Research Scientist at Qatar Computing Research Institute
Doha, Qatar
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Yazan Boshmaf is a research scientist and builder with 13 years of experience bridging academic research and product-grade engineering across AI safety, cybersecurity, and blockchain analytics. Based in Doha, he leads cross-functional teams at QCRI on LLM attribution and agentic AI while scouting commercialization and government use cases, and he co-founded MenaML to broaden AI education across the MENA region. A serial founder, he built QuickByte as a venture studio that bootstrapped a food-focused social commerce MVP to pre-seed traction and strategic partnerships. His background includes high-impact internships and research鈥攄eploying detection systems at Facebook and Telef贸nica and publishing work used to protect millions of users鈥攁longside hands-on systems and full-stack engineering at Hootsuite. Comfortable moving between low-level performance optimization and high-level product strategy, he combines entrepreneurial curiosity with rigorous research instincts and a taste for hard software problems.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Engineering at The University of British Columbia
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Engineering at Jordan University of Science and Technology
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Information Technology, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Information Technology at University of Stuttgart
Contributions:72 reviews, 87 PRs, 167 pushes in 8 months
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Yazan Boshmaf - Research Scientist at Qatar Computing Research Institute