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At the intersection of VC & Data. Passion for FinTech, Telecom, Media, ML, AI, & Web3…
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In this week's episode of the VC React Podcast, we reflected on the state of startup funding in the MENA region in H1, the impact of government…
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Two boys who graduated together from high school in Karachi, Pakistan in 1995. One went on to start Careem (acq by Uber for $3.1B), and changed the…
Two boys who graduated together from high school in Karachi, Pakistan in 1995. One went on to start Careem (acq by Uber for $3.1B), and changed the…
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VC land right now. 💃🕺 So many instant “experts” in AI out there at VC firms right now…after these same people had previously been “experts” in…
VC land right now. 💃🕺 So many instant “experts” in AI out there at VC firms right now…after these same people had previously been “experts” in…
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Education
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University of California, Berkeley
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This bootcamp includes courses on Data Science, AI, & ML Applications in both:
- Traditional FinTech programming (Web2 & CeFi)
- Decentralized FinTech programming (DeFi, Blockchain, Web3, & Smart Contracts)
Financial Fundamentals:
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Time-Series Analysis
Financial Ratios
Financial Analysis
Financial Modeling
Blockchain and Cryptocurrency:
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Solidity
Ethereum
Smart Contracts
Consensus…This bootcamp includes courses on Data Science, AI, & ML Applications in both:
- Traditional FinTech programming (Web2 & CeFi)
- Decentralized FinTech programming (DeFi, Blockchain, Web3, & Smart Contracts)
Financial Fundamentals:
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Time-Series Analysis
Financial Ratios
Financial Analysis
Financial Modeling
Blockchain and Cryptocurrency:
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Solidity
Ethereum
Smart Contracts
Consensus Algorithms
Transactions
Validation
Distributed Ledger
Cryptocurrency
Truffle Suite
Ganache
Machine Learning Applications in Finance:
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Algorithmic Trading
Random Forests
k-Nearest Neighbors (kNN)
Support Vector Machines (SVM)
Linear Regression
Scikit-learn
Forecasting
Logistic Regression
Deep Learning
Recurrent Neural Networks
TensorFlow
Keras
AWS SageMaker
Programming and Financial Libraries:
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Python
Pandas
PyViz
APIs
Amazon Web Services
SQL
Numpy
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Licenses & Certifications
Publications
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Are Asset Management Products Replacing Index Fund Managers and ETFs?
VCpreneur on Medium
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The Ultimate Guide On All Investment Fund Types (+ Crypto Funds)
VCpreneur on Medium
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Research Degrees vs. Practice Degrees: An Evolving Educational System
VCpreneur on Medium
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Master of Business Startup – MBS vs. MBA
VCpreneur on Medium
See publicationAn article discussing the differences between taking MBA vs. MBS
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Looking West: Globalizing Arab startups
VCpreneur on Medium
See publicationAn article about going global out of Arabia with Tech, Internet and Mobile.
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The Next Big Thing in VC
VCpreneur on Medium
See publicationAn article talking about the future of the VC industry in the next few years.
Projects
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Deep Learning - Image Classifier
See projectAs part of Udacity's Data Scientist Nano Degree (DSND), and using PyTorch, I had to build a deep learning model to classify flowers based on 102 provided categories.
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Unsupervised Learning-Identify - Customer Segments
See projectAs part of Udacity's Data Scientist Nano Degree (DSND), and using PCA and KMeans, I had to build a model to classify a population and a sample into clusters and compare the distributions of both for over represented and under represented clusters in the sample.
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Exploratory Data Analysis with R - NASDAQ Dataset
See projectExploring stock market data from NASDAQ to identify general trends of price and return and get a better idea of what should individual daily traders focus more on to generate more returns at the highest capital utilization possible. In other words: What are the cheapest stocks that generate the highest returns on daily basis.
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Wrangle OpenStreetMap Data
See projectAuditing and cleaning a raw OpenStreetMap data from an XML file. Then migrating the cleaned data to CSV files, then to a SQL database. Finally exploring the data and suggesting improvements. All results were presented in a Jupyter Notebook utilizing Python's Pandas.
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Investigate The Titanic Dataset
See projectInvestigating and exploring the dataset using Python's NumPy and Pandas, and presenting the visualizations in Jupyter Notebook.
Honors & Awards
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MIT Arab Business Plan Competition 2009
MIT Enterprise Forum
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Queen Rania National Entrepreneurship Competition (QRNEC)
Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship (QRCE)
Among the winners of Princess Sumaya National Entrepreneurship Competition (PSNEC) 2006.
A national business plan competition in Jordan (later renamed to: Queen Rania National Entrepreneurship Competition (QRNEC))
Languages
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English
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Arabic
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