I’m a Computer Science Master's student at UC Riverside, with interests in Machine Learning, AI Agents, building thoughtful software, and engineering for good.

I'm actively seeking AI/ML internships for Summer and Fall 2026, so please feel free to reach out with any opportunities or advice! I would be grateful to have a conversation about how I can grow with you.

My technical focus is on applied AI, AI agents, and thoughtful software engineering; I particularly love turning my ideas into bite-sized projects to benefit others. I'm an AI Trainer with Handshake AI and an AI product tester with DeepLearning.AI, where I improve AI education through thoughtful course design and project experiences. I spend my weekends teaching as an Islamic Studies Instructor at Institute of Knowledge (IOK), where I cultivate a supportive and growth-driven learning environment for my students around Islam and academic excellence.

• Aspiring AI/ML Engineer: I focus on building and learning with AI/ML (LLMs, Gen. AI, Multimodal AI, DL, RL, AI agents, etc.)
• Software Engineer: I enjoy building full-stack apps and friendly user experiences.
• Engineering for Good: My goal is to create projects that are technically impressive while being helpful and accessible to others.
• Beyond Code: I’m obsessed with boba, reading, skating, building LEGO, going for coffee runs, and gaming, which keep me curious and inspired.

• Snaption
  Explored multi-modal ML and built an end-to-end image captioning system with PyTorch to generate natural language descriptions of images. Trained on Flickr8k (8K images), tackling hyperparameter tuning, overfitting prevention, and data augmentation strategies.
  View my demo here and read about my project here.

• Text2SQL LLaMA Analyst
  Fine-tuned LLaMA-2-7B to translate natural language descriptions into structured, SQL queries using parameter-efficient fine-tuning techniques: LoRA + 4-bit quantization.
  Includes a zero-setup Colab Demo

• GPT From Scratch
  Implemented multi-head self-attention, transformer blocks, and autoregressive decoding entirely from scratch in PyTorch to truly understand how GPT models work.
  Test it out yourself here.

• Pixelate
  Developed a colorblind-friendly pixel-art editor with an AI assistant (Pixi), real-time colorblind-friendly filters, and an accessible, intuitive interface for artists.
  View our demo here.

• Reddit Crawler
  Engineered a robust Reddit crawler and search engine that scraped, cleaned, and enriched 500MB+ of real-time subreddit data with multi-threading support, improving crawl throughput by 4× via parallelization.
  View our demo here.

• Deep Learning & Agentic AI
• LangChain & LangGraph Foundations
• AI Engineering Applications
• AI for Creative Workflows and Developer Productivity Tools

• Portfolio: aamir-khans-portfolio.vercel.app
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/aamir-khan-aak521
• Certifications: coursera.org/learner/aamir-khan-0365
• Resume: drive.google.com/file/d/10sh8OCvhQI6_4GU20ILLg7g3h8x6r55r/view
• Email: akhan197@ucr.edu | aamirksfg@gmail.com

I seek to use AI/ML and AI engineering to solve complex problems that will help us live more productive lives! My dream is to build AI tools that have the potential to help millions around the world and improve our quality of life as developers and learners.