Faris Alotibi
Senior Data Scientist
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolFaris Alotibi is a Senior Data Scientist based in Pittsburgh with a PhD in Information Security and nine years of experience blending academic rigor with production AI delivery. At IBM he leads end-to-end AI initiatives for Finance and Operations, translating complex business problems into scalable, secure solutions while maintaining hands-on technical ownership. His background includes teaching and research roles at University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon, and Taibah University, reflecting deep expertise in both pedagogy and advanced machine learning. Specializing in information security and data science, he brings a rare combination of threat-aware model design and practical deployment experience. Colleagues describe him as meticulous and continuously curious, often optimizing workflows and architectures to balance performance, compliance, and maintainability.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Security | Data Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Security | Data Science at University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and InformationDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Secuirty | Data Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Secuirty | Data Science at University of PittsburghBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Information Systems at Taibah UniversityGithub contributions (5)
FarisAlotibi/MSIS
Jan 2017 - May 2022
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
FarisAlotibi/Cloud-Computing
Feb 2017 - May 2022
Contributions:17 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
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