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Zachariah Farahany — AI & ML

Zachariah Farahany

Applied AI/ML Engineer. MS Applied Data Science, University of Chicago. BS Computer Science + Mathematics, Marquette University.

I build production AI systems: agentic pipelines, RAG systems, multimodal CV, and ML models in regulated industries. Currently at Wells Fargo doing credit risk ML and AI/ML applications in financial services. Also a Teaching Assistant for the UChicago MS Applied Data Science program.

Portfolio · LinkedIn · Resume/CV · Blog · Email

Publications

First author. IEEE Big Data 2022. "Oversampling Techniques for Predicting COVID-19 Patient Length of Stay." ANN + Bayesian hyperparameter tuning + SMOTE-style oversampling. 85.79% F1, outperforming prior benchmarks of 49-80%. arXiv:2511.15048

Projects

Chartwell Insurance AI Production RAG system for insurance services. Modular retrieval pipeline, eval harness with hyperparameter tuning, Streamlit deployment. Built to handle real client queries with compliance constraints.

SkySearch UAVs Multimodal LLM + computer vision system for autonomous UAV object identification. Zero-shot generalization over traditional CV approaches. UChicago MS thesis project. Writeup forthcoming.

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  1. Oversampling-Techniques-for-Predicting-COVID-19-Patient-Length-of-Stay Oversampling-Techniques-for-Predicting-COVID-19-Patient-Length-of-Stay Public

    In this project we used a novel deep learning hyperparameter selection pipeline to optimize the classification of severe COVID-19 cases.

    Jupyter Notebook 2

  2. Chartwell-Insurance-AI Chartwell-Insurance-AI Public

    Forked from fuchenru/Chartwell-Insurance-AI

    Chartwell Insurance AI Website

    Python 1

  3. SkySearch SkySearch Public

    Forked from duncancalvert/SkySearch

    SkySearch is an open source Python package that allows simple, flexible, and robust DJI drone swarm capabilities tailored for search and rescue.

    Jupyter Notebook 1

  4. TransformerTranslation TransformerTranslation Public

    In this repository, I leveraged an NVIDIA T4 GPU and implemented custom Transformer architectures in both PyTorch and TensorFlow to develop two language translation models.

    Jupyter Notebook 1