Ahmed Tawfik

Experience

• Oct 2021 - Now Researcher

  Augmented Vision, DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany

  Research on hand-object 3D reconstruction spanning Gaussian Splatting, Transformers, GCNs, and neural rendering. Published 4 first-author papers (CVPR Findings, WACV, ..) covering pose estimation, depth-based shape reconstruction, and real-time surgical instrument tracking. Co-supervised MSc students and delivered guest lectures at RPTU.
• March 2021 - August 2021 M.Sc. Thesis

  CISPA Saarbruecken, Germany

  Master's thesis on privacy-preserving ML: evaluated Knowledge Distillation as a defense against Membership and Attribute Inference Attacks on deep ConvNets. Showed Data-Free KD reduces MIA success by up to 20% on CIFAR-100 and AIA by ~9% on CelebA.
• Sep 2020 - Jan 2021 ML Intern

  HackerOne Groningen, The Netherlands

  Built an ML-based duplicate vulnerability report detection system using BERT-based sentence embeddings, Doc2Vec and the Universal Sentence Encoder, improving detection accuracy by ~5% over the previous heuristic baseline.

Education

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  October 2021 - Ongoing Ph.D. in Computer Science

  RPTU Kaiserslautern, Germany
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  Sep 2019 - August 2021 M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence

  Maastricht University Maastricht, The Netherlands
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  Oct 2014 - May 2019 B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering

  German University in Cairo (GUC) Cairo, Egypt

Teaching

• Nov 2022 Lecturer

  RPTU Kaiserslautern, Germany

  Graph Convolutional Networks and Transformers and their applications in 3D Pose Estimation
• Oct 2019 - May 2020 Teaching Assistant

  Maastricht University Maastricht, The Netherlands

  OOP using Java, Machine Learning, and Data Structures and Algorithms
• Oct 2018 - May 2019 Teaching Assistant

  German University in Cairo (GUC) Cairo, Egypt

  Introduction to CS using Python

Publications

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  CVPR Findings 2026 🏆 1st Place HANDS@ICCV25 Gaussian Splatting

  GHOST: Fast Category-agnostic Hand-Object Interaction Reconstruction from RGB Videos using Gaussian Splatting

  Ahmed Tawfik Aboukhadra, Marcel Rogge, Nadia Robertini, Abdalla Arafa, Jameel Malik, Ahmed Elhayek, Didier Stricker

  🏆 1st-place solution in HANDS@ICCV25 workshop on ARCTIC Bi-CAIR benchmark

  Project Page arXiv Technical Report Code
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  VISAPP 2025 Knowledge Distillation

  Fast-HaMeR: Boosting Hand Mesh Reconstruction using Knowledge Distillation

  Hunain Ahmed Jillani, Ahmed Tawfik Aboukhadra, Ahmed Elhayek, Jameel Malik, Nadia Robertini, Didier Stricker

  Paper Code
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  GCPR 2024 Realtime 3D Pose

  SurgeoNet: Realtime 3D Pose Estimation of Articulated Surgical Instruments using a Synthetically-trained Network

  Ahmed Tawfik Aboukhadra, Nadia Robertini, Jameel Malik, Ahmed Elhayek, Gerd Reis, Didier Stricker

  Paper Code
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  IEEE Access 2024 Hand-Object Depth

  ShapeGraFormer: GraFormer-Based Network for Hand-Object Reconstruction from a Single Depth Map

  Ahmed Tawfik Aboukhadra, Jameel Malik, Nadia Robertini, Ahmed Elhayek, Didier Stricker

  Paper
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  WACV 2023 Self-supervised

  THOR-Net: End-to-end Graformer-based Realistic Two Hands and Object Reconstruction with Self-supervision

  Ahmed Tawfik Aboukhadra, Jameel Malik, Ahmed Elhayek, Nadia Robertini, Didier Stricker

  Paper Code

Projects

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  Stereo Vision UniMatch SAM2 HaMeR 3D Reconstruction

  Stereo Hand-Object Interaction Demo

  Generalizable demo combining off-the-shelf models (UniMatch, SAM2, HaMeR) to reconstruct hand-object interactions from egocentric stereo video — stereo disparity to depth, object segmentation, and MANO hand mesh alignment.
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  Real-time TensorRT 3D Reconstruction

  HaMeR Demo

  Realtime 3D Hand Mesh Reconstruction based on RTMPose Detection, HaMeR, TensorRT Acceleration, and PyTorch3D Rendering

  Code
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  Python MANO Model Visualization

  ManoVisualizer

  Visualize MANO parameters and their impact on the Mano Hand Model i.e. Mesh.

  Code

Vibe Coding

AI-powered apps built to solve real-world problems — from idea to deployment.

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ACE-VF

Video Factory

AI Cinematic & Educational Video Factory. A CLI pipeline that orchestrates Gemini, Wan2.2, and ElevenLabs to produce audience-aware cinematic videos from any topic — with per-scene checkpointing, multi-language narration, and automatic post-production assembly.

Gemini Wan2.2 I2V ElevenLabs MoviePy Python

Code

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Memo AI

Life OS

A Telegram-first personal AI assistant that listens to voice notes, transcribes them with Whisper, routes intents with an LLM, extracts tasks and events, and stores memory in a vector database. Send a voice note and get structured tasks, calendar events, and searchable memory — all through Telegram.

Telegram Bot Whisper ASR Gemini ChromaDB FastAPI Celery

Code

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AI Apply

Job Hunter

Automated job scraper and matcher that pulls listings from 7 boards simultaneously (LinkedIn, Indeed, Adzuna, Glassdoor...), scores them against your skill profile using TF-IDF matching, and presents ranked matches in a clean web dashboard with apply/hide actions.

Flask SQLite TF-IDF Web Scraping Python

Code

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T30 Mazad

Sports AI

Fast footballer name recognition pipeline for the popular Arabic "T30 Mazad" game. Transcribes rapidly spoken player names using Whisper with ASR biasing, matches against a Wikidata/FBref knowledge base, then verifies constraint questions ("Did they all play for Barcelona?") with rule-based or LLM checking.

Whisper ASR Wikidata FBref NLP Python

Code

Skills

Achievements

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  2019 M.Sc. Scholarship

  UM Holland High-Potential Scholarship Holder 2019. €58,000 grant to pursue a MSc in AI.
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  2017 ACPC Finalist

  Finalist at Arab Collegiate Programming Contest (ACPC) 2017, 28th Place.

Get in Touch

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