Nayer Wanas
Professor Of Informatics
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolNayer Wanas is a seasoned informatics professor and technology leader with over 7 years of documented industry experience and a multi-decade academic and research career bridging data mining, machine learning, and cloud AI. He has held senior engineering and management roles at Microsoft—leading LUIS, language cognitive services, and customer success for language AI—while also serving as Acting General Manager and chairing centers of excellence at the Electronics Research Institute. His background blends applied research (text/data mining, multiple classifier systems, e-learning) with product delivery, having built research prototypes, SDKs, and developer tooling for language extraction and personalization. As a former CTO/COO and startup founder he translates research into commercial platforms for proactive content caching and personalized mobile distribution. Trained at University of Waterloo (PhD, Systems Design Engineering) and Cairo University, he combines rigorous systems thinking with hands-on engineering and cross-cultural collaboration. An underappreciated strength is his long-standing role in coordinating external partnerships and international relations, enabling research-to-product pathways across academia and industry.
7 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
ME, Electronics and Communication Engineering, ME, Electronics and Communication Engineering at Cairo UniversityPh.D., Systems Design Engineering, Ph.D., Systems Design Engineering at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (26)
nuget10
datetime10
parser10
entity-extraction10
sentence10
prefix10
arabic-nlp10
lda10
timex10
date-parser10
natural-language-processing10
npmjs10
multiple-languages10
partial10
nlp10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
GlobalAICommunity/Workshop-Conversational-AI
Mar 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:13 commits, 13 pushes in 6 months
Azure/pizza_luis_bot
Mar 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:1 PR in 2 years 5 months
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