Experience
Engineering practice first, then AI and digital delivery.
A year of structural and façade delivery, an industry project with AECOM, and applied R&D in inspection AI, CAD-to-BIM drawing AI and Scan-to-BIM.
AI & digital
R&D AI-Construction Specialist
AGECS · Remote
Apr 2026 – Present
Applied R&D turning structural drawings and laser scans into structured, BIM-ready data.
- Column detector on plans: mAP50 0.941, precision 0.944, recall 0.935 (YOLOv8m-seg, tiled inference, 4-rotation TTA).
- 8-class structural-element segmentation on ~21k tiles: validation mAP50 0.902 (box) / 0.893 (mask).
- Human-in-the-loop Scan-to-BIM: a ~264 M-point scan to a verified IFC of 2 slabs, 9 walls and 21 columns.
- Dataset engineering across six public sources and QA'd annotation of project sheets in CVAT.
- Evaluated multimodal LLM/VLM behaviour on engineering drawings and documented failure modes.
AI & digital
Co-Founder & CTO
AECAI Ltd · Belfast, UK
Dec 2025 – Present
An AI-assisted structural inspection platform, from research models to a production web product.
- Built the complete web console (Next.js): dashboards, assets, inspection forms and builder, photo review, reports.
- Designed the spalling and exposed-rebar pipeline (patching, Gaussian stitching, TTA, post-processing) and parallel serverless GPU inference.
- Evaluated models rigorously: corrected a misleading F1 of 0.14 to a true 0.901 for the rebar model, and ran a false-positive study across 23 test images.
Industry project
Digital Design Engineer: Industry Collaboration
AECOM × Ulster University · Belfast, UK
Feb 2025 – May 2025
Industry project scoped with AECOM: crack detection linked to a Revit asset model and Power BI.
- Converted AECOM's 2D drawings into a Revit model and linked crack data via Dynamo and IFC.
- VGG16 transfer learning roughly doubled crack-classifier accuracy over a custom CNN (36.67% → 70.0% on 30 test images), with width classes against EN 1992-1-1.
- Power BI dashboard with an embedded 3D model, crack register, maintenance actions and a mobile view. Module mark 80%.
Engineering
Structural & Façade Design Engineer (Graduate)
National Consulting Engineers Inc. · Florida, USA (remote)
Sep 2023 – Sep 2024
Structural calculations and detailed drawings for façade and secondary-structure packages.
- Delivered 115+ design packages: glass railings, curtain walls, canopies, stairs, walkways and connections in steel, aluminium and timber.
- Designed to AISC, ASCE 7, ACI and the Florida Building Code; coordinated with architects, contractors and fabricators.
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Planning Engineer (Intern)
DME Holding · Cairo, Egypt
Jul 2023
Planning department internship on a residential development.
- Supported scheduling, cost tracking and BOQ updates in Primavera P6, and prepared progress reports.
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Site Engineer (Intern)
Redcon Construction · Cairo, Egypt
Sep 2021
Site internship (90+ hours) on the heritage-sensitive Sour Magra El-Oyoun project.
- Supervised pile positioning and excavation checks, inspected reinforcement cages, ran slump tests, and took part in load testing of cast piles.
Site QA/QC
Skills
Grouped by where I have used them.
No percentage bars. Each group names the work that evidences it.
AI & Computer Vision
- Instance & semantic segmentation
- Object detection (YOLOv8 / YOLO11)
- U-Net · FPN · DeepLabV3+
- Point-cloud segmentation (PointNet++)
- Tiled inference & TTA
- Error analysis & field validation
Evidence: Dissertation · AGECS · AECAI
Machine Learning & Data Processing
- PyTorch · segmentation-models-pytorch
- TensorFlow / Keras
- Dataset engineering (COCO / YOLO / SVG, hash-verified)
- Point-cloud processing (Open3D, ~264 M points)
- Annotation QA (CVAT)
- pandas · NumPy · scikit-learn · R
- Metric design (IoU, mAP, F1, specificity)
Evidence: MSc COM779 (81%), COM736 (75%) · AGECS
Cloud & MLOps
- Serverless GPU inference (RunPod)
- Supabase (Postgres, storage, edge functions)
- Hugging Face model hosting
- Docker worker images
- Vercel · GitHub Actions CI/CD
- Git & GitHub
Evidence: AECAI production stack · this site
BIM, Digital Twins & BIM Level 3
- Revit · Navisworks · AutoCAD
- Federated models & clash detection
- ISO 19650 · BEP / EIR · CDE
- BIM Level 2 delivery; Level 3 principles (open IFC, cloud-connected data)
- IFC · IfcOpenShell · Scan-to-BIM
- Power BI digital-twin dashboards
Evidence: MSc BEN714 (73%), BEN715 (80%) · AGECS
Generative AI & Agents
- Multimodal LLM / VLM evaluation on drawings
- LLM features in products (Claude, Gemini)
- AI coding agents: Claude Code, Codex, Kimi
- Evaluation design & failure-mode reports
- AI Fluency (Anthropic)
Evidence: AGECS LLM tests · AECAI console · certificate
Structural Engineering
- RC, steel, aluminium & timber design
- AISC · ASCE 7 · ACI · Eurocodes
- ETABS · SAP2000 · SAFE
- IDEA StatiCa · RAM Connection
- Connection & façade detailing
- Tekla shop drawings
Evidence: NCE 2023–24 · BSc graduation project (A+)
Programming & Automation
- Python
- TypeScript / Next.js
- Dynamo · pyRevit
- OpenCV · NumPy · SciPy
- SQL
- Jupyter · reproducible notebooks
Evidence: AECAI console · BIM automation
Languages: Arabic (native), English (fluent).