Hi, I am Hamza!

Founder & CEO at Traversaal.ai

I am the founder and CEO of Traversaal.ai, a company dedicated to providing scalable, customizable, and cost-efficient language model solutions for enterprises. Our mission is to revolutionize conversational search with a strong emphasis on security, compliance, user management, and session handling. Our flagship product, Apollo, exemplifies this commitment by offering state-of-the-art capabilities in knowledge retrieval. :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}

Academic Roles

In addition to my entrepreneurial endeavors, I serve as an adjunct professor at institutions such as Stanford University, UCLA, MIT, the University of Minnesota, and Oxford. In these roles, I bridge the gap between academic theory and real-world AI applications, sharing my knowledge and experience with the next generation of innovators. :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}

Professional Background

With over 15 years of experience in machine learning, my career has spanned multiple continents and industries, including tech, telecommunications, finance, and retail. I have previously held positions as a Senior Research Manager at Google and Walmart Labs, where I led data science and machine learning teams focusing on optimization, natural language processing, recommender systems, and time series forecasting. :contentReference[oaicite:2]{index=2}

Recent Initiatives

• LARGE Initiative: I spearheaded the LLM Adaptation & Research for General Enterprises (LARGE) initiative, aiming to advance state-of-the-art AI into real-world enterprise applications.

• ALIF: I led the development of Urdu LLM, the first state-of-the-art Urdu language model, addressing linguistic and cultural inequities in AI.

Public Speaking and Training

I am a regular speaker at conferences and have led numerous training and consultation sessions for various organizations. My main objective has been to help organizations utilize their data to build large-scale systems that assist with automation, optimization, recommendation, and forecasting. :contentReference[oaicite:4]{index=4}

Current Focus

• Research: Enhancing my skills as a researcher with a focus on real-world applications.
• Learning: Deepening my understanding of Information Retrieval Systems.
• Collaboration: Seeking opportunities to collaborate on Natural Language Processing (NLP) projects.
• Mentorship: Guiding others through my course on Machine Learning System Design.

Connect with Me

• LinkedIn: Hamza Farooq

Data Science and Machine Learning are vast and rapidly evolving fields. This GitHub profile is my attempt to explore these domains and share my knowledge.