Mohammad Al Zoubi

Mohammad Al Zoubi

Regional Director MENA

About Me

Experienced Machine Learning Engineer, Entrepreneur and manager.

Email: mhd.alz.de@gmail.com

Work Experience

Regional Director MENA, Full-Time

CIB Group - Munich & Abu Dhabi (June 2024 - Present)

Secured contracts (1.2M €) and built strong relationships within the banking and public sectors in the UAE. Localized the flagship OCR solution for the Arabic market.

MEBIS Participation: CIB Group

Founder in Residence, Full-Time

Antler - Munich (January 2024 - April 2024)

Took part in the prestigious Antler Startup Incubator. Acceptance rate <2.5%

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Part-Time

fortiss GmbH - Munich (December 2023 - April 2024)

Worked on RAG based LLMs and knowledge graphs for IT compliance in banks.

Machine Learning Engineer

Tatweer LLC. - Remote (April 2023 - November 2023)

Developed a ready RAG based system combined with Anthropic's Claude-2 to answer user queries about the Jordanian laws. Used gradio for the prototypical UI.

Machine Learning Engineer, Part-Time

IAV GmbH - Ingolstadt (January 2023 - November 2023)

Created an MLOps pipeline with Kubeflow, package to simplify deployments on the Kubernetes cluster and heavily optimized a database tool to create test reports.

Machine Learning Engineer, Teamlead, Full-Time

CIB AI Labs GmbH - Munich

March 2021 - January 2023

Research engineer for optimizing processes in Document Lifecycle Management: Self-learning system for NER built with ZenML. Document classification with transformers, realistic text replacement with GANs, recognition & anonymization of personal data in documents (NER).

Blockchain Technologies, Intern, Part-Time

fortiss GmbH - Munich

April 2022 - August 2022

Development of a DLT framework to ensure IT compliance in banks with Corda and in Java. The project was in cooperation with Grenke AG.

Software Engineer, Python, Part-Time

SAMD Solutions UG - Braunschweig

May 2020 - October 2021

Project management of a team of 5 developers to develop 3D modeling software. Used Libraries: PyQT, Panda3D, Numpy, Matplotlib, Shapely, Plotly.

Student Research Assistant, Part-Time

TU Braunschweig, Institut für Mikrotechnik - Braunschweig

April 2020 - August 2020

Development of software in Python for detecting crack progression in bonded CFRP components using a high-resolution camera system. Libraries: Skimage, PyQt, OpenCV, Numpy.

Student Research Assistant, Part-Time

TU Braunschweig, Institut für Adaptronik und Funktionsintegration - Braunschweig

October 2019 - April 2020

A project with Airbus S.A.S. for detecting pores in 3D printed metal components using neural networks. Training CNNs in Tensorflow and Keras. Development of a CNN for pore detection (approx. 80% mean average test precision).

Founding and Management, Full-Time

Schwarzberg GmbH - Braunschweig

August 2016 - March 2020

Digitalization of the procurement process for natural coal. Led until the Schwarzberg brand was sold to an interested customer.

Supporting Foreign Students in Overcoming Bureaucratic Hurdles

VisCompass UG - Braunschweig

October 2013 - October 2015

The startup VisCompass UG emerged from the joint work with Mr. Mohammad Al Kalel and Fin Jacob.

Education

MASTER

Technische Universität München, Robotics, Cognition, Intelligence - Munich, Germany (2023)

Thesis Topic: Privacy Policy Analysis: Leveraging Bidirectional Large Language Model Pretraining and Instruction Fine-tuning

BACHELOR

Technische Universität Braunschweig, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics - Brunswick, Germany (2021)

Thesis Topic: Creation of Synthetic Combined Camera and LiDAR Data for 3D Object Detection (System still in use at Bertrandt)

BACHELOR

Damascus University, Human Medicine - Damascus, Syria (2011-2012) (dropped out)

SCHOOL

High School for Outstanding Students, Grade: 98% - Daraa, Syria (2011)

Volunteer Work

German-Arabic interpreter at the DRK

Translator in refugee aid projects for 3 years from 01.2018 - 01.2021. As a volunteer translator for the state of Lower Saxony, I translated between English, Arabic and German for refugee families. I also helped out at blood donation events.