Researcher · Engineer · Builder
Software developer and computer-science researcher at the University of Sharjah — building reliable systems and pushing into AI and cloud orchestration.
// about
Software developer and computer-science researcher at the University of Sharjah — building reliable systems and pushing into AI and cloud orchestration.
// the journey
1994
At seventeen, a dive into the sea off Tartus ended on the seabed and changed the body's terms completely: a broken neck, complete quadriplegia. A year of intensive care, then years home-bound — and a decision that the mind would keep working whatever the body's constraints became.
2012
Syria's power outages and a ventilator that does not tolerate outages made the arithmetic simple: leave. The family moved to Lebanon — years of improvising around equipment failures, and the beginning of a long wait for a place that could say yes.
2016
An appeal to the United Arab Emirates reached Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, and the answer changed everything: relocation, care, and — through a scholarship from Sheikh Sultan Al Qasimi — the door to a Computer Science degree at the University of Sharjah. First outings under open sky in over two decades.
2021
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, University of Sharjah, with distinction — earned from bed, by voice and adapted tools, while the Syrian press called it what it felt like: "the Syrian programming genius". The degree was the ticket into research.
2023
Master's studies and the publications that followed: a Kubernetes scheduling survey that became a standard reference (130+ citations), work on blockchain interoperability, and a study evaluating generative AI's ability to represent Islamic architectural heritage. h-index 3, 180+ citations by 2026.
2026
The research turns to Arabic: evaluating diacritization models from self-hosted neural networks to cost-effective commercial solutions (Springer, 2026), an oral paper at UAEGSRC'26, and a master's thesis on Arabic diacritization under supervisor review. The next decade's question: what does Arabic computing cost, and who pays it?
// expertise
Scheduling, bin-packing, and cost-aware orchestration — the systems layer where my most-cited work lives.
Benchmarking Arabic diacritization and ASR models — accuracy, latency, and the dirham-level economics of Arabic computing.
Evaluating what generative models see in mosques, muqarnas, and mashrabiya — and where the geometry lies.
How heterogeneous chains talk: bridges, notaries, and the trust models underneath.
Twenty-plus years of Linux and production servers — long before, during, and after the degrees.
Systematic reviews and empirical evaluation — the craft of measuring claims honestly.
// research
// portfolio
Master's research on Arabic diacritization: benchmarking self-hosted neural models against commercial APIs for accuracy, latency, and dirham-level cost…
PyTorch · Transformers · Arabic NLP · MTEval
An analytical evaluation framework — a "virtual lab" — for AI-generated representations of Islamic architectural heritage: systematic probes…
Generative AI · Evaluation methodology · Heritage computing
This site's own story: a fully bilingual (EN/AR, RTL-native) personal platform — originally built on Laravel/Inertia, rebuilt in…
Laravel · Inertia · WordPress · custom i18n
// inspiration
A researcher's case for boring, durable tools — and what zero-plugin WordPress taught me about the platform.
1 October 2026 · 3 min read
Reflections on two decades of writing code — the unexpected parallels between debugging software and navigating life's complexities.
1 October 2026 · 4 min read
The joy and responsibility of shaping the next generation of computer scientists in the UAE.
1 October 2026 · 4 min read
// connect
Open to research collaboration, consulting, and interesting engineering problems.
Sharjah, UAE · University of Sharjah
