Saumi Rahnamay
Hi, I’m Saumi.
I graduated from Simon Fraser University in 2023 with a Bachelor of Arts and Social Sciences in Honours Philosophy, with a Minor in Social Data Analytics. I’m currently a masters student at UBC studying Computational Linguistics in Data Science. I expect to graduate in June 2026.
You can find my most up to date CV here.
Featured Work
Optimizing Gratuity
Analysis of day-of-week and precipitation levels on tip amounts from my part-time pizza delivery job.
Demonstrated a 106.16% increase in expected tips; demonstrated the effect of preset tip percentage options on expected tip.
Inferential statistics performed with R.
Super Smash Brothers Player Statistics
Analysis of my own player statistics in the fighting game Super Smash Brothers Melee.
Determining where my play needs improvement, and optimizing my tournament strategy.
EDA performed in SQL.
BPE Tokenizer from Scratch
Coding a Byte-Pair Encoding Tokenizer from scratch; only using numpy. Tokenization is the first step of any machine learning application involving natural language (e.g. LLMs).
First entry in an ongoing series of ‘from scratch’ coding projects.