Ammar Rashed
Head Of Data Science
Canada
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolAmmar Rashed is a Head of Data Science and PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Ottawa with a decade of experience building and operationalizing ML systems across academia, startups, and enterprise. He combines hands-on research—publishing multimodal engagement datasets and real-time measurement frameworks—with product-focused delivery such as production CV systems, PySpark ETL pipelines, and AWS ML deployments. Ammar has led AI training programs and technical strategy for large-scale, multimodal AI services, translating cutting-edge research in transformers, graph CNNs, and uncertainty quantification into practical solutions for clients and students worldwide. A top-rated Upwork consultant and educator who has taught 750+ lessons, he blends rigorous publishing credentials with measurable business impact (e.g., price-optimization and credit-risk automation). Based in Canada, he uniquely marries deep technical breadth—NLP, computer vision, Bayesian methods—with hands-on lab and infrastructure management, making him effective at taking models from prototype to production and compliance-ready deployments.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Özyeğin UniversityPhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of OttawaBachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science and Engineering at İstanbul Şehir University
English, Arabic, Turkish, French
Stackoverflow
75reputation
8kreached
3answers
2questions
Github Skills (72)
tensorflow-model10
transfer-learning10
eye-tracking10
audio9
python9
optimization9
clustering9
machine-learning9
reinforcement-learning9
nlp8
llm-inference8
ray8
opencv8
deep-learning8
hyperparameter-optimization8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
AmmarRashed/Genobolitics
Dec 2017 - Sep 2022
Extending Metabolitics to Include Gene Expression
Contributions:24 commits, 14 PRs, 57 pushes in 4 years 9 months
genegene-expression
AmmarRashed/CLSA
Mar 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 35 pushes, 4 branches in 9 months
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