# Sajid Farook

> Analyst @ Cornerstone Research

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sajid

I'm a Computer Science (AI/ML) Master's student at Stanford interested particularly in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. Before that, I was heavily involved in government and policy work - most of my current projects uses NLP+ML to make policymaking and political journalism more efficient and data-driven. If you want to learn more about my work or have an opportunity that you think would be of interest to me, please reach out!

## Work Experience
### Economic Consulting Analyst @ Cornerstone Research
Jan 2025 – Present | Menlo Park, CA

### Software Engineer @ Logistics Information Technologies, Inc.
Jan 2024 – Present | Reston, Virginia, United States
Developed ML/NLP models (urgency sentiment analysis, neural time series price forecasting, competition classification using weak labelling and data augmentation techniques) to help clients identify procurement opportunities, managing and providing technical guidance (model/architecture selection, etc.) to a team of 4 interns.

### NLP Researcher @ Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL)
Jan 2024 – Present | Stanford, California, United States
Built a conversational agent for retrieval over structured and unstructured public elections data.

### LLM Engineer @ Big Local News
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024
Built a semantic search engine using for efficient retrieval of public records data for data journalists.

### Research Intern @ Cassidy & Associates
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Research on legislative affairs + scraping and visualization of data on environmental rulemakings to inform clients on historic trends in regulatory action.

### Policy Analyst Intern @ Executive Office of the President
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Washington, DC
Revised regulatory proposals and economic impact analysis (cost/benefit; distributional effects) to ensure efficacy and alignment with White House objectives. Compiled and managed a tracking spreadsheet to streamline OMB regulatory review with the VA.

### Managing Director @ Stanford Student Enterprises
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Stanford, California, United States
Managed all business development (sponsorships and marketing) + directed a team of associates for the the largest high school speech and debate tournament in the country (3,500+ participants).

### Vice President of Tournaments @ Stanford Debate Society
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Stanford, California, United States
Competed in intercollegiate debate; represents Stanford at World Championships.

### Policy & Data Analyst @ Cardinal Policy Group
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Stanford, California, United States
Cleaned, analyzed, and visualized economic data on Bay Area income inequality trends using R for local public policy think tanks; wrote qualitative policy briefs on tax policy.

### Research Assistant at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies @ Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Stanford, California, United States
Conducted research with Dr. Karen Eggleston on public and private roles in healthcare systems in Southeast Asia. Wrote literature reviews, sourced and aggregated health economics data, produced visualizions.

### Campaign Staff for Aarika Rhodes for Congress @ Aarika Rhodes for Congress
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Fernando, California, United States
Developed policy briefs, news round-ups, corresponded with PACs for endorsements and funding for the policy team at Aarika Rhode's grassroots congressional campaign for CA-32.

### Research Assistant at the Asian Institute of Technology's Yunus Center @ Yunus Center AIT
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Bangkok City, Thailand
Conducted qualitative research with Dr. Faiz Shah on the efficacy of mobile e-healthcare technologies in increasing primary healthcare access in developing regions of Southeast Asia.

### Marketing and Web Design Intern @ California Special Needs Law Group
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Irvine, California, United States
Worked on web design, newsletter management, and podcast development as a marketing intern for a special education law firm.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
Stanford University

### Bachelor's degree in Political Science
Stanford University

### International Baccalaureate Diploma
International School Bangkok


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sajid-farook-467463189

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Last updated: 2026-04-11