I am a Computer Science and Mathemarics double major at Lake Forest College.
Research
A Python package for generating and assessing randomness. [Python Package Index (PyPI), 2025, Sepehr Akbari]
Comparing Insertion Complexity in AVL and Splay BSTs [Unpublished Manuscript, 2022, Sepehr Akbari]
Modeling a Chicken Egg [Unpublished Manuscript, 2022, Sepehr Akbari]
Teaching
Teaching Assistant, CSCI 450: Computer Vision & Machine Learning [Dr. Sugata Banerji, Spring '26, Lake Forest College]
Teaching Assistant, CSCI 325: Artificial Intelligence [Dr. Sara Jamshidi, Spring '26, Lake Forest College]
Teaching Assistant, MATH 231: Linear Algebra [Dr. Sara Jamshidi, Spring '26, Lake Forest College]
Teaching Assistant, MATH 230: Abstract & Discrete Mathematics [Dr. Arthur Bousquet, Spring '26, Lake Forest College]
Grader, MATH 574: Bayesian Computational Statistics [Dr. Sara Jamshidi, Fall '25, Illinois Institute of Technology]
Teaching Assistant, CSCI 317: Data Structures & Algorithms [Dr. Sugata Banerji, Fall '25, Lake Forest College]
Teaching Assistant, MATH 250: Statistical Programming [Dr. Andrew Gard, Fall '25, Lake Forest College]
Teaching Assistant, CSCI 250: Programming for Data Applications [Dr. Arthur Bousquet, Fall '25, Lake Forest College]
Teaching Assistant, MATH 230: Abstract & Discrete Mathematics [Dr. Sara Jamshidi, Fall '25, Lake Forest College]
Teaching Assistant, MATH 150: Probability & Statistics [Dr. Tung Nguyen, Summer '25, Lake Forest College]
Teaching Assistant, MATH/CSCI 240: Computational Mathematics [Dr. Sara Jamshidi, Spring '25, Lake Forest College]
Teaching Assistant, CSCI 112: Functional Programming [Dr. Tung Nguyen, Spring '25, Lake Forest College]
Teaching Assistant, CSCI 107: Web Programming [Dr. Tung Nguyen, Spring '25, Lake Forest College]
Teaching Assistant, CSCI 112: Functional Programming [Dr. Tung Nguyen, Fall '24, Lake Forest College]
Teaching Assistant, CSCI 112: Functional Programming [Zoya Mirza, Spring '24, Lake Forest College]
Team Mentor, Rescuer Robotics Team [Salam Dibaji Highschool, Summer '23, FIRA Cup]
Talks
Polynomials as Logic Gates: Solving Constraint Satisfaction Problems with Gröbner Bases, given at Illinois Section of the American Mathematical Society (ISMAA) on March 27, 2026.
Exctracting Pi from Chaos, given at Lake Forest College on February 20, 2026.
Synthesis of the Optimal Quantum Circuit with Deep Reinforcement Learning, given at Lake Forest College Computer Science Club on February 4, 2026.
Projects
- Quantum Circuit Optimization: a deep reinforcement learning approach to synthesizing the shortest quantum circuit for a target state or operator with high fidelity.
- Heart: heart murmur, gallops, etc. detection pipeline from heart sound recordings.
- Unjumble: implementation and novel evaluation of search algorithms solving a word jumble puzzle.
- CaeLLM: an LLM built from the ground up, using gpt-oss and qwen3 weights.(on-going)
- Enrollment Cliff: an ML approach to analyzing enrollment trends and US college closures.
- Randomity: a novel Python package for generating and assessing randomness.
- Objectness: an enhanced pipeline for object and saliency detection
- Here is Waldo: finding Waldo with a novel Transfer Learning approach
- Context Color: intelligently colorize BW images through controlled CNN hallucination
- Semantique: NLP model for starring movie reviews
- Video Store: a DBMS for a movie rental store chain
- Hemo Lens: blood cells analysis pipeline using classical methods
- Stop the Churn: retention prediction tool
- Caelum-Lang: self-designed compiler (on-going)
- Tracking CO2 Footprint: carbon emissions trend prediction
- Two Faces of the Moon: Pink Floyd, statistically
- Radioactive Modeling: simulating nuclear decay
- Trash Inference: understanding Baltimorians, from their trash
- Gas Today: exploring imputing prices in time series data
- Algorithming Sudoku: a backtracking solution to create and solve sudoku puzzles (on-going)
Industry
Software Engineer (Part-time), Applied Data Center [Summer '25 - ongoing]
Software Engineer (Intern), Tenacity AI [Summer '24]
Software Engineer (Intern), Elite Engineering Solution [Summer '23]
Software Engineer (Intern), Lavan Energy Group [Summer '22]
