Background

From unclear to working.


Munir Abdullahi, AI consultant and data scientist based in Dubai.

I started building websites in Dubai in 2011 and never really stopped building things. Along the way I ran a digital agency as managing partner, led operations as COO through a two-billion-dollar energy agreement, and co-founded an AI product. The through-line was never a job title. It was being the person who takes something from unclear to working. I keep the older craft work, and some newer experiments, at munirb.com.

A few years ago I went back to the technical side properly. It felt less like a change of direction than a return: I studied computer science before I studied business. Machine learning through Stanford, programming and databases through Harvard's CS50 series, and the applied data science work I'm publishing now. Not a career change, just the interesting problems moving back to where I started.

What that combination buys a client is unusual. The systems I build are technically sound, and they also survive contact with a real business, because I've run one. See the work for the specifics.

Training:
  • Machine Learning Specialization, Stanford University
  • Google Advanced Data Analytics Professional Certificate
  • Mathematics for Machine Learning, Imperial College London
  • CS50 Python, R, and Databases with SQL, Harvard University

Published: "Towards Proactive Crowd Management Based on Predictive Analytics Framework," Journal of Advanced Research in Dynamical & Control Systems, February 2019

Education:
  • BBA in E-Business, Canadian University of Dubai, 2013 to 2017
  • Computer Science studies, American University of Sharjah, 2005 to 2010

Let's talk about what you're trying to build.