
John Rachwan
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About me
Co-Founder & CTO @ Pruna AI
Education

Holy Spirit University of Kaslik - USEK
-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
-Lebanese Baccalaureate General Sciences 17/20
Technische Universität München
-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 2017Data 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 2019Data Consultant (Intern)
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018

BMW Group
Feb 2019 - Jul 2019R&D, Computer VisionBachelor 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 2020Blockchain ResearcherWorking 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 2022Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Sept 2020 - Nov 2020

Technische Universität München
Nov 2020 - Apr 2021Teaching 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 2021Data Scientist @ TUM Data Innovation Lab
Nov 2020 - Feb 2021

Technische Universität München
Sept 2022 - Aug 2023Machine Learning EngineerWorking on Efficient Machine Learning Research

Pruna AI
Jun 2023 - nowCo-Founder & CTOWe 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 MünchenSept 2020- View certificate

Data Science Specialization
The Johns Hopkins UniversityAug 2020 
VEX Robotics Competition - Certificate of Participation
VEX RoboticsJan 2018
B1 German
Technische Universität MünchenJan 2021
BMW/Splunk Hackathon - Certificate of Participation
BMW GroupJan 2018
IEEE XTREAM 12 Certificate of Participation
IEEEJan 2018
IEEE XTREAM 10 Certificate of Participation
IEEEJan 2016
A1 German
Technische Universität MünchenJan 2020
Computer Engineer
ABETJul 2019
Honors & Awards
- Awarded to John RachwanHigh Distinction Technical University of Munich Aug. 2022
- Awarded to John RachwanDefence 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 RachwanGerman National Scholarship Technical University of Munich Okt. 2020
- Awarded to John RachwanDean's honor list 2019-2020 Technical University of Munich Juli 2020
- Awarded to John RachwanDistinction Holy Spirit University of Kaslik Aug. 2019 Graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering with Distinction (90.75/100)
- Awarded to John RachwanABET Confident Competition 1st Prize ABET Apr. 2018
Volunteer Experience
Program Commitee
Issued by IEEE on Sept 2016
Associated with John Rachwan
Languages
- arArabic
- frFrench
- enEnglish
- geGerman
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