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Leading applied and data scientists, engineers, managers, and technical program managers working on Alexa Speech AI to understand who is speaking and how: speaker identification, speaker verification, and speaker characteristics.We're working on improving speech experiences for all speaking styles and more delightful personalization for all customers — join us: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/teams/alexa-ai

Led scientists and managers working on Alexa Speech AI to understand who is speaking and how: speaker identification, speaker verification, and speaker characteristics.

External Teaching Assistant for CS230 (Deep Learning) and CS229 (Machine Learning). Topics include: supervised learning (generative/discriminative learning, SVMs); unsupervised learning (clustering, dimensionality reduction, kernel methods); learning theory (bias/variance tradeoffs, practical advice); RL; DL: DNNs, CNNs, RNNs, LSTMs, etc.

- Started a de novo AI group of remarkable engineers and scientists, into Contact Center solutions (https://cisco.com/c/en/us/products/contact-center/artificial-intelligence.html) that empower 3 million agents across 30k different enterprises to deliver great customer experience- AI reviewer for patents review committee, Cisco Launchpad, Cisco Investments & CorpDev- Academic research grant reviewer for Cisco Research Center

Voicea was acquired by Cisco and became Cisco Webex Assistant: https://cisco.com/c/en/us/about/corporate-strategy-office/acquisitions/voicea.htmlAt Voicea, we built EVA, an Enterprise Voice Assistant. EVA is an intelligent meeting assistant that helps people have more productive meetings by making meetings searchable, taking note of decisions, and encouraging follow-up on action items.I wore multiple hats at Voicea: co-founder, executive (reported to CEO), manager, and ML engineer. I spent most of my time helping others; growing the team; coaching; guiding the shaping of our culture, standards, and software development processes; improving our KPIs; and planning our tech strategy. In addition, I worked on backend systems, ML models and pipelines, and in-meeting interactions with EVA

52K downloads and 590K+ views of the book's playground (https://tech.io/users/2802036/elgeish) — get your copy at https://springer.com/9783319981482Computing with Data introduces basic computing skills designed for industry professionals without a strong computer science background. Written in an easily accessible manner, it serves as a self-study guide to survey data science and data engineering for those who aspire to start a computing career or expand on their current roles, in areas such as applied statistics, big data, machine learning, data mining, and informatics. See https://computingwithdata.com/ for details.

- Led a team of engineers working on newsfeed personalization on various platforms, in addition to a human-in-the-loop platform for LinkedIn- Incubated ventures across the AI organization by leading moonshot projects that aspire to be the building blocks of LinkedIn's future business (e.g., LinkedIn’s Alexa skill)- Helped LinkedIn grow sustainably by participating in company-wide efforts: a Hiring Committee member, Craftsmanship Representative for the Data organization, Q2'16 Hackday winner, and inventor of 4 patents

- Led infrastructure projects that power up the newsfeed and machine learning systems- Built a pipeline for feature preprocessing using Samza and Kafka to handle billions of messages daily

- Led a team of engineers in the fight against spam and account compromise- Worked on improving QoS of outlook.com's inbound and outbound MTAs for 400M+ users and billions of emails daily- Drove an effort to reshape the cloud infrastructure of outlook.com's MTAs to advance encryption and reduce operating costs

- Designed and implemented cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and automatic repair solutions for large-scale systems, outlook.com and onedrive.com, resulting in increased reliability and reduced operating cost:- The PaaS system powered up online services with 400M+ users- Automatic health monitoring, repair, and deployment services for stateless and stateful systems- Stateless and stateful systems' quorum and lock management systems- Distributed software package/artifact store, deployment and repair plans store, and telemetry store- Guided internal teams to adopt new cloud management solutions to increase fault-tolerance and reduce MTTD and MTTR

- Developed instrumentation, monitoring, deployment, and automatic repair solutions for Windows Live - Shipped Waves 5 and 4 of Outlook.com/Windows Live

- Developed instrumentation, and monitoring solutions for Windows Live used for analyzing QoS and machines' health

- Developed automated test cases and tools for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (Source Control)- Shipped multiple backend source control features for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and Visual Studio 2010

- Worked as a member of the Technical Architecture Group on creating prototypes and internal applications

- Created websites with custom workflows for multiple companies in Egypt: Sense Arabia, Weddings Arabia, ERA-ME, and a marketing site for a bank

- Developed a system to check the integrity of a Document Management System (DMS)- Learned, the hard way, that my mentor was usually right when it came to design decisions