Lead instructor

Ahmad Naser Eddin

Founder & lead instructor, Active Neuron Academy

Staff data scientist (Mozn, ex-Feedzai), PhD in computer science from the University of Porto, and former invited lecturer in databases and programming. He trains teams in the same topics he researches and ships: LLMs, RAG, graphs, and ML in regulated environments.

Riyadh · Portugal · EN · AR · PT

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Founder & lead instructor

Delivery focus

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  • Production LLMs and RAG: evaluation, retrieval design, and safe deployment patterns from fintech work.
  • Graph ML and AML: research-to-product translation, including GNNs and graph representation learning.
  • University-style depth for professionals: SQL, data platforms, and programming foundations when teams need rigour.

Career highlights

2025 to present

Staff Data Scientist, Mozn

Gen AI, LLMs, RAG in production; advanced ML for financial products.

2019 to 2025

Senior Data Scientist, Feedzai

AML, patents, deep learning, LLMs, GNNs; PhD completed in collaboration with Feedzai.

2021 to 2025

Invited Assistant Professor, U.Porto

Databases and programming at BSc level. Teaching portfolio.

2016 to 2019

Data Engineer, BNP Paribas

Interactive reporting; scalable data models and ETL pipelines (SQL, Alteryx, Gremlin). ML/NLP including a BERT-based natural language generator in bank analytics context.

2018 to 2021

Co-founder & organiser, Lisbon Kaggle Meetup

Volunteer-led hands-on sessions and Kaggle-style problems; growing the data science community in Lisbon.

Education & recognition

Formal training and research that underpin the academy’s programmes.

PhD · University of Porto

2019 to 2024

Graph ML for AML; papers, patents, product contributions; co-supervised MSc student and interns.

MSc · U.Porto

2014 to 2016

Parallel & distributed systems; MapReduce/Spark subgraph work; Erasmus Mundus & INESC-TEC scholarships.

BSc · Software engineering

2009 to 2014

Semantic search (Arabic to English); ASP.NET and Android; equivalence with U.Porto.

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