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Kigali, Rwanda
Muhammad Omer github.com/MhmdGaffar
maomer@alumni.cmu.edu Machine Learning Engineer linkedin.com/in/maomer98

EDUCATION
Carnegie Mellon University Kigali, Rwanda AUG 2021 — MAY 2023
Master of Science in Engineering Artificial Intelligence 3.33/4.00
• Awards and Activities: Lakshmi Subramanian Award for Student Excellence in Research Innovation, 2023.
Mastercard Foundation Scholar, 2021. ICLR 2023 Volunteer.
University of Khartoum Khartoum, Sudan OCT 2014 — OCT 2020
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (Honors) 7.52/10.00
• Awards and Activities: Best thesis project in the academic year 2019/2020. Best project in the 2017 Faculty of
Engineering Innovation Competition. Rockefeller Foundation Grant for Deep Learning Indaba 2019.

EXPERIENCE
Graduate Tutor & Research Assistant African Institute for Mathematical Sciences AUG 2023 — Now
Kigali, Rwanda
• Preparing exercises, homework assignments, tutorial sessions, grading programming assignments, exams, and quizzes.
• Tutored MSc. level courses related to Computer Science, some of these courses so far: Introduction to Python
Prgramming, Introduction to R Programming, Algorithms & Data Structures, Big Data Analytics with Python, Data Driven
Optimization and Neural Networks.
• Supervised students’ master’s thesis research projects.
Graduate Teaching Assistant Carnegie Mellon University AUG 2022 — DEC 2023
Hybrid (Onsite & Remote) Kigali, Rwanda & Pittsburgh, USA
• Worked on the following master’s level courses:
– 04-800K AIOps: Continuous and Automated IT and AI Monitoring, Fall 2023, Dr. Charles Wiecha.
– 18-661 Intro to ML for Engineers, Spring 2023, Professors: Carlee Joe-Wong, Guannan Qu.
– 04-655 AI for Engineers, Fall 2022, Professor: Ahmed Biyabani.
• Duties: mentoring students through lab sessions and course projects, holding recitation sessions weekly, and creating &
grading homework assignments and exams.
Research and Development Engineer Nas Energy JAN 2021 — JUL 2021
Khartoum, Sudan
• Collected, annotated, and analyzed data (pump sizes, irrigation methods, crops, and location) from farmers across the
country to eventually use to set up purchase agreements for Photovaltic Pumping agricultural projects.
Machine Learning Engineer Innovation Baylasan NOV 2019 — NOV 2020
Khartoum, Sudan
• Created a model monitoring soil moisture for IoT-powered green houses leading to 45% increase in productivity.
• Carried out studies on the innovation eco-system in Africa and published a paper on Analyzing African Innovation
Performance using ML and online innovation index & sub-index data.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS
Building a Question Answering System from Wikipedia Articles Fall 2021
MLP for Phoneme Classification from MFCC Speech Data Spring 2022
Face Classification and Verification using Deep Residual Learning Spring 2022
LSTM with CTC Loss for Phonetic Sequence Prediction from MFCC Speech Data Spring 2022
Implementing Attention from Scratch for Speech-to-Text Transcription from Audio Books Spring 2022
Creating Spoken Dialog Systems in Ultra-Low Resourced Settings Spring 2022
Creating a Virtual Assistant for Kinyarwanda Speakers (Capstone Project) Spring 2023
PUBLICATIONS
ICLR 2020, ML4D Workshop “Modeling, Visualization, and Analysis of African Innovation Performance”. Muhammad Omer
et al.
ICCCEEE 2020 (IEEE Conf.) "Model Predictive-Actor Critic Reinforcement Learning for Dexterous Manipulation". Muhammad
Omer et al.
SKILLS
• AI & ML: Python, sklearn, matplotlib, pandas, numpy, tensorflow, pytorch, R, AWS cloud services, docker, kubernetes,
gitlab.
• Embedded Systems and Software Development: C/C++, Shell Script, Arduino, Raspberrypi, Solidworks, OpenCV, Mujoco.