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Motamen MohammedAhmed

Abu Dhabi,UAE
Motamen MohammedAhmed

Summary

Accomplished AI researcher with over six years of experience in leading-edge universities and research facilities. Expertise in developing innovative AI solutions, with a strong portfolio of publications and successful projects. Skilled at translating complex concepts into impactful outcomes, with a passion for collaborative problem-solving and continuous learning.

Overview

9
years of professional experience
1
Certification

Work history

DEWA R&D Centre
Dubai, UAE

Researcher II
2022.10 - Current (3 education.years_Label & 8 education.months_Label)

Job overview

  • Developed machine learning and deep learning models in context of power systems.
  • Designed and implemented dashboard for data analytics in context of power quality assessment.
  • Performed data preparation and analysis to be utilized by vendors as part of project requirements and progress.
  • Collected insights from data to be delivered to business units.
  • Prepared project closure report, site survey report, and analytics report.
  • Presented topics to higher management and internal staff.
  • Engaged in writing invention disclosure for patent documentation with 40% participation.

Zayed University
Abu Dhabi, UAE

Graduate Research Assistant
2021.03 - 2022.03 (1 education.year_Label)

Job overview

  • Performed data preparation and feature engineering for public data extracted from Twitter platform.
  • Applied machine learning models to detect social bots with accuracy of over 90%.
  • Implemented Apache Kafka micro-services for streaming data and model results.
  • Enhanced public Twitter dataset by including graph-based information related to follower and following relationships.
  • Designed and implemented attention-based deep learning graph model on enhanced data.

American University of Sharjah
Sharjah, UAE

Graduate Teaching Assistant
2018.01 - 2019.12 (1 education.year_Label & 11 education.months_Label)

Job overview

  • Assisted lead teachers in lab experiments as part of full scholarship duties with over 60% engagement in lab setting.
  • Assessed students' performance through homework grading following criteria set by instructor.

Nile Centre for Technology Research
Khartoum, Sudan

Embedded Systems Engineer
2015.12 - 2016.11 (11 education.months_Label)

Job overview

  • Implemented signal processing techniques to serve different modules in top classified project.
  • Tested and validated several hardware components.
  • Implemented Agile methodology in project management.
  • Utilized code sub-versioning for code access control.

University of Khartoum
Khartoum, Sudan

Graduate Teaching Assistant
2015.10 - 2016.10 (1 education.year_Label)

Job overview

  • Provided additional support to students by conducting tutorials for problems solving.

Education

American University of Sharjah
Sharjah, UAE

Master of Science from Computer Engineering
2018.01

University overview

  • GPA is 3.48 out of 4.0.
  • Still under completion.

University of Khartoum
Khartoum, Sudan

Bachelor of Science from Electrical Engineering
2010.07 - 2015.10 (5 education.years_Label & 3 education.months_Label)

University overview

  • CGPA was 7.70 out of 10.

Skills

  • Software development (Python, C, and C)
  • Data manipulation (Pandas and NumPy)
  • Machine learning and deep learning development (TensorFlow, PyTorch, and PyTorch Geometric)
  • Project documentation
  • Analytics dashboard design and building
  • Basic SQL for data retrieval
  • Communication with business units
  • Research
  • Chatbot development
  • LLMs
  • Generative AI (GenAI)

Publications

Publications
  • Conference paper titled " AI Driven Approach to Power Quality Detection and Classification " on SPIES 2024 - Accepted.
  • Journal paper titled " Improved NaS Battery State of Charge and State of Health Estimation: A Novel Integration of Temporal Fusion Transformer, Isolation Forest, and Support Vector Regression " on IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications - Aug 2024.
  • Journal paper titled " Bot-MGAT: A Transfer Learning Model Based on Multi-View Graph Attention Networks to Detect Social Bots " on Applied Sciences - Application of Artificial Intelligence on Social Media - Aug 2022.
  • Conference paper titled " Real Time Detection of Social Bots on Twitter Using Machine Learning and Apache Kafka " on 2021 5th Cyber Security in Networking Conference (CSNet) - Nov 2021.

