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

Flagship workshops for teams that need practitioner-led depth rather than slide-only literacy.

  • From traditional ML to generative AI — bridging classical pipelines to LLM/RAG production, with evaluation and deployment patterns from fintech work.
  • Graph ML and AML: research-to-product translation, including the Learning on the Graphs workshop (feature engineering through GNNs).
  • Employing agentic AI in industry — integrating autonomous agents into workflows, tool orchestration, and governance patterns teams can deploy for measurable impact.

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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