Now: AI/LLM security research — QCRI
Documentation gives me context; building gives me understanding. When a project needs a technology I've never touched, I learn it by shipping the real thing.
Any system that runs long enough will crash mid-write, hit a rate limit, or lose its connection. Good engineering assumes interruption and makes recovery boring.
I'm interested in how systems fail, why attackers succeed and how better engineering reduces risk.
Teaching helps me see if I really understand something. Explaining it to different people shows me what I still need to learn.
Four systems I'd put in front of any engineering team. Each one is a full case study with the architecture, the decisions, and what went wrong.
Every morning at 6 AM, a cloud-hosted n8n workflow researches trending Reddit topics, writes a script with Gemini, gathers stock footage and narration, files everything into Drive, and emails me the results.
Open-source maintainers are drowning in AI-written bug reports. I built the fault-tolerant pipeline creating the first large-scale dataset to measure it.
Murshid watches your screen, listens in Arabic, remembers your goal, and guides you through complex apps one step at a time. Six Fanar models, one agentic loop.
I owned the intelligence layer behind an AI security dashboard: threat simulations, kill chains, and a structured MITRE feed another team's code consumed directly.
A browser extension that flags XSS exposure as you browse: client-side input inspection and severity classification, grown out of an earlier Python scanner.
An encrypted email platform with AES-256 confidentiality, RSA-2048 key exchange, SHA-256 integrity checks, and PKI authentication.
Research infrastructure, threat intelligence, applied AI, and teaching. Real ownership in each, not a list of job descriptions.
Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) · Cybersecurity Department, HBKU
Built the data infrastructure for research into AI-generated vulnerability reports: a resumable scraper collecting from 4,646 GitHub and GitLab repositories into PostgreSQL.
“I can translate a research question into a production-quality engineering system.”
Digibit Strategic Intelligence & Advisory Unit · Cyber, Threat Intelligence & Resilience Team
Owned the threat intelligence layer behind an AI-powered security dashboard in a 15-member programme. My deliverables were live integration inputs, not standalone documents.
“I can turn threat research into structured intelligence that engineering teams consume directly.”
University of Doha for Science and Technology · Student Research Program
Building an LLM-powered system that routes free-text clinical referrals to the right medical specialty: prompt engineering, classification pipelines, and model evaluation.
“Research is measurement. A model that can't be evaluated can't be deployed.”
Be My Sense · AI accessibility startup, Qatar
Be My Sense builds real-time speech-to-sign and sign-to-speech translation with a 3D signing avatar, covering ASL, BSL, and Qatari Sign Language. I started as a content intern writing website, LinkedIn, and campaign copy. Six months in, I was promoted to Marketing Lead.
“Explaining technology to strangers, in person, is a skill you only build by doing it.”
University of Doha for Science and Technology
15 hours a week and 20+ students supported since 2024, across programming, mathematics, and AI coursework.
“Explaining a concept in different ways is how you find out whether you actually understand it.”
Research is how I learn. I like problems where the literature is thin, the data doesn't exist yet, and the first job is building the instrument that makes measurement possible.
QCRI Cybersecurity Department · supervised by Dr. Ahmed Lekssays
UDST Student Research Program · supervised by Dr. Ahmad Abdel-Hafez
Building the system is only half the job; people still have to understand it. I've spent as much time on that half, in classrooms and at event booths, as I have writing code.
Peer Tutor
Helping students with programming, cybersecurity, and mathematics.
College Representative
Representing computing students across university initiatives.
Be My Sense
Presenting accessibility technology at Web Summit Qatar.
Student Research Program
Presenting our AI clinical referral triage research.
This is the part of a portfolio you can verify: competition placements, academic awards, and the certifications behind the skills section.
Academic Excellence
UDST Academic Awards, 2024
Dean's List
UDST, 2025
LifeLines Hackathon
2nd place · CMU Qatar, 2026
LifeLines Hackathon
2nd place · Carnegie Mellon University Qatar
Fanar Hackathon
Built Murshid: six AI models, one agentic loop, demoed live
Case studyBuild for QSTP
Qatar Science & Technology Park hackathon program
Qatar Innovation Program
Artificial Intelligence Association team participation
3.98 / 4.00
GPA, B.Sc. Data and Cyber Security
3rd Place — Capture The Flag Competition
3rd Place — Mobile App Development Competition
1st Place — Skills Day Mathematics Competition
UDST
Splunk Core Certified User
Splunk · Valid through 2029 · Credly verified
CCNA: Switching, Routing & Wireless Essentials
Cisco Networking Academy
Network Security Fundamentals
Palo Alto Networks Cybersecurity Academy
Cybersecurity Foundation
Palo Alto Networks Cybersecurity Academy
Introduction to Penetration Testing
Security Blue Team
Hands-on training: Incident Forensics Workshop (6h, hands-on lab) (NetWitness, 2025) · Cybersecurity Analyst Job Simulation — IAM (Tata / Forage, 2025)
Every skill listed here points at the project or role where it was actually applied.
I'm looking for internships and roles in security engineering, AI security, and security research. If the problem is real and the system has to hold up, I'm interested.