Ahmed El Abed
What happens when technology moves beyond experimentation? It becomes problem-solving, innovation, and, eventually, the courage to turn an idea into something that creates real impact.
Meet Ahmed El Abed, an AI Engineer, Innovator, and Data Science & Artificial Intelligence graduate from the University of Doha for Science and Technology.
With experience spanning artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, generative AI, cloud technologies, and digital transformation, Ahmed has built his journey around one belief: AI should solve real problems for real people.
For Ahmed, that purpose became tangible through Be My Sense, an AI-powered accessibility startup he co-founded to help deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals overcome communication barriers.
What began as a university project evolved into an internationally recognized startup, taking Ahmed and his team from the classroom to global stages of innovation.
Rather than seeing university as the finish line, Ahmed used it as a place to experiment, compete, build, and turn ideas into solutions.
- 2nd place globally, Huawei ICT Competition Innovation Track, Shenzhen
- 1st nationally in Qatar, 1st regionally in Riyadh
- Top 10 startups, DMZ Voyage Basecamp, Toronto
- 3rd, Arab IoT & AI Challenge Startup Track, GITEX
- 20+ awards across AI, innovation, entrepreneurship, and technology
- Representing Qatar and UDST across China, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Canada.
Today, Ahmed is continuing to build on that foundation at Huawei Qatar, working in the AI and computing infrastructure space.
His experience now spans enterprise AI solutions, cloud technologies, AI infrastructure, GPU/NPU computing, storage, proofs-of-concept, and solution design.
This has expanded his perspective beyond simply developing AI models. He is increasingly focused on understanding the full journey of an AI solution, from identifying a business or public-sector challenge to designing the solution, selecting the right infrastructure, building the architecture, validating it through a proof-of-concept, and ultimately preparing it for deployment and scale.
Looking ahead, Ahmed aims to specialize in end-to-end AI solutions for the public sector, with a long-term goal of contributing to AI sovereignty and helping governments build AI capabilities that create measurable and lasting value.
His journey continues to be guided by a simple message:
Believe in yourself before anyone else does, and let your mission be louder than the noise around you.