PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Essam Wisam

Also known as Essam Wisam Fouad Amin Abdelghany

Essam Wisam is a computer engineer and AI researcher whose work spans Julia software for class imbalance and question answering over knowledge graphs. He graduated at the top of Cairo University's computer engineering class in 2023 and created Imbalance.jl through Julia's Google Summer of Code. After a deep learning internship at Dstny Engage, he joined DFKI as a research assistant. In 2024 he coauthored a Journal of Open Source Software paper on Imbalance.jl, and in September 2026 he coauthored KGVoyager, an agentic system that generates SPARQL from natural language questions. As of October 2026, he is a PhD student in UT Arlington's IDIR lab under Chengkai Li, with interests in natural language processing, large language models, and self-supervised learning.

Timeline

  1. 2018–2023

    Computer engineering at Cairo University

    He earns a BSc in Computer Engineering at Cairo University in 2023, graduating at the top of his class.

  2. By 2023

    Creating Imbalance.jl

    Before graduating in 2023, he contributes to Google Summer of Code under the Julia Language organization and creates Imbalance.jl, a Julia toolbox for class imbalance.

  3. March 2024

    A paper on class imbalance

    In March 2024, he coauthors a Journal of Open Source Software paper with Anthony Blaom on Imbalance.jl, a Julia toolbox for class imbalance.

  4. By 2026

    Deep learning intern at Dstny

    Following his 2023 graduation, he serves as a deep learning intern at Dstny Engage.

  5. By 2026

    Research assistant at DFKI

    By 2026, he joins DFKI as a research assistant and also serves as a teaching assistant in machine learning at Cairo University.

  6. September 2026

    Question answering with KGVoyager

    In September 2026, he coauthors KGVoyager with Chengkai Li, an agentic architecture that generates SPARQL queries from natural language questions by dynamically discovering graph structure and semantics.

  7. As of October 2026

    PhD research at UT Arlington

    As of October 2026, he is a PhD student in UT Arlington's IDIR lab under Chengkai Li. His research interests include natural language processing, large language models, and self-supervised learning.

Career

  1. Dstny EngageDeep-learning intern
  2. DFKIResearch assistant
  3. Cairo UniversityTeaching Assistant in Machine Learning

Education

  1. 2023Cairo UniversityBSc in Computer Engineering
  2. University of Texas at ArlingtonPhD

From the biography.

  1. Nonprofit roles are 2.3 times as common in AI safetyIncludes DFKI. We estimate where people focused on safety, alignment and evaluation work. Nonprofit roles appear for 25.1% of safety people with known affiliations, compared with 11.0% in other areas.
  2. The top 10 organizations employed 22% of people shaping AI in 2025: 51% of company researchers and 21% of university researchersIncludes DFKI. We estimate the share of people shaping AI who worked at the top 10 organizations each year from 1955 to 2025, comparing concentration across companies, universities, and institutes and labs.
  3. The United States employs an estimated 48% of people shaping AIIncludes Cairo University. We estimate where the people shaping AI work today, how universities, companies and research institutes split across countries, and how country shares have changed since the 1960s.
  4. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes Cairo University. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.

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Sources and credits

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  1. Essam Wisam — Data Science and its Applications dsa.dfki.de. Checked 22 October 2026.
  2. About · Imbalance.jl juliaai.github.io. Checked 22 October 2026.
  3. Journal of Open Source Software: Imbalance: A comprehensive multi-interface Julia toolbox to address class imbalance joss.theoj.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  4. [2609.01780] KGVoyager: Knowledge Graph Agnostic Question Answering via Agentic Navigation arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  5. CSE PhD Student Directory cse.uta.edu. Checked 22 October 2026.