Hesham Eraqi
Senior Scientist (L6) at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolHesham Eraqi is a Senior Scientist at Amazon Seattle specializing in geospatial machine learning and computer vision for last-mile logistics, bringing over a decade of applied AI experience across industry and academia. Formerly Valeo’s Senior Expert/Director of AI, he led cross-product deep learning initiatives that contributed to production systems in the world’s first road-legal Level 3 autonomous car and filed multiple patents driving automotive roadmaps. He combines hands-on model development and deployment (AWS, Spark, model optimization) with a strong research pedigree—PhD in Deep Learning, 30+ publications, and leadership roles in top ML/vision workshops and program committees. As a serial operator-founder, he transformed Nahdet Misr into an AI-powered EdTech division that partnered with Disney and shipped apps reaching millions and top Google Play charts. Known for bridging deep research and productization, he also mentors students and engineers, co-supervising numerous theses and delivering large-scale training across organizations.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Electrical Communications & Computer Engineering, A+, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Electrical Communications & Computer Engineering, A+ at Cairo UniversityEgyptian High School Certificate, Science - Math, 99.6% (top 10 students in Cairo Governorate), Egyptian High School Certificate, Science - Math, 99.6% (top 10 students in Cairo Governorate) at Orman Secondary School, CairoPhD, Computer Science and Engineering - Deep Learning, GPA: 4.00/4.00, PhD, Computer Science and Engineering - Deep Learning, GPA: 4.00/4.00 at The American University in Cairo
Arabic, English, German
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Github Skills (68)
unreal-engine-410
simulator10
bounding10
ros10
computer-vision10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
carla10
simulation10
imitation-learning10
responsive10
jekyll10
jekyll-theme10
linux9
airsim9
ai9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
heshameraqi/labelImg_OBB
Jan 2019 - Nov 2022
:metal: LabelImg is a graphical image annotation tool and label object bounding boxes in images. This fork updates to tool to support "oriented" bounding boxes (OBB).
Contributions:6 releases, 1 review, 22 commits in 3 years 11 months
metalboundingimage-annotationlabelimgcomputer-vision
heshameraqi/Image_Processing_Computer_Vision_1
Feb 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:59 commits, 53 pushes, 1 branch in 23 days
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