Sayed is an artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare enthusiast, passionate about saving and improving people’s lives with the use of AI as well as driving society towards an AI-centric future. He graduated from University of Malaya, Malaysia with a bachelor’s degree in computer science, where he specialized in AI. As his final year project, he developed a deep learning model for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) screening in children. He loves teaching and has taught various courses on machine learning and programming at DeepNets.
At Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Sayed is co-supervised by Dr. Karthik Nandakumar and Dr. Mohammad Yaqub, and works on developing deep learning methods to solve problems and advance research in omics. The field of genomics fascinates him, and he believes deep learning would help decode the language of DNA.