# Hamima Halim

> Machine Learning Engineer at Kensho Technologies

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/hamima

~ Jack of some trades.
~ Big on graphs, trains, IR, and Pandas war stories.
~ Recruiters: please tell me your favorite fact about bugs.

## Work Experience
### Staff Machine Learning Engineer @ Ikigai
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Prototyped novel stochastic nonlinear optimization algorithms and libraries for insurance pricing and supply chain prediction problems.
- Designed functionality for conformal uncertainty intervals on time series model predictions, based on up-to-date statistical literature.
- Architected critical portions of existing model-to-S3 infrastructure for increased system reliability and model provenance.

### Volunteer, Labs Team @ TransitMatters
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025
Developed live tracker for all busses and trains in Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA,)
processing real-time GPS pings to calculate route headways, intuit arrivals and missing spatial
information with GTFS shape data, and track MBTA performance.

### Machine Learning Engineer @ Kensho Technologies
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- MLE for the Document Intelligence Team, working on problems related to document understanding from R&D to production. 
- Iterating on ML and engineering solutions for document layout analysis, information extraction, and OCR, with a focus on applying GNN's to this domain. (Pytorch)
- Maintained the ML model lifecycle for a fully productionized key-value extraction system, which has processed over 2 million broker reports to date. (Airflow, Python, SQL)

### Software Engineer @ Kensho Technologies
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- API Services Engineer, productionizing ML financial products, including our broker research document information extraction API (Python, Kafka, Flask, Prometheus)
- Search Software Engineer, developing search engines for S&P's Market Intelligence next-generation platform and Kensho's financial documents platform, Codex. Patent pending. (Elasticsearch, Python)
- Graph Infrastructure Engineer for Kensho Technologies' financial events knowledge graph (OrientDB, GraphQL, Python)

### Course Assistant @ Johns Hopkins University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018
- Head Data Structures TA, 1 year
- Algorithms CA, 1 year
- Data Structures CA, 1.5 years

### 3D Visualization Ptychography Intern @ Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States
- Developed image processing pipelining tool for rapid ptychographic data reconstruction
- Designed modular system to chain and grid-apply various imaging transformations for researchers

### 3D Visualization Photogrammetry Intern @ Bronze Age Koros Off-Tell Archaeology Project: NSF-REU
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Békés, Hungary
- Used game development principles, Unity5 and Autodesk Maya to make an interactive 3D space for users to explore the Békés103 cemetery in Hungary.
- Used photogrammetry to 3D model Bronze Age funerary urns.
- Project featured at the Society of American Anthropologists Conference in Vancouver, Spring 2017 ("Death Games")


## Education
### Master of Engineering - MEng in Applied Mathematics
The Johns Hopkins University

### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Applied Mathematics, Computer Science
The Johns Hopkins University

### Artificial Intelligence Professional Program in Artificial Intelligence
Stanford Continuing Studies

### Hayfield Secondary School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hamima-halim

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Last updated: 2026-03-31