Experience
Experience
Building machine learning systems for complex, high-stakes environments
2025 – Present · Full-time
CurrentPostdoctoral Fellow
McMaster University · Faculty of Engineering
This is where the threads of my PhD come together. I lead research on predictive intelligence for risk and resilience in complex systems, combining machine learning with network analysis, optimization, and digital twins to anticipate how failures spread — from wildfire and flood hazards to cascading risks across interdependent infrastructure. Increasingly, that work extends to language models that can reason over these risk networks.
2022 – Present · Part-time
CurrentResearch Engineer
McMaster University · DeGroote School of Business, Smart Freight Centre
Alongside my PhD, I took the same risk-prediction thinking into the air. At the Smart Freight Centre, I build real-time models that predict accident risk for drones carrying hazardous materials — work that now supports larger research programs in AI-driven logistics and Advanced Air Mobility.
2023 – 2025 · Part-time
Deputy Project Manager
WSP Canada Inc. · NSERC CREATE Placement
An industry placement let me see risk from the other side of the desk. Leading infrastructure project teams at WSP showed me how data-driven risk management changes outcomes on real budgets and real schedules — a perspective that still shapes the systems I build.
2020 – 2025 · Full-time
Doctoral Researcher
McMaster University · Faculty of Engineering
This is where the core idea took shape: risks in complex systems rarely act alone — they interact and cascade. I built machine learning and graph-based models to predict those interactions, moved them into production pipelines on Google Cloud, and shared the results through peer-reviewed research.
2019 – 2020 · Full-time
Researcher & Teaching Assistant
The German University in Cairo (GUC)
After graduating, I stayed at GUC to teach — and started asking whether machine learning could change how we manage infrastructure. That question became the foundation of my PhD.
2018 · Full-time
Bachelor Thesis Researcher
University of Stuttgart · ILEK Institute, Germany
A six-month research placement in Stuttgart was my first serious encounter with computational modeling. Building a C#/.NET simulation tool to analyze how complex systems respond shifted the direction of everything that followed.
Technical Deep Dive
Tools and methods across these roles
Machine Learning & Deep Learning
Designing and training predictive models
Frameworks
Architectures
Generative AI & Agents
Grounded assistants and multi-agent systems
Frameworks
Retrieval
MLOps & Deployment
Taking models to production — and keeping them there
Pipelines
Serving & Monitoring
CI/CD
Cloud, Data & Analytics
Cloud data workflows and decision-ready insight
Cloud
Data
Visualization
Complex Systems & Optimization
Modeling interdependence and optimizing decisions
Networks
Optimization
Geospatial & Risk Analytics
Where the models meet real-world hazard
Geospatial
Risk
Results & Metrics
What these roles delivered
Engineering Impact
Model Performance
~38%
Better Wildfire Prediction
Improvement over baseline models in predicting wildfire hazard from geospatial time-series data.
MLOps
~40%
Faster Deployment
Through reproducible, production-grade TFX pipelines on Google Cloud.
Optimization
~90%
Training Efficiency Gain
Through optimization-based hyperparameter tuning and parallelized search strategies.
Research & Community Impact
Funding
$14M
CAD in Research Proposals
Contributed to funding proposals for AI-driven logistics and freight research.
Publications
7+
Peer-Reviewed Journal Papers
Plus 2 conference papers, spanning machine learning, network analysis, and infrastructure risk.
Open Source
4,000+
Package Downloads
Open-source ML tools adopted by practitioners worldwide.
Education
Academic background
2025 · 12/12 (A+) GPA
Engineering Ph.D., Machine Learning for Systemic Risk Management of Complex Systems
Vanier Scholar · McMaster University, Canada
2019
Engineering B.Sc., Class Valedictorian, Highest Honors
The German University in Cairo (GUC), Egypt
2018
Engineering Bachelor Thesis
University of Stuttgart, Germany
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