Machine Learning Engineer & Published AI Researcher (IEEE)
GNNs · Multimodal AI · RAG · Healthcare ML
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I work at the intersection of rigorous research and production ML -- from Graph Neural Networks for drug discovery to multimodal sentiment systems. Published at IEEE ASET 2025. Co-founder of AI-Talents (33 mentees). Technical Program Chair, IndabaX Egypt 2026.
M.Eng in Data Science & AI from the University of Ottawa (A+, full DEBI scholarship). B.Sc. in Computer Science & Mathematics from Helwan University (2nd in class). Deep Dive into Blockchain summer school at the University of Zurich.
Actively seeking a PhD position in healthcare AI, multimodal learning, GNNs, or trustworthy ML.
FLAGSHIP · IEEEA GNN trained on DrugBank that flags risky drug pairings before clinicians prescribe them. Published and presented at IEEE ASET 2025. 
 PyTorch Geometric · GAT · DrugBank · Gradio Paper · Live Demo |
FLAGSHIP · MULTIMODALThree-stream fusion (text, audio, video) that reads sentiment and emotion across English and Arabic video input -- in real time. 
 PyTorch · DeBERTa · AraBERT · ArcFace · Whisper Try All 3 Demos |
FLAGSHIP · HEALTHCAREA CNN that triages MRI slices for tumor presence with clinician-readable confidence. Transfer-learned EfficientNet-B4 with Grad-CAM visualization. 
 EfficientNet-B4 · Grad-CAM · Gradio Live Demo |
FLAGSHIP · RAGFive-stage dense+sparse retrieval pipeline that turns 2M unstructured logs into grounded incident reports. 
 BM25 · BGE · SBERT · Qwen2.5-7B |
| System | Domain | Stack | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI Agent -- Customer Support & Sales Analytics | Agentic AI | CRM, Analytics, Workflow | Private -- in progress |
| AI-Driven Dynamic Modeling -- Distributed DBs | Systems AI | Random Forest (97.88%), Q-Learning, LSTM | Deployed |
| Spoken Language Identification | Speech | Audio Classification, Production ML | Shipped at AIM Technologies |
| Multimodal Biometric Authentication | Biometrics | Face, Voice, Fingerprint Fusion | Archived |
| Next-Gen Intrusion Detection (GANs) | Security | GANs, Anomaly Detection | Archived |
| Space | What it does |
|---|---|
| DDI Risk Explorer | Predict drug-drug interaction type from SMILES pairs (GAT on DrugBank) |
| CMU-MOSI Sentiment | 3-class video sentiment with intensity scoring (DeBERTa + Whisper + ViT) |
| MELD Emotion | 7-emotion + 3-sentiment classification from video (BERT + MFCC + CNN) |
| Arabic Sentiment | Arabic multimodal sentiment analysis (AraBERT + MFCC) |
| Brain Tumor MRI | Binary MRI classification with Grad-CAM attention maps (EfficientNet-B4) |
Predicting Drug-Drug Interactions Using Graph Neural Networks: Towards Safer and Intelligent Prescriptions Elsersy M., Waly K., Sherif A. Proceedings of the 7th HCT ASET Conference -- Abu Dhabi, UAE -- 2025 -- IEEE Xplore
My contribution: GNN architecture design, DrugBank data pipeline, benchmarking vs. baselines, co-authored writing.
Research GNNs, Multimodal AI, RAG, AI Agents, Generative AI, RL, Anomaly Detection
Frameworks PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, PyTorch Geometric, FastAPI, Scikit-learn
Languages Python, SQL, C++, Java
Infrastructure Git, Docker, AWS SageMaker, MLOps, Vector DBs, Gradio, MLflow
| Degree | Institution | Period | Standing |
|---|---|---|---|
| M.Eng Data Science & AI | University of Ottawa, Canada | Jan 2022 -- Jun 2023 | A+ (DEBI Scholar) |
| B.Sc. Computer Science & Mathematics | Helwan University, Cairo | 2016 -- 2020 | 2nd in Class |
| Deep Dive into Blockchain (Summer School) | University of Zurich | Jul -- Aug 2023 | Certificate |
- Technical Program Chair -- IndabaX Egypt (2025 -- Present)
- Co-Founder & AI Researcher -- AI-Talents EdTech (Oct 2023 -- Present) -- 33 mentees, curriculum
- Machine Learning Engineer -- AIM Technologies (Aug 2022 -- Feb 2023) -- Spoken Language ID, 90%+ accuracy, full ML lifecycle
- Data Scientist Intern -- Hertie School Data Science Lab (Aug -- Sep 2023) -- GANs for synthetic data
Healthcare AI · Graph Neural Networks · Multimodal AI · Retrieval-Augmented Generation · Trustworthy ML
Open to PhD positions, research collaborations, and applied AI engagements.
kwaly008@uottawa.ca ·
kareemindata.github.io