๐ Who Am I? (Besides a human who occasionally argues with compilers)
class Yousef:
def __init__(self):
self.location = "๐ธ๐ฆ Saudi Arabia (Currently) | ๐ช๐ฌ Egypt (Home)"
self.education = "MS in Tech, Innovation & Entrepreneurship @ KAUST"
self.previous = "BS in Computer Engineering @ Nile Uni (GPA: 3.91/4.0)"
self.passions = ["AI Research", "Deep Learning", "Entrepreneurship"]
self.current_work = [
"๐ฌ AI Engineer @ DeSci (Switzerland)",
"๐ง Research: Coral Classification & Fish Species ID",
"๐ Building my 2nd profitable startup"
]
self.fun_fact = "I trained an AI to play Flappy Bird... and lost to it ๐
"
def say_hi(self):
print("Thanks for dropping by! Let's build something awesome together!")
me = Yousef()
me.say_hi()
๐ผ What I've Been Up To
๐ญ Current Adventures
- ๐ค AI Engineer @ DeSci - Building FAIR evaluation pipelines & contributing to SciWeave
- ๐ Research Contributor - Leading work on 2 NeurIPS submissions (coral & fish classification)
- ๐ KAUST Master's Student - Studying Online Learning & RL under Prof. Francesco Orabona
- ๐ก Entrepreneur - Created 2 profitable startups in my first 3 months at KAUST!
๐ฏ Past Roles (Click to expand)
- ML Engineer @ OttonomiAI (Canada) - Traffic event detection, gun detection, car crash systems
- Marketing Manager @ PEModule - Built agentic lead generation system (80 leads/$0.10!)
- ML Engineer @ VAIS - Crop classification models with 90%+ accuracy using hyperspectral data
- Founder & Chairman @ IEEE NU CIS - Grew club from 2 to 120+ members across Egypt
๐ ๏ธ My Toolbox
Languages
AI/ML & Data Science
Web Development
DevOps & Cloud
Embedded & Robotics
๐ฏ Featured Projects (The Cool Stuff!)
๐ GitHub Stats (I swear I'm not obsessed with green squares)
๐ Publications (Yes, I Write Papers Too!)
Recent Highlights
๐ Stochasticity as a Solution for Overfitting - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (2025)
New model using stochasticity to combat overfitting in EEG classification
๐ ArEEG: Arabic Inner Speech EEG Dataset - Scientific Data (2025)
Open-access Arabic EEG dataset for the research community
๐ Smart Attendance Using BLE - 3ICT Conference (2023)
Because manually taking attendance is so 2010
๐ Symbolic Regression Comparison - EUROCAST 2024
Genetic programming vs ML/DL for symbolic regression
๐ฌ 2 Papers Under Review - ICLR 2026 Submissions
FishNet++ & ReefNet for marine biology AI applications
๐ Achievements & Honors
| Achievement | Details |
|-------------|---------|
| ๐ President's Honor | November 2022 - Nile University |
| ๐ฅ ISEF Nationals | 2018/2019 & 2019/2020 |
| ๐ Hult Prize Nationals | 2020/2021 |
| ๐ฅ 4th Place | Vodafone 5G Hackathon 2019/2020 |
| ๐ IEEE Honored Member | 4 consecutive years (2020-2023) |
| ๐ 2 Profitable Startups | Within 3 months at KAUST |
| ๐ Top 150 | STEM Secondary Education (90%) |
๐ญ Beyond Code
When I'm not debugging or training models, you'll find me:
- ๐ Playing Basketball - Shooting hoops and debugging life
- โ๏ธ Playing Chess - Strategic thinking on 64 squares
- ๐ฎ Co-op Gaming - Teamwork makes the dream work
- ๐ Reading Research Papers - Staying at the cutting edge
- ๐ค Mentoring Students - Taught 20+ ML/DL training sessions
- ๐ฏ Building Startups - Because why have one job when you can have three?
๐ค Let's Connect!
I'm always excited to collaborate on AI projects, discuss research, or just chat about tech!
๐ฎ Fun Fact: Wanna play a game?
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โ Q: What's a programmer's favorite hangout place? โ
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โ A: Foo Bar! โ
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โ Q: Why do programmers prefer dark mode? โ
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โ A: Because light attracts bugs! ๐ โ
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๐จ More Stats (Because why not?)
๐ก "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay
โญ๏ธ If you like what you see, drop a star on my repos! โญ๏ธ
Made with โค๏ธ and way too much caffeine โ