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Md Shahedul
Islam Khan

ML & AI Engineer · BI & Analytics Engineer · Researcher · Educator

Building intelligent systems, automating pipelines, and transforming data into decisions. From LLM-based classifiers to Power BI dashboards — engineering solutions that work in the real world.

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ML Systems Built
Machine Learning
Automation Engineering
Power BI
Data Pipelines
Microsoft Fabric
LLMs & Transformers
Analytics Engineering
ETL Engineering
Bias Detection
DAX & Power Query
Machine Learning
Automation Engineering
Power BI
Data Pipelines
Microsoft Fabric
LLMs & Transformers
Analytics Engineering
ETL Engineering
Bias Detection
DAX & Power Query
About

Engineering intelligence, delivering results.

I'm an ML & AI Engineer and BI Developer based in Newcastle, Australia, with end-to-end experience delivering intelligent systems across the full data-to-decision stack — from model development to production pipelines and executive-facing dashboards.

My engineering work spans LLM integration and RAG architectures, transformer-based NLP classifiers, and computer vision pipelines. On the analytics side, I build scalable ETL workflows and Power BI and Microsoft Fabric solutions that surface actionable insight for non-technical stakeholders.

I hold an MSc in Cybersecurity from the University of Newcastle and a BEng in Computer Science from Northwestern Polytechnical University, China. I currently serve as a Research Assistant investigating bias detection and mitigation in clinical AI systems, and as a Casual Academic delivering instruction across data engineering and database courses to 900+ students.

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MSc CybersecurityUniversity of Newcastle, AU
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BEng Computer ScienceNWPU, Xi'an, China
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Wu Yajun & President ScholarshipNorthwestern Polytechnical University
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Research AssistantHealthcare AI · Bias Detection
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Casual AcademicINFO6002 · STAT6001 · INFT6201 · COMP1010
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Newcastle, NSWOpen to relocation across Australia
Technical Stack

Skills & tools.

GenAI & LLMs
RAG ArchitecturesLangChainLlamaIndexPrompt EngineeringLLM GuardrailsFine-Tuning
Machine Learning
PyTorchKerasScikit-learnCNNsRNNsTransformersTransfer Learning
BI & Analytics
Power BIMicrosoft FabricDAXPower QueryPower Automate
Data & Pipelines
PythonSQLPySparkApache SparkETL/ELTVector DatabasesMySQL
Tools & Cloud
AWSGitLinuxDockerREST APIsLaTeX
Experience

Where I've worked.

Research Assistant — Healthcare AI
Current
University of Newcastle · Newcastle, NSW
  • Building BERT-family and LLM-based classifiers for multi-class bias detection and mitigation in clinical healthcare text
  • Designed large-scale data pipelines — collection, transformation, stratified sampling, statistical validation — producing a structured 9,000-sample analytical dataset
  • Iterative model refinement using fairness metrics, explainability auditing, and QLoRA fine-tuning of lightweight LLMs
Casual Academic
May 2024 – Present
University of Newcastle · Newcastle, NSW
INFO6002 Database Management 2 STAT6001 Data Wrangling & Visualisation INFT6201 Big Data COMP1010 Fundamentals of Computer Science
  • Delivered hands-on lab instruction to 900+ students covering SQL, data modelling, database design, data wrangling, and big data engineering
  • Personally supervised 100+ capstone projects with technical mentorship across data pipelines, analytics, and ML applications
  • Designed assessments, marked submissions, and provided structured feedback to diverse cohorts
Undergraduate Research Assistant — ML & NLP
Oct 2021 – Jun 2022
Northwestern Polytechnical University · Xi'an, China
  • Designed an end-to-end ML pipeline for Chinese text classification using transformer-based models
  • Research resulted in a peer-reviewed publication at ICIC 2022 (Springer, pp. 170–182)
Projects

Things I've built.

ML · NLP · Security
Phantom Signal — OSINT Social Engineering Simulation
End-to-end ML pipeline synthesizing personas from OSINT data using transformer-based NLP. Demonstrated real-world organisational security vulnerabilities for Tomago Aluminium.
PyTorchTransformersOSINT
Computer Vision · YOLOv7
Automated Rock Detection — Industrial CV Pipeline
Production-ready YOLOv7 object detection for rock identification in coal conveyor imagery. Handles variable lighting, occlusion, and high-speed industrial conditions.
YOLOv7OpenCVPython
LLMs · Automation
Intelligent Library Assistant
Domain-specific LLM chatbot with custom fine-tuning and prompt engineering. Context-aware retrieval and automated response generation for university library services.
LLMsRAGPython
BI · Power BI · PySpark
Student Performance Intelligence Dashboard
Full ETL pipeline ingesting student enrolment, grade, and attendance data into a star schema. Interactive Power BI report with ML-powered at-risk flagging — see live demo below.
Power BIPySparkMySQLScikit-learn
↗ GitHub
BI · Analytics Engineering
Research Output & Grant Analytics Platform
End-to-end analytics platform aggregating publication, citation, and funding data via automated Python pipelines. Power BI report suite with trend analysis and institutional benchmarking.
Power BISQLPythonMicrosoft Fabric
↗ GitHub
Transfer Learning · NLP
Domain-Adaptive Sentiment Classifier
Fine-tuned BERT for multi-domain sentiment classification with targeted layer freezing strategies and domain adaptation techniques.
BERTPyTorchHuggingFace
Student Performance Intelligence Report
University of Newcastle · Academic Analytics
Live Demo
47 At-Risk
Course
Semester
Certifications & Awards

Credentials & recognition.

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Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300)
Microsoft · 2025
Microsoft Certified
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Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate (DP-600)
Microsoft · 2025
Microsoft Certified
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Deep Understanding of Deep Learning
Udemy · Feb 2022
Certified
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CompTIA Network+ (N10-008)
Udemy · Jan 2024
Certified
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The Complete Neural Network Bootcamp
Udemy · Feb 2022
Certified
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Wu Yajun Scholarship & President Scholarship
Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Award
Beyond the work

A bit about me.

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Fishing
An avid angler and collector of fishing stories. The patience fishing demands isn't too different from debugging a model at 2am.
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Travel & Adventure
Called Bangladesh, China, and Australia home. Three countries, three perspectives — always chasing the next experience.
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Community
Active in the Bangladeshi community in Newcastle — organising events, volunteering, and believing strongly in giving back.
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Writing on Quora
Sharing honest first-hand accounts of life as an international student — from Xi'an to Newcastle. Read on Quora →
Contact

Let's work together.

Open to ML/AI engineering, BI development, analytics engineering, and research roles. Always happy to chat about collaborations or opportunities.

✉ mdshahedulislam.khan@newcastle.edu.au
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