Certification

  • LinkedIn certificate in building a personalized chatbot with OpenAI and LangChain - Oct 2024.
  • NeonaX certificate in introduction to Python, artificial intelligence, and machine learning (140 hours) - Jan 2023.
  • Coursera certificate in building a denoising autoencoder using PyTorch - Aug 2022.
  • LinkedIn certificate in SQL for data reports and analysis - Feb 2022.
  • Coursera certificate in introduction to scrum master training - Aug 2021.
  • Udemy certificate in deep learning with TensorFlow 2.0 - Oct 2020.
  • Coursera certificate in introduction to SQL - Aug 2020.
  • Coursera certificate in introduction to TensorFlow for artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning - April 2020.

Projects

Projects

1- Power quality assessment methods and approaches on critical sites for DEWA low voltage (LV) network rated at 710 kW including wind, solar, and batteries

  • Applied machine learning and deep learning models (decision trees, support vector machines, random forest, XGBoost, artificial neural network, and convolutional neural network) for detection and classification of voltage sag, swell, and interruption using simulated data.
  • Built data analytics dashboard for assessing power quality events using real data from power quality analyzers installed in DEWA smart grid station.

2- Exploration and evaluation of micro-PMU for DEWA distribution low voltage (LV) network using simulation data

  • Understood micro-PMUs and different network events.
  • Preprocessed and analyzed the data to deliver insights to higher management.
  • Developed machine learning models for distribution network event detection, localization, and classification using data simulated from benchmark IEEE-34 node feeder with accuracy of over 98%.

3- Smart meter data analytics for DEWA low voltage (LV) network

  • Managed the project progress.
  • Ensured delivery of project requirements to stakeholders and vendors if they are involved.

4- Full scale implementation for DEWA utility scale battery energy storage

  • Analyzed data from battery management system (BMS) for NaS battery rated at 1.2 MW with capacity of 7.2 MWh.
  • Developed deep learning temporal fusion transformer model to predict state of charge (SoC) using historical operational battery data.
  • Developed machine learning linear regression and XGBoost models for predicting state of health (SoH).

5- Theft detection and mitigation solution for DEWA power distribution assets

  • Collaborated with team in writing project proposal and literature review.
  • Aggregated and analyzed data for real recorded theft cases (2018-2023) at MV substations.
  • Prepared two data analytics reports highlighting insights for business units.
  • Conducted site visit to five 11 kV substations for studying impact of theft.
  • Prepared set of recommendations to business units on technologies to be utilized.

Accomplishments

Accomplishments
  • Developed a simple CV assistant chatbot using OpenAI, LangChain, HTML, Flask, JavaScript and deployed on Heroku platform in 2024.
  • Received positive feedback from DEWA distribution power sector for building an interactive dashboard for power quality assessment in 2024.
  • Participated in Open Data ADDATHON 2021 held by Abu Dhabi Digital Authority.
  • Participated in HSBC AI coding challenge in 2019 and scored the third position.

Languages

Arabic
Native
English
Advanced
Spanish
Beginner

Timeline

Researcher II
DEWA R&D Centre
2022.10 - Current (3 education.years_Label & 8 education.months_Label)
Graduate Research Assistant
Zayed University
2021.03 - 2022.03 (1 education.year_Label)
Graduate Teaching Assistant
American University of Sharjah
2018.01 - 2019.12 (1 education.year_Label & 11 education.months_Label)
American University of Sharjah
Master of Science from Computer Engineering
2018.01
Embedded Systems Engineer
Nile Centre for Technology Research
2015.12 - 2016.11 (11 education.months_Label)
Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of Khartoum
2015.10 - 2016.10 (1 education.year_Label)
University of Khartoum
Bachelor of Science from Electrical Engineering
2010.07 - 2015.10 (5 education.years_Label & 3 education.months_Label)
Motamen MohammedAhmed