Mohammad Nour Al Awad

Machine Learning Engineer + PhD Student

Mohammad Nour Al Awad

I build adaptive LLM systems, AI assistants, and agentic workflows backed by research and production experience.

Saint Petersburg, Russia

5+ years experienceAdaptive LLM SystemsAgentic AI

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About

PhD student and Machine Learning Engineer focused on adaptive LLM systems, agentic AI, and large-scale data-driven R&D. I combine academic research with hands-on engineering for production-grade AI products.

PythonMachine Learning ResearchLarge Language Models (LLMs)Agentic AI SystemsLLM Evaluation and BenchmarkingExperiment Design and Ablation StudiesPrompt EngineeringRAGLangGraphvLLM Inference ServingData Curation and Web-Scale ScrapingScientific Writing and Peer ReviewFastAPIDjangoTypeScriptLinuxPyTorchTensorFlow

Experience

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Machine Learning Engineer @ ITMO University

Mar 2024 - Present | Saint Petersburg, Russia

Working on adaptive LLM systems and agentic AI tools for real-world developer and analytics workflows.

  • Designed and deployed multi-LLM serving with vLLM for autocomplete, fill-in-the-middle, and chat.
  • Built a VSCode plugin with completion, refactoring, chat, docstring generation, and personalized RAG.
  • Published 2 papers in ASE 2025 and filed a patent on adaptive suggestion systems.
  • Developed a voice + text data visualization assistant using Django, FastAPI, Whisper, Qwen2.5, and Coqui TTS.
  • Published a research paper at ICDM 2025.
  • Built and tested prototype web agents for robust multi-step website navigation and extraction.
PythonvLLMLangGraphFastAPIDjangoWhisperQwen2.5ChromaDBPlaywright

Software Engineer @ ViShare Technology

Jun 2023 - Apr 2024 | China

Contributed to wireless video streaming products with a focus on optimization, testing automation, and reliable integration.

  • Integrated team solutions into wireless video streaming products.
  • Modeled and optimized algorithms for performance and reliability.
  • Developed profiling tools that improved speed by 10x.
  • Automated testing workflows and ported high-level synthesis with Vitis HLS.
C/C++Vitis HLSProfilingAutomationEmbedded Video Systems

Machine Learning Researcher @ Higher Institute for Applied Sciences and Technology

Jan 2022 - Sep 2022 | Syria

Led applied computer-vision R&D for edge deployment in surveillance contexts.

  • Led end-to-end development of a license plate recognition system.
  • Improved model accuracy from 68% to 79%.
  • Deployed detector apps on NPU-powered edge devices with IP camera support.
  • Developed a Flutter app for live monitoring and archive browsing.
PythonComputer VisionEdge AINPU DeploymentFlutter

Coach @ ICPC - International Collegiate Programming Contest

Sep 2019 - Jul 2022 | Global

Mentored teams in algorithms and contest strategy, with a strong focus on consistency and growth.

  • Trained and mentored students in algorithms, data structures, and programming.
  • Recognized with Extreme Programmers Award and Steadfast Gurus Award.
AlgorithmsData StructuresC++Problem SolvingTeam Coaching

Research and Academic Activities

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Paper

A Multimodal Conversational Agent for Tabular Data Analysis

The 2025 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2025), Workshop: Information Seeking with Big Models (BigIS) | 2025

Published in the Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW 2025), IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

Paper

Optimizing LLM Code Suggestions: Feedback-Driven Timing with Lightweight State Bounds

The 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2025), Workshop: Intelligent Software Engineering (ISE 2025) | 2025

Published in the Proceedings of the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering Workshops (ASEW 2025).

Paper

Pre-Filtering Code Suggestions using Developer Behavioral Telemetry to Optimize LLM-Assisted Programming

The 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2025), Workshop: 7th International Workshop on Automated and verifiable Software sYstem DEvelopment (ASYDE 2025) | 2025

Published in the Proceedings of the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering Workshops (ASEW 2025).

Academic activity

Peer Reviewer

EMNLP (Conference Reviewing) | Not specified

Contributed as a paper reviewer, evaluating submissions in NLP and LLM-related topics.

Education

PhD

ITMO National Research University | 2028 (Expected)

Large Language Models for Human-Centered AI

Current PhD research focused on adaptive LLM systems and human-centered AI.

Master's Degree

ITMO National Research University | 2025

Big Data and Machine Learning

Graduated with 5/5 GPA, ranked #1, and awarded a red diploma.

Bachelor's Degree

Higher Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology | 2022

Software Engineering

Valedictorian graduate award with an excellence rate of 86.17%.

High School Degree

National Centre for the Distinguished | 2017

Distinguished Individuals Program

Completed a selective program for distinguished students.

Contact

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