Ali Hussain

About Me


I'm a graduate student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering: Machine Learning and Data Science program at UC San Diego. I recently completed my undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering also at UC San Diego. I aim to deepen my expertise in advanced modeling techniques and large-scale data-driven applications.

My interests lie at the intersection of deep learning, computer vision, and natural language processing. I enjoy building intelligent systems that learn from and interact with the real world — from generative models and perception systems to question-answering pipelines.



Education

Experience

Skills

  • Programming Languages
    Python, C/C++, SQL (PostgreSQL), HTML/CSS, JavaScript
  • Frameworks and Libraries
    React, FastAPI, Recharts, BeautifulSoup, Tailwind CSS, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face Transformers, Pybullet, Spark, Pandas, Streamlit, Altair, Scikit-learn
  • Specialized Skills
    SQL Database Management, REST API Design, Full-Stack Web Development, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, NLP, Generative Models, Web Scraping
  • Jan. 2025 - Mar. 2025
    Research Intern under Professor Xie at UCSD
  • Sept. 2022 - Oct. 2023
    Undergraduate Researcher under Professor Atanasov at UCSD
  • Sept. 2021 - Dec. 2021
    IEEE Quarterly Project Participant
  • Sept. 2024 - Dec. 2025
    Machine Learning and Data Science M.S. at University of California San Diego
  • Sept. 2021 - Mar. 2025
    Electrical Engineering B.S. at University of California San Diego

My Work

PokeDex

1st Generation PokeDex using ResNet.

DCGAN Generative Model

Model that generates images of natural scenes.

Variational Autoencoder

Model that reconstructs chest x-ray images.

Cancer Histopathology CNN Classifier

CNN that classifies benign and harmful cancer cells from histopathology images.

Pokemon HGSS QA System

Structured Pokémon HGSS knowledge base with RAG for question answering using small language models.

cGAN Colorization Model

Implementation of cGAN for colorization.

NYC Drug Crime Analysis

An exploratory analysis on drug crime in New York City.

NBA Player Similarity Search

Takes in an NBA player as input and returns the top 5 most similar players based on seasonal stats.