Press kit
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Short biography
Abdalla Ellaithy is an AI engineer and researcher based in Cairo, and Founder & CEO of Edrak for AI. He holds a B.Sc. in Information Technology and Computer Science from Nile University, specialising in Artificial Intelligence, and is first author of an IEEE conference paper on fine-tuning language models for academic recommendation. He also leads Tips Hindawi, the training and internship department of Edrak for AI.
Name & title
Name — English
Abdalla Ellaithy
Name — Arabic
عبدالله الليثي
Academic name
Abdalla Maged Gamal
Title
AI Engineer, Researcher, Founder & CEO
Role
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Edrak for AI
Portrait
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Speaking
What I can speak about with evidence behind it.
Arabic language technology
Building and publishing Arabic datasets, and why Arabic is still treated as a localisation problem rather than a modelling one.
Constraining models, not instructing them
Where deterministic logic belongs in an LLM system, and why prompt-level rules fail under distribution shift.
Training AI engineers in practice
What running mentor-led internship cohorts changed about how I think a portfolio project should be assessed.