About

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
  • 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

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