Introducing Mohamed Shakir - Senior Data Scientist at White Box

 

Shakir has more than 15 years of experience in Research, Data Science, Data Analytics, Robotics, Engineering, Consultation and Management in various industries like aviation, academics, Research Development, Government etc.

Previously worked as IT Skills Development Manager at Qatar Airways, Research Faculty at Qatar University, Robotics Engineer at Government of Qatar and Project Engineer at Wipro Technologies.  He has also worked as a consultant for various data projects at Qatar Assistive Technology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Texas A&M, EADS-Airbus, Qatar Mobility and Innovation Center etc. Shakir holds a Ph.D in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia.

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Some of the achievements and research that have won him respect and admiration are below:

  1. Invited Guest Speaker for Aerospace Big Data- Miami, Barcelona.

  2. Guest Speaker for Digital Toolsets for Airlines and MRO” Summit, Belin.

  3. Invited Speaker National Instruments USA for developing prediction algorithm for medical Devices using Big Data.

  4. Gold Medal winner for Innovative Product Design & Invention (ITEX) for Seizure and ECG arrythmia prediction algorithm.

  5. Microsoft Award for Collaboration and business productivity.

  6. International Society of Automation Award.

  7. Wipro Technologies-Innovation Award.

  8. Five Patents (US, UK, GCC, Malaysia).

  9. TED Speaker.

  10. Microsoft Imagine Cup winner- Robot for helping people with learning and physical challenges.

  11. Published more than 30 international scientific research papers and journals in areas such as; ML, AI, Big Data, human-robot interaction, biomedical systems etc.  Mohamed’s areas of interest include; innovation, research, business intelligence, programming, embedded systems development, electronic product design, IIoT, IoT, Artificial Intelligence, automation, virtual reality and image processing.

If you would like to explore opportunities that Shakir can help your business with, please get in touch.

For more information about Shakir, please feel free to checkout his LinkedIn profile.

 

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