Career
Experience
Data Scientist / AI Research Engineer
Mar 2024 – PresentNational Oilwell Varco (NOV Inc.) · Houston, TX
- Leading development of an AI-powered computer vision system for Current Transformer (CT) verification using dual-camera architecture, OCR, and classical ML classifiers — achieving 100% accuracy with no GPU required.
- Architected and deployed a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Sales Order Chatbot integrating AWS Bedrock LLMs, Athena SQL generation, and Kendra knowledge retrieval.
- Built MaintGPT, an AI maintenance assistant combining LLM reasoning, audio diagnostics (YAMNet), speech-to-text (Whisper), and vector similarity search for industrial troubleshooting.
- Automated SQL generation with LLMs, cutting manual query handling time by 80% and improving structured query accuracy by 40%.
Research Scientist / Investigator
Nov 2022 – Feb 2024Dept. of Imaging Physics, MD Anderson Cancer Center · Houston, TX
- Developed SwarmDeepSurv, integrating swarm intelligence with deep survival networks for prognostic radiomics signatures across four solid cancers (Patterns, Cell Press).
- Designed ML models for subgroup identification and treatment effect estimation in NSCLC patients receiving immunotherapy (Nature Communications, 2025).
- Integrated multi-modal datasets (radiology, pathology, genomics, EHR) for personalized cancer treatment predictions using SHAP/LIME-based explainability.
- Contributed to NIH grant proposals on AI-driven biomarker discovery and mentored graduate researchers.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Nov 2021 – Oct 2022Dept. of Imaging Physics, MD Anderson Cancer Center · Houston, TX
- Developed computational approaches for cancer diagnosis, treatment, and prevention using AI.
- Applied swarm intelligence and deep learning for imaging biomarker discovery and survival prediction.
- Assisted with NIH and NSF proposal development.
Research Scientist
Mar 2021 – Oct 2021Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS · Malaysia
- Led AI research for oil & gas applications, including predictive analytics on pipeline weldment radiography.
- Developed AI-driven defect detection and classification for radiographic imaging.
Graduate Research Assistant
Jul 2017 – Feb 2021Center for Research in Data Science (CeRDaS), UTP · Malaysia
- Researched multi-objective metaheuristic optimization for feature selection in classification problems.
- Developed hybrid swarm intelligence algorithms (Grey Wolf Optimizer, Particle Swarm Optimization) for high-dimensional data.
- Published 10+ peer-reviewed papers during doctoral studies.
Lecturer of Computer Science
Dec 2012 – Aug 2014Albaydha University · Yemen
- Taught Introduction to CS, C++, Java, Software Requirements, and Networking.
- Supervised final year projects and served as course coordinator.