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arifme071/README.md

MD ARIFUR RAHMAN

OPERATIONS RESEARCH | AI/ML ENGINEER | DATA SCIENTIST | OPTIMIZATION & DATA SCIENCE

Deploying production ML and optimization systems at the intersection of AI, logistics, transportation, and manufacturing

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πŸ‘€ About Me

Operations Research, AI/ML, and Data Science professional with experience across industrial operations, rail transportation, manufacturing, logistics, and applied analytics. I build optimization models (LP/MIP, vehicle routing), predictive systems, anomaly-detection pipelines, and decision-support tools using Python, SQL, Gurobi, CPLEX, SCIP, OR-Tools, machine learning, cloud platforms, and Docker.

Currently a Georgia Tech PIN Fellow working on reinforcement learning, HMM-based optimization, multi-objective modeling, and RAG applications. Previously supported operational analytics and railcar asset management at Norfolk Southern and conducted machine-learning research with Georgia Southern University and MxV Rail.

πŸ”¬  PIN Fellow @ Georgia Tech              β†’  HMM + RL optimization pipelines for manufacturing Β· RAG-based knowledge systems (2025–Present)
πŸš‚  Supervisor Associate (Analytics and reporting) β€” Operations Division, Mechanical Maintenance @ Norfolk Southern β†’ Rail equipment management, FRA/49 CFR compliance, real-time asset health monitoring, and operation optimization (2024-2025)
πŸŽ“  Research Assistant @ Georgia Southern  β†’  95–97% anomaly detection on live rail DAS datasets Β· AAR/TTCI collaboration (2022–2023)
πŸ“„  7 peer-reviewed papers (ASME, Springer, SPIE, Elsevier) β€” 200+ citations
🎯  Georgia Tech OMSCS (CS) β†’  Fall 2026 - Current

πŸ› οΈ Technical Stack

Languages

Python SQL Java C++ MATLAB

Operations Research & Optimization

Gurobi OR-Tools Linear/Mixed-Integer Programming Vehicle Routing

ML & AI

TensorFlow PyTorch scikit-learn XGBoost Hugging Face LangChain LangGraph Vertex AI YOLOv8 CrewAI PEFT / LoRA FAISS OpenVINO

Cloud & MLOps

Google Cloud AWS Azure Docker BigQuery Git

Data & Visualization

Pandas Power BI Tableau Streamlit Alteryx


πŸ“Œ Featured Projects

🚚 Operations Research & Logistics Optimization

ai-last-mile-delivery-optimization Β Live Demo

End-to-end vehicle routing platform combining exact and heuristic optimization with ML forecasting. Formulates a Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (CVRPTW) two ways: an exact mixed-integer program in Gurobi for provable near-optimality on small instances, and a production-scale solver in Google OR-Tools (guided local search) that solves the full instance in seconds β€” the same exact-vs-heuristic trade-off used in large-scale commercial routing systems. Layered with an XGBoost demand forecast (14-day horizon, ~5% MAPE) and a Random Forest travel-time model that captures rush-hour congestion (RΒ²=0.97) instead of assuming flat driving speed. Interactive Streamlit dashboard with live route maps (Folium), KPI tracking, and fleet-size scenario/sensitivity analysis. Full pytest coverage validating capacity and time-window feasibility. Python Gurobi OR-Tools Linear/Mixed-Integer Programming XGBoost Random Forest Streamlit Folium Vehicle Routing Scenario Analysis


πŸ€– Generative AI & LLM Engineering

llm-finetuning-engineering-domain

Two complementary fine-tuning pipelines on railroad AI and manufacturing domain data. BERT/RoBERTa classification: fine-tuned bert-base-uncased β†’ 94.2% accuracy; roberta-base β†’ 95.8% on 4-class DAS signal conditions. LoRA generation: Mistral-7B instruction-tuned with only 4.2M trainable params (0.06% of model) using QLoRA 4-bit quantization β€” ROUGE-L 0.68. Both models published on HuggingFace Hub β†’
Python BERT RoBERTa Mistral-7B PEFT LoRA QLoRA Hugging Face Transformers NLP Jupyter Notebook

engineering-knowledge-rag Β Live Demo

Production RAG pipeline grounded in 7 peer-reviewed publications (200+ citations). Retrieves domain knowledge via FAISS + SentenceTransformers (all-MiniLM-L6-v2, 384-dim cosine search), generates citation-backed answers with Flan-T5 β€” zero hallucination on domain specifics. Live on HuggingFace Spaces (Docker). Supports drop-in PDF ingestion to extend the knowledge base to any domain.
Python RAG FAISS SentenceTransformers Flan-T5 LangChain Streamlit Docker HuggingFace Spaces


