Saad Khalid

About

• First-principles oriented problem solver

• Naturally curious, love to build

• CS student @ McMaster University

Current Work

• Creating a web based form platform centered around developers

• Implementing Transformer-Based Language Models using first principles

• Exploring computational problem solving through competitive programming, repository here

Past work

• Shipped an anonymized chat app at Buildspace Nights and Weekends

• Re-Implemented the U-Net paper

• Created a Google Calendar integration for Notion. (has since went offline, but can be self hosted)

• Developed CNNs from first-principles. Work can be found here.

• Alumni of The Knowledge Society

• Used NLP to create a real-time text sentiment extraction tool. Video link here

• North American Finalist in Microsoft's Imagine Cup

• Core Developer at PadwanDAO