John Y.

I am a recent graduate of New York University Abu Dhabi with a degree in Computer Science, specializing in machine learning and large-scale data engineering. I work as a Machine Learning and Data Collection Engineer, building AI systems that solve real-world problems from the ground up. My work spans the full stack of machine learning — from designing large-scale data collection pipelines to deploying multimodal reasoning models on high-performance computing infrastructure. My capstone research focused on indoor geolocation across the UAE and Arab region, where I built a dataset of nearly 440,000 geo-tagged indoor images and developed a retrieval-augmented AI pipeline capable of predicting locations from images alone. I thrive at the intersection of research and engineering — turning complex technical challenges into working systems. Whether it is architecting a data pipeline, fine-tuning a vision-language model, or processing large-scale geographic datasets across a dozen countries, I bring both the technical depth and the problem-solving mindset to get things done. If you are looking for someone who can take an idea from concept to implementation and deliver results that are both technically rigorous and practically useful, I would love to connect.