Dr. Ahmed Fahmy

- I'm GBB aligned, covering MEA for Advanced Analytics. - I collaborate on projects with Data Group ADS teams, Microsoft Corp, Boston. My work is to help large companies in their digital transformation journey using advanced analytics and mathematical optimisation. I work with major industries in MEA: with airlines, telco operators, banks, phosphate producers, ...

- I'm currently leading a small team. Half of my team are PhD students and the other half are engineers. - We are working on state-of-the-art Text Analytics tools using big data technologies. - We are working on sentiment analysis, topics detection,... - We are supporting Arabic, English, and working on other languages.

I am currently working as an R&D software engineer in the R&D department of EFI. We are developing new color modeling paradigm to enhance and facilitate printing and Color Management Systems (CMS) for the very large printers EFI produces. Technical environment • Hardware: PC • OS: Mac OS • Programming languages: C++, Php, Matlab • Library: Qt • Tool: Eclipse • Management tools: Pivotal Tracker, XMind • Color tools: Many public and internally developed tools.

My PhD work on image processing focalized on multiple object detection from images. It can divided into two parts: 1) Developing a new approach for 3D objects detection from 2D image, taking into account occlusions and perspective effects. 2) The proposal of a new mathematical optimization.