Shamsi Mumtahina Momo
“জানি হে জানি, জীবন মম
বিফল কভু হবে না।”
Jani he jani, jibon momo bifol kobhu hobe na.
“I know, I know, my life shall never be in vain.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
First day of school ♡
Shamsi Mumtahina Momo
A memoir in progress
Prologue
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
Momo is an undergraduate at Brandeis University studying Computer Science and Business. She is passionate about entrepreneurship and innovation, and intrigued by how technology, when built with intention, can solve meaningful problems and create lasting impact. She loves building products, turning ideas into impactful products, and creating spaces where people can learn from one another.
Overview
Product Manager Intern
Product Engineer
Software Engineer Intern
AI Studio Fellow
AI Fellow
Social Media Ambassador
Overview
AI Policy Researcher
Machine Learning Research Assistant
Research Assistant
Overview
Campus Leader
Student Lead
President
Magazine Coordinator
Leading "AI Dinner and Dialogue Series" Program
Overview
Ain Summer Startup Award 2026
A research collaboration platform connecting researchers across disciplines.
Ain Summer Startup Award 2025
Lifelong learning: two pilots, 118 enrollments, and $70,000+ in learner funding.
Overview
3rd PlaceRemark x Google DeepMind E-commerce Hackathon
Virtual try-on image generation with TypeScript and Nano Banana Pro.
3rd PlaceLovable X Mass AI Coalition Startup Trek One Hour Buildathon
A real-time accessibility copilot turning live transcripts into decision cards.
Work Experience
Designed chatbot decision trees and routing logic using coverage, specialty, and financial-aid data from 13+ U.S. clinics to recommend lower-cost care based on patient eligibility.
Work Experience
Developed and deployed a registration and scheduling platform for 1,500+ attendees, automating capacity limits, waitlists, personalized schedules, and QR check-in while achieving 98.6% in software cost savings.
Work Experience
Developed an AI agent in Flutter for symptom verification with multi-agent coordination, improving input accuracy by 42%.
Work Experience
Developed a machine learning model to predict borrower prepayment using U.S. housing data, applying feature engineering and regression techniques.
Work Experience
Selected for a machine learning fellowship featuring a 10-week summer intensive, hands-on labs, and a machine learning certificate from Cornell University.
Work Experience
[Personal responsibilities and contribution to be supplied]
Research Experience
Selected and funded by the Racial Justice and Technology Policy (RJxTP) Lab Incubator to investigate the “Motherhood Penalty” in AI-driven hiring and develop bias mitigation frameworks.
Research Experience
PI: Professor Dylan Cashman
Built a Python pipeline to train and evaluate LSTM language models across 105 experiments on English and Bengali datasets, quantifying a 156.7% gap in marginal data value.
Research Experience
Developed two tools: an MMIF graph visualizer comparing Gemma3 and BERT outputs for GBH’s American Archive of Public Broadcasting, and a regex-based date extractor that improved media metadata retrieval speed by approximately 45%.
Leadership & Community
Selected for Lovable’s global campus leader program to help students turn ideas into working products through AI-powered building, workshops, and community events.
Leadership & Community
Represent Brandeis as a student lead, connecting students with Massachusetts’ AI and technology ecosystem.
Leadership & Community
Led Brandeis’ first tech and entrepreneurship conference, bringing together 200+ attendees and securing $1,800 in sponsorships to keep admission free.
Leadership & Community
Launched Brandeis’ first tech and entrepreneurship magazine as a freshman, establishing a publication that continues today.
Leadership & Community
Lead the AI Dinner & Dialogue Series, bringing students and technology executives together for small-group conversations over dinner.
Projects
Ain Summer Startup Award 2026
Building a research collaboration platform that helps researchers discover collaborators and connect across disciplines.
Projects
AI-native Expert Platform for Lifelong Learning
Ain Summer Startup Award 2025
Developed and deployed a waitlist website using HTML and JavaScript to capture signups and validate demand; supported two pilots with 118 enrollments and $70,000+ in learner funding.
Secured $5,500 in non-dilutive grants; received the Ain Family Summer Startup Award 2025 and Tufts EIR recognition.
Projects
3rd PlaceRemark x Google DeepMind E-commerce Hackathon
Developed a TypeScript image-generation workflow integrating Nano Banana Pro, implementing structured prompts and control logic to generate virtual try-on images.
Projects
3rd PlaceLovable X Mass AI Coalition Startup Trek One Hour Buildathon
Developed a real time accessibility copilot using React, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and WebSockets, synchronizing speech recognition and text-to-speech across two clients; implemented server-side AI extraction with schema-validated JSON to convert live transcripts into actionable decision cards and flag unresolved details.
Others
Others
Brandeis Ain Summer Startup Award 2025
Brandeis Ain Summer Startup Award 2026
The ML/AI Competition
Sponsored by Chess.comSecond placeDean’s List
Student Life Award Winner
C10 Women in AI hackathon
Innovation awardRemark x Google DeepMind Hackathon
3rd placeOthers
Yours, Momo
Yours, Momo
Personal Papers
Imagining what’s possible. Building what’s next.
Dearest Gentle Reader,
Should this salutation stir a certain recollection and set your heart aflutter quite as much as it did this Author’s, you are hereby invited to get in touch at once. This Author has a feeling we shall be dearest confidantes.
When it came time to design her portfolio, this Author found herself in want of inspiration. So she did what any person of sense would do and went rifling through the archives, past picture after picture of days gone by, until one caught her eye. There it was, her own bookshelf, sitting quietly in the gallery and looking terribly pleased with itself.
It was then that this Author understood what she loves most. Books. And so, naturally, this portfolio became one. Do cast your eye to the previous page, Dear Gentle Reader, and meet the very shelf that started it all.
Mind you, this Author is rarely seen with nonfiction in hand, and yet here she is, penning an entire volume about herself! One can only imagine the astonishment among her novels. It seems even the most devoted reader of stories must, at long last, write one of her own.
Several chapters are still to come, and word has it they are the best ones. It is whispered that this Author has big plans, and even bigger dreams behind them. Do not call this book unfinished, Dear Gentle Reader. It is in progress, and the most delightful chapters are yet to come.
Until the next chapter, Dear Gentle Reader, do keep your curiosity close and your bookshelf closer.
Epilogue
(from the little Momo in the favicon)
“Ah, but a man's reach
should exceed his grasp…”
— Robert Browning, Andrea del Sarto
