Saiful Tahir
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
BSc (Hons.) in Computing (Major in Data Analytics) | Universiti Technology Brunei (UTB)
📍 Brunei Darussalam
Countries I work in
Brunei Darussalam
Expertise
Saiful specializes in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics, backed by a strong foundation in cybersecurity. His expertise includes computer vision, large language models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, and the provision of advanced technical solutions through his innovative approach.
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His core responsibilities at Borneo Futures include designing, developing, and maintaining AI-driven application features and inference pipelines to process complex image, audio, and biodiversity-related data. He leads the integration and optimization of pretrained and custom AI models, ensuring they are tailored for ecological monitoring. He also contributes to the development of our citizen science and wildlife monitoring platforms, building robust backend APIs and managing high-dimensional embeddings to verify field data.
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As part of his work maintaining scalable AI databases and services, he creates automated pipelines to efficiently process environmental data. He uses this to ensure AI-driven insights are highly accurate, directly supporting the environmental team’s research, data visualization, and conservation decision-making.
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Aside from his core work, Saiful actively researches and experiments with emerging AI techniques. He ensures that all production systems are secure, efficient, and robustly optimized for real-world environmental applications.
Publications
- S. A. Tahir and W. S. H. Suhaili, “Paddy AI Chatbot,” 2025 7th International Conference on Applied Computational Intelligence in Information Systems (ACIIS), Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam, 2025, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ACIIS66255.2025.11402956.
keywords: {Training; Accuracy; Computational modeling; Retrieval augmented generation; Crops; Chatbots; Sustainable development; Robots; Testing; Diseases; Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG); Large Language Model (LLM); Retrieval-Augmented Generation Assessment; Department of Agriculture and Agrifood (DoAA)},
