Nafiz Hamid, PhD

I'm a Senior AI/ML Engineer at Mayo Clinic, building enterprise AI systems: LLM-powered search, conversational agents, and the infrastructure that makes them reliable at scale. Before this, I was the first engineering hire at Nobias Therapeutics, where I led a team designing cloud-native ML pipelines, RAG systems, and agent automations on AWS.

I started my career as a software engineer at Samsung right out of my CS degree, building C++ infrastructure, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines for code running on millions of devices. That foundation in production-grade engineering shaped how I think about building reliable systems.

I took a detour through academia: PhD at Iowa State pioneering neural network approaches for biological sequence modeling, then a postdoc at Harvard Medical School building deep learning systems. Now I'm back in industry where I started. These days I care most about what makes AI actually work in production: evaluation harnesses, guardrails, structured outputs, the infrastructure that lets you ship LLMs without breaking things.