Portrait of Usama Raheel

AI Research Engineer · Oulu, Finland

Usama Raheel

I design, build and evaluate machine learning systems: deep learning and machine vision, NLP and retrieval-augmented LLMs, and the data and evaluation work that takes them from prototype to delivery. MSc in Computer Science and Engineering (AI) from the University of Oulu, 2026, on top of four years in industry across development, consulting and technical project management.

82.7% · answer quality · thesis RAG38.5M · observations · arXiv dataset4 yrs · industry before the MSc

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What I do


Machine learning

  • Deep learning · PyTorch, TensorFlow
  • Machine vision
  • Multi-modal data fusion
  • Statistical analysis

Language systems

  • NLP and text mining
  • Retrieval-augmented generation
  • LLM-as-judge evaluation
  • Semantic and hybrid search

Data and delivery

  • Spark and SQL pipelines
  • Python, R, C++
  • Technical project management
  • Cross-functional teams

Selected work 4 of 16


MSC THESIS
Valamis Group / Univ. of Oulu
2025 - 2026

Context-Aware Insight Generation via RAG

A RAG assistant that turns corporate learning data into business insights. Hybrid retrieval (column mapping, intent detection, dense search) with two LLM judges validated against human ratings.

82.7% answer quality · +13.6 pts over baseline · MRR 0.96 · P@1 0.93

ARXIV PREPRINT
cs.LG · CC BY 4.0
2026

Railway Delays and Finnish Weather

First publicly available dataset linking Finnish railway operations with synchronized weather, 2018-2024: about 38.5 million observations across 5,915 km of rail and 209 weather stations.

38.5M observations · XGBoost baseline · 2.73 min MAE

TEAM PROJECT · GROWTHHACK 2026
Univ. of Oulu Botanical Garden
2026

BloomOulu: A Living Garden, Digitised

A multilingual (English, Finnish, Swedish) platform for the University of Oulu Botanical Garden: plant adoption, QR-linked plant pages, an interactive map, and an AI chat guide that answers from the garden's own data and shows its sources. Built and deployed the React front end and the chat guide, with Team Meraki.

EN · FI · SV · WCAG 2.2 AA target

DEEP LEARNING COURSE
University of Oulu
2024

Reading Retinas with Deep Learning

A deep learning model for detecting diabetic retinopathy from retinal images, comparing neural network architectures and optimization techniques: computer vision applied to healthcare diagnostics.

Grad-CAM · attention mechanisms · ensembles

All work 16 entries

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Experience


2025 - 2026 AI Research Engineer, Master's Thesis Valamis Group Oy
2025 AI Research Intern Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu
2023 - 2024 Technical Project Manager ZeePalm
2022 Software Developer GrocerApp
2021 - 2022 Application Consultant Techlogix
2020 - 2021 Teaching Assistant FAST-NUCES