Ahmed Abud
My name is Ahmed, and I was born and raised here in London, Ontario. I am currently an undergraduate student pursuing a Bachelor of Health Sciences at Western University. I am a Research Assistant at the Towards Equitable Sustainability Transitions (TEST) Lab under the supervision of Dr. Evan Bowness.
My research focuses on the integration of generative AI into academic workflows and the setup of locally hosted Large Language Models (LLMs). Currently, I am configuring the infrastructure to securely host these models and their data within our lab in order to promote Indigenous data sovereignty for our community partners. Alongside this project, I am working on an agrigenomics review where we are testing where AI can be integrated into the research workflow to see how it accelerates the overall process. I am also evaluating new AI research tools by comparing traditional Boolean search results against AI-retrieved papers to test their accuracy in finding key literature.
