Dr. Wissam Sammouri is an award-winning data scientist with a PhD in predictive data mining and years of experience in the field. His projects have earned several international prizes including the French Tech International prize, Vivatech positive impact award in education, European Youth Award, ExpoDubai2020 grant and many others.

Dr. Sammouri is the director of 42Beirut, partner campus of École42, the #1 tech school in the world. He is also professor of data analytics at the Lebanese American University LAU, teaching multiple courses at the Graduate, Undergraduate and Executive-MBA levels, mainly in the fields of Data Science, Business Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data-Driven Digital Marketing, Data Visualization, and Growth Hacking.  He served on the board of multiple organizations in Lebanon and abroad.