Hussein Mahdi Al-Rubaie

Research Engineer & Software Engineer

Lightweight, fast, simple — from architecture to neurons.

Babylon, Iraq · hussein.mahdifa@gmail.com - hussein.alrubaie.sw@student.uobabylon.edu.iq

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I build lightweight, fast, and elegant systems — from software architecture down to tiny neural networks. I started as a programmer, grew into a developer, then a software engineer, and now I design architectures and neural networks. Languages, frameworks, and platforms are tools; what matters is the model, the architecture, and the idea behind them. I read deeply into mathematics and the philosophy of software development, because I believe simplicity is earned, not assumed.

Research

I work on methods for learning over structure, and apply them to problems where the structure is the point.

Methods

Mathematical Foundations of Deep LearningTopological Deep LearningGeometric Deep LearningComplex & Higher-Order NetworksEfficient Deep LearningSoftware Architecture

Problem Domains

BioinformaticsComputer VisionCompressed SensingAI for Software EngineeringExplainable AI

Education

M.Sc. in Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence specialization

2024 — 2026

University of Babylon, College of Information Technology

  • Ranked 1st in the taught-coursework year (2024–2025).
  • Awarded a Ministry of Higher Education scholarship on the basis of academic performance.
  • Thesis: Hierarchical Hypergraph Neural Networks for Multi-Type Drug–Drug Interaction Prediction. Supervisor: Dr. Sura Zaki Al-Rashid, Head of the Software Engineering Department.

B.Sc. in Software Engineering

2019 — 2023

University of Babylon, College of Information Technology

  • Graduated 2nd in cohort, GPA 87.84 / 100.
  • Graduation project awarded a perfect score (100%).

Experience

Founder & Research Engineer

2020 — Present

Era Vision

  • Era Vision is a research lab dedicated to developing advanced, lightweight AI systems that serve everyone, built on modern technologies and sciences.
  • Delivered Era Vision's first system as a prototype: a cascaded hypergraph-based clinical decision support pipeline, presented at IAICT 2026.

Senior Software Engineer (Freelance)

2023 — Present

Independent

  • Delivered more than seven production projects for clients across web and mobile platforms.
  • Commissioned to build competition management systems for two university conferences: the College of Sport, Al-Mustaqbal University (2025), and an extended version for the Department of Artificial Intelligence, College of Science (2026).

Software Engineer — Mid Back-end Engineer

2024

Digital Logic

  • Contributed to three government platforms serving public services across Iraq.
  • Bexy Platform — a system streamlining commercial activity in Baghdad Governorate. Optimized the employee management module to improve human-resources efficiency.
  • Gas Distribution Project — led development of a navigation system coordinating the distribution of cooking gas to citizens, managing the relationships between the Ministry of Oil, stations, vendors, and end users.
  • Ticketing System — built a centralized problem and request management platform integrated across all company projects, giving managers a single place to resolve issues. Owned its maintenance, ongoing development, and per-project customization.

Full-Stack Developer

2023 — 2024

Al-Mustaqbal University

  • Built and maintained university web systems, and administered the student registration system.

Publications

Hierarchical Hypergraph Neural Networks for Multi-Type Drug–Drug Interaction Prediction

ECAI 2026 — Int. Conf. on Electronics, Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Bucharest, Romania (IEEE Xplore, DOI : 10.1109/ECAI69016.2026.11613729)

2026 · Published

A Cascaded Hypergraph Neural Network–Based Clinical Decision Support System for Drug–Drug Interaction Detection and Type Classification

IAICT 2026 — IEEE Int. Conf. on Industry 4.0, AI and Communications Technology, Bali, Indonesia (IEEE Xplore)

2026 · Published

Predicting Drug–Drug Interactions: A Comprehensive Review of Data, Methods, and Challenges

Kufa Journal of Engineering, University of Kufa, Iraq (Q3)

2026 · Published

Talks

Hierarchical Hypergraph Neural Networks for Multi-Type DDI Prediction

ECAI 2026, Bucharest, Romania · 2026

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A Cascaded Hypergraph Neural Network–Based Clinical Decision Support System

IAICT 2026, Bali, Indonesia · 2026

Online oral presentationView certificate →

Awards & Honors

Nominee, Iraqi Prime Minister's Award for Project Funding

2024

Shortlisted from approximately 3,000 national submissions.

Ministry of Higher Education Scholarship

2024

Awarded for master's study on the basis of academic standing.

Ranked 1st, M.Sc. coursework year

2025

University of Babylon.

Ranked 2nd in cohort, B.Sc.

2023

University of Babylon, GPA 87.84 / 100.

Teaching & Outreach

Technical Writer & Educator

2023 — Present

Author of long-running technical series on Medium, several featured in Medium publications: Pandas Mastery, Neural Networks from the Mathematics Up, and Software Architecture. Also published on Dev.to.

Founder & Educator, Learn with Era

2024 — Present

Educational platform on software development and AI, with 19,000+ followers.

Skills

Programming Languages

JavaPythonC#HTML / Tailwind CSS

Frameworks & Environment

PyTorch.NETAndroid SDK

Engineering

Software EngineeringSoftware ArchitectureApplication Development (Web, Mobile, Desktop)System Design

Certifications

Foundational C# with Microsoft — freeCodeCamp, 2024

PostgreSQL: Become an SQL Developer — Simplilearn, 2023

Languages

Arabic — Native

English — Professional working proficiency