Saad Elbeleidy
Executive Director at Peerbots
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSaad Elbeleidy is an Executive Director and Human-Robot Interaction researcher with 12 years of experience bridging software engineering, machine learning, and HCI to build social robots that empower domain experts. He leads Peerbots, focusing on teleoperation interfaces and toolkits that let teachers, artists, and clinicians use robots without needing robotics expertise. His background includes PhD research at Colorado School of Mines on robot-mediated therapy for autistic children, teaching large ML courses, and hands-on machine learning and product roles across startups and federal contractors. Saad blends academic rigor—test-driven research and published work—with product instincts from roles in product management and engineering, enabling rapid prototyping and user-centered design. Based in Virginia, he combines systems thinking from his operations research and systems engineering degrees with a practical knack for translating complex ML and HCI research into accessible tools.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Colorado School of MinesGraduate Certificate Data Analytics, Graduate Certificate Data Analytics at George Mason University
Arabic, English, French
Github Skills (170)
authentication10
firebase10
editor9
mongoose9
crypto9
polymer9
database9
conflict-resolution9
tushare9
realtime9
social-links9
visual-studio9
robust9
cubing9
encryption9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sbeleidy/jupyter-notebook
Oct 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:3 releases, 11 commits, 2 PRs in 1 month
jupyter-notebooknotebooksweb-componentjupyternotebookjs
sbeleidy/poly-me
Jul 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:3 releases, 48 commits, 7 PRs in 11 months
javascriptweb-basedpolymersum
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