Ahmed Elsheikh
Professor at Heriot-Watt University
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAhmed Elsheikh is a Professor and computational engineer with 8+ years of postdoctoral and research experience bridging modern machine learning and multi-scale modelling to build computationally efficient digital twins for uncertainty quantification and risk assessment. Based at Heriot-Watt University and with prior research roles at UT Austin and Imperial College, he combines deep ML framework expertise with practical modelling developed through a PhD from McMaster. He actively applies his skills in competitive settings such as Kaggle and contributes to AI security and community initiatives—serving as an OWASP AI Exchange core author and GSoC 2025 mentor—highlighting a rare blend of academic rigor and applied security-minded engineering. Notably, his work spans both theory (EMNLP publications) and practice, focusing on robust, scalable approaches that make uncertainty-aware decision-making computationally tractable.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, ENGINEERING, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, ENGINEERING at McMaster UniversityBachelor's degree, ENGINEERING, Bachelor's degree, ENGINEERING at Al-Azhar University
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Github Skills (118)
transformers10
python10
bug-tracker10
web-automation10
deep-learning10
gemma10
glm10
multimodal10
audio10
transformer10
nlp10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
machine-learning-models10
machine-learning10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
elsheikh21/elsheikh21
Mar 2021 - Jun 2025
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
elsheikh21/venice-boats-classification
Dec 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:19 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
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