Shafik Quoraishee
Staff Engineer, The New York Times
Speaking in 1 session at AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 — unofficial import demo
Bio
Shafik Quoraishee is a Staff Games Engineer, published writer, illustrator, and artificial intelligence researcher at The New York Times. With over a decade of experience in mobile development, he plays a key role in building and integrating the Times's highly popular digital puzzles into the Android ecosystem. Outside of game engineering, Quoraishee is a practitioner specializing in computer vision, neural networks, and accessibility. He has spearheaded experimental projects, such as designing on-device handwriting recognition for crosswords. His machine learning research has been deployed across real-world civilian and government systems and featured in publications like Towards Data Science and Nieman Lab. Before his tenure at The New York Times, he engineered mobile and data systems for major media and sports brands, including the National Basketball Association (NBA) and Business Insider.
Sessions
For developers: this programme is open data — JSON, iCal, schedule XML and an MCP endpoint.Show endpointsHide
- JSONEvery published session and speaker, in one request./aie-worldsfair-2026-import/feed.json
- iCalSubscribe in Google, Apple or Outlook Calendar./aie-worldsfair-2026-import/feed.ics
- Schedule XMLfrab / pentabarf — the format conference apps import./aie-worldsfair-2026-import/feed.xml
- MCP + RESTPoint Claude at the programme. OpenAPI 3.1 included./agents
No key, no signup, CORS open. Everything here is generated from the same data the organisers edit.