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Usama Raheel

Usama Raheel

AI/ML Engineer  ·  RAG & LLM systems  ·  MSc Computer Science & Engineering (AI), University of Oulu

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AI/ML engineer with four years of industry experience before an MSc in Computer Science & Engineering (AI) at the University of Oulu. I build retrieval-augmented and LLM systems and machine-learning pipelines in Python, PyTorch, and PySpark, on a foundation of shipping software and leading technical delivery.

Highlights

  • Co-authored the first publicly available dataset linking Finnish railway operations to synchronised weather data (~38.5M observations, 2018-2024); established an XGBoost baseline of 2.73-minute MAE for station-level delay prediction. arXiv:2601.16592
  • MSc thesis: a retrieval-augmented assistant that turns corporate-learning data into business insight. Answer quality 82.7% (+13.6 points over the manual baseline); retrieval MRR 0.96, Precision@1 0.93. Open-access thesis

Selected work

Project What it is My role
recipe-rag-nlp Retrieval-augmented search over 500K+ recipes (BM25 + Sentence-BERT + hybrid). NDCG@k 0.95, MRR 1.0. Sole author
BloomOulu Multilingual digital platform for the Oulu Botanical Garden with a source-cited RAG chat guide (GrowthHack 2026). Built the React front end and the AI chat guide. Team project with @hsn07pk and others
steam-games-analysis-bdpa PySpark analysis of 97,405 games; Random Forest explaining 69% of variance in success. Sole author
diabetic-retinopathy Modular deep-learning pipeline (Grad-CAM, attention, ensembles) on DeepDRiD. Sole author
UBISS 2026: Robotics Leader-follower multi-robot system using only ultrasonic sensing (UbiComp Summer School). Implemented the control logic in CircuitPython

Tech

Python PyTorch TensorFlow scikit-learn Apache Spark Pandas SQL Git Linux

Publications

  • Integrating Meteorological and Operational Data: A Novel Approach to Understanding Railway Delays in Finland. arXiv preprint (cs.LG), CC BY 4.0, Jan 2026. arXiv:2601.16592

Based in Oulu, Finland  ·  open to relocation

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  1. deep_learning_approach_to_detect_diabetic_retinopathy deep_learning_approach_to_detect_diabetic_retinopathy Public

    This project is focused on developing a deep learning model for detecting diabetic retinopathy using various neural network architectures and techniques as a part of a Master's level course called …

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  2. multi_modal_physical_exercise_classification multi_modal_physical_exercise_classification Public

    This project is a part of the Master's Level Course called Multi-Modal Data Fusion taught at the University of Oulu. The aim of this project is to explore and implement various techniques for recog…

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  3. facial_action_unit_recognition facial_action_unit_recognition Public

    This project focuses on training and evaluating a ResNet model for facial expression recognition using the DISFA dataset, as a part of a Master's Level course called 'Affective Computing' taught at…

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  4. steam-games-analysis-bdpa steam-games-analysis-bdpa Public

    This project was conducted as part of the Big Data Processing and Applications course, leveraging advanced data processing techniques and machine learning to analyze game success on Steam.

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  5. recipe-rag-nlp recipe-rag-nlp Public

    Retrieval-Augmented Recipe Search and QA System

    Jupyter Notebook

  6. hsn07pk/BloomOulu hsn07pk/BloomOulu Public

    University of Oulu Botanical Garden platform: plant donations, local RAG guide, QR labels, kiosk. Next.js + NestJS

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