engineering
Invited as an undergraduate
Reviewing submissions for TKDE, which is not usually a thing you are asked to do this early.
The photographs, the music, or anything on the other side of the site.
_azeez_1904