About

Bachelor of Mechatronics Engineering ↗

Rafik Hariri University (RHU), Lebanon

CGPA 4.0/4.0, class valedictorian.

Embedded Systems & Vision Engineer ↗

Oreyeon, Coimbra, Portugal (hybrid)

Real-time vision for airport runway safety, on NVIDIA Jetson.

Lab assistant and teaching assistant

Rafik Hariri University

I prepared and ran mechatronics lab sessions, guided students through the experiments, helped with teaching and assessment, and kept the lab’s equipment working.

Computer-vision intern

VIBE

At a startup, I built emotion recognition on edge hardware to support children with autism.

Freelance machine-learning and computer-vision developer

Vision and machine-learning pipelines for clients.

Landmine detection and extraction robot

RHU project, field-tested with the Lebanese Armed Forces

I led all the software: 2D then 3D LiDAR SLAM, navigation, detection and segmentation, and the arm’s kinematics.

Technical mentor, INJAZ Al-Arab Company Program

I mentored two school teams in healthcare from first idea to working prototype: LumiScan (Ahliah School), a melanoma-detection device, and Dosely (Saint Joseph School), an elderly-care set of a wearable bracelet, a pillbox, and an app. Both teams won awards: Best Community Impact and Best Healthcare Innovation.

Robotics competitions at RHU ↗

I organized the university’s robotics competitions, including IEEE Micromouse in 2023–2024, the first in Lebanon, held at RHU in May 2024, where I mentored a number of the teams. I also mentored teams for the World Robot Olympiad and other competitions.

Speaker, GDG DevFest Tripoli 2025

GDG North Lebanon

On-device multimodal assistants: can GPT-Vision fit on small hardware?

Bootcamp sessions and a Git workshop

Two sessions at the CodewithSerah bootcamp in January, “Git & GitHub” and “The Long Way into AI”, and a hands-on Git workshop I coordinated for the LAU Byblos Software Engineering Club in April, with material by Tarek AlSaleh.

Lead technical organizer and participant, NASA Space Apps Beirut

Technical bootcamps on NASA data and mentoring for 250–400 participants a year; teams I mentored reached the global top 10 six times. I competed too: our team won a Distinctive Team Award in 2021. Space Apps Beirut gave me its Exceptional Volunteering Certification in 2024.

Co-founder and operations lead, NASNA

A crisis-support platform connecting displaced and war-affected people with donors, NGOs, sponsors, and volunteers; I led its crisis-response operations and volunteer matching.

Co-founder, OmniSign

Real-time Lebanese Sign Language recognition, on phones and small devices.

Co-founder, Bsheel

A real-world quest app, live on Google Play and the App Store; I built its AI proof checks.

Co-founder, Evoid

A small applied computer-vision venture that built apps for clients.

Space² ↗

An emerging innovation space and incubator in Lebanon that helps university students build practical projects and grow local ideas into products. We run it together with Al Ghad Lana.

Society lead, RHU Physics & Astronomy Club

I founded and led National Physics Day across four universities: UOB, LAU, AUB, and LU.

Nazik Rafik Hariri Graduate Studies Award ↗

Graduated valedictorian with a 4.0/4.0 CGPA and a 100% master’s scholarship.

Best Graduating Project, RHU Engineering Jury

Public Choice first prize, National FYP Demo Day

With the OmniSign team.

CRDP certificate of appreciation

From CRDP Lebanon, in April 2025, for my volunteer work with the NASA Space Apps Beirut team.

Third place, Disaster Assistance and Response Engineering (DARE) at LAU

For the landmine detection and extraction robot, with the RHU Robotics and Technology Club team.

Second place in Lebanon, ASME EFx ↗

A quick-build vehicle competition at NDU, with Ibrahim and Wassim Ghaddar.

World Robot Olympiad, Future Engineers

Second place with the Brainiacs, Wassim Ghaddar and me.

NASA Space Apps Lebanon, Distinctive Team Award

Google Project Management Certificate

Google

AI Full Stack Development Expert

Forward MENA & OnRamp

AI-Powered Full-Stack Development

Forward MENA

Python for Everybody

Coursera

Short courses in cloud and teamwork

Cloud foundations on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, with cloud networking, security, and storage; and communication, negotiation, conflict, critical thinking, emotional intelligence, resilience, time management, business ethics, and writing in plain language.