James Faghmous
Creator And Coach
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJames Faghmous is a multidisciplinary AI researcher-turned-operator and coach with 14 years of experience building machine learning teams, products, and curricula across academia and industry. He founded WSDM.AI to help companies turn AI strategy into production value, led ML at large consumer brands like IPSY/BoxyCharm, and teaches applied and deep learning to undergraduates at USC. A former university faculty and CTO at a global health institute, he pairs rigorous PhD-level research in spatio-temporal ML with hands-on engineering and startup founding (Mode-sty, MuslimBuddy). Now based in Los Angeles, he also coaches high-achieving Muslims on integrating faith and success through workshops and programs—an uncommon blend of technical leadership and spiritual entrepreneurship.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at University of MinnesotaB.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at The City College of New YorkAssociate's degree, Engineering, Associate's degree, Engineering at Université des Sciences et de la Technologie 'Houari Boumediène'
English, French, Arabic, Spanish
Github Skills (2)
algorithms3
ssh2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jfaghm/twilio_phone_dialer
Aug 2025 - Aug 2025
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
jfaghm/healthcare-eligibility-parser
Aug 2025 - Aug 2025
Contributions:2 pushes in 4 days
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