Alaa Moussawi

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<p>As&nbsp;Chief&nbsp;Data&nbsp;Scientist&nbsp;for&nbsp;the&nbsp;New&nbsp;York&nbsp;City&nbsp;Council,&nbsp;Alaa&nbsp;leads&nbsp;interdisciplinary&nbsp;teams&nbsp;of&nbsp;AI&nbsp;engineers,&nbsp;data&nbsp;scientists,&nbsp;and&nbsp;software&nbsp;engineers,&nbsp;designing&nbsp;production-grade&nbsp;AI&nbsp;infrastructure&nbsp;that&nbsp;powers&nbsp;legislative&nbsp;strategy&nbsp;and&nbsp;modern&nbsp;governance.&nbsp;His&nbsp;work&nbsp;spans&nbsp;statistical&nbsp;modeling,&nbsp;NLP&nbsp;architectures,&nbsp;workflow&nbsp;automations,&nbsp;and&nbsp;AI-enabled&nbsp;decision&nbsp;support&nbsp;tools.</p><p></p><p>Beyond&nbsp;his&nbsp;executive&nbsp;role,&nbsp;he&nbsp;regularly&nbsp;delivers&nbsp;talks&nbsp;and&nbsp;on&nbsp;AI&nbsp;deployment&nbsp;and&nbsp;institutional&nbsp;AI&nbsp;transformation.&nbsp;He&nbsp;holds&nbsp;a&nbsp;PhD&nbsp;in&nbsp;Physics&nbsp;focused&nbsp;on&nbsp;spreading&nbsp;processes&nbsp;in&nbsp;complex&nbsp;networks,&nbsp;which&nbsp;informs&nbsp;his&nbsp;approach&nbsp;to&nbsp;AI&nbsp;systems,&nbsp;information&nbsp;diffusion,&nbsp;and&nbsp;large-scale&nbsp;architecture&nbsp;design.&nbsp;A&nbsp;native&nbsp;New&nbsp;Yorker,&nbsp;he&nbsp;speaks&nbsp;English,&nbsp;Arabic,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Spanish.</p>