
Ahnaf An Nafee
PhD Student @ GMU DCXR Lab · Ex-CTO
I work at the intersection of AI and 3D computer graphics in the DCXR Lab with Dr. Craig Yu — building systems that change how we create and inhabit immersive digital worlds. Before grad school, I led engineering as CTO of a tech startup.
News
Recent updates from the lab and the rest of the trail. See full timeline
Latest Blog
Fresh thoughts on AI, graphics, and tech. Read all blogs
Bringing Real Tooling to Ollama Modelfiles
How I built a VSCode-family extension that brings syntax highlighting, an 18-rule linter, hover documentation, autocomplete, and 26+ snippets to Ollama Modelfiles — so the next time you scaffold a custom GGUF runtime, your editor catches the foot-guns before `ollama create` does.

Featured Research
Papers and projects at the intersection of AI and 3D computer graphics. View all research

Teaching
Courses I've helped run as a TA / GTA.
- George Mason UniversityGraduate Teaching Assistant
- Spring 2026 · Fall 2025CS 211Object-Oriented Programming
Java fundamentals: classes, inheritance, polymorphism, generics, and event-driven GUI programming.
- Drexel UniversityTeaching Assistant
- Spring 2021–22CS 503Systems Basics
C programming, the Unix environment, OS fundamentals, threads, and socket networking.
- Winter 2021–22CS 171Computer Programming I
Introduction to Python: problem decomposition, control flow, and core data structures.
- Winter 2021–22CS 172Computer Programming II
Object-oriented design and interactive graphics in Python (PyGame).
Featured Portfolio
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Bookworm
📚 Bookworm is a mobile-targeted website where book lovers can search and store books they have read in their library

PostScript Preview
💻 PostScript Preview is an extension that helps to preview EPS and PS files in Visual Studio Code