πŸš‚ Railroad & Transportation AI

railroad-anomaly-detection-cnn-lstm

Hybrid CNN-LSTM with sliding window for railroad condition monitoring via distributed acoustic sensing (DAS). Achieved 97% train position detection rate on live HTL fiber-optic datasets from AAR/TTCI, Pueblo CO. Published in Green Energy & Intelligent Transportation, Elsevier 2024.
Python TensorFlow CNN LSTM Time-Series Anomaly Detection Signal Processing

das-railroad-gru-lstm

GRU and LSTM models for train presence detection along fiber-optic DAS-instrumented track. 94% detection rate. Published in SPIE Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 2024.
Python Deep Learning GRU Distributed Acoustic Sensing Rail Safety

train-scheduling-system

Java console-based Train Movement & Scheduling System with CRUD operations, station management, scheduling, file I/O, and full OOP architecture.
Java OOP File I/O Scheduling Algorithms


🏭 Manufacturing & Industrial AI

warehouse-visual-intelligence

Production multi-agent AI system for real-time warehouse monitoring, safety violation detection, layout optimization, and cost reduction. A 5-agent pipeline (Vision β†’ Layout β†’ Anomaly β†’ Cost β†’ Orchestrator) processes images via YOLOv8 + GCP Vision API and outputs $/day cost impact per detected inefficiency. FastAPI backend, Streamlit dashboard, GitHub Actions CI/CD.
Python YOLOv8 CrewAI LangChain Google Cloud Vision GCS FastAPI Streamlit Multi-Agent Computer Vision

cv-manufacturing-defect-detection

Real-time surface defect detection for steel manufacturing using YOLOv8 on the NEU Surface Defect benchmark (1,800 images, 6 defect classes). Achieves 95.2% mAP@50 with 2.1ms GPU inference. Exported to Intel OpenVINO IR format for 2–4Γ— CPU speedup on Intel hardware. Extends published WAAM research (Georgia Tech / Springer 2026). Includes Colab training notebook and Streamlit demo.
Python YOLOv8 Intel OpenVINO Jupyter Notebook Streamlit Computer Vision Manufacturing QC Deep Learning

waam-hmm-rl-optimizer

Hidden Markov Model + Reinforcement Learning pipeline for material design optimization in Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM). Deployed under Georgia-AIM grant at Georgia Tech. 5% improvement in material utilization. Peer-reviewed Springer publication (2026).
Python Reinforcement Learning HMM Manufacturing AI MLOps

[ai-polymer-optimisation-mip-v3] -coming soon

AI-guided optimization of MIP/CIP polymer film synthesis using physics-informed data generation, ML surrogates, and multi-objective Pareto optimization β€” without wet-lab experiments. Achieves 95.2% capture efficiency and 1.998 Β΅m thickness (Β±0.002 Β΅m of target). Target: JOM / Springer (2026).
Python scikit-learn Random Forest MLP Gaussian Process Latin Hypercube Pareto Optimization Materials AI

manufacturing-powerbi-demo

Power BI + T-SQL demo for manufacturing analytics and real-time monitoring dashboards.
T-SQL Power BI Manufacturing Analytics


πŸ“Š Data Science & ML Applications

Building-a-Rainfall-Prediction-Classifier

End-to-end ML classification pipeline for rainfall prediction using supervised learning, feature engineering, and model evaluation.
Python scikit-learn Jupyter Notebook Classification

Store-Recommendation-System-Atlanta-GA

Interactive store recommendation system with analytics, K-Means clustering, and Folium map visualizations for Atlanta, GA.
Python Clustering Geospatial Recommender Systems Jupyter Notebook

Python-and-ML-Learning-Apps

Interactive Python & Machine Learning course with 28 structured lessons, built with React.
JavaScript React EdTech Machine Learning


