# Abdullah Azhar > Halcyon | Berkeley alum Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/abdullahazhar Software Engineer @ Halcyon Previous: Master's graduate from UC Berkeley in Data Science with over 3 years of experience as a Data Scientist, skilled in handling large datasets across tabular, text, vision, and image-to-text modalities. Portfolio: https://azhara001.github.io ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Halcyon Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Data Scientist @ Halcyon Jan 2024 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Data Scientist @ Halcyon Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Graduate Student Instructor @ University of California, Berkeley Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Berkeley, California, United States • Computer Simulations in Jupyter Notebooks (Fall 2022) • Classroom Interactions in Science and Mathematics: A focus on Equity and Urban Schools (Spring 2023) • Research and Data Analysis in Pyschology (Spring 2024) ### Data Science Intern @ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Livermore, California, United States • Leveraged tree-based learning algorithms, such as decision trees and advanced ensemble techniques (BAGGING, RandomForests, ADABoost), to achieve a 30% improvement in root-mean-squared error (RMSE), enabling groundwater management authorities to predict water sample ages more affordably and mitigate the impact of consuming contaminated water for the Central Valley region’s population • Analyzed feature importances by evaluating the mean decrease in impurity for each learner, enhancing interpretability of the machine learning model and enabling non technical domain experts to prioritize feature extraction for more cost-effective analysis of groundwater sample chemical compositions • Examined predictor variable interactions by generating deciled Partial Dependence Plots (PDPs) through marginalization over complement features thus empowering hydrologists to discern the relationship between each feature and water sample age variations in the Central Valley region ### Data Scientist @ Center for Urban Informatics Technology and Policy Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan • Developed a cost-effective and scalable ETL pipeline to model geospatial traffic flows from travel times using deep neural networks • Provided policy recommendations through time series forecasting of traffic congestions using Google Cloud Platform to reduce traffic air pollution by 7% ### Business Intelligence Analyst @ ICI Pakistan Limited Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 • Secured the highest capital budget in the history of business (USD 7.2 Mn) by leveraging data- driven strategy to maximize business value resulting in a production increase of 42.5% (SPLY) • Coordinated the planning and design of 486-KW Bela Solar Project to achieve simple payback of 3 years and 5 months while projecting cumulative 20-year savings of USD 2.9 Mn ### Graduate Recruit @ ICI Pakistan Limited Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Khewra, Punjab, Pakistan Race2BoardRoom Flagship Management Trainee Track - Engineering Department ### Graduate Training Engineer - Instrumentation @ Fatima Fertilizer Company Limited Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Thatta Sadiqabad, Southern Punjab Multan, Pakistan ### Teaching Assistant @ Lahore University of Management Sciences Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 Teaching Assistant: 1. Circuits-II (Spring 2016-17 / Spring 2017-18) 2. Electromagnetic Fields and Wave Theory (Fall 2017-18) 3. Circuits-II (Spring-2018) ### Intern @ Packages Limited Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Lahore Procurement of machinery and awareness SHEQ campaign ### Intern @ ICI Pakistan Limited Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Sheikhupura Proposed a plan for Draw Line automation by using Pipeline and Instruments Diagrams to create a comprehensive list of the entire Inputs and Outputs of the line. ## Education ### Master of Information Management and Systems - Data Science/Machine Learning UC Berkeley School of Information ### BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering Lahore University of Management Sciences ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/azhara001 - Website: https://azhara001.github.io - Website: https://github.com/azhara001 --- Source: https://flows.cv/abdullahazhar JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/abdullahazhar/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05