Experience

Holistic Intelligence for Global Good

• United States
• Technology, Information and Media
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Executive Officer

  • Dec 2023 - 1 month

  Kirkland, Washington, United States Revolutionize education.

• Co-Founder & Acting CEO

  • Jul 2023 - Nov 2023

  Kirkland, Washington, United States + Define higg mission and values + Define focus areas + Create founding team + Raise seed fund + Co-create and implement key processes + Brainstorm product-based solutions + Co-create higg's vision & strategy + Implement the MVP + Define the initial product roadmap + Define core business processes + Build strategic partnerships = Iterate on UXR = Iterate on R&D = Iterate on UXD = Iterate on Backend + Iterate on strategy and business plan +… Show more + Define higg mission and values + Define focus areas + Create founding team + Raise seed fund + Co-create and implement key processes + Brainstorm product-based solutions + Co-create higg's vision & strategy + Implement the MVP + Define the initial product roadmap + Define core business processes + Build strategic partnerships = Iterate on UXR = Iterate on R&D = Iterate on UXD = Iterate on Backend + Iterate on strategy and business plan + launch Alpha + Prep market for Beta launch = launch Beta



Allen Institute for AI (AI2)

• United States
• Research Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Senior Product Manager

  • May 2023 - Jul 2023

  Greater Seattle Area

• Product Manager

  • Feb 2023 - May 2023

  Greater Seattle Area



Google

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Researcher

  • Oct 2019 - Nov 2022

  Greater Seattle Area Build better models for 1) DNA consensus generation and 2) conversational systems.



University of Washington

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Adjunct Faculty Instructor

  • Apr 2021 - Jun 2021

  Seattle, Washington, United States LING 575F: Recent Advances in Task-Oriented Dialog Systems https://wammar.github.io/2021sp_uw_ling_575f/index.html



Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2)

• Research Team Lead

  • Jul 2018 - Oct 2019

  - Grew and led the Semantic Scholar research team to be one of the strongest research teams doing NLP for scientific documents. - Set the vision and laid the foundation for a coherent the graph of the scientific literature. - Before pursuing an exciting opportunity at Google Research, I helped AI2 hire Prof. Dan Weld as the new research team lead, who helped the team branch into new research areas such as HCI.

• Research Scientist

  • Jul 2016 - Jul 2018

  Greater Seattle Area

• Adjunct Faculty Instructor

  • Apr 2018 - Jun 2018

  Seattle, Washington, United States CSE 599 D1: Advanced Topics in Natural Language Processing https://wammar.github.io/2021sp_uw_ling_575f/index.html



Carnegie Mellon University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Aug 2011 - Jun 2016

  Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Software Engineer Internship

  • Jul 2014 - Dec 2014

  Greater Pittsburgh Area Explored novel methods for large-scale online training of decision forests with neural models at each layer. My host was D. Sculley at the smartass team.



Microsoft Research

• Think Tanks

• Software Development Engineer II

  • Nov 2010 - Aug 2011

  Redmond, WA Collaborate with researchers in MSR to push the state of the art in Statistical Machine Translation by engineering prototype technologies. I'm also responsible for the transfer of research prototypes into Microsoft products.

• Research Software Development Engineer

  • Nov 2007 - Oct 2010

  Cairo, Egypt Collaborate with researchers in MSR to push the state of the art in the fields of Data Mining and Statistical Machine Translation by engineering prototype technologies, writing papers and formulating patents. I’m also responsible for the transfer of research prototypes into Microsoft products.



Alexandria University - Computer and Systems Engineering Department

• Teaching Assistant

  • Aug 2007 - Nov 2007

  Tutor students; hold office hours; grade homework and mid-term exams; administrate tests and exams; and assist professors with laboratory sessions. Courses: Probability and Statistics I, Technical Writing I, and Introduction to Computers.



eSpace

• Egypt
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Part-Time Software Developer

  • Jul 2007 - Nov 2007

  My role encompassed design and development of features in web portals as well as identification and resolution of deficiencies in web applications. I also took part in collecting customer requirements. Depending on the project, we used Ruby on Rails, Java or PHP in addition to JavaScript.



Utopia Programmers

• Freelance Software Developer

  • Aug 2006 - Jul 2007

  “Utopia Programmers” was a virtual team of junior programmers; I was a final-year student back then. It was the responsibility of each programmer to hunt for jobs; communicate with customers; develop, test and deliver applications. A variety of languages were used (e.g. C++, C#, Perl, PHP and SQL).



IBM

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Intern at Human Language Technologies Group

  • Jul 2006 - Sep 2006

  Participated in TREC 2006 genomics track competition. We developed an information retrieval (IR) system capable of answering specific types of questions from within biological documents. During the internship, I also used machine learning techniques to classify Arabic documents. I used Java and Perl on Linux platform.



P&G

• 1 - 100 Employee

• Intern on Project Management

  • Jun 2005 - Aug 2005

  Designed automation methods (object ID, product type acquisitions, web reporting) for the P&G powder factory at 6th of October City, Egypt.