Yahya Alaa

Yahya Alaa is a seasoned machine learning professional with extensive experience in computer vision, having held roles including Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Shopify since September 2024 and Machine Learning Engineer at Tempo Analytics from May 2022 to September 2024. Notable achievements at Tempo include enhancing people detection accuracy and developing a semi-automated annotation tool. Yahya has also contributed as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Ottawa and served as an Academic Reviewer for the IEEE Computer Society. Previously, as Co-Founder and CTO of VRapeutic, Yahya led the development of web-based VR therapeutic modules and collaborated with the Vietnamese Ministry of Education. Yahya holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science specializing in Applied Artificial Intelligence from the University of Ottawa and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport.