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About

Computer science student and researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, with experience spanning AI/NLP research, enterprise technology, and student leadership — including work on an Arabic-native LLM platform, distributed systems, and school-wide leadership roles.

Education
B.S. Computer Science, School of Computer Science — Carnegie Mellon University
Graduation
2030
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Experience

Research Intern

Qatar Computing Research Institute

Jun — Jul 2026

  • Contributed to Fanar, Qatar's first Arabic-native generative AI platform and LLM — sponsored by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology — focused on the embeddings and retrieval pipeline
  • Co-authored a research paper introducing a novel Arabic retrieval benchmark, submitted to ArabicNLP 2026
  • Designed and implemented a learned sparse retrieval method based on the MILCO architecture, integrated across multiple RAG systems on the platform

Digital Systems & Technology Intern — HR

Qatar Airways

Feb — Jun 2026

  • Served as technical liaison between HR and IT, translating business requirements into implementation specs for enterprise HR technology initiatives
  • Designed an IT proposal for a skills-taxonomy system for the SVP of IT — including solution architecture, a PDF extraction pipeline, and automated skill-gap comparison across ESCO, SFIA, O*NET, and SkillsFuture Singapore
  • Engineered a semi-automated Power BI reporting pipeline generating 110+ dynamic executive talent cards for the CPO and HR SVPs, replacing a manual PowerPoint workflow
  • Presented proposals, prototypes, and implementation updates to HR/IT leadership throughout delivery
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Projects

Alumni Intelligence Platform

Nov 2025

  • Built and deployed an alumni networking platform (70+ users, 230+ connections) with a hybrid recommendation engine — graph-based heuristics, Personalized PageRank, and an 87%-F1 NLP classifier — cutting match runtime from 30–90s to under a few seconds

Distributed P2P Messaging System

Aug 2025

  • Built a serverless P2P messaging network (partial mesh topology) for disaster-relief scenarios, with automatic peer discovery, BFS multi-hop routing, offline SQLite queuing with 30-second retry delivery, async non-blocking I/O, and dynamic routing graph reconstruction
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Leadership

Head Boy & Student Council Head

Oryx International School

  • Directed 10+ prefects and coordinated 7+ major stakeholder events, including with the Ministry of Education and Qatar Airways
  • Mentored 600+ students weekly via assemblies; founded the school's first debate club
  • Selected as student body representative to interview candidates for Executive Principal

Lead Academic Mentor

Oryx International School

  • Solo peer instructor for 75+ students, providing guidance across 6 advanced subjects

TEDx Speaker — "Behind the Reel"

  • Delivered a keynote talk on authenticity and personal growth
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Honors & Awards

  • British Chemistry Olympiad (UKChO) — Gold
  • World Scholar's Cup — Gold, Debate & Writing
  • National Academic Excellence Award — Ministry of Education
  • Highest in Qatar — IT A-level, Pearson Edexcel
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Contact

Say hello at mahmad3@andrew.cmu.edu

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