Saimon Tsegai
Graduate Research Assistant
Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSaimon Tsegai is a PhD student and Graduate Research Assistant at Virginia Tech specializing in LLM systems and agentic AI, with five years of hands-on experience building and deploying practical AI solutions. He has engineered large-scale training datasets and evaluation pipelines at the Technology Innovation Institute, and implemented quantization frameworks and on-device LLM deployments that prioritize privacy and low-latency inference. His background spans full-stack delivery—from Flutter mobile apps and Angular web integrations to backend APIs and optimized data storage on AWS—reflecting a strong systems-to-models fluency. Academically rigorous (4.0 PhD studies at Virginia Tech and a 3.96 BEng from Khalifa University), he blends research depth with production engineering, notably automating end-to-end model workflows and extending multilingual coding evaluation tooling. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who pushes research into deployable, resource-efficient AI products.
5 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0 at Virginia TechBachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, 3.96/4.0, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, 3.96/4.0 at Khalifa University
Github Skills (36)
application-bot10
fingerprint10
cloudflare10
selenium10
python10
anti-bot10
proxy10
webscraping10
headless-browser10
fingerprintjs10
browser-automation10
automation10
bot-detection10
firefox10
ai10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
peng-gao-lab/ctinexus
Jul 2025 - Feb 2026
CTINexus is a framework that leverages optimized in-context learning of LLMs to enable data-efficient extraction of cyber threat intelligence and the construction of high-quality cybersecurity knowledge graphs.
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 14 PRs in 7 months
cyber-threat-intelligencecybersecuritydata-efficientknowledge-graphcti
49Simon/Auto_Jobs_Applier_AIHawk
Oct 2024 - Nov 2024
Auto_Jobs_Applier_AIHawk is a tool that automates the jobs application process. Utilizing artificial intelligence, it enables users to apply for multiple job offers in an automated and personalized way.
Contributions:21 pushes, 18 branches in 1 month
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