πŸ“„ Selected Publications

Year Title Venue Metric
2026 AI-Polymer Film Synthesis Optimization EAAI (Under Review) Bio-Sensor Development for Healthcare and Environmental Impact
2026 AI-Driven(HMM-RL) decision support system for WAAM Sciencedirect HMM + RL, WAAM Optimization and Decission Support Model
2024 CNN-LSTM-SW for Railroad Anomaly Detection via DAS Green Energy & Intelligent Transportation, Elsevier 97% detection rate
2024 Deep Learning for DAS-based Railroad CM SPIE Journal of Applied Remote Sensing GRU model: 94% detection
2023 Review of DAS Applications for Railroad CM Mechanical Systems & Signal Processing, Elsevier Widely cited systematic review
2022–2023 ML Models for Rail Safety & Anomaly Detection (3 papers) ASME / Springer 95% accuracy on live HTL datasets

πŸ“š Full publication list on Google Scholar β†’ Β |Β  200+ total citations


πŸ† Certifications & Education

Type Details
πŸŽ“ Georgia Tech OMSCS MSc Computer Science (part time) β€” 2026-2028
πŸŽ“ Georgia Southern University MSc Applied Engineering (Advanced Manufacturing Engineering)
πŸŽ“ CUET BSc Mechanical Engineering
☁️ Google Cloud Data Analytics Certificate
βš™οΈ Alteryx Designer Core Certification
🐍 Coursera / U of Michigan Applied Machine Learning in Python
πŸ€– Google Generative AI Leader

πŸ“ˆ GitHub Stats

GitHub Stats Β Β  Top Languages

GitHub Streak


πŸ”­ Currently Working On

  • 🚚 Last-Mile Delivery Optimization β€” Extending the CVRPTW model with stochastic demand and split-delivery formulations
  • 🏭 WAAM AI Prototype β€” Deploying HMM + RL material design system at Georgia Tech (Georgia-AIM)
  • πŸ—οΈ Warehouse Visual Intelligence β€” Extending with real-time RTSP camera feed + BigQuery analytics trend dashboard
  • πŸ”¬ CV Defect Detection β€” Fine-tuning PPE detection model; Vertex AI deployment pipeline
  • πŸ€– LLM Fine-tuning β€” Scaling LoRA Mistral-7B training dataset; evaluating RAG vs fine-tuned generation

🀝 Let's Connect

I'm actively seeking roles in Operations Research, ML Engineering, AI/Data Science, Data Engineering, and AI Research β€” particularly in manufacturing, logistics, transportation, railway, energy, infrastructure intelligence, or large-scale ML and optimization systems.

Open to: Full-time roles at tech & industrial AI companies.

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πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Authorized to work (permanent resident) in the United States β€” no sponsorship required


⭐ If any of my projects or research helped you, consider starring the repo!

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  1. ai-last-mile-delivery-optimization ai-last-mile-delivery-optimization Public

    AI-powered last-mile delivery optimization platform using Gurobi, Python, and Machine Learning for intelligent fleet routing and logistics planning.

    Python

  2. waam-Hidden-Markov-Model-Reinforcement-Learning waam-Hidden-Markov-Model-Reinforcement-Learning Public

    Acoustic-Driven HMM–RL Framework for WAAM Process Monitoring

    Python

  3. engineering-knowledge-rag engineering-knowledge-rag Public

    RAG pipeline over published research in railroad AI & manufacturing β€” live demo on HuggingFace Spaces

    Python

  4. warehouse-visual-intelligence warehouse-visual-intelligence Public

    Multi-agent AI system for warehouse monitoring using YOLOv8, Google Cloud & AWS

    Python

  5. llm-finetuning-engineering-domain llm-finetuning-engineering-domain Public

    Fine-tuned BERT (94.2% accuracy) + LoRA Mistral-7B on railroad AI domain data β€” PEFT Β· QLoRA Β· HuggingFace Hub

    Jupyter Notebook

  6. cv-manufacturing-defect-detection cv-manufacturing-defect-detection Public

    YOLOv8 real-time surface defect detection for steel manufacturing β€” NEU dataset Β· Intel OpenVINO Β· 93.7% mAP

    Jupyter Notebook