Faris Hittiny

How it was measured. Measured by validation pipelines on anonymized datasets, against 8+ years of production billing data.

About

I'm a computer engineering senior at Texas A&M, graduating May 2027. I spent summer 2026 as an AI/ML engineering intern at Aramco, where I modernized an internal telecom expense platform and added AI invoice extraction to it.

Before that I did computer vision research on ear-tag detection in field video. I also built a course catalog RAG system with its own eval harness. I like figuring things out where there's no playbook, then putting a number on the result.

Off the clock it's pickleball, pickup soccer, and any live match I can get to.

Languages: Python, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, SQL, Bash, Verilog, MATLAB
LLMs & retrieval: RAG, LLM evaluation, LLM-as-judge, BM25, sentence-transformers, Azure OpenAI, OpenAI API
Machine learning: PyTorch, YOLOv8, Detectron2, OpenCV, scikit-learn, NumPy, networkx
Software & cloud: .NET, FastAPI, React, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Git, Linux, Docker, GitHub Actions, AWS, Copilot Studio

Experience

May to Aug 2026

AI/ML Engineering Intern · Aramco

Digital & Information Technology, Houston

Modernized Cellbill Manager, an internal telecom expense platform (C#, .NET, Entity Framework Core, SQL Server), and added AI invoice extraction on Azure OpenAI for AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile bills covering 500+ active corporate lines. Validation pipelines on anonymized datasets measured 99.8% extraction accuracy against 8+ years of production billing data. Halved a bulk employee-status refresh (6.5 to 3.3 minutes) by benchmarking HR API concurrency and capping parallel lookups at 12. Co-captained a 6-person capstone on an AI interview scheduling agent (Copilot Studio, SAP SuccessFactors), presented to the executive board; it won the Excellence in Teamwork Award. Also prototyped agents on Salesforce Agentforce.

Azure OpenAI
C#
.NET
Entity Framework Core
SQL Server
Copilot Studio
Salesforce Agentforce

Faris and three fellow interns holding Certificates of Appreciation in front of an Aramco backdrop

May to Dec 2025

AI/ML Undergraduate Research Assistant · Texas A&M

Disease Management in Animal Systems

Benchmarked 10+ deep learning models for ear-tag detection in continuous field video; the best reached 89.6% [email protected]. Labeled 10,000+ images, automated preprocessing on Slurm, and led an 11-person team presenting at the 2025 Undergraduate Research Expo.

PyTorch
YOLOv8
Detectron2
OpenCV
Slurm

Presenting eartag-detection research at the 2025 Undergraduate Research Expo

Projects

Course Catalog RAG with Eval Harness

Question answering over 148 Texas A&M ECEN and CSCE courses. Prerequisite questions go to a graph, everything else to dense retrieval, scored on 129 hand-verified questions in CI.

Recall@5 0.61 → 0.90 · answer correctness 51% → 79%

Python
BM25
bge-small
networkx
FastAPI

Try the live demo Code on GitHub

Boba Shop Point-of-Sale System

A full-stack POS built in a 6-person Agile team for CSCE 331. I owned the customer React frontend, OAuth login, and a Gemini chatbot.

React
Node.js
Express
PostgreSQL
OAuth

AI-Driven Demand Mapping

A Python and AWS pipeline that analyzed 50,000+ sales records to recommend Amazon warehouse locations. Built at the Tidal Hackathon in October 2024.

Top 10 of 200+ teams

Python
AWS

RISC-V Hardware Accelerator

A popcount accelerator in a LiteX/VexRiscv SoC with a Zephyr driver. 15.1× fewer cycles than the software baseline on a 4 KB workload, in Verilator simulation, not silicon.

Verilog
LiteX/VexRiscv
Zephyr RTOS
Verilator

Wins and leadership

Excellence in Teamwork Award2026Aramco, for a 6-person capstone presented to the executive board.
Top 10 of 200+ teams2024Tidal Hackathon.
Undergraduate Research Expo2025Led an 11-person team presentation at Texas A&M.
Membership and Fundraising Chair2026 to nowArab Student Association, 500+ members.
Technical Outreach2026 to nowArab American Association of Engineers and Architects.
External Relations2026 to nowVertical Flight Society.

Off the clock

PickleballAlways up for a game. Dinks are a legitimate strategy and I will not be argued out of this.
Pickup soccerI play, and I'm usually the one wrangling the group chat into an actual match.
Live matchesIf there's a game on somewhere nearby, odds are decent I'm in the stands. Highlights: Jordan's first-ever World Cup in Dallas, and meeting Roberto Carlos next to the actual trophy.

Faris giving a thumbs-up next to Roberto Carlos and the FIFA World Cup trophy

Faris and friends in Jordan kits holding a We Are Jordan flag in a packed stadium

Aramco interns in national-team soccer jerseys at flag day, Faris in a Jordan kit

Contact

Hiring new grads for 2027? Let's talk.

[email protected]