Karim Amer

Co-Founder and CTO at VAIS

Karim Amer is a co-founder and CTO at VAIS. He has been applying AI for the last five years to challenging interdisciplinary problems in several areas including Agriculture, Earth Observation, Medical Imaging, Material Science, Bioinformatics, and Geophysics.

He previously worked as a research assistant with the Ubiquitous and Visual Computing Group at NU and as a research intern at Siemens Healthineers Technology Center, NJ, USA where he worked on the development of cutting-edge AI models that can be used in multiple clinical applications which turned into 3 patents (pending approval). Karim won several international AI competitions and has become the first Kaggle Master of Data Science Competitions from Egypt, among a few in the region and top 1% worldwide.