Sunshine - What I'm Up to During the Day
Work Experience
Center for AI Safety
Research Software Engineer Intern
October 2024 - present
San Francisco, CA
- Building and managing a 0-1 evaluation platform website to increase AI safety ($1.96 billion market) [React, Next.js, Typescript, Tailwind CSS].
- Increasing topic sourcing coverage to create a database of 200 comparisons for the website [MongoDB, API calls, JSON].
DayDream Ventures
Venture Fellow
October 2024 - December 2024
San Francisco, CA
- Sourcing and writing company memos for startups in AI, Consumer, and Community.
- Attending weekly workshops on topics like venture capital, startups, and entrepreneurship.
Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research
Generative AI Researcher and PM
May 2023 - December 2023
Berkeley, CA
Berkeley Natural Language Processing Group Undergraduate Researcher (Advisors: Professor Daniel Klein, PhD Student Eve Fleisig)
- Scoped research goal to evaluate subjective NLG tasks and prepared dataset (141,000 data points) into training and test files [Python, JSON].
- Fine-tuned supervised learning model to evaluate its ability to determine humor (70% accuracy) [Python, PyTorch, OpenAI API].
- Conducted literature review and presented on effects of measuring annotator responses to evaluate natural language generation models.
Google
Computer Science Research Mentorship Program Scholar
September 2023 - December 2023
Berkeley, CA
- Cohort 2023b. Received AI/ML & HCI research mentorship from Software Engineers. Presented talk on humor in natural language generation models.
UnitedHealth Group
Experience Design Intern
June 2022 - August 2022
Irvine, CA
- Designed Onboarding Platform (saved annual $19.2 million, 38,000 users) based on business model and user feedback [Figma, Miro].
- 1 of 5 selected to organize a 2-day Human-Centered Design Workshop (1200+ members) with C-level Executives & conduct user research.
- Facilitated enterprise-wide design system transition and analyzed human-centered AI applications in healthcare [HTML, CSS, Javascript].
University of Southern California
Artificial Intelligence Research Intern
June 2021 - October 2021
Los Angeles, CA
- Published peer-reviewed NSF research paper of STEM Minority Wikidata bot and optimized categorization process for 6 databases [SPARQL].
- Identified 2 real-time algorithm matching errors of Table Linking Software and increased representation by 50% [Python, KGTK].
ExoAnalytic Solutions
Software Engineering Intern
June 2020 - August 2020
Irvine, CA
- Remodeled 2 algorithms and extracted vital satellite data from a database for clients and improved user experience [JSON, Python].
Projects
zainashaik.com
Personal Website
![Evaluation of AI Model [BAIR/Google]](/projects/IMG_5776.JPG)
Evaluation of AI Model [BAIR/Google]
Comparing Natural Language Generation Model’s Ability to Evaluate Humorous Captions
Cute Outfit Stylist
Chatbot that generates suggestions on how to make an outfit cuter.
SoulSpeak
Therapy Chatbot LLM with Emotional AI
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Journaling Website with Sentiment Analysis and AI Generated Journal Prompts
Seasons
Sustainable Fashion Brand LLM for a Quarterly Clothing Subscription Service
![Analyzing Race and Citizenship Bias in Wikidata [USC NSF REU] [Published at IEEE MASS 2021]](/projects/WikidataPoster1.png)
Analyzing Race and Citizenship Bias in Wikidata [USC NSF REU] [Published at IEEE MASS 2021]
Poster Abstract Paper about AI Ethics and Representation in Wikidata
Education
University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science
Berkeley Certificate in Design Innovation
SCET Certificate in Entrepreneurship & Technology
Awards:
- UC Berkeley:
- Regents' and Chancellor's Scholar (RCSA) (Top 1% of Incoming Students) [March 2020]
- STEM Excellence through Equity & Diversity (SEED) Honors Research Scholar ($80k Stipend for AI Research) [March 2020]
- Other:
- Google CS Research Mentorship Program 2023b [Sept. 2023]
Classes:
Computer Science Major: CS194-196: Responsible Generative AI, CS160: User Interfaces, CS169a: Cloud Computing...
Certifications:
- Amazon Web Services:
- Google Cloud:
Organizations:
- FEMTech Berkeley - President [2020-2024]
- Regents' and Chancellor's Scholars Association - Chair of Operations [2020-2024]
- SEED Scholars Honors Program - Research Scholar and Mentor [2020-2024]
- Girls Who Code - Member [2016-present]
- Rewriting the Code - Member [2024-present]