class Yousef:
def __init__(self):
self.location = "🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia (Currently) | 🇪🇬 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 = [
"🔬 AI Engineer @ DeSci (Switzerland)",
"🧠 Research: Coral Classification & Fish Species ID",
"🚀 Building my 2nd profitable startup"
]
self.fun_fact = "I trained an AI to play Flappy Bird... and lost to it 😅"
def say_hi(self):
print("Thanks for dropping by! Let's build something awesome together!")
me = Yousef()
me.say_hi()
🔭 Current Adventures
- 🤖 AI Engineer @ DeSci - Building FAIR evaluation pipelines & contributing to SciWeave
- 🐠 Research Contributor - Leading work on 2 NeurIPS submissions (coral & fish classification)
- 🎓 KAUST Master's Student - Studying Online Learning & RL under Prof. Francesco Orabona
- 💡 Entrepreneur - Created 2 profitable startups in my first 3 months at KAUST!
🎯 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
| Project | Description | Tech Stack |
|---|---|---|
| 🧠 EEG Inner Speech Classification | Achieved 46.6% accuracy (vs 30% SOTA) on Nature's "Thinking Out Loud" dataset. Reading minds? Almost! |   |
| 🐠 Coral Genus Classification | Used agentic AI + vision encoders to achieve near-SOTA performance on coral classification |   |
| 🤖 AI Lip Reader | My first proper DL project - won a public hackathon! Can your AI read lips? Mine can. |  |
| 🎮 Fight Flappy! | Train AI agents to play Flappy Bird, then challenge them. Spoiler: They usually win. |  |
| 📧 Email Command Server | Automate tasks via email commands. Teen-me thought this was the coolest thing ever. |   |
| 🔒 Cryptosteganography | Hide images in images using logistic maps. Because why not? |   |
📄 Stochasticity as a Solution for Overfitting - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (2025)
New model using stochasticity to combat overfitting in EEG classification
📄 ArEEG: Arabic Inner Speech EEG Dataset - Scientific Data (2025)
Open-access Arabic EEG dataset for the research community
📄 Smart Attendance Using BLE - 3ICT Conference (2023)
Because manually taking attendance is so 2010
📄 Symbolic Regression Comparison - EUROCAST 2024
Genetic programming vs ML/DL for symbolic regression
🔬 2 Papers Under Review - ICLR 2026 Submissions
FishNet++ & ReefNet for marine biology AI applications
| Achievement | Details |
|---|---|
| 🎓 President's Honor | November 2022 - Nile University |
| 🥇 ISEF Nationals | 2018/2019 & 2019/2020 |
| 🏆 Hult Prize Nationals | 2020/2021 |
| 🥉 4th Place | Vodafone 5G Hackathon 2019/2020 |
| 🌟 IEEE Honored Member | 4 consecutive years (2020-2023) |
| 🚀 2 Profitable Startups | Within 3 months at KAUST |
| 📚 Top 150 | STEM Secondary Education (90%) |
When I'm not debugging or training models, you'll find me:
- 🏀 Playing Basketball - Shooting hoops and debugging life
- ♟️ Playing Chess - Strategic thinking on 64 squares
- 🎮 Co-op Gaming - Teamwork makes the dream work
- 📚 Reading Research Papers - Staying at the cutting edge
- 🎤 Mentoring Students - Taught 20+ ML/DL training sessions
- 🎯 Building Startups - Because why have one job when you can have three?
I'm always excited to collaborate on AI projects, discuss research, or just chat about tech!
🎮 Fun Fact: Wanna play a game?
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║ Q: What's a programmer's favorite hangout place? ║
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║ A: Foo Bar! ║
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║ Q: Why do programmers prefer dark mode? ║
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║ A: Because light attracts bugs! 🐛 ║
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