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About

Taleef Tamsal

I'm a Computer Science Master's student at Purdue, and I love creating practical and useful software, especially applications that make everyday life easier. I enjoy taking ideas from concept to reality—whether that’s creating a full-stack web platform or engineering an enterprise AI search engine.

My current focus is on Natural Language Processing, and for my thesis, I'm exploring the efficiency-robustness tradeoff in PEFT-tuned large language models. I'm excited to find a full-time Software Engineering role before I graduate in May 2026 to join a team that's passionate about technology, innovation, and growth. Please feel free to reach out!

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Projects

RASS (Retrieval-Augmented Semantic Search) Engine

RASS (Retrieval-Augmented Semantic Search) Engine

Engineered a production-ready, containerized RAG search engine and integrated it into Redmine to enhance internal knowledge retrieval for AI agents.

SemEval 2025 Task 10

SemEval 2025 Task 10

Developed multi-faceted NLP models for an international competition to detect and characterize disinformation in multilingual online news.

Campus Connect

Campus Connect

Built a full-stack web application with a CI/CD pipeline to centralize and streamline the application process for on-campus student positions, particularly academic ones

Attendance Tracker 4.0

Attendance Tracker 4.0

Designed and deployed a QR code-based attendance system using React and Firebase to fully automate and streamline the process of record-keeping for university courses.

Authorship Attribution using Twitter Data

Authorship Attribution using Twitter Data

Performed authorship attribution of thousands of scraped tweets from influential Twitter handles, using snscrape, and tested across a variety of ML models in the process.

Employee Attendance and Leave Management System

Employee Attendance and Leave Management System

Devised, from the ground up, an efficient system for tracking employee attendance and leave, addressing the need for automation and accuracy and improving efficiency across the board.


Experience

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Software Development Intern - Medical Informatics Engineering (MIE)
Indiana, USA

Engineered a production-ready, containerized RASS (Retrieval-Augmented Semantic Search) engine and integrated it into MIE’s Redmine platform via a custom Ruby on Rails plugin, significantly enhancing information retrieval and developer workflow efficiency.

May 2025 - August 2025
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Student Grader - HCI
Indiana, USA

Responsible for grading, course administration, and providing constructive feedback on assignments and projects for the graduate-level Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) course.

Jan 2025 - May 2025
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Purdue University
Indiana, USA

Started my Master's in Computer Science.

Aug 2024 - Present
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Digital Channel and Partnership Intern @ PMCL-Jazz
Islamabad, Pakistan

Managed the product lifecycle for push notification features, using A/B testing and data-driven insights to increase user engagement and retention. Collaborated with cross-functional teams on usability enhancements that boosted user experience ratings.

Jul 2023 - Aug 2023
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Undergraduate Teaching Assistant - LUMS
Lahore, Pakistan

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for Intro to Programming (CS 100), Blockchain (CS 589 and CS 3812), and Algorithms (CS 310).

Aug 2022 - Dec 2023
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Lahore University of Management Sciences
Lahore, Pakistan

Started my Bachelor's in Computer Science.

Aug 2020 - May 2024

Tech Stack

Frontend

Backend

DevOps

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