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What I make when nothing has to work.

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.

01 · Photographs

Photographs, frames, and things seen sideways.

I take far more pictures than I ever show anyone. Newark mostly, and wherever else I end up.

02 · Music

What it sounds like in my head.

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.

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Thirty second previews, streamed from Spotify. Full tracks and lyrics open on the services that license them.

03 · Creative experience

The other half of the CV.

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 ↗

  1. Ongoing

    Content Creator

    Instagram · @_azeez_1904

  2. 2025 — Present

    Social Media Manager, E-board

    NJIT Center for Entrepreneurship

  3. Sept. 2026 — Present

    Base44 Ambassador

    Base44 · NJIT campus

  4. Apr. 2026 — Present

    Community Organizer

    CrowdTheory · EqualSpace, Newark

  5. Aug. — Mar. 2026

    Mentor & Program Experience Advisor

    CodePath · grew the mentee group

  6. 2026

    Keynote Speaker

    NJIT College Day

  7. 2026

    Panelist

    FYEE Conference

  8. Dec. 2025

    Best Presenter Award

    NJIT AI Exploration Day

04 · Research

Papers, posters, and one review invitation.

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.

Read the preprint ↗

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.

Read on the ACM DL ↗

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.

About the event ↗

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.

About the journal ↗

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