Shafik Quoraishee
Official Role
Staff Engineer at The New York Times.
Official 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.
Scheduled Sessions
- 2026 07 01 shafik quoraishee on device agentic ai for the new york times games — On-Device Agentic AI for the New York Times Games (2026-07-01, 2:50pm-3:10pm)