John Rachwan

John Rachwan

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Co-Founder & CTO @ Pruna AI

  • Education

    • Holy Spirit University of Kaslik - USEK

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      Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Engineering (Distinction) 90.75% ~ 4.0 (US)

      Activities and Societies: Institution of electric and electronics engineers, Power and Energy Society, Robotics Team - Graduated 1st in the Department of Electrical, Communication and Computer Engineering- Thesis at BMW Group on creating a 3D Labeling Tool which greatly reduces time spent on creating training and testing data for object detection neural networks ~ Grade: 98/100 ~ 4.0- IEEE USEK Student Branch Member and Program Committee - Participated in IEEE XTREAM 10 and 12- Participated in the First BMW Machine Learning Hackathon- Represented USEK in the 5th VEX Robotics Competition

    • Collège Mariste Champville

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      Lebanese Baccalaureate General Sciences 17/20
    • Technische Universität München

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      Master of Science - MS Data Engineering and Analytics 1.2 - summa cum laude (high distinction)

      Thesis: Pruning Graph Neural Networks - Grade: 1.0

  • Experience

    • Dar

      Jun 2017 - Aug 2017
      Data Engineer

      • Implemented an Automated Phishing Program currently utilized by the company to spread security awareness.• Hybrid Front-end development of augmented reality application using ionic and AngularJS.• Taming big data using hadoop and all of its immersive and useful tools.• Developed project presentation skills while presenting for the head of software department at DAR.

    • APGAR

      Jul 2018 - Jan 2019

      • Developed data integration projects for pharmaceutical powerhouse IPSEN using informatica cloud.• Developed many real time processes using ICRT.• Developed Active Surveillance software for IPSEN that monitors the health of secure agents and many other parameters using Python and REST API

      • Data Consultant

        Sept 2018 - Jan 2019
      • Data Consultant (Intern)

        Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
    • BMW Group

      Feb 2019 - Jul 2019
      R&D, Computer Vision

      Bachelor of Computer Engineering thesis:1- 3D Labeling Tool- Implemented nonrigd registration algorithm Thin Plate Spline Robust Point Matching (TPS-RPM) in Python and optimized it for parallel computation- Smart minimum bounding rectangle calculation- Implemented the unsupervised outlier detection algorithm rPCA to avoid 3D to 2D projection mishaps- Developed an alternate way of labeling in the rare cases where the mesh does not exist by rendering the problem into a non-linear optimization problem and solving using dogbox and Newton-Raphson methods - Implemented snapping feature where the labeling object will be snapped into its correct position without any user intervention (zculling + Support Vector Registration)2- Data Preperation- Developed a workflow for labeling large pointclouds, by performing surface reconstruction using Screened Poisson Reconstruction algorithm- Abstracted the workflow in a docker container to make it simple to any user- To break the hardware limit set on the reconstruction resolution, I implemented a separate workflow that cuts the point cloud into multiple parts reconstructs each part separately and then merges them back together into a large mesh Weniger anzeigen

    • ETH Zürich

      Jan 2020 - Jul 2020
      Blockchain Researcher

      Working with ETH's COSS chair (https://coss.ethz.ch/) to implement a Blockchain-Enabled Verification System for the Finance 4.0 Project.

    • Design AI

      Sept 2020 - Jan 2022

      • Team Lead responsible of a team of 6 people• Working on the full reimplementation of DeepMind’s AlphaStar• Transferring AlphaStar to Machine Planning on Command Modern Operations• Won the EDA prize for most innovative defence project on the European scale

      • Artificial Intelligence Engineer (Team Lead)

        Nov 2020 - Jan 2022
      • Artificial Intelligence Engineer

        Sept 2020 - Nov 2020
    • Technische Universität München

      Nov 2020 - Apr 2021

      Teaching master-level class, on advanced data analysis and storage methods such as Hashing, Advance SQL Queries, MapReduce, C++ Optimization Techniques, OS Memory Management, NoSQL Databases, Distributed Computing. • Developed novel Dense Video Captioning model• First Dense Video Captioning model that leverages Online Learning• Beats state of the art on all metrics

      • Teaching Assistant

        Nov 2020 - Apr 2021
      • Data Scientist @ TUM Data Innovation Lab

        Nov 2020 - Feb 2021
    • Technische Universität München

      Sept 2022 - Aug 2023
      Machine Learning Engineer

      Working on Efficient Machine Learning Research

    • Pruna AI

      Jun 2023 - now
      Co-Founder & CTO

      We empower organisations that deploy AI to maximise performance by auto-compressing their models. Reduce your AI costs, times, memory & carbon emissions by 2-to-10x- Funded via Exist Government Program- Winners of AI+Munich Startup Competition- Part of Nvidia Inception Program

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • A2 German

      Technische Universität München
      Sept 2020
    • Data Science Specialization

      The Johns Hopkins University
      Aug 2020
      View certificate certificate
    • VEX Robotics Competition - Certificate of Participation

      VEX Robotics
      Jan 2018
    • B1 German

      Technische Universität München
      Jan 2021
    • BMW/Splunk Hackathon - Certificate of Participation

      BMW Group
      Jan 2018
    • IEEE XTREAM 12 Certificate of Participation

      IEEE
      Jan 2018
    • IEEE XTREAM 10 Certificate of Participation

      IEEE
      Jan 2016
    • A1 German

      Technische Universität München
      Jan 2020
    • Computer Engineer

      ABET
      Jul 2019
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to John Rachwan
      High Distinction Technical University of Munich Aug. 2022
    • Awarded to John Rachwan
      Defence Innovation Prize European Defence Agency Dez. 2021 https://eda.europa.eu/news-and-events/news/2021/12/07/eda-defence-innovation-prize-2021-winners-revealed
    • Awarded to John Rachwan
      German National Scholarship Technical University of Munich Okt. 2020
    • Awarded to John Rachwan
      Dean's honor list 2019-2020 Technical University of Munich Juli 2020
    • Awarded to John Rachwan
      Distinction Holy Spirit University of Kaslik Aug. 2019 Graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering with Distinction (90.75/100)
    • Awarded to John Rachwan
      ABET Confident Competition 1st Prize ABET Apr. 2018
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Program Commitee

      Issued by IEEE on Sept 2016
      IEEEAssociated with John Rachwan