Summary
M Al-rawi is a Technical Manager with 8 years of experience blending AI research, project leadership and European R&D programme expertise, currently leading technical activities at Instituto de Telecomunicações. He has a strong academic foundation (PhD in Pattern Recognition) and a track record as a Marie Curie researcher applying AI to fashion, vision-language tasks and probabilistic methods for computer vision. Comfortable switching between hands-on deep learning (PyTorch, Python, C/C++) and high-level programme management, he has led EU projects, written deliverables and built consortiums across Portugal, Spain and Ireland. He founded a creative venture (Nature Channel) and has supervised students while contributing open-source tooling and ontologies for data exchange in fashion. Known for bridging academia and industry, he routinely translates research prototypes into funded, multi-partner demos and standards contributions. Based in Dublin with a self-described “AI in my blood” approach, he combines technical rigor with practical consortium-building and cross-disciplinary communication.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Pattern recognition and intelligent systems, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Pattern recognition and intelligent systems at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Arabic, Portuguese, Chinese, German, English