Meet the Team
The SORDI team is built up of global professionals in AI, CV, automotive, technology, research and beyond.
Marc KAMRADT
Founder of SORDI.ai
Head of TechOffice MUNICH, BMW Group
Marc Kamradt joined BMW Group in 2002. He leads the BMW TechOffice in Munich. Marc's experience includes natural language processing, computer vision, AI, and automotive engineering.
Jimmy NASSIF
Founder of SORDI.ai
CTO, idealworks
Jimmy is an IT manager and internet-of-things expert at BMW Group with more than 10 years of experience in automotive engineering. He's currently the chief technology officer at idealworks, a wholly-owned subsidiary of BMW Group.
Lead Team
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Chafic ABOU AKAR
Tech Lead
Chafic is responsible for SORDI’s AI technological innovation and applied practices, including the simulation, generation pipeline, and quality assurance. He also focuses on democratizing AI and making it available for everyone! Chafic is a researcher in computer vision, generative models, and synthetic data for smart industries.
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Daniel JESS
Innovation Strategy Lead
Daniel oversees the development, communication and execution of strategic initiatives to achieve new usecases for the Dataset and the toolchain behind it. He directs research projects across multiple subteams and drives strategy creation. Creating content for new proofs of concept and desinging strategic roadmaps for innovation are some of his tasks. His independent thinking lead to the founding of the project GREEN PHYSICS AI.
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Sebastian HEIM
Infrastructure IT Lead
Sebastian Heim is a senior member of the BMW TechOffice Munich. He handles all the problems regarding operations, servers and hardware infrastructure, in addition to maintenance, and communications that need solving. His assitance is essential for any networking infrastructure changes.
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Hadi KOUBEISSY
DevOps Lead
Hadi implements processes and possesses a comprehensive knowledge of various tools and technologies to automate manual tasks, facilitating the seamless development and deployment of code and data while establishing robust continuous deployment and continuous integration frameworks. Plus, he ensures the reliability of SORDI.ai operations.
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Anthony YAGHI
R&D Lead
Working at BMW's TechOffice in Munich, Anthony oversees reasearch and innovation activities. He is responsible for improving already existing processes and creating new research activities. As a researcher, Anthony is focused on machine learning for 3D computer vision.
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Joe KHALIL
Simulation Lead
Joe is responsible for creating robust and physically accurate simulations to generate synthetic datasets. He is a researcher working on analyzing industrial assets’ physical behaviors in a virtual factory for a realistic and more efficient synthetic data generation.
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Thomas RIEDEL
Data Analytics Lead
Thomas leverages advanced data-driven techniques to uncover valuable insights, optimize business processes, and develop innovative solutions that automate and streamline strategic operations, leading to improved efficiency and productivity. His skills span areas such as Computer Vision, Optimization, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Graph Data, enabling him to tackle complex challenges and deliver impactful results.
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Dylan SHEPPARD
Digital Design Lead
Based in Munich, Australian designer Dylan Sheppard is Digital Design Lead at idealworks, a wholly owned BMW Group subsidiary. Dylan joined idealworks as a founding member after three years at BMW AG, where he led an international team in the design and delivery of digital experiences – coordinating impactful projects with teams including BMW Motorrad and Rolls-Royce Motor Cars.
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Kay WUENSCHE
AI Operations Lead
Kay is responsible for proposing and conducting Proofs of Concept (PoC) and Proofs of Value (PoV) activities to ensure innovative solutions can be adopted globally and meet the business need. He creates, reviews and challenges defined IT related internal standards, acts as single point of contact and collaborates closely with architects, incident management team and other infrastructure service lines.
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Christian Steger
TBD
Executive Team
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Adnan ABDALLAH
R&D Engineer
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Charbel ALBATEH
R&D Vision Engineer
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Michael AL ASSAAD
Simulation & Data Engineer
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Khaldoun AMATOURY
MLOps Engineer
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Amir AMINE
Data & AI Engineer
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Kevin AOUN
CV & Simulation Engineer
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Johnny ASMAR
Software & Data Engineer
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Dani AZZAM
Generative AI Engineer
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Chihabeddin AZZAM
Computer Vision Engineer
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Christian BEDDAWI
CV & Generative AI Engineer
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Andrew BEJJANI
AI & Software Engineer
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Emily BOEHMER
Industrial Designer
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Egon VON BRUENING
Generative AI & LLM Engineer
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Jordan DOMJAHN
Digital Designer
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Darcy DUCKWORTH
Industrial Designer
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Youssef HADDAD
Computer Vision Engineer
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Abboud HAYEK
R&D Engineer
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Paul EL KOUBA
AI & Software Engineer
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Ali JOUMAA
QA Engineer
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Konstantin KUHN
Video Technician
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Hsuan LEE
Industrial Designer
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Timothy LIM
Digital Designer
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Ivana LTAIF
Software & AI Engineer
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Ahmad OBEID
Generative AI Engineer
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Benjamin OTTO
IT Infrastructure Engineer
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Epifanio PEREIRA
Digital Design Expert
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Ali RAMMAL
R&D Engineer
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Joanne RIZKALLAH
MLOps Engineer
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Reem SHEHAYIB
Computer Vision Engineer
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Grace TAYLOR
Industrial Designer
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Manuel Philipp VOGEL
AI & ML Engineer
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Angelo YAGHI
Computer Vision Engineer
Acknowledgment
Boulos EL ASMAR . Jimmy TEKLI . Rachelle ABDEL MASSIH . Marina ANTOUN . Chloe BOUERI . Hoda GHOSN . Elio HANNA . Anis ISMAIL . Sara KARAM . Toufic KASHMAR . Lynn KESHLI . Mario KHOURY . Audrey LEUNG . Ali MEZHER . Rami NAFFAH . Jad SAMAHA . Ziad SAOUD . Maximilian SCHNEIDER . Anthony SEMAAN . Calvin SMYK . Christian STEGER . Mei-Ju SU . Florian WINTEL . Hadi YOUNESS . Lea ZAYEK