Emad Alghamdi
Principal Data Scientist
Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Summary
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Top SchoolEmad Alghamdi is a Principal Data Scientist based in Riyadh with eight years of experience leading pre-training, model safety, and AI red-teaming initiatives. He has moved between academia and industry—holding a PhD in Computational Linguistics from the University of Melbourne and leading research, AI ethics, and language-focused labs at King AbdulAziz University before building applied safety teams at SDAIA and HUMAIN. Emad co-founded ventures and research units focused on Arabic-language AI, combining fundamental research, consultancy, and product building for regional needs. His background spans hands-on model development, red-teaming, and organizational leadership, giving him both technical depth and programmatic influence on AI governance. Notably, he has paired academic rigor with entrepreneurial drive, launching education and on-demand ventures while steering national-scale AI safety efforts.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
English, Arabic
Github Skills (8)
vulnerability-assessment10
ai9
api3
nlp3
docker2
streamlit2
huggingface-transformers1
natural-language-processing1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ailla-lab/ailla_lab
Dec 2021 - Nov 2023
Contributions:12 PRs, 73 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
Eaalghamdi/vci
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:79 commits, 4 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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