Shafiya Kausar · Independent Practice
Issue 02 · May 2026 · Paris
Vol. II — No. 05 The Engineering Issue Paris · 2026

Building intelligent systems, one model at a time.

I'm Shafiya Kausar — an AI engineer and data scientist working out of Paris. Currently building agentic RAG and forecasting systems at INSEAD, previously at Aivancity, AURA, NeuralTeks, and IntHealth. Welcome to issue two.

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Shafiya Kausar
Editor & Engineer Shafiya Kausar Paris · 2026
Now at INSEAD/ 97% forecasting accuracy/ +35% engagement uplift/ +17% seizure-detection accuracy/ 0.82 mAP multimodal retrieval/ Paris/ Building things that ship/ Open to roles/
Inside the issue · Numbers

Outcomes from shipped work, not slide decks.

97%

Forecasting accuracy on a device-lifecycle model deployed institution-wide.

INSEAD · 2026
+35%

User engagement uplift from a mood-to-genre NLP recommendation pipeline.

IntHealth · 2025
+17%

Improvement in seizure-detection accuracy on ECG signals via CNN/RNN models.

AURA · 2025
0.82

mAP achieved on a multimodal retrieval system using CLIP and Flux pipelines.

NeuralTeks · 2024

I work where research meets production — the unglamorous, important middle. Take messy real-world data, build the right model for it, and make it useful to someone.

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