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AI engineer and researcher working across production GenAI, AI safety research and Arabic NLP. 2× Google Developer Expert.
Research
- EleutherAI · SOAR 2026 (Jul 2026 – present): AI safety research; the program ran July – August 2026 and the research continues. Hierarchy recovery in sparse autoencoders.
- Algoverse (2026): AI Safety Research Fellow, one of 30 selected worldwide. Circuit tracing of refusal and jailbreak behaviour in Gemma 3.
- MMTEB · ICLR 2025: co-author; contributed Arabic evaluation data.
Experience
- Fyler (2023 – 2026): AI Engineer → Senior AI Engineer → Head of Saudi Arabia → AI Product Manager. Built the RAG pipeline behind a GenAI search engine for MENA, then led the product and the team.
- Success Partners (2021 – 2022): Founder & CEO of a technical-events startup.
- Bayan (2020 – 2022): R&D in Arabic social network and sentiment analysis.
- Earlier (2017 – 2022): ML consultant, AI instructor, freelance ML engineer.
Education
- MBA in Artificial Intelligence, Walbrook Institute London
- BSc in Information Technology, Saudi Electronic University, First Class Honors
Recognition
- 2× Google Developer Expert (AI, Google Cloud) · Google Cloud Champion Innovator
- TensorFlow Contributor Award 2021, Middle East & Africa
- Community leadership: founded and led tech communities for developers and for women in tech, including Women Techmakers Jeddah and GDG Cloud Saudi, and co-founded TFUG Saudi. A leading member of Fihm AI, Bayan and other communities. Roles ranged from leading and organizing events to training, mentoring and creating technical content
- Mentor, Google for Startups Accelerator MENA
