I am a Senior AI research and engineering leader specializing in large-scale generative media systems, image and video foundation models, production AI infrastructure, and inference optimization.

At Meta, I lead frontier Generative AI initiatives spanning real-time image generation, video foundation models, post-training systems, and large-scale deployment infrastructure powering products across Meta AI, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Meta’s advertising platforms.

My work sits at the intersection of frontier AI research, production-scale systems, inference efficiency, and research-to-product execution. Over the past years, I have led and contributed to multiple state-of-the-art generative AI systems, including real-time image generation, large-scale video generation, and production generative media deployments serving millions of users globally.

Before Meta, I led computer vision and deep learning research organizations at KAUST, working with PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, junior research scientists, and academic and industrial collaborators. My research has appeared in leading AI conferences including CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR.

I have lived and worked across several countries, including Lebanon, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, and the United States. That international background has shaped how I think about research leadership, technical culture, and building teams that operate across disciplines and geographies.

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