Yassien Shaalan
Software Engineer at AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolYassien Shaalan is a Software Engineer and Principal Data Scientist with a PhD in Computer Science (NLP/Deep Learning) based in Greater Melbourne, Australia. He blends nearly a decade of hands-on industry experience with two decades of applied AI/ML expertise spanning software engineering and data science. Educated from Cairo University through AUC to a PhD at RMIT, he translates advanced research into production-ready NLP and deep learning solutions. Colleagues know him for bridging rigorous academic methods with pragmatic engineering, delivering models that integrate smoothly into software systems. Less obvious: his background in computer engineering gives him a hardware-aware perspective that sharpens model deployment and performance optimization decisions.
9 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at RMIT UniversityBs, Computer Engineering, Bs, Computer Engineering at Cairo UniversityMaster of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at The American University in Cairo
Arabic, English, French
Github Skills (10)
aspect5
topic-modeling4
extraction3
information-theory3
sentence-similarity2
attention-model2
unsupervised-learning2
deep-learning2
pytorch2
transformer-architecture1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
yassienshaalan/Deep-Learning
Jul 2020 - Oct 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 3 months
yassienshaalan/DTOPS
Jul 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:49 commits, 2 PRs, 72 pushes in 7 months
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