‘Know thyself’

Hi — I’m Haidar 🧠🧬

I am an MSc student in Computer Science at the American University of Beirut (AUB) advised by Dr. Rida Assaf, where my research spans core AI fields. I build machine learning and computer vision systems for disease detection in ophthalmology and dementia, develop deep sequence models for DNA, and create generative models for corneal-layer prediction. These efforts earned me the 2025 Mobile Technology Tomorrow (MT2) Best Achievement Award for outstanding contributions in computer science research at AUB.

I completed my BSc in Computer Science at the Lebanese University, graduating with honors as top of my batch. I serve as the ACM AI head at AUB this semester and I’m an NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute certified instructor — see the NVIDIA DLI profile.

I aim to build explainable, biologically grounded AI systems guided by the view that progress is cyclical: deeper biological insight leads to better models, and better models reveal new scientific understanding. Insights into how we learn and evolve can drive new architectures that reveal biological mechanisms behind health and disease.

On the side, I enjoy:

• ♟️ Chess
• 📚 Reading (philosophy, psychology, technology, biology, history)
• 🥊 MMA
• 🌿 Nature