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About
Islam Tayeb
Islam Tayeb
I'm researching systems in ML, particularly agent correctness and efficiency. I study CS + Chemistry at Duke in Durham, NC.
I was born and raised in Egypt, but moved to Taif, Saudi Arabia during high school. I play Tetris and Monkeytype in my free time.
In high school, I worked as a graphic designer for an esports team. I also played osu! competitively and designed a few skins (500K+ downloads).
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Experience
- Duke University / Christian Dallagoincoming Aug 2026
GPU acceleration of protein search
- Duke University / Matthew LentzApr 2026 - Present
Tokenminning and efficiency for coding agents
- Duke University / Philip RomeroAug 2025 - Present
Chemistry data-mining agents with Anthropic + Microsoft Research
- Duke University / Navid NaderiAlizadehOct 2024 - Apr 2025
Continual learning for antibody affinity prediction
- Soff (YC S24)May 2025 - Oct 2025
Agentic sales intelligence for manufacturers, employee #2
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Selected Publications
- Machine learning for predicting and optimizing the CO2 uptake in porous organic polymersHamid Zentou, Ali Tayeb, Islam Tayeb, Mahmoud AbdelnabyResearch Article/Journal of Environmental Chemical EngineeringSep 2025
- Primal dual continual learning for robust antibody designIslam Tayeb, Navid NaderiAlizadehPre-printMay 2025
- Post-synthetic modification of UiO-66 analogue metal-organic framework as potential solid sorbent for direct air captureMahmoud Abdelnaby, Islam Tayeb, Ahmed Alloush, Hussain Alyosef, Aljazi Alnoaimi, Mostafa Zeama, Mohammed Mohammed, Sagheer OnaiziResearch Article/Journal of CO2 UtilizationJan 2024
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Writing
- On Agent Memory Fidelity (Decant)NewJun 20262.1k words, 8 min
- On FingerspitzengefühlMar 20261.2k words, 5 min
- 8.2k words, 33 min
