(Islam M)2 Tayeb

Welcome!
Islam

Duke junior finding lazy automations. Love reading about cool infra stories and over-optimizing configs. Currently based in Durham, NC.

I grew up between Egypt and Saudi Arabia. I also enjoy playing Tetris and Monkeytype in my free time. I've also been writing a bit, check out APM Overflow.

In high school, I worked full-time as a graphic designer for an esports team. Around the same time, I was playing osu! professionally and designed a few skins (500K+ downloads).

I initially came to Duke as a pre-med computational chemist, but kept gravitating toward the "computational" part.

Feel free to reach out at islam.moh.islamm@gmail.com!

Experience
ML Research Assistant, Duke UniversityAug 2025 – Present

Enzyme protocol mining tools using PyTorch and services in FastAPI

Software Engineer Intern, Soff (YC S24)May 2025 – Oct 2025

Sales intelligence for manufacturers using Next.js and tRPC as employee #2

Software Engineer Intern, HelianDec 2024 – May 2025

Literature analysis tools for medical research using Next.js and FastAPI

Projects

New
Helium Browser Raycast Extension

Raycast extension for keyboard-driven browser control, enabling seamless tab, bookmark, history, and web searches directly

  • TypeScript
  • Raycast API
  • AppleScript
  • SQLite

GitHub README Generator

Web app using LLMs to generate GitHub README files through codebase analysis with a sliding window technique

  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • PostgreSQL
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Applets
Interview Solve Log

Centralize all my leetcode/neetcode prep into a repository with a simple interface

HyperX DuoCast RGB Override

RGB mic clashed with my setup, so I learned USB control to customize it. Fuck HyperX.

Instagram Non-Mutual Unfollower

Had twice as many following as followers, so I made a bot to unfollow non-mutuals.

Selected Publications

Sep 2025

Machine learning for predicting and optimizing the CO₂ uptake in porous organic polymers
Hamid Zentou, Ali Tayeb, Islam Tayeb, Mahmoud Abdelnaby
Python Carbon Capture Traditional ML

May 2025

Primal Dual Continual Learning for Robust Antibody Design
Full-text Pre-print
Islam Tayeb, Navid NaderiAlizadeh
PyTorch Protein Design Continual Learning

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