AI past the pilot stage
Most organisations run proofs of concept that never reach production. Demand forecasting and computer-vision quality inspection run on the line every day.
Head of AI · PhD researcher · Educator
Learn AI from someone who builds it.
Machine learning, generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation, AI agents and AI evaluation — built and evaluated in production, researched at Cairo University, and taught from the Baccalaureate to the boardroom.
- Head of AI — enterprise AI platform
- PhD candidate, Cairo University
- 20+ years leading enterprise IT
- Head of AI — enterprise AI platform
- PhD candidate, Cairo University
- 20+ years leading enterprise IT
The record
Degrees, papers and industry work — each one verifiable in the CVs below.
- Cairo UniversityFaculty of Graduate Studies for Statistical Research · PhD, MSc
- IEEETwo peer-reviewed conference papers, 2019 and 2022
- 20+ yearsDirector- and board-level accountability for enterprise systems
- 6 industriesFood production & retail, construction, real estate, manufacturing, trading & distribution, technology & VR
- AI in productionDemand forecasting and computer-vision quality inspection across 30+ sites; a multi-tenant enterprise AI platform with RAG, AI agents and Arabic as a first-class language
- Egyptian BaccalaureateProgramming & AI — taught from the Ministry textbook, in Arabic and English
What I do
Enterprise AI in production, research on how AI is evaluated, and teaching from the Baccalaureate to the boardroom.
AI put into production
Seven capabilities built for client organisations and production lines — and taught to the teams that run them.
From Cairo, across six industries
Twenty years of director- and board-level work across food production and retail, construction, real estate, manufacturing, trading and distribution, and technology and VR — with AI now running in production across 30+ sites. The research sits at Cairo University; the teaching is published online from Cairo.
20+
Years at director level
- Cairo — enterprise AI, teaching, the student portal
- Giza — Cairo University, doctoral research
- Heliopolis — information systems for a listed real-estate developer, 2015–2018
30+
Production and retail sites running AI in production
Teaching, from the Baccalaureate to the boardroom
For Baccalaureate students: the official textbook first, then the resources that make a student stronger — question banks graded by cognitive level, worked examples, “Think deeper” reasoning and interactive shows, in Arabic and English. For executives and engineers: a ten-module corporate curriculum from AI fundamentals to responsible AI.
Three principles
How the work is done, on every engagement.
Baccalaureate lessons on video
The class as it is taught, on the channel حُلُول — the official textbook, explained in Arabic and in English.
Course Introduction | Programming & Artificial Intelligence — Second Baccalaureate
New lessons are added as the class advances. Nothing is loaded from YouTube until you press play.
Research
Measurement validity in the evaluation of large language models — when a reported score can be read as a verdict, and when it cannot.
- [3]2026
QA and RAG Evaluation
Journal manuscript
Under review - [2]2022
An approach to enhance KNN based on data clustering using K-medoid
2nd International Mobile, Intelligent, and Ubiquitous Computing Conference (MIUCC), IEEE
A.-F. Karam, A. Helmy, A. Mohammed
- [1]2019
Applying convolutional neural networks for image detection
International Conference on Smart Applications, Communications and Networking (SmartNets), IEEE
A.-F. Karam, M. Embaby, H. El-Kady, S. Abdel-Hafeez, G. Nabil, A. Mohammed
Curriculum vitae
Three versions of the same record, for three kinds of reader.
Professional CV
IT Director, CIO and Head of AI — for executive search and hiring panels.
Academic CV
LLM evaluation and machine learning — for faculty committees, collaborators and programme committees.
Academic & professional CV
Executive and researcher in one document — for Chief Data/AI Officer roles, applied-research leadership, consulting and advisory.
Programmes and advisory
For organisations, for Baccalaureate students, and for boards.
FOR ORGANISATIONS
Corporate AI programmes
For executives and engineering teams — delivered at 10+ companies
10 modulesFrom AI fundamentals to responsible AI and governance
- AI fundamentals, machine learning and data science
- Generative AI and large language models
- Retrieval-augmented generation and AI agents
- Enterprise AI architecture and AI for business functions
- AI strategy and transformation
- Responsible AI and governance
Baccalaureate · Programming & AI
Egyptian Baccalaureate, Years 1 and 2
Years 1–2Year 2 taught now · Year 1 planned
- Year 2: taught now, from the Ministry textbook, 2026 edition
- Year 1: planned — the same method, not yet on the portal
- Every lesson in Arabic and English
- Question banks graded by cognitive level, weighted to analysis
- Worked examples, “Think deeper” reasoning and interactive shows
- Quizzes graded on the server; an assignment after every lesson
Advisory for boards and executive teams
Where AI creates value in your business, and what it would take
AdvisoryRetained by boards and executive teams
- Separating opportunity from theatre — which proposals are not viable, and why, before budget is committed
- Investment framing: return, feasibility, build-versus-buy, cost and risk
- Roadmaps that survive contact: use-case discovery, proof of concept, pilot to production
- Operating model: internal AI teams and centres of excellence
- Organisation-specific knowledge systems in place of generic tooling
Follow the class
Where the lessons are posted, where the class is announced, and where the professional record lives.
The class on Facebook
The learning page for Baccalaureate Year 2: notices and new lessons for students and parents.
Questions organisations, students and readers ask
Let’s talk
A corporate AI programme, advisory for your board, or a place in the Baccalaureate class — one email starts it.
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