Qaim Hassan Abbas

Visionary Data Scientist, ameliorating the “pale blue dot” through technological Innovation
“Imaginations will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go
nowhere” ~ Carl Sagan

I always strive for excellence and advancement through invention in driving complex
projects and solving critical problems. With over 4 years of Multinational industry
experience and 7+ years of freelance and entrepreneurial ventures in architecting,
developing, administrating, selling and presenting Data-Driven SOTA solutions,
working closely with technical and business teams and over 30 successful projects,
I’m constantly in quest of new challenges and opportunities that align impeccably
with my vocational objectives and under the guidance of great mentors and in my
capacities, I’m consistently paving my path towards a successful career.

qaim_hassan_abbas@live.com | +92-322-493-45-56 | www.linkedin.com/in/qhassan/ | Pakistan

WORK EXPERIENCE Data Scientist

Chief Data Scientist
Ricult
04/2020 - Present Islamabad, PK
Achievements/Tasks
I’m leading the Data Science domain by closely working
with the CTO and Head of Algorithms, strategizing novel
data-driven approaches in Agronomy, working in synergy
with climatologists and meteorologists. I’m majorly
responsible for the development of high impact data
modelling to be provisioned in a platform benefitting the
farmers and the farm investors to calculate risk reports
• Through AI augmented image analysis of satellite
imagery for Yield Estimation, Quality and Health of
crop by optimising data-driven Harvest factors
• Prescriptive measures for the landowners to maximise
profitability, by providing indications on optimal
sowing and harvest times.
• Optimising operation of providing loans on land factors,
historical analysis of yield and return.
• Fertile land area and crop type coverage through
transformer based timeseries analysis.
Reference: Usman Javed – usman.javed@ricult.com
Head of Data Science & AI
HyperNym (Metis)
01/2019 -02/2020 Islamabad, PK
Achievements/Tasks
• Reported directly to the leadership (CTO and CEO) for
the business prospects that can be accomplished
through a strategic placement in the public sector for
the security and surveillance verticals using DS and AI.
• Spearheaded a team of 15 Data Scientists and Data
Engineers to fulfil the implementation of novel use-
cases, supporting them by research & hands-on
development in trailblazing technology and
implementation strategies for successful deployment
and productisaton.
• Communicated as a Bridge between the clientele
executives, employer’s C-Level leadership and the
technical teams for the successful realization of 10+
projects in a span of one year
Reference: Shehryar Sabir - +92 336 674-00-47
IBM
07/2016 – 12/2018 Islamabad. PK
Achievements / Tasks
• Worked with CTO AI & Cognitive Analytics (USA),
Distinguished Executive Architects in IBM UK and IBM
Deutschland for Business communication with the
clients, transforming technical knowledge to business
outcomes against optimal ROI and realisation of their
business visions and converting them into technical
outcomes as a developer.
• Demonstrated various use cases leading Data Science
Innovation in diverse customer facing and channel
growth role alongside sales teams, communicating
strategies to the C-Level prospects.
• Managed and mentored a team of 6 Jr Machine
Learning Engineers, 4 Data Scientists, 2 Full Stack
Python Developers, 2 Data Engineers, 2 infrastructure
administrators (AIX Systems, OmniBus, Netcool), also
contributing to core code base by development and
research in a span of 2 years
• Advocated IBM Watson, Cloud computing and Data
Science on multiple platforms. Also, supporting IBM
sales executives for workshops with Banks and
Telecom with C-level Visibility
• Headed IBM’s Global Entrepreneurship Program for
the Start-ups and conducted a series of training and
workshops in enabling them to leverage AI and Data
Sciences in their projects
• Presented and Secured a sign off on Vodafone Qatar
Project by conducting a series of on-site meetings
with multiple stakeholders.
Reference:
• Klaus Koenig - kkoenig@de.Ibm.com
• Modhusoodanan Madhavan - madhu.k.m@In.ibm.com
• Nadeem Malik - Nadeem.malik@ibm.com
KEY PROJECTS
• Customer Churn Prediction, Customer Feedback
Dashboard, Network outage causal analysis, Geo-
Spatial Fraudulent Network Usage for PTCL
• Strategy and Code base for Deep CCTV Crowd
Management and high-density crowd estimation for
optimisation of Transport services for TASMU Qatar – To
be used in FIFA 2022
• Generative Style Transfer based facial reidentification
for Airport Security presented to Aviation Authority
Islamabad
• Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic threshold
management for Morgan Stanley
• Process Monitoring and Compliance Audit for IBM
Argentina
• Knowledge Graph and Strategy for IBM USA Research
• Support Ticket Routing on Unlabelled Data for The
State of Ohio
• Technical Enterprise Machine Health-check as a
Service
• Customers Segmentation and Social Network Analysis
for Vodafone Qatar
• Conversational Agents for Vodafone Qatar & Etisalat
CONSULTANCY
• AI XPRT - NLP based Audit & Compliance automation
and modularisation of Audit Application.
• Jeeny Saudi Arabia –Churn Prediction, AI augmented
route optimisation and surge factor implementation.
• Superior Group of Companies – Viewership tracking,
heatmap based object identification and
personalised advertisement
TEACHING
• NUST / GIKI: Workshop on Cloud Application
Development
• NUST – Workshop on Data Science Pipeline
• NUST / GIKI / NED – Design Thinking
• Tensorflow, Computer vision and GANs
SKILLS & COMPETENCES
• Python Development
• Data Science: Predictive Modelling, Decision
Analytics, Data-driven Personalisation, Process
Improvement and Automation, Statistically driven
Reporting and Forecasting, Business Intelligence,
Bayesian Causal Analysis
• Deep Learning: TensorFlow 2.0, Keras
• Computer Vision: CNNs, GANs, Yolo, SSD,
Autoencoders, OpenCV, Rasterio, Shapely, Sentinel-
hub
• NLP: BERT, Transformers, RNNs, Seq2Seq, DMN,
Attention Models, label encoders, TyCor,
• Time Series: InceptionTime, 1D CNNs, Dynamic Time
Warping
• Cloud: DevOps, AWS, IBM Cloud, IBM Watson
• Soft Skills: Effective Verbal and Written
Communication, Cross team Collaboration,
Leadership, Sales, Presentation
• Industry experience: Telecom, Healthcare, Banking,
Surveillance, Security, Travel, Public Sector, Agronomy,
climatology, meteorology
ENTREPRENEURIAL VENTURES
Founder, CEO, CTO, Inventor
Medice.ai – augment life through AI
medice.ai is specialise in developing Artificially Intelligent
solutions, facilitating medical practitioners in decision
making for the diagnosis, prognosis and analysis of
cardiovascular diseases, reducing both the time and
personal error and significantly improving the Accuracy
• Managing an executive board of Medical and
Finance officers, implementing business and technical
strategies to target clients in the healthcare vertical,
also supporting financial and medical advisory in
Insurance sector.
• Actively participating in meetings and demonstrations
with the medical professionals, technology heads and
business executives for sales prospects and effective
tailor-made data-driven advancements through
research.
• Directly managing the technical development team
of 5 employees in data science, data engineering,
computer vision and NLP alongside a medical team of
4 employees in pathology, cardiology, and radiology
along with my partner Dr Ann (Sr Cardiologist, KSMU)
• Developed the core AI algorithms for the detection of
arrhythmia, prognosis of SCD and factors to establish
CVD risks from varied data sources also supporting
medical advisory in research.
• Developed AI models for the identification and
localization of COVID-19 against pneumonia, SARS
and MERS and its cardiovascular risk on Chest X-Rays.
Founder, CTO
Adverts.ai – Data Science for Marketing
• Developed a Highly Personalised Advertising Billboard
that extracts features (Age, skin colour, eye colour,
hair colour, apparel detection, brands detection If
any) of the passers-by in a shopping mall to present
personalised content.
• Provided Advanced Data Analysis including
quantitative analysis of temporal and spatial data
enriched with the weather, news and Social media.
Moreover, Qualitative analysis, sentiment analysis and
review bias detection of the data for 3 multinational
Clients.
HONORS & AWARDS
• 2x Manager Choice Award (IBM)
• Distinguished IBM Mentor (10 Badges)
• Exceptional Self-Learning Assessment Score
INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION
• TIP UAE Summit 2020 (Winner – Healthcare)
• Pulsar VC, Russia
• Kazan OIC Youth Forum 2nd, 4th, 5th
• Teknofest, Turkey
EDUCATION • Health Monitoring Systems
Saint Petersburg University, RU
BSc, Computer Engineering • Statistical Thinking for Data Science & Analytics
College Of E&ME, NUST Columbia University, USA
- 3rd Highest CGPA among boys in the whole • Cognitive Computing - Question Answering
curriculum Technologies Behind IBM Watson
- Final Year Project – VRET (Virtual Reality Exposure IBM Watson Academy
Therapy) An immersive VR Application for the
psychological treatment of Phobia using exposure
• Certified Application Developer -Cloud
systematic desensitisation. IBM Cloud
- FYP selected in Multiple National & International • Big Data Foundations - Level 2
Events CognitiveClass.ai
• Hadoop Foundations - Level 2
CERTIFICATIONS CognitiveClass.ai
https://www.youracclaim.com/users/qaim-hassan- • Blockchain Essential for Developers
abbas/badges
CognitiveClass.ai

• Advanced Machine Learning Specialisation

Higher School of Economics – National Research
INTERESTS
University, RU Mountain Bicycling & Hiking | Travelling | Non-anecdotal
reads | Timepieces | Philosophy | Quantum Physics |
• Introduction to Quantum Computing
Astrophysics
Saint Petersburg University, RU