Shawn Azdam

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Eternity is the moment a black hole’s event horizon turns time into a single, inexorable point—where infinity stops expanding and instead folds everything into one silent, absolute now.

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Selected papers and manuscripts

Research spanning reinforcement learning, uncertainty-aware optimization, and autonomous systems, aligned with the Google Scholar profile background.

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2026

ReleaseMind: Autopoietic Risk-Constrained Release Note Generation

Shawn Azdam, Pranav Doma, M. Arab

Under review at ICML

Listed on resume; excluded the separate Darabi et al. publication.

2026

CORE: Uncertainty-Gated Policy Optimization for Reliable Performance Under Distribution Shift

Shawn Azdam

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2025

ManeuverGPT: Agentic Control for Safe Autonomous Stunt Maneuvers

Shawn Azdam, Pranav Doma, Aliasghar Moj Arab

Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Google Scholar lists this publication in the current profile view; resume notes oral presentation selection.

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2017

Conditional-Flux Disk-Type Hysteresis Motor Without Axial-Flux Disk Holder

S. Azdam et al.

Granted publication listed on resume

Included from the resume publication list.

Blog

Notes from the event horizon

A practical, experimental, and occasionally chaotic mix of engineering notes.

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Install TensorFlow and PyTorch Together in a Single Environment

Machine Learning · Mar 13, 2026 · 2 min read

Install TensorFlow and PyTorch Together in a Single Environment

I have been recently dealing with projects requiring both the popular automatic differentiation frameworks together. Installing both TensorFlow and PyTorch in a single environme...

Shawn Azdam · Software Engineer

Get Up and Running with NVIDIA GPUs on Ubuntu

Machine Learning · Jan 10, 2023 · 2 min read

Get Up and Running with NVIDIA GPUs on Ubuntu

I have been setting up multiple Python machine learning environments based on NVIDIA GeForce GPUs. Starting with a fresh Ubuntu installation, you will need to go through the ins...

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Mimic GitHub PR Diff Locally

Development · Jan 2, 2022 · 1 min read

Mimic GitHub PR Diff Locally

What?! The goal is to mimic the GitHub pull requests' file diff in your local repository: How? To get a cleaner summary, pipe it to the tail command: and you will get:

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Let The Bot Take a Vax Appointment in NYC

Pythonic · Apr 26, 2021 · 1 min read

Let The Bot Take a Vax Appointment in NYC

What?! I wrote a Python script to check available COVID-19 vaccine appointments at vaccination centers in New York. You can also get notified via email, if you set your credenti...

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