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

  • Chafic ABOU AKAR : SORDI Tech Lead

    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 industry 4.0.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

Executive Team

  • Adnan ABDALLAH

    R&D Engineer

  • Michael AL ASSAAD

    Simulation & Data Engineer

  • Amir AMINE

    Data & AI Engineer

  • Marina ANTOUN

    Software Engineer

  • Johnny ASMAR

    Software & Data Engineer

  • Dani AZZAM

    Generative AI Engineer

  • Christian BEDDAWI

    CV & Generative AI Engineer

  • Andrew BEJJANI

    AI & Software Engineer

  • Emily BOEHMER

    Industrial Designer

  • Chloe BOUEIRI

    QA Engineer

  • Jordan DOMJAHN

    Digital Designer

  • Darcy DUCKWORTH

    Industrial Designer

  • Youssef HADDAD

    Computer Vision Engineer

  • Abboud HAYEK

    R&D Engineer

  • Paul EL KOUBA

    AI & Software Engineer

  • Sarah KARAM

    Simulation Engineer

  • Toufic KASHMAR

    Computer Vision Engineer

  • Konstantin KUHN

    Video Technician

  • Hsuan LEE

    Industrial Designer

  • Timothy LIM

    Digital Designer

  • Ivana LTAIF

    Software & AI Engineer

  • Ali MEZHER

    Computer Vision Engineer

  • Ahmad OBEID

    Generative AI Engineer

  • Benjamin OTTO

    IT Infrastructure Engineer

  • Epifanio PEREIRA Profile Picture

    Epifanio PEREIRA

    Digital Design Expert

  • Ali RAMMAL

    R&D Engineer

  • Joanne RIZKALLAH

    MLOps Engineer

  • Ziad SAOUD

    Mechatronics Engineer

  • Reem SHEHAYIB

    Computer Vision Engineer

  • Grace TAYLOR

    Industrial Designer

  • Angelo YAGHI

    Computer Vision Engineer

Acknowledgment

Boulos EL ASMAR . Jimmy TEKLI . Rachelle ABDEL MASSIH . Hoda GHOSN . Elio HANNA . Anis ISMAIL . Lynn KESHLI . Mario KHOURY . Audrey LEUNG . Rami NAFFAH . Jad SAMAHA . Maximilian SCHNEIDER . Anthony SEMAAN . Calvin SMYK . Christian STEGER . Mei-Ju SU . Florian WINTEL . Hadi YOUNESS . Lea ZAYEK