Curriculum Vitae

Mohamed (Oscar) Ghanem · PhD Researcher

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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 — 2024

    Saarland 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 — 2021

    The 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 — present

    CISPA 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 — 2023

    Spree3D

    • 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 — 2023

    Max 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 — 2022

    Max 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

    2021

    Turing.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 — 2020

    Nabta 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)

    2021

    Dell

  • Finalist, ACM Egyptian Collegiate Programming Contest (ECPC)

    2018 — 2019
  • Contestant, ACM Arab and African Collegiate Programming Contest (ACPC)

    2018 — 2019
  • Full-Tuition PSSF Scholarship (115,000 USD)

    2016

    The American University in Cairo

    • Awarded for outstanding academic performance.

Teaching & Service

  • Tutor, Neuro-Symbolic Computing Seminar

    2024

    CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

  • Reviewer, NeurIPS

    2025 — 2026
  • Reviewer, ICLR

    2026
  • Reviewer, ICML

    2026
    • Recognized as a Silver Reviewer.
  • Subreviewer, AAAI

    2025