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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
Co-organized the 1st and 2nd Workshop on Closing the Loop between Vision and Language, held in conjunction with ICCV 2015 and ICCV 2017; Spoke at the United Nations on AI for Mother Nature (Nov 2018); Presented a Creative Adversarial Network Demo in the official FAIR video (June 2018); CAN featured in HBO Silicon Valley (Season 5, Episode 3) (2018).
Research Experience
Assistant Professor of Computer Science at KAUST (Feb 2019-Present); Visiting Faculty at Baidu Silicon Valley AI Lab (SVAIL) (March 2019-Present); Postdoc Researcher at Facebook AI Research (Dec 2016-Jan 2019); Computer Vision Research Intern at Adobe Research (Summer 2015-Fall 2016), under Dr. Scott Cohen Liu, Walter Chang, and Brian Price; Computer Vision Research Intern at SRI-International (Summer 2014), under Dr. Jingen Liu, Hui Cheng, and Harpreet Sawhney; Computer Vision Research Intern at IPPLEX Corporation (Summer 2012), under Dr. Jeremi Sudol and David McKinnon; Research & Development Associate at Future Business Development (Summer 2011), under Dr. Adnan Faqeeh; Senior R&D Software Engineer (part-time) at House of Invention (HOI) GROUP (2007-2011); Undergrad-Research Mentor & Teaching Assistant at Computer Science Department, ASU, Cairo, Egypt (2007-2011); Software Testing Engineer at Giza Systems.
Education
Stanford University, Graduate School of Business, Ignite Program; Rutgers University, MS/PhD Researcher; Visiting Faculty Scholar at Stanford University (2019-2020).
Background
Research interests: Computer Vision, Language & Vision, Computational Creativity (Art | Fashion & AI). Currently an Assistant Professor at KAUST.
Miscellany
Personal website provides articles, talks, and personal photos.