Hi, I'm Samir.

MIT '26 · BS Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making + BS Mathematics

Selected Work

Class project · MIT 6.7960

When Do Transformers Actually Beat LSTMs for Time Series Forecasting?

Empirical study of LSTM, Transformer, TFT, PatchTST, Crossformer, and Autoformer architectures across electricity, traffic, and flu forecasting horizons.

Group project · 3-person team

Research

Concordance Mapping of U.S. Tariffs Over 250 Years

NLP pipeline that maps every U.S. tariff line from 1789 to the modern HS code system using GPT-4 + MPNet, achieving ~79% HS-6 retention.

Solo project · MIT Political Science · SuperUROP

Class project · MIT 14.18

Targeted Lobbying on Council Networks

Game-theoretic analysis of optimal lobbying on council networks — Katz–Bonacich centrality identifies the members whose votes propagate furthest.

Co-authored · 2-person team

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Undergraduate · BS AI + Decision Making · BS Mathematics · 2022 – 2026

Coursework concentrated in statistical inference, machine learning, optimization, and number theory — including 6.7960 Deep Learning, 14.18 Mathematical Economic Modeling, 18.821 Project Lab in Mathematics, and 18.619 Discrete Probability.

Leadership President — SAAS (South Asian Association of Students)
Leadership President — MITeri (MIT's Nepali community)

Brentwood High School

High School · Pittsburgh, PA

Recognition

Gates Scholarship

Scholarship · Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

A full-cost, last-dollar undergraduate scholarship awarded annually to a small cohort of high-achieving, Pell-eligible minority students across the U.S.