Invited Speaker & Workshops
Format: Talk Title. Event. Date
Real World Applications of Math. Guest speaker at Blue Valley highschool. 04/2023.
Privacy, AI, and LLMs. Guest at the People of Product podcast. 03/2023.
Adopting AI Systems In Small and Medium Enterprise. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. 02/2023
Adopting AI Systems In Small and Medium Enterprise. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. 08/2022
Data Privacy in the Era of AI. CyberCamp Academy. 07/2022
Adopting AI Systems In Small and Medium Enterprise. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. 05/2022
Building and Maintaining AI Systems. UMKC Hack-A-Roo Event. 05/2022
Panel on "How Do I Become a Computer Scientist". Linda Hall Library. 02/25/2022
Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Learning: Innovations and Challenges. UCI EdgeLab, University of California Irvine. 06/7/2021
Blind Learning: An efficient privacy-preserving approach for distributed learning. Split Learning for Distributed Machine Learning workshop, MIT Media Lab. 03/4-5/2021
Federated Learning for Data Privacy. Byan School for Data Science (online). 03/12/2021 (Youtube)
Practical Introduction to Computing Vision Deep Learning using PyTorch (in Arabic), Saudi Data Community, 02/10/2021
Privacy-Preserving ML; Membership Inference Attacks, Virtual W&B Salon, 05/12/2020 (YouTube)
The Secrete Life of a Computer Scientist. Linda Hall Library, March 28 -- CANCELLED due to COVID-19
AI Opportunities for Entrepreneurs. Technology Entrepreneurship Program, Henry Block School of Management, UMKC . 10/2019
Secure and Private Deep Learning. Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees, University of Missouri System. 10/2019
Securing Deep Learning Models against Adversary Attacks. UM System Faculty Senate and Curators Research Luncheon, UMKC . 9/2019
Developing Computer Vision Models using Nvidia Digits. 6th International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing, Kansas City, USA. 09/2019
Workshops
Format: Workshop Title. Event. Date
Adopting AI Systems In Small and Medium Enterprise. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Innovation Center. 03/2023. Online
Generating Arabic Text Using TensorFlow. A free workshop at Bayan School for Machine Learning. 26 attendees. 08/16/2020. Online
Deep Learning Fundamentals for Computer Vision. A free workshop for UMKC students by Nvidia (I serve as an Nvidia Deep Learning Institute certified instructor). 47 attendees. 07/2019. In person.
Research Service (Program Committee Member & Reviewer)
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium. Reviewed 6 papers. 05/2022
The 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 22). Reviewed 5 papers. 03/2022
The 39th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Reviewed 2 papers. 03/2022
Secure and Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning for Medical Imaging: MICCAI 2021 Workshop and Tutorial. Reviewed 2 papers. 07/14/2021
Distributed and Private Machine learning, ICLR workshop. Reviewed 3 papers. 05/07/2021
JMIR Medical Informatics journal. Reviewed one paper. 09/08/2020
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium. Reviewed 2 papers, 04/2020
The 4th Workshop on Data Management for End-to-End Machine Learning. Reviewed 3 papers. 04/2020
Automation in Machine Learning and Data Mining Workshop (AutoML), 25th ACM SigKDD Conference. Reviewed 6 papers, 05/2019
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium. Reviewed 5 papers, 03/2019
The 2nd International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Translational Biomedical Informatics (KDTBI 2018). Reviewed 3 papers, 11/2018
University Service & Leadership
President, Hack-A-Roo Annual UMKC Hackaton. Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019 (raised more than $20,000 for the event in addition to leading its organization)
Founder and President, UMKC Distributed Intelligent Computing Association. 2018 - present
Board Member, UMKC-SCE Alumni Association. 2018 - 2019
Social Media Coordinator, Graduate Student Council, UMKC. 2016 - 2018
Student Vice President, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Chapter 103. 2015 - 2018
Communication Coordinator, Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Honor Society, UMKC. 2015 - 2016
International Student Ambassador, International Student Affairs Office, UMKC. 2014 - 2018
President of the Student Council, Jazan University. 2013 - 2014
Founder and President of the Computer Club, Jazan University. 2010 - 2014
Teaching Service
Teaching Assistant, "Generating Text with TensorFlow" workshop, Nvidia Deep learning Institution, GTC 2019
Teaching Assistant, "Deep Learning Workflows with TensorFlow, MXNet and NVIDIA Docker " workshop, Nvidia Deep learning Institution, GTC 2019
Teaching Assistant, "Deep Autoencoders for Recommendation Systems " workshop, Nvidia Deep Learning Institution, GTC 2019
Community Service
Board Member, Community Council - Reach Out and Read-Kansas City, 2016-2019
Organizing team, Race to Read 5K (a run to support literacy), 2017 and 2018
Organizing team, Bedtime Story (a book drive for underprivileged children). 2016 and 2017