Open to work · Machine Learning Scientist

Hi, I’m Mohammad Awad.

I’m a Machine Learning Scientist at Booking.com, using generative AI and large language models to enhance personalization and recommendations for millions of travellers.

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2021

Arabic Handwritten Numeral Generation

A conditional GAN that synthesises handwritten Arabic digits from scratch, filling a gap MNIST never covered and cutting the cost of dataset collection and labelling.

Python
Deep Learning
GANs
WGAN-GP
Computer Vision
Google Colab

2021

AI-Generated Sims Faces

Trained StyleGAN to dream up new characters for The Sims, including a custom dataset built by automating the game's own character creator.

Python
Deep Learning
GANs
StyleGAN
Transfer Learning
Computer Vision

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