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Sazzad Islam

AI @ Delve (YC W24) | prev {Robotics, Education, AI} @ SAIL

Stanford, California

Overview 

Sazzad Islam is currently serving as the Founding AI Engineer at Delve, a Y Combinator W24 startup, showcasing expertise in Machine Learning and AI. With a background in Robotics and Education, Sazzad has held roles at prestigious institutions like Stanford University and Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), demonstrating strong leadership and analytical skills in the field.

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.

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