Mahdi is the founder and CEO of a German hightech SME focused on industrial and next-generation AI. He has a PhD in computer science. Mahdi is an adjunct professor of intelligent systems and AI. He has worked as a postdoctoral researcher, senior project manager at the University of Siegen (Germany), and group head of Web Search and Data Mining at the Institute of Web Science and Technologies (WeST) at the University of Koblenz (Germany). Mahdi has been suggested to give keynote talks and acts as a peer reviewer at several academic venues. He has also successfully coordinated multiple research projects financed by the German and European agencies while serving as the main investigator.