Applied AI Engineer & Data Scientist
Curiosity led me into AI. Building became my way of understanding it. Clayed in Iran, shaped in the U.S.

I recently completed my MS in Data Science at CU Boulder, where my research focused on abductive reasoning and causal inference with language models. My engineering work centers on systems that combine deterministic business logic with LLM reasoning — grounded, auditable, and designed to hold up beyond the demo.

Currently building Lantern Intelligence, an AI financial assistant that grounds every response in real company data, and Lumen, a blackbox LLM evaluation system designed to catch model regressions before they reach users.

Shah Nekouei
Denver, CO
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