Curriculum Vitae
Mohamed (Oscar) Ghanem · PhD Researcher
Education
PhD in Computer Science
2024 — present (expected 2028)Technical University of Munich · Munich, Germany
- Advisor: Prof. Bernd Finkbeiner.
- Member of the TUM Graduate School.
M.Sc. in Computer Science
2021 — 2024Saarland University · Saarbrücken, Germany
- GPA: 1.3 (German scale, 1.0 = best).
- Graduate coursework: Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning in Cybersecurity, Neuro-Symbolic Computing, Automated Reasoning, Security, Machine Learning for Program Analysis, Automated Debugging.
B.Sc. in Computer Engineering
2016 — 2021The American University in Cairo · Cairo, Egypt
- GPA: 3.97/4.0 (American scale); Minor in Mathematics, GPA: 4.0/4.0.
- B.Sc. Thesis: "FLoBC: A Decentralized Blockchain-Based Federated Learning Framework."
- Mathematics Thesis: "On Theoretical Complexity and Boolean Satisfiability."
Experience
Doctoral Researcher
2024 — presentCISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security · Saarbrücken, Germany
- Develop neuro-symbolic techniques for formal reasoning domains.
- Designed NeuRes, a framework for learning to solve Boolean Satisfiability.
Machine Learning Engineer
2021 — 2023Spree3D
- Developed an automated evaluation suite for Virtual Try-On models with neural KPIs such as structural similarity.
- Built an end-to-end deep learning pipeline for volumetric 3D hair generation from portrait images.
- Implemented and tuned a state-of-the-art video segmentation model that served most of our machine learning pipelines.
- Ran large-scale GAN-based dataset generation producing terabytes of training data.
- Collaborated on a deep learning pipeline producing 3D head geometry from portrait images.
Research Assistant
2022 — 2023Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS)
- Developed a PyTorch implementation of a meta-learning technique that outperformed most benchmarks.
- Built a unifying Python library for prominent reward-shaping techniques, in the style of stable-baselines3.
Automated Reasoning Tutor
2021 — 2022Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI-INF)
- Conducted weekly tutorials on the foundations of automated theorem provers.
- Graded and gave feedback on student submissions.
Data Scientist
2021Turing.com
- Developed an adaptive time-series model for predicting ad-campaign revenue that remains in production use.
- Created automated analytics reports for product and marketing teams.
Software Engineer
2019 — 2020Nabta Health Ltd.
- Created React Native components for four of the main app's primary features.
- Built NFC temperature sensor drivers on both native platforms (Android Java and iOS Objective-C).
- Implemented REST APIs for content fetching and database synchronization.
Awards
2nd Place, C(4F)2 Artificial Intelligence Hackathon (Students Track)
2021Dell
Finalist, ACM Egyptian Collegiate Programming Contest (ECPC)
2018 — 2019Contestant, ACM Arab and African Collegiate Programming Contest (ACPC)
2018 — 2019Full-Tuition PSSF Scholarship (115,000 USD)
2016The American University in Cairo
- Awarded for outstanding academic performance.
Teaching & Service
Tutor, Neuro-Symbolic Computing Seminar
2024CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Reviewer, NeurIPS
2025 — 2026Reviewer, ICLR
2026Reviewer, ICML
2026- Recognized as a Silver Reviewer.
Subreviewer, AAAI
2025