About Me
My name is Youssef Nader, I am a PhD student at Freie University, working on ML, AI Explainability and Self-Supervised learning. I am also a member of the Landgraf research group, we do cool machine learning stuff with bees and fish, from modeling, to communicating and explaining their behavior.
For the past eight months I have been working on the Vesuvius Challenge, building AI ink detection models, it has been quite a rewarding journey!
I find it more fruitful to approach a problem by thinking that a solution already exists, and you only need to find it.
Awards:
- Vesuvius Grandprize Winner
- Vesuvius First Letters prize
- 2x Vesuvius Open source contribution prizes
- AI Blitz IV first place
Publications:
DNNR: Differential Nearest Neighbohrs Regression
Education and work:
- 2023- I finished my masters degree last august with the highest grade (Sehr Gut)
- 2022- I did an SDE internship at Amazon, building components for their open source design system
- 2020- I graduated with honors from the bachelors of communications and computer engineering at Cairo University
- 2019- I led the software development at Silatha for 2 years
Selected Media Coverage:
GP Article in Vice: 3 Students Reveal Secrets of 2000-Year-Old Scroll In Breakthrough
GP Article in the Guardian: AI helps scholars read scroll buried when Vesuvius erupted in AD79
Contact:
for business inquires or general questions, you can reach out to me on youssef.nader[at]fu-berlin.de