Mahmoud Wahdan
Founder And Chief AI Officer at Stealth AI Startup
Egypt
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Top SchoolMahmoud Wahdan is a hands-on Data Science Director with 9 years of experience building and leading applied NLP, ML, and Deep Learning initiatives, currently based in Riyadh. He has driven Arabic NLU and semantic search from R&D to production, delivering models and systems that have outperformed global benchmarks and serving as principal researcher on a state-of-the-art Arabic search product. Known for a data-centric approach, he designs annotation pipelines, human-in-the-loop workflows, and pre-training/fine-tuning strategies for Arabic and bilingual LLMs while also optimizing latency and model compression for real-world constraints. Mahmoud blends technical leadership with hiring and mentoring, having grown teams and coached members to promotions across multiple organizations. Less obvious: he regularly turns failing, constrained projects into production successes—deploying robust NLP services in difficult environments and tight timeframes.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Pre-Master Computer Science, Pre-Master Computer Science at Ain Shams University
Arabic, English
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Github Skills (35)
semantic-similarity10
distilbert10
nlu10
natural-language-understanding10
model-compression10
keras10
dialogue-systems10
bert10
conversational-ai10
roberta10
transfer-learning10
siamese-network10
transformers9
natural-language-processing9
tensorflow9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MahmoudWahdan/dialog-nlu
Jul 2019 - Mar 2021
Tensorflow and Keras implementation of the state of the art researches in Dialog System NLU
Contributions:1 release, 74 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 8 months
kerasnlutensorflownlu-enginenlp
MahmoudWahdan/Siamese-Sentence-Similarity
May 2017 - May 2019
Keras and Tensorflow implementation of Siamese Recurrent Architectures for Learning Sentence Similarity
Contributions:19 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
kerassentence-similaritytensorflowlstmsiamese-network
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