Success Stories
“Life is a bunch of opportunities, and it is up to you to grab them”, says the young Lebanese Azzam Alwan who was hooked on the show from Stars of Science’s very first season. Since the impressionable age of 17, he closely monitored upcoming Arab innovators, waiting for his chance to contribute.
Growing up in an underprivileged region of Lebanon, Azzam remains forever grateful to have had nurturing parents who pushed him to focus on his studies. His father taught him the importance of problem solving while his mother instilled in him a drive to continue expanding his knowledge. The family man took these lessons to heart, moving to Europe to pursue his studies and eventually earning a Ph.D. in Machine Learning from the University of Technology of Troyes, France.
SOS Project & Impact
If you are anything like Azzam, you probably trust your phone to handle the countless tasks that life throws your way. This deep-rooted reliance makes phone users a treasure trove of information for hackers, who are constantly searching for ways to break through the most modern security measures and access your most personal data.
Do not fear: Azzam’s 3D Biometric for Information Security promises to deliver an unparalleled level of data protection when using your mobile devices. The state-of-the-art software goes one step further than pin codes and passwords, securing the phone through handwriting. Before accessing the device, the user must write a plurality of digits according to a prompt. The biometric then compares them to the user’s usual writing patterns and behaviour, including the amount of pressure on the phone’s surface and timing, which the invention records and analyses through machine learning!
Azzam’s project provides a contribution to the Arab tech scene, inspiring others to create local biometrics that can serve communities across the region.
The Aftermath of SOS
Since the first day he left Qatar, and due to the covid situation, Azzam started a partnership with the founder of a startup called "ReLyfe (e-health) " in France. In this context, he was mainly working on Relyfe in parallel with his initial project "BID" since the European market was very keen in terms of funding e-health startups. Azzam is the main contributor to the project from the Artificial intelligence side.
Azzam is working with 9 other contributors in this startup. Two important products have been developed and are currently in the market, including a secure web & mobile platform that creates an instantaneous and collaborative digital bridge between all healthcare professionals and their patients to share and communicate and a dynamic AI that allows to structure medical data in Real-Life with interactive services.
Internationally, Azzam is exploring his ambitions. He and the Relyfe team are currently working with CPTS, MedEvasan, iMash, Sleep Clinic, Urology Institute, Tenon Hospital (Paris), In France. In Gabon, they are collaborating with Global Health Insurance.
Azzam operates around the clock and effectively plans for the future. He believes that the medical world operates in silos with many different business softwares that do not communicate with each other. There is no medical collaboration tool either with patients or between professionals. Therefore, Real-Life AI in healthcare is complicated by the lack of structured data. Here comes Azzam’s main contribution, creating collaboration tools with all these entities. The objective is to have immediate access to off-site generated information with structured data architecture and an easy way of collaborating with healthcare professionals and patients. Along with his team, Azzam is currently trying to enter the Middle East and Africa market in cooperation with trading companies.
