Education (Degrees)
- Technical University in Munich M.Sc. Data Engineering and Analytics (2021 - 2024)
- expected finish time is April 2024
- German University in Cairo B.Sc. Computer Engineering (2016 - 2021)
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
- GPA: A+, with highest honours
Research
- Abdou, Ahmed, et al. “Gaze-enhanced Crossmodal Embeddings for Emotion Recognition.” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 6.ETRA (2022): 1-18. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3530879}{https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3530879
Education (Internships & visits)
- Helmholtz Munich Guided Research (10.2021 - 04-2023)
- Working (in progress) on attribution methods for single cell data.
- Working (in progress) on evaluating the sparsification of neural networks effect on modeling single cell data.
- provided attribution scores analysis and visualizations for more understanding of attribution methods output understanding.
- working with single cell data, captum.
- Stuttgart University - Institute for Visualisation and Interactive Systems HCI-CS Bachelor thesis and research internship (03.2020 - 08.2020)
- Wrote my bachelor thesis with title ”incorporating eye gaze data in multi-modal emotion recognition systems” and extended it with research internship.
- Implemented state-of-the-art deep learning multi-modal systems from SOTA paper in Emotion Recognition as baseline for my work. Then, extending with new handcrafted set of gaze features.
- Hands-on experience in extracting relevant visual, audio, and eye-based features following state-of-the-art research.
- Technologies used: Python, Tensorflow, Keras, R, OpenFace, OpenSMILE.
- Ulm University Mathematics in Bio-Mechanics course (08.2019 - 01.2020)
- Studied the mathematics and software used in scientific computing of Bio-Mehanics using Ansys software in Ulm Uni labs.
Scholarships
- Partial scholarship for bachelor’s degree in GUC.
- Awarded the Munich Data Science Institute (MDSI) scholarship for winter 2021
Experience
- Zeiss Data Scientist, Munich, Germany, part-time, Sept 2022 - still working there
- Implemented internal ETL python package for project managment and querying with pipelines on azure-devops
- Building dashboard on PowerBi
- Lnkr Data Engineer, Egypt, Cairo, part-time, remote March 2022 - June 2022
- Implemented and deployed Egypt’s first drug to drug interaction for e-prescription
- Implemented the internal analytics application for the accounting and revenue streams using Django and Postgres.
- Rocket-Internet TALLAH Data Science intern - UAE, Dubai, part-time (Dec 2020 - Apr 2021)
- Built the ETL process, data analysis weekly reports, visualizations, and customer clustering.
- Technologies used are Python, Google Big Query, sci-kit learn library.
- GUC-IOT Lab Software Engineering intern - Egypt, Cairo (June 2019 - Aug 2019)
- Participated in building the server-side and mobile app of an indoor robot for documents delivery.
- Technologies used: android studio, NodeJS, MongoDB, path finding algorithms.
Selected Projects
- Arabic poetry Generator
- Collected 55k Arabic poetry organized by era, type, poet name. www.kaggle.com/ahmedabelal/arabic-poetry
- Built an Arabic poetry generator by implementing char level LSTM based language model.
- Technologies used: PyTorch, Flask, deployment on heroku. arabic-poem -generator.herokuapp.com/
- Kiwi-School
- Digital school platform built by MERN stack.
- Hosted on herouko and used for real world usage.
- Visit kiwi-school.netlify.app/ using credentials, username:kiwi-visitor & password:kiwi-visitor
Contact me
- Active email: ahmed.abdou@tum.de
- Personal email: ahmedabdou1789@gmail.com
- Twitter: @ahmed__abdou__
- LinkedIn: Ahmed-Abdou
- Hashnode blog: : https://ahmedabdou.hashnode.dev/