David Kahdian
Computer Engineering & Applied Mathematics Student at UCLA
About Me
I'm an undergraduate Computer Engineering and Applied Mathematics student at UCLA with a 3.97 GPA, focused on building innovative solutions that make a real impact.
Problem Solver
Full-Stack Developer
Continuous Learner
Featured Projects
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BruinPlan
Course-planning platform serving 500+ UCLA students across 14,000+ courses and 130+ majors.
SvelteTypeScriptPuppeteerCytoscape.jsPythonGemini API
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Data Compression for Machine Learning
Graduate ML project achieving 87% classification accuracy with near-theoretical minimum bits.
PythonNumPyCVXPYLinear ProgrammingMachine Learning
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Wikipedia Graph Explorer
Full-stack graph visualization across 7,000,000+ English Wikipedia articles with up to 200 nodes.
AngularTypeScriptJava Spring BootMediaWiki APICytoscape.js
Recent Experience
Applied AI Engineering Intern
HARMAN International (a Samsung company)
Northridge, CA
- • Rearchitected a production fuzzy-matching system, improving accuracy 30% while achieving a 5x speedup.
- • Owned two internal tools from ideation through production deployment.
- • Building Python AI services for enterprise workflows with cloud APIs and LLM integrations.
- • Developing RAG components for document processing, embeddings, search, grounding, and evaluation.
PythonCloud APIsLLM integrationsRAG
AI Research Engineer
UCLA StarAI Lab
Los Angeles, CA
- • Built and open-sourced Tractable Circuit Zoo, covering 30 representation languages and 2,700 research claims.
- • Partnering with PhD researchers to design features from real user feedback.
- • Engineered validation algorithms that eliminate 90% of manual entry and 99% of human-generated errors.
- • Streamlined testing and release processes, saving 50+ hours of manual work.
TypeScriptSvelteKitAWSGitHub ActionsLaTeX