Bassam Mokbel
Dr. rer. nat. | ML & AI Expert | Conscious Technology Leader
Experience
Aug 2021 - Present
3 years 7 months Bielefeld, Germany
Chief Data Scientist, Research & Development Team Lead
Semalytix
- Leading a team to design and implement ML and NLP approaches in a semantic analytics platform.
- Building a customizable big data analytics platform for natural language texts, especially patient narratives, providing a social media listening SaaS solution for B2B Pharma and healthcare industry clients.
- Personnel responsibility for a team of ML experts, natural language specialists, and software developers.
- Planning the core technology stack and processing workflow for text analysis, including an event-driven automation system, interfaces to various cloud services, and user interaction.
- Supporting in sales conversations and customer relations.
- Employing SCRUM to manage software development.
- Providing strategic advice to the company's C-level.
- Reporting directly to the CEO.
Nov 2017 - Aug 2021
3 years 10 months Bielefeld, Germany
Chief Data Scientist, Analytics Team Lead
Semalytix
- Leading a team to design and implement ML and NLP approaches in a semantic analytics platform.
- Building a customizable big data analytics platform for natural language texts, especially patient narratives, providing a social media listening SaaS solution for B2B Pharma and healthcare industry clients.
- Personnel responsibility for a team of ML experts, natural language specialists, and software developers.
- Planning the core technology stack and processing workflow for text analysis, including an event-driven automation system, interfaces to various cloud services, and user interaction.
- Employing SCRUM to manage software development.
- Providing strategic advice to the company's C-level.
- Reporting directly to the CTO and CEO.
Jul 2016 - Oct 2017
1 year 4 months Germany
Senior Data Scientist
Resolto Informatik GmbH
- Designing and implementing ML approaches within an advanced analytics platform, focused on industrial time series data.
- Shaping customized analytics solutions in close communication with B2B clientele.
- Helping to conceptualize and build a SaaS product for predictive maintenance with edge computing.
- Partly deployed to customers on-site in consulting roles.
- Vice lead of analytics team.
- Providing expert advice to the CEO.
Nov 2015 - Jun 2016
8 months Germany
Freelance Data Scientist
Consulting work and software development for business clients regarding data science and machine learning solutions.
May 2015 - Jun 2016
1 year 2 months Bielefeld, Germany
Postdoc Researcher
Bielefeld University
Research work about data analysis, computational intelligence & machine learning for structured data and multimodal timeseries.
Apr 2010 - May 2015
5 years 2 months Bielefeld, Germany
Research Associate
Bielefeld University
Research work about data analysis, computational intelligence & machine learning for structured data & cognitive systems.
May 2009 - Mar 2010
11 months Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany
Research Associate
Technische Universität Clausthal
Research work about data analysis & computational intelligence in distributed information systems.
Sep 2008 - Apr 2009
8 months Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany
Student Research Assistant
Technische Universität Clausthal
Matlab programming for research and coursework related to data analysis & computational intelligence.
Apr 2004 - Jul 2005
1 year 4 months Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany
Student Assistant
Technische Universität Clausthal
Web and database programming for the university's IT infrastructure.
Summary
Dr. Bassam Mokbel is an expert in data analysis and machine learning with over 13 years of research & professional experience in the field, as well as an AI project manager and team leader.
He worked as a researcher at the Cognitive Interaction Technology Center of Excellence (CITEC) in the Machine Learning research group between 2010 and 2016. He published over 30 peer-reviewed articles in renowned journals and conference proceedings associated to machine learning, receiving 600+ citations, as well as 2 best student paper and one best poster award. He received a "Dr. rer. nat." degree with "magna cum laude" for his thesis on "Dissimilarity-based learning for complex data" proposing approaches for machine learning with unstructured data, such as texts.
He has 7 years of industry experience, working as a Data Scientist in Senior and C-Level roles, with hands-on experience to create custom analytics solutions for B2B clientele, working in consulting jobs, providing strategic advice to executives, and managing a team to build a B2B SaaS platform.
Languages
English
Native
German
Native
Education
Oct 2010 - Jun 2015
Bielefeld University
Dr. rer. nat. · Dissimilarity-based learning for complex data · Bielefeld, Germany · magna cum laude
Oct 2006 - Jun 2009
Technische Universität Clausthal
Diplom · Informatik (Computer Science) · Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany
Oct 2004 - Jun 2005