Nishad Mansoor

Nishad Mansoor

data science @ northeastern open to work

where i've worked

Jun 2026 – Sep 2026

AI Engineer Intern

EisnerAmper

Built a pipeline tracking AI usage across the firm using the Anthropic and OpenAI APIs, then a time-series model projecting $1.7M in year-end spend. Additionally, I built a conversational agent that sits on top, answering cost questions in plain language against a Power BI model on Azure.

Jan 2026 – Jun 2026

Machine Learning Researcher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Benchmarked four vision-language models across 300+ origami models using IoU and CLIP similarity to see how they understand spatial reasoning, tuning constraint thresholds to query efficiency scores of 0.85–0.87. Published the paper to workshops at ICML and CVPR.

Oct 2025 – May 2026

Data Science Intern

Defense Industrial Base Institute at Northeastern

Built an ingestion pipeline pulling DoD contract data from USASpending.gov and geocoding vendor locations, feeding a Neo4j knowledge graph that links vendors, contracts and geographies through UEI/CAGE identifiers.

Jan 2025 – May 2026

Graduate Research Assistant

Northeastern University

Generated CSVs from parsing HTML docs and built an AI research dashboard that visualized trends from student reflections for use in future semesters.

Nov 2024 – Apr 2025

Data Science Intern

Beats Electronics

Trained a random forest on marketing spend and 1,000 survey responses, reaching an F1 of 0.84 for audience targeting, and built a TF-IDF sentiment pipeline to surface what drove customer satisfaction.