Mohammad Herzallah

Mohammad Herzallah has a diverse work experience in the fields of AI, neuroscience, and computer science. Mohammad is currently working as a Principal Applied AI Scientist at Zepp Health, where they integrate AI solutions with wearable devices to support health and well-being. Mohammad'sresponsibilities include fine-tuning open-source LLMs, building an AI coach powered by chatGPT, and supervising the ecosystem.

Prior to this, Mohammad worked at Rutgers University - Newark for various roles, including Research Assistant Professor, Research Scientist, Postdoctoral Researcher, and Ph.D. Candidate. During their time there, they focused on cognitive and computational neuroscience, specifically in modeling the cognitive correlates of major depressive disorder and antidepressants.

Mohammad also had experience as a Consultant Scientist at Harvard University and New York University, and as the Founding Director of the Palestinian Neuroscience Initiative at Al-Quds University. Additionally, they served as a Medical Student at Al-Quds University and as a Scientific Advisor at uMore, an AI-powered mental well-being tracker.

Mohammad's skills also extend to Surgo Ventures, where they worked as a Senior Applied Scientist, developing behavioral health typing pipelines and applying machine learning approaches for feature engineering and survey data analysis. Mohammad briefly worked as a Software Engineer and Data Scientist at Level, where they developed unsupervised NLP and web-scraping algorithms and designed hierarchical cross-validation algorithms for categorization confidence assessment.

Mohammad Herzallah completed their education history with a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) in Medicine from Al-Quds University, Jerusalem in 2009. Mohammad then pursued a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Neuroscience at Rutgers University - Newark from 2010 to 2015. Following that, they obtained a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Behavioral Neurophysiology from Rutgers University - Newark between 2015 and 2019.