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Sedeeq Alkhazraji, Chief AI Scientist

Sedeeq Alkhazraji joined Ocean Solutions in 2023 and now serves as Chief AI Scientist, bringing more than 20 years of experience across information technology, systems engineering, and applied artificial intelligence. In this role, he leads the strategy, design, and integration of AI across the company's infrastructure and Managed Service operations; shaping how Ocean Solutions delivers intelligent, data-driven services to its clients. His work spans AI architecture, automation, and applied research, advancing the company's vision of secure, scalable, and intelligent service delivery for the modern MSP.

Prior joining Oceans Solutions, Sedeeq worked as a researcher at Google at New York office. Specifically at Google’s Material Design System – the design system that almost all Google flagship products adopt. Sedeeq spent few years as a User Experience Researcher in both industry and academia doing research on technologies that address real-world problems by integrating data-driven methods and human-computer interaction. He interested in investigating human needs and challenges that may benefit from advancements in artificial intelligence. His research involved the application of machine learning, deep learning, and analytics research on assistive technologies that model human communication and behavior.

During his work at Google Sedeeq collaborated with the different Google products teams: Platform team, Photo team, Fonts team, and Gmail team to address appropriate research for each team. He planned and conducted user studies to understand how users interact with different Google products (e.g. Gmail, Google Photos and Google Fonts), users’ preferences, and other metrics. He delivered deep insights through quantitative and qualitative methods with summarized results in decks with actionable recommendations.

Prior that Sedeeq worked as Project Manager at GEICO headquarter in the Chevy Chase office at Maryland. He spearheaded GEICO Digital Innovation team on four AI projects. Using Microsoft Azure AI tools, performed tasks central to project progress, including scheduling, reporting, risk management, and resource management. His work provided better experience for GEICO users through Real-time UX updates based on users’ behavioral analysis.

Sedeeq came from acadmic background where he finished his PHD (2021) at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Rochester, NY. He worked as Research Assistant at the Center for Accessibility and Inclusion Research (CAIR). His research involved the application of machine learning, deep learning, and analytics research on assistive technologies that model human communication and behavior. Sedeeq is also publishing at leading conferences in the field of computing. One to highlight, he was first author of the paper that has received the Best Paper Award at the most competitive and prestigious research conference in the field of computing accessibility, the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computing and Accessibility (ASSETS). Furthermore, during his academic life, he worked as Research Mentor for National Science Foundation (NSF). He mentored undergrad students at the Research Experiences for Undergraduates REU program for many years. He mentored several graduate, and undergraduate students interested in CS or IT at RIT. He managed and collaborated with a full-stack platform team of user experience researchers, designers, and software engineers. He supervised master’s students working on GUI design and backend programming of an animation platform.

Prior to that Sedeeq worked in a mix life between academic and industry. For example: on one hand in academic life he worked as a instructor at University of Mosul where he teaches students different computer sciences classes, programming languages, and technologies like: Microsoft Visual Studio, Web Develpoment, Database Systems, Security, Machine learning, Deep learning, Operating Systems, and other technologies. On the other hand, in industry life Sedeeq worked on different companies and roles to provide the best service to their clients.