Bassam Mokbel
Chief Data Scientist, Research & Development Team Lead
Experience
Aug 2021 - Present
4 yearsChief 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 monthsChief 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 monthsSenior 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 monthsFreelance 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.
- Work conducted at the Cognitive Interaction Technology Center of Excellence (CITEC) in the Machine Learning research group.
- During this period, continued publishing (part of over 30 peer-reviewed articles with 600+ total citations) and co-authored award-winning papers (e.g., Best Poster Award @ NC² 2015).
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.
- Work conducted at the Cognitive Interaction Technology Center of Excellence (CITEC) in the Machine Learning research group.
- During this period, published significantly (part of over 30 peer-reviewed articles with 600+ total citations) and co-authored award-winning papers (e.g., Best Student Paper Award @ ESANN 2014, Best Student Paper Award @ ESANN 2015).
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
German
Native
English
Advanced
Education
Oct 2010 - Jun 2015
Bielefeld University
Doktor der Naturwissenschaften - Dr. rer. nat., Dissimilarity-based learning for complex data · Bielefeld, Germany · magna cum laude
Oct 2006 - Jun 2009
Technische Universität Clausthal
Diplom · Computer Science · Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany
Oct 2001 - Jun 2004
Technische Universität Clausthal
Vordiplom · Computer Science · Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany
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