👤Introduction

<aside> 💡 Welcome to my headquarters. I’m from Tunis, Tunisia. If you know Tataouin from Star Wars, it is a real place in my country where the film was shot. I studied Data Science at the University of Rochester. Previously, I built products at Rockefeller, Amalthea FS, and Mos. Perpetually, I'm fascinated by the possibilities of technology for good, bad, and trivial. I am currently a entrepreneurial scholar at UR.

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🗓️Recap: 2024

• January: Received $120,000 from Arbitrum Foundation to accelerate their university relations program. Here is a recap.
• May: Organized 0xCastle, a cryptography research retreat in a historical castle in Germany sponsored by the Ethereum Foundation.
• End of May: Organized the Blockchain University Summit in partnership with CoinDesk. Facilitated 150+ housing scholarships and 20 travel scholarships to students from Latin America sponsored by Hedera, Arbitrum, Starknet, ZKSync, and Avalanche.
• June - August: Interned at Rockefeller Capital Management where I built ML solutions for fraud detection
• Mid-August: Spent two weeks in Colombia to visit Barranquilla, Santa Marta, Cali, and the Coffee region. Had a blast at **Petronio Alvarez Music Festival.**
• End of August: Joined the Jutsu founding team where I did AI consulting for small & medium size business owners in New York.
• Early September: Auditioned and got accepted into Mafrisah, the African dance club at my school. Practiced 6 hours per week and learned traditional and modern dance forms from western and southern Africa. Volunteered and performed at events to promote African dance and culture on campus.
• Mid-September: Started my data science capstone project to build ML predictions that optimize the arrival time of Rochester Firefighters
• October: Produced music for the first time using Oberheim, Minimoog, PPG wave. DJed for the first time at Queer Ball in Rochester.
• November: Attended Devcon in Thailand as an Ethereum Fellow where I demoed our Jutsu MVP. Participated in my first hackathon with my friend Eman at ETH Bangkok.
• December: Presented my data science capstone project with the Rochester Fire Department and got featured in the engineering journal of my school for analyzing millions of data points to determine where to best place fire stations, fire trucks, and other resources.
• Mid-December - Jan: Graduated college and as a self-reward, I toured Tunisia with my dad. Visited Tunis, Kasserine, Kairawen, Nabeul, Tozeur, Djerba, Tataouine, and Kebili. Celebrated New Years with my grandmother. Spent a month in my homeland - the longest period in my 4 years of college.

Throughout the year, I learned Tennis.

🪅 Learnings: 2024

• Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money. You can't be a builder and a pessimist. Creating is an active process of communicating ideas and obsessions that propel us forward.