Ahmed J. Afifi was born in 1985. He received the bachelor’s and M.Sc. degrees in computer engineering from the Islamic University of Gaza, in 2008 and 2011, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) degree from Technische Universität Berlin in 2021 …

Project Manager for the Helmholtz Transfer Academy "Future Innovators". Interested in anything that can solve problems. Trying to unlock the potential of scientific development to also solve short-term problems of the real-world.

My research focus is developing Machine Learning and Computer Vision methods that are tailored towards Remote Sensing and Earth Observation. I have a special interest in Deep Learning (in particular weakly-, semi-, and self-supervised learning) and Ensemble Learning (in particular …