---
title: "Shafik Quoraishee"
category: "people"
role: "Staff Engineer"
company: "The New York Times"
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/shafik-quoraishee/"
twitter: "https://x.com/squoraishee"
website: "https://www.shafikquoraishee.com/"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Shafik Quoraishee

## Profile
Staff Engineer at [[the-new-york-times|The New York Times]].

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shafik-quoraishee/)
- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/squoraishee)
- [Website](https://www.shafikquoraishee.com/)

## Biography
Shafik Quoraishee is a Staff Games Engineer, published writer, illustrator, and artificial intelligence researcher at [[the-new-york-times|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|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.

## Conference 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)

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph summarizes how this person appears across the conference source graph: scheduled sessions, linked videos, transcripts, and slide-derived evidence.

### Linked 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]]

### Media Signals
- `youtube-P_uhFGH4J9Y` — 4 slide-derived text signals
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-P_uhFGH4J9Y`: york, research, game, developer, times, worked, previously, business.
- Evidence links for `youtube-P_uhFGH4J9Y`: [[youtube-P_uhFGH4J9Y]], [[youtube-P_uhFGH4J9Y-slides]], [[youtube-P_uhFGH4J9Y-dense-slides]], [[youtube-P_uhFGH4J9Y-reconstructed-slides]]