Asem Othman
Co-Founder & CAIO - Chief AI Officer at Yanez Compliance
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAsem Othman is a biometrics and identity technology leader with over 15 years of research and product experience and a PhD focused on privacy-preserving biometric templates. As Co-Founder and Chief AI Officer at Yanez Compliance, and previously Director of Computer Vision & Machine Learning at Acuant/GBG, he has led deployment-grade solutions for touchless fingerprint and document verification used in commercial products. His work bridges academia and industry—his doctoral visual cryptography techniques are incorporated into Veridium’s offerings and he holds multiple patents with numerous peer-reviewed publications. Known for turning novel research (e.g., image fusion for revocable biometrics) into robust, shipped systems, he combines deep technical expertise with entrepreneurial leadership in the Washington DC–Baltimore tech corridor.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Biometrics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Biometrics at West Virginia UniversityMaster's Degree Systems and Biomedical Engineering, Master's Degree Systems and Biomedical Engineering at Cairo UniversitypostDoc Biometric, postDoc Biometric at Michigan State University
Arabic, English
Github Skills (11)
hyperledger-fabric7
decentralized-identity6
aries6
blockchain-network6
hyperledger6
peer-to-peer5
verifiable-credentials5
blockchain5
consensus4
hyperledger-aries4
infrastructure3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
AothmanVeridium/aries-rfcs
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Hyperledger Aries is infrastructure for blockchain-rooted, peer-to-peer interactions
Contributions:2 pushes in 5 days
hyperledgerblockchaininfrastructureariesblockchain-network
thoughtfulbiometrics/thoughtfulbiometrics.github.io
Sep 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:23 commits, 8 PRs, 22 pushes in 4 months
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