Sazzad Islam
AI @ Delve (YC W24) | prev {Robotics, Education, AI} @ SAIL
Stanford, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founding AI Engineer
2025 - Current
Research Intern
2023
- Leading a team in developing a novel digital Ling sound platform. - Developing foudnation models for few-shot inference of hearing ability and the creation of adaptive hearing tests. - Building a Next.js web app w/ hearing tests, audio calibration, health dashboards, and remote management.
Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence is for advancing AI research, education, and practice to improve humanity.
Raised $2,750,000.00 from Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation and Patrick J. McGovern Foundation.
Segment Co-Ordinator (FE)
2022
- Coordinated the Future Engineers segment with 20+ teams for the National Round. - Organized workshops all over the country for program outreach. - Prepared proposals for sponsors, and maintained connections.
Judge
2023 - 2023
Youngest Judge for the International Round of Future Engineers Category
Coach (Bangladesh FE Team)
2022 - 2022
Team Leader (Bangladesh FE Team)
2021 - 2021
- Won 10th position Worldwide out of all the participating countries. - Led Bangladesh to the international round for the first time in the competition's history. - Created a development pipeline for the project and ensured timed accomplishment. - Deployed basic AI and advanced mechatronics skills to create an autonomous vehicle from scratch.
Research Intern
2024 - 2025
Stanford Intelligent and Interactive Autonomous Systems Group (ILIAD) Mentored by Suneel Belkhale and Suvir Mirchandani, under the advisory guidance of Dorsa Sadigh. - Developing System 1 / System 2 methods for creating compute-efficient models for real-world use cases. - Improving Vision-Language-Action Models (VLAs) by incorporating chain-of-thought reasoning over actions.
Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is a center of excellence for AI research, teaching, theory, and practice.
Project Developer
2023 - 2024
Research Assistant
2023 - 2023
Working with The Behavioral Lab at the Graduate School of Business, a social psychology laboratory conducting marketing and organizational behavior experiments. - Coding experiments on data and conducting data analysis to find patterns in human behavior. - Conducting research studies and acquiring data for professors and graduate